As a Christian you will find yourself at certain times and locations where all you have to stand on is the dirt directly beneath your feet and that while trying to maintain the nurturing belief that tells you God still owns the whole earth and everything in it. sw
Learning to accept all that's contained in the suggestive word "Lord" includes everything your Lord of choice has said and does and for the sake of being given the label as your "Lord".
The word "believer" among many others that have historically been associated with the Christian Faith based words related to choice(s) seem to be loosing their foothold within the "Social" arena of opinions.
Just as equal, there was once a closet that also had a lock on the door which housed other uncertain types of mindsets that were once considered tolerant or active participants in the "Offensive" of their behavioral traits.
That once quiet and small closet where the likeness of adulterers, rapist, murderers, homosexuals and pedophiles were routinely locked away from the main stream of people that flowed through your
Township.
That was in a day of a life on "Easy Street" where darkness was dark and light only promoted what was considered "Good". Today, what is Hot and what is cold? Is it the realm of a world where being luke warm makes for poor discernment?
A world where an enemy can simply blend in and cloak the manifestation of their darkest thoughts? Thoughts that "were" once their "Inner" most desires that have since become the surrounding environment we all suffer and wade through as if the exercise of our endurance?
A world where self indulgence knows no boundaries. The environment where self control now only understands law to be the teeth of its enforcement and that only when caught in the "Act"?
The question that never seems to get asked is "Who gave them the key to get out" or in terms only flood survivors can understand, "Who helped them get on board" the ship that's now close to sinking?
Who were the ones that supposedly "Reformed" them? Who were the ones that raised them without a familiar sense of remorse?
Who were the ones that never questioned them? Who were the ones that turned their heads when their behavior was conducting itself in dark alley's and shadows? Who were the sitting Judges during their tenure of influence in this world?
If you don't already know I'll give you a hint, "The liars did it"!
Every last single one of them formed the very chain that pulled them into the boat!
I can hear it now, "That's might sound like news, but how do we get them OUT of the boat WE are in"?
Solutions!
Everybody in these days want quick solutions or the quick fix. The answer is, "You don't"!
What can you do AFTER they've already been served their acquittal?
Presently you're stuck with them, their opinions and their ability to further influence this world until their replacement enters this world!
The only way to deal with them under the current terms and rights given them by way of agreement is to birth them out.
Wait just a minute before you turn the channel, hear me out?
We can borrow from the divine principles already established and in place. As is anything that also has a new beginning, there's a starting point or point of entry. There's only one basic principle involved and it begins with "YOU"!
You must be born again of Gods word and His spirit having then become a NEW creation that is loyal and dedicated to the LORD who stands over and governs this kingdom Principle!
Stop living as if there's nothing that can or can't be done that pertains to You and quit blaming all else on a God you've spent your life trying to mold from everything that is false.
What is it other than "Unbelief" that could cause a man to "Find" himself unable to view the One that also created man basically from "Nothing" as the same One that can give to you the very life giving breath this same "Nothing" then breathes?
And that on the other side of this imperfect life man seems to want to hold so dearly to?
What are the struggle's of an imperfect being if not for the CAUSE of what man has since learned and allowed himself to be indoctrinated (steeped) in?
Why does imperfection cling to thoughts of having been made imperfect? Why can't this being that has "Fallen" in love with the excuse of it's own imperfection instead view the Truth as if a rescuing tide of refreshing?
Could the root of the problem still be this very "Imperfection"? And the very substance of this imperfection is it's own inability to choose right from wrong and that in all instances? Who should this person of imperfection then turn to?
Who is worthy of declaring what the voice of perfection (God) says if all men have been tried, found guilty and sentenced to a life that now suffers from the net result of "Imperfection" Inc.?
Why is there a rising fear of a New World Order? An "Order" that could possibly be induced by forces that are also "Beyond" the control of mankind unless man has become so familiar with himself and as if the TRUE potential which stem from his own "Imperfections"?
What is this struggle of imperfection about if not ALL that Love is and does while here and that while having been told we were made and designed to be in the Likeness of One creator?
Why the high rising banter over the "Grand prize" and seeming dominate voice as it concerns "Creation"?
Why are the rocks found in the foundation of Christianity so sought after with hammer and chisel? Why are the rocks of Christianity so aggressively being removed from the expanding fields of other religions?
Why the unsettled issues that pertain to life, mortality and morality that obviously wage war against and create seemingly uninterpretable statistic's?
The same growing potential found within the rule book of "Stats" which only seem to concern the corporate existence of mankind when they're NOT found in his favor?
And all the above having since been placed (planted) on a sphere that's being influenced by an opposing force which still looks and hopes to prevail? Prevailing in terms of the sought power that's "Since" been unearthed as if to sufficiently prove Right
another voice that has spoken?
1 Peter 1:22-25
Now that you have
purified yourselves
by obeying the truth so that you have
sincere love for your brothers,
love one another deeply, from the heart. For
you have been born again , not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,
through the living and enduring word of God.
For, "
All men are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of the Lord stands forever."
And t
his is the word that was preached to you.
NIV
No flood is required, no massive fire where only the witches and warlock's get burned at the stake. Such a time for those events is down the road in another day that will be under the directive of the Lord and His sovereignty.
Some might suggest that a persons "Perspective" is only the results a chosen sampling pool, yet does that hold true as if the cumulative result(s) of humanities choices that have also been repeatedly "Tested" throughout time?
The words from the mouth of God suggest to Christians their faith will be tested.
Many consider the testing of their faith to interpret as if something that's been taken "Personal". The God reality is the mutual benefit then enjoyed by the whole (Body of Christ) as the whole is brought to maturity being made complete.
The entire story of Job looses it's meaning when the truth does NOT maintain both the front and back side of everything we read he survived.
God spoke and labeled him as a "Righteous" being named Job BEFORE and after he went through everything he did.
Don't view a mans "doubt's" as if true weakness, instead view doubts as a weakness that only God can convert into real strength.
We're drowning in a world that loves to produce doubt, yet the objective of doubt is to drowned out what God has declared through everything He's also created!
There's an old song that has a line in it that says, "Don't you listen to what man say's". That man is the voice of one that looks to undermine everything the creation of God speaks otherwise!
Heb 11:27
By faith he left Egypt,
not fearing the king's anger;
he persevered because he saw him who is invisible
NIV
Rom 1:20
For
since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been
clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that
men are without excuse .
NIV
James 1:2-8
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
because you know that the testing
of your faith develops perseverance.
Perseverance
must finish its work so that you
may be mature and complete,
not lacking anything.
If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all
without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
But when he asks,
he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man,
unstable in all he does.
NIV
Even more as we are being rescued by the content of Gods helpful words, it also states that a very specific group of people also once put Him to the test for 40 years.
How do you read what God framed and named that time period where He was tested?
There's more to be mined from the word passage below than meets the natural eyes. As if conditional, these words state "
If" you hear His voice do not harden your hearts".
If that statement does NOT somehow apply to you personally, then continue on as if to consider it obvious God is NOT speaking to you! yes, you're free to continue to enjoy your present freedom as long as it continues while doing what you've been doing all along.
Yet if you have or even think for a moment you have heard His voice, I urge you to stop what you're doing, turn your attention towards Him, listen and listen closely.
Heb 3:7-9
"
Today,
if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers
tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
NIV
If you can allow the question, how can the spirit of God compare what their fathers did hundreds of years prior to what those who were present at the time of the above address?
Those who have yet to find themselves on the receiving end of poor "Statistic's" may also still have their heads buried where the sun doesn't shine.
If you can find it possible, "Let's be real"! Let's get comfortable in the skin we hide our true nature beneath. Let's take a closer look at what compels you to think and process those same thoughts to then do and say what you do?
When you grow tired of the misery found within your own words only then will you discover the power found in the words of your creator!
I've yet to meet the person who does not want to meet the ONE that created them with exception to those whose fear and concern for His being is only a "Fear" factor the way the world goes to great lengths in order to define fear.
Soon enough we all will meet with the one whose words were proved to contain the sufficient power that has shaped and formed us into all that we've since become.
Having become all that we've believed to be true!
Having believed and fallen in love with the content of those same words we have loved more than a life that proves to be "True" and everlasting.
When someone says to You, "I don't know You" how much more context do you need in order to hear what they've just told you in plain terms?
Luke 13:26-27
"Then you will say, '
We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'
"But he will reply,
'I don't know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!'
NIV
