How does one prove they've been forgiven of God and why even entertain the thought of the need to be forgiven of God?
"Why" would someone even begin to feel the need to somehow prove such a consideration?
In either case, would the evidence prove to be more of the same after having confessed something to have been an "Offense" against God? Will it be business as usual? As if nothing has changed?
Does God only suggest to the sinner to "Repent" in order to somehow make Him (God) feel better?
Make Him feel better so that He as your God (creator) will not strike you down with a lightning bolt or cause the earth to open and swallow you?
Especially while knowing there was and still remains the "Need" for mutual edification that stems from forgiveness?
From where does forgiveness realize its origin if NOT from the "Mercy Of God" who is also at the apex of even the thought of "A creator" when someone suggest they do Believe in "Their" Creator?
Is your creator different than the suggestion of their being ONLY ONE Creator?
Once again, "How does one prove they've been forgiven of God and why even entertain the thought of of the "Need" to be forgiven of a God (creator)?
Forgiveness being such that is also still "Being" expressed despite what you might be "Feeling" at any given moment and that having been coupled with the thought of an absentee God or at least invisible to the natural eyes?
Truly, what do you believe with all your heart?
What is Truly being expressed when someone suggest they don't "Feel" forgiven or they haven't realized the benefit of the thoughts of having been forgiven?
Many don't seek out the way of the Lord more completely and that for many different reasons.
The word of God says, "He came to His own, yet His own did NOT receive Him". Do we see the image of a helping hand being extended, yet the hand of another being withdrawn with their head following suit turning in the opposite direction?
What was it that proved they did NOT receive Him? There's a credible/reliable report that a certain sect of society many years ago killed a man that "Claimed" to be from God, yet not only what did they choose to believe, but what do you chose to believe?
At the "Cross Roads" of this consideration is where many are undecided and stuck.
They don't know who the "They" are nor do they want to be known for who they are or recognized as the proverbial "Them" that will be found guilty and deserving the wrath of God. This certain wrath that is also required to be "BELIEVED" is coming in order to also somehow see it for all that it is....
In short terms, 'They don't know what they believe beyond doubt".
For the record the inference of the word "They" in any context is more often not a term of endearment when relatively speaking.
There's an old phrase that suggest the state of "Analysis Paralysis". In my mind this status would agree with what God considers to be the state of being "Luke Warm" as opposed to "Being" decided and a living reflective life that is either Hot or Cold.
I've often wondered if the etymology behind these words were also being decided at the same time it was how to best define and in turn blame what woman go through during "Meno-PAUSE"?
The biological crossroads where a woman has few choices left before she transitions to the reality where she knows in her mind and heart that she no longer is able to "Produce" a child from HER womb?
Most everyone has a favorite song that takes them back to a place in time where only memories CAN continue to exist, yet often times it's those humble beginnings of those same memories that once lead us away from God yet we'll continue to hold on to them for some "Undecided" reason.
I believe there are very few accidents in this world, especially in the "Light" of the true mercy of God who makes every attempt to reveal himself to all mankind for the purpose of there being a more exact manifestation/representation that's accessible.
At some point His words were NOT enough and then there's another point in time where the validation of His personage (visitation) will have either proved to be convincing enough or NOT. You can choose to either play this same story either forward or in reverse, yet the story line should produce the same conclusion when you discover what is "True.
Many also have their favorite excuses and that because they continue to work so well. What is it that makes them favored? The fact that no one has found a 'Way" to take those excuses to task? And that because everybody seems to know all too well what makes every man "Imperfect" even better than the next?
Some assume they know "All" they personally need to know about a TRUE life that's been lived in the sight of God and that being based on what they want to know.
Others are satisfied with living off the residuals of what someone else has told them about "Their God" yet the evidence does not accompany there liveliest attempts at exhibiting same..
Quite frankly, there are no short cuts in Christ. The only way to be reconciled to God is by way of the lively examples the "Living God" has set before those who are willing to approach them as if those lively exhibits are "For" and will "serve" as the warning, example(s) and learning of others.
Those specific living examples that also had to go "Through" essence of one and the same sanctification process that Only God can Righteously orchestrate having been suited for their "Time".
People across Gods green earth are always asking what time is it" or "What day is it"?
What they fail to consider is, "Today is the day of "Your" salvation.
Especially when truthfully considering the "Heart of the Matter"!
Are you a child of God or something that only considers itself to be some THING God has created? What is your reality that also Governs what you say and do while here?
How do you find the the definition of the "Grace" of God that is also the power to "Become" the sons of God from among ALL that He's Created?
Rom 8:19-21
The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
NIV
Why has the thought of "Salvation" become something that ONLY pertains to the "Way" the "Individual " thinks and/or assumes to be True? That being who thinks within themselves that their arrival will somehow change the results of everything that's NOT been Done?
Why are so many focused on what can't be done which also defines and edifies whom? Are we only talking about the absence of Gods "Grace" or the interaction of Gods Grace that is presently in the form of a "Promise Made"?
The righteousness of a promise that's been made to those who WILL choose to see themselves WAY God has prepared for them to not only see but also recognize as "Provision"?
What is required though? That you believe? And to think what the corruption of this world does NOT want you to see and Believe with every ounce of its being?
To then Truthfully try to reconcile what God says about the Kingdom or House that's divided against itself that will NOT stand when the heavens and the earth below are shaken?
Was the good intent of God intended to produce and then reveal "The sons of God?
If "Yes" what will also prove to be the evidence "They" Truly are the sons of God? And as such only by way of all that Gods says "WILL" also define who those sons are?
The words of God Were spoken with the intent of being the FRAME of the world and everything in it that does belong to Him, instead of the world being the frame of what God may or may NOT have said and done.
Many think or assume it to be true there are many "Way(s)" of God, while forgetting there's ONLY "One way" to be reconciled to the only God that WILL prove to be "True".
People have been seduced into thinking there's MORE than one way and that while ignoring the back biting that takes place within the one God has selected to be the bride of His One and Only (begotten) Son.
Whether it be "More" in terms of Joy unspeakable that's found ONLY in Him, Faith that needs to increase, or whether it be what is "Just" and that based on how little is known about God.
Maybe not so much for how little one does know about God or such a capacity, but more importantly how infinitely important it is to recognize more each day just how vast the wisdom of God Truly is.
Some seek only what they perceive to be the bare minimum whose happy ending is portrayed with them ultimately "Going" to heaven. Going to heaven "Maybe" yet going to heaven to do what?
They've come to the place of knowing, to where they've since been convinced or have convinced themselves they've listened and because they're convinced they've listened they've "Heard" all they "Need" to hear as if the spirit of the Lord has ceased to dispense His wisdom.
This too because of what they've been taught and have believed.
Whether it be the interaction with their job, family, friends, wife, kids, husband, home, health, happiness or all the above, why doesn't it seem to be there's still that certain "Something" they've yet to invest having held back for themselves a larger portion of self?
I hear people all the time talk about losing their own identity while in the the relationships they at one time or another chose to be in. Always looking for a 60/40 split where someone else is the primary giver.
In terms of being Holy, who is that's presently at a loss?
The one who is Holy or the one in need of being made "Holy"?
Rom 1:18-20
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
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
If I were to ask where "There" is as mentioned below, where would we end up looking to?
Matt 13:58
And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.
NIV
If I were to ask, why does darkness NOT understand the presence of light, what might one conclude?
John 1:5
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
NIV
1 Cor 2:7-10
None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"— but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
NIV
Who are the "Those" the words of God defines as "Those who Love Him"?
Are they defined by mere words any Good "Liar" can speak or are they defined by the Heart only God can righteously "Interpret"?
Exactly who is that's interpreting the hearts of men for them? Who's telling men what they "Need" to hear to where men remain in search of something "More" in God they don't already "know"?
The imagery of Hiding behind all that words alone can't describe has more than one face. Especially in the light of truth that depicts "Faith" as the "Substance of things Hoped for"!
Is that substance those same things men covet they also Can't take with them when their spirit, soul and bodies have been separated? Why the need for a "New Body"?
A new body as if an address that's divinely designed and suited to accommodate the spirit and soul? The same spirit and soul who without a new (Spiritual) embodiment will forever be without an address both can inhabit?
The reality is found in the stones (Rock) the Lord will use to build the house (body) He will inhabit that have also come from where? Is a grain of sand seen as a stone to the ant? Does the sand of the seashore appear as tiny particles that were one a part of a much bigger "Rock"?
Many hide behind lies much like a hunter that hides behind his carefully thought out and painted disguise which gives him the advantage.
His present advantage being that which allows the hunter to blend in with his "Present" surroundings!
Take that advantage away? Can you then see the naked disadvantage for all that it is NOT?
Gen 3:21-22
21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
NIV
Mark 10:18
"Why do you call me good ?" Jesus answered. "No one is good — except God alone.
NIV
Gen 1:27
So God created man in his own image , in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. NIV
Matt 12:35
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.NIV
Gen 47:16-19
"Then bring your livestock," said Joseph. "I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone." So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock. When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, "We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
Why should we perish before your eyes — we and our land as well?
Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate."
NIV
Lev 9:10-11
On the altar he burned the fat, the kidneys and the covering of the liver from the sin offering, as the LORD commanded Moses; the flesh and the hide he burned up outside the camp.
NIV
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