BRINGING OUR EXPECTATIONS INTO REALITY
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
I am amazed at how much I don't know....and everyday of my life God the Father brings me more into focus on that point. The problem is that if I am so uneducated in the word and unaware of what is going on in this world where do the largest majority of people today stand?
Dear ones every day of my life God teaches me something new that simply increases my resolve to get closer to Christ Jesus and the truth of His message to us. I spent time this morning on the subject of secret societies and cults that have been working for generations now to bring about this new world order that we openly hear about today. Put very bluntly it is the world's attempt at putting Satan in the place of God, and every day it gets stronger and more capable of being done.
My personal avocation is in not trying to stop it from happening but to simply get as close to Christ and the message of salvation as we can. I believe that God has been planning for this turn of events to happen for a long time now. In truth when Jesus was speaking to the crowds of people in parables He knew that only those who would be willing to open their hearts and listen with Spiritual ears would understand the truth of what was being said. We have to wake up to the fact that Jesus already knew that the world of men in general would not be won to God because of the nature of sin within us. Christ did know that there was an element of men that was created to love and serve God, and in that rather small element the offer for salvation could be made and those whose heart and minds were tuned into that truth would respond. I believe that even among those who claim Christ that might be the case because we have played church for so long now that we have become apathetic.
Throughout history God has been looking for real love and commitment from us while we have been playing the game of holding back all that we can in our belief and in particular our obedience. We can no longer do just the bear minimum, or just get by in doing what we perceive to be the requirements of our faith. I hate to have to say this but if we love someone it is either real or it becomes a form of manipulation to feed our own greed. To some that statement may seem a little cynical, but if we really think about the actions that the church has taken toward building their relationship through the Spirit over the last few generations you can also see the truth of that statement. If we are to have real expectations of unity within the body of Christ I believe we need to be as real as we can about where and who we are with God right now. That starts by asking ourselves some very hard questions about that relationship and what we really have wanted from it...and then asking what we know that God really has wanted from it as well. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
I am amazed at how much I don't know....and everyday of my life God the Father brings me more into focus on that point. The problem is that if I am so uneducated in the word and unaware of what is going on in this world where do the largest majority of people today stand?
Dear ones every day of my life God teaches me something new that simply increases my resolve to get closer to Christ Jesus and the truth of His message to us. I spent time this morning on the subject of secret societies and cults that have been working for generations now to bring about this new world order that we openly hear about today. Put very bluntly it is the world's attempt at putting Satan in the place of God, and every day it gets stronger and more capable of being done.
My personal avocation is in not trying to stop it from happening but to simply get as close to Christ and the message of salvation as we can. I believe that God has been planning for this turn of events to happen for a long time now. In truth when Jesus was speaking to the crowds of people in parables He knew that only those who would be willing to open their hearts and listen with Spiritual ears would understand the truth of what was being said. We have to wake up to the fact that Jesus already knew that the world of men in general would not be won to God because of the nature of sin within us. Christ did know that there was an element of men that was created to love and serve God, and in that rather small element the offer for salvation could be made and those whose heart and minds were tuned into that truth would respond. I believe that even among those who claim Christ that might be the case because we have played church for so long now that we have become apathetic.
Throughout history God has been looking for real love and commitment from us while we have been playing the game of holding back all that we can in our belief and in particular our obedience. We can no longer do just the bear minimum, or just get by in doing what we perceive to be the requirements of our faith. I hate to have to say this but if we love someone it is either real or it becomes a form of manipulation to feed our own greed. To some that statement may seem a little cynical, but if we really think about the actions that the church has taken toward building their relationship through the Spirit over the last few generations you can also see the truth of that statement. If we are to have real expectations of unity within the body of Christ I believe we need to be as real as we can about where and who we are with God right now. That starts by asking ourselves some very hard questions about that relationship and what we really have wanted from it...and then asking what we know that God really has wanted from it as well. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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