Learning the ways of God
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
It's interesting to me that many of these writings came to me in a kind of proverb way of thinking. The ways of God and the ways of mankind are not the same because it is in our nature to remember our sins and transgressions but it is in God's nature to forgive them and remember them know more. The fact is that we bring to mind the sins, which we ask forgiveness for over and over again even though God does not have them on his mind.
We as people who need to control cannot seem to let them go in our minds and many times in our hearts so the question is are they ever truly forgiven? The Scriptures tell us it is not the sin that damns us to be apart from God but the bulk of sin or the cleaning to sin that keeps us away from a truthful relationship with him. There are many tricks that our enemy has to keep us apart from God but one of his most successful has always been our lack of forgiveness for ourselves. We believe that because we continuously have the thoughts of those things that we have done brought back into our mind then God also remembers them in the same ways.
Perfect forgiveness is the choice God has made to forget those sins that are forgiven until we bring them back up to him. That is when it begins to be an issue again in our lives. We must realize that it isn't God who is bringing the guild back each time but it is the enemy who plays that card time and time again on us to cause a feeling that we are not forgiven even after we ask and receive that love and forgiveness from the father. We have a choice to make as to whether we shall live with this guilt are cast the guilt away from us as the father has; as far as the east is from the west.
Our lives and Christian successes depend on our ability to allow God to love us his way. This cannot be allowed on when we are still clinging to past sins and mistakes we have made and have been forgiven out. We do not have the power within our lives to control much of what Satan and his demons put on us here, but we must begin to take that control out of the hands of the enemy. Along with said control comes the responsibility to act on the knowledge we have been given and to cling no more to past things that have held us from a true relationship with our father in heaven. It is our choice to make, it is our duty to fulfill, and it is our very lives with Christ which is at stake. Take heed for we cannot clean to one and love another for we shall ultimately lose the gift we have so richly been given if we continue to be fooled.
For a great many of us who follow Christ we find ourselves being fooled into living with guilt and the anxiety of memories of past sins. I remember a phrase that I heard when I was a young man in college which said our sins can never send us to hell. It is our relationship with Christ or our lack of relationship to Christ that sends us to hell. The power of sin has been broken by Jesus. The power that sin has had over us has always been death and separation from God. When God sent Jesus Christ to minister to us he brought with him a message of good news. It was that good news that broke the power of sin over our lives, but we still have a choice to make. That choice deals with how we have accepted the gift of forgiveness from God the father. Once we bring our lives to the foot of the cross we should never try to pick them back up. These are all messages that God has been trying to send to the church for many years. I pray that we will begin to take heed of the good news he has given us. May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
It's interesting to me that many of these writings came to me in a kind of proverb way of thinking. The ways of God and the ways of mankind are not the same because it is in our nature to remember our sins and transgressions but it is in God's nature to forgive them and remember them know more. The fact is that we bring to mind the sins, which we ask forgiveness for over and over again even though God does not have them on his mind.
We as people who need to control cannot seem to let them go in our minds and many times in our hearts so the question is are they ever truly forgiven? The Scriptures tell us it is not the sin that damns us to be apart from God but the bulk of sin or the cleaning to sin that keeps us away from a truthful relationship with him. There are many tricks that our enemy has to keep us apart from God but one of his most successful has always been our lack of forgiveness for ourselves. We believe that because we continuously have the thoughts of those things that we have done brought back into our mind then God also remembers them in the same ways.
Perfect forgiveness is the choice God has made to forget those sins that are forgiven until we bring them back up to him. That is when it begins to be an issue again in our lives. We must realize that it isn't God who is bringing the guild back each time but it is the enemy who plays that card time and time again on us to cause a feeling that we are not forgiven even after we ask and receive that love and forgiveness from the father. We have a choice to make as to whether we shall live with this guilt are cast the guilt away from us as the father has; as far as the east is from the west.
Our lives and Christian successes depend on our ability to allow God to love us his way. This cannot be allowed on when we are still clinging to past sins and mistakes we have made and have been forgiven out. We do not have the power within our lives to control much of what Satan and his demons put on us here, but we must begin to take that control out of the hands of the enemy. Along with said control comes the responsibility to act on the knowledge we have been given and to cling no more to past things that have held us from a true relationship with our father in heaven. It is our choice to make, it is our duty to fulfill, and it is our very lives with Christ which is at stake. Take heed for we cannot clean to one and love another for we shall ultimately lose the gift we have so richly been given if we continue to be fooled.
For a great many of us who follow Christ we find ourselves being fooled into living with guilt and the anxiety of memories of past sins. I remember a phrase that I heard when I was a young man in college which said our sins can never send us to hell. It is our relationship with Christ or our lack of relationship to Christ that sends us to hell. The power of sin has been broken by Jesus. The power that sin has had over us has always been death and separation from God. When God sent Jesus Christ to minister to us he brought with him a message of good news. It was that good news that broke the power of sin over our lives, but we still have a choice to make. That choice deals with how we have accepted the gift of forgiveness from God the father. Once we bring our lives to the foot of the cross we should never try to pick them back up. These are all messages that God has been trying to send to the church for many years. I pray that we will begin to take heed of the good news he has given us. May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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