THE MISSING PARTS OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
GREETINGS IN THE NAME OF JESUS:
The message that God has given to us is clear. It is based on mutual needs that we all have for good relationships. It is very clear that God cares for us enough to want a relationship with us otherwise He would have not done what He has done to ensure that we have an opportunity to seek after Him in the same ways He had made for Adam and Eve.
That first objective was to walk, talk and commune with God plus having placed them in a perfect environment where there was no work except for the care of the garden. God wanted a relationship and a family connection so badly that He restored us to that same status as was Adam and Eve to seek after Him with our whole hearts. We can see that in His choice of the twelve God looked for three major traits; HONESTY, LOYALTY, AND LOVE. So we start with the honesty of a relationship first because we all seek that in our personal relationships with those around us each day.
The question that first has to be asked ourselves is in how honest are we? Some might say at first glance that they were very honest...at least in most things; but does that make us honest? When it comes to our honesty in how we really feel about issues around us how honest are we? I had to ask myself some of these questions seriously before I could begin any kind of progress toward a deeper relationship with God even though in my mind I continued to say I wanted to go deeper and be closer to Him. What I found out was when I really started to analyze this desire I thought I had is that I was not honest with myself. How could I be honest with God if I could not be honest with myself?
What I found out was that I had let this world talk me into believing that being honest with myself about most things was good enough. I was fine on all of the major points but when it came time to control my inner thoughts; each time I failed to control my tongue from speaking the truth out loud then I also failed to be truthful to myself. In fact, I found myself caught in a web of lies because I was not really being honest with anyone else either when I thought about it. That lack of personal honesty made me wonder if I really knew who I am to me, and If I did not know me how could I give myself completely to God?
Once again in order to search for who I was, I had to go back to the scriptures to bear my soul. What I found out was disheartening because it led me back to the things I did not want to acknowledge: The fact that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked when it is tied into free will, and in most cases, the tongue cannot be tamed except it be controlled by the power of God.
I found out that until I became honest about my ability to control things on my own I would never really brings myself to God honestly.
I had to change the ways I was looking at things like my perception of who I was and who God was and then be honest about my own role in the plan of salvation that God has been offering me all this time. The more I looked into finding out about my true self the further I sank into my own sin of deceit that I had naturally been creating every day just by not being honest with me about things I knew were truthful or false in my life. I want to continue to talk to you about the perspective we have in this life and how listening to the wrong sources for information can be fatal. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
The message that God has given to us is clear. It is based on mutual needs that we all have for good relationships. It is very clear that God cares for us enough to want a relationship with us otherwise He would have not done what He has done to ensure that we have an opportunity to seek after Him in the same ways He had made for Adam and Eve.
That first objective was to walk, talk and commune with God plus having placed them in a perfect environment where there was no work except for the care of the garden. God wanted a relationship and a family connection so badly that He restored us to that same status as was Adam and Eve to seek after Him with our whole hearts. We can see that in His choice of the twelve God looked for three major traits; HONESTY, LOYALTY, AND LOVE. So we start with the honesty of a relationship first because we all seek that in our personal relationships with those around us each day.The question that first has to be asked ourselves is in how honest are we? Some might say at first glance that they were very honest...at least in most things; but does that make us honest? When it comes to our honesty in how we really feel about issues around us how honest are we? I had to ask myself some of these questions seriously before I could begin any kind of progress toward a deeper relationship with God even though in my mind I continued to say I wanted to go deeper and be closer to Him. What I found out was when I really started to analyze this desire I thought I had is that I was not honest with myself. How could I be honest with God if I could not be honest with myself?
What I found out was that I had let this world talk me into believing that being honest with myself about most things was good enough. I was fine on all of the major points but when it came time to control my inner thoughts; each time I failed to control my tongue from speaking the truth out loud then I also failed to be truthful to myself. In fact, I found myself caught in a web of lies because I was not really being honest with anyone else either when I thought about it. That lack of personal honesty made me wonder if I really knew who I am to me, and If I did not know me how could I give myself completely to God?
Once again in order to search for who I was, I had to go back to the scriptures to bear my soul. What I found out was disheartening because it led me back to the things I did not want to acknowledge: The fact that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked when it is tied into free will, and in most cases, the tongue cannot be tamed except it be controlled by the power of God.
I found out that until I became honest about my ability to control things on my own I would never really brings myself to God honestly.
I had to change the ways I was looking at things like my perception of who I was and who God was and then be honest about my own role in the plan of salvation that God has been offering me all this time. The more I looked into finding out about my true self the further I sank into my own sin of deceit that I had naturally been creating every day just by not being honest with me about things I knew were truthful or false in my life. I want to continue to talk to you about the perspective we have in this life and how listening to the wrong sources for information can be fatal. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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