What if you were invited to the Holy Throne of the Most High God today?   He sends a Holy angel to come and carry you to Him.  What gift should you take?  It is unwise to appear before Him empty handed.

Why not take your most prized possession?  It is not possible to fool the Lord.  So I suggest your choice be honest.

For most men, they will appear before Him bearing they’re most hideous sin.  It is their most prized possession.  Perhaps they will perform it for God in his holy Throne Room.

Do you think that is to vulgar a concept?   Does the thought  of performing your sin before God make you ill?  Have you never heard the scripture, “In Him we live and move and have are being.”

Who do you perceive the Lord Jesus to be?  Do you perceive him to be beautiful?  How beautiful do you perceive him to be?  The questions matter because as we aspire to be like him, our perception of his beauty matters.

Who we aspire to become similar to determines our potential.  The Lord Jesus is endlessly beautiful.  To what portion of that endless beauty do you aspire?

Gods willingness to give is not the reason for our stunted growth.   The reason we thrash around as helpless babes is because we are not willing to receive.  The question before our face day and night is this:  Is the Lord more beautiful than the enticements of the flesh?

By His Grace

Have you ever given much thought to the title “Sovereign God”?   It is a simple two word title.  But it is absolutely impossible that it should belong to more than one.

This title belongs to the One who needs nothing from anything or anyone else.  But in the case of the living God, who owns this title, He willingly shares with others.

He is do all respect, all glory, all on honor and all worship.  And when our hearts are in order we find a mystery of mysteries comes up on us.  We become an integral part of the Sovereign God.  It is written, “God is One”.  Everything that belongs to God becomes God.

How then should unrighteousness be allowed to live among God’s people?  Consider this with sobriety.

By His Grace

Today’s message in America is: be fit be happy, be luxurious,  be rich, be respected, be wanted, be healthy.  And especially today, be healthier!

Since I was a child that message has made me sick to my soul.  It is so obvious that such talk leaves behind the needy and the helpless.  But America clamors after it as if it is breath itself.

If you will hold still from your greedy desire I will show you something greater.  If you are willing to look at what is true instead of desiring what is faults I will now hand it to you.

——-Psalm 109——-

21But you, Sovereign Lord,
help me for your name’s sake;
out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
22For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is wounded within me.
23I fade away like an evening shadow;
I am shaken off like a locust.
24My knees give way from fasting;
my body is thin and gaunt.
25I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
when they see me, they shake their heads.
26Help me, Lord my God;
save me according to your unfailing love.
27Let them know that it is your hand,
that you, Lord, have done it.
28While they curse, may you bless;
may those who attack me be put to shame,
but may your servant rejoice.
29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace
and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
30With my mouth I will greatly extol the Lord;
in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him.
31For he stands at the right hand of the needy,
to save their lives from those who would condemn them.

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You have heard John 3:16.  Were you aware of the cost of that Scripture?  Are you willing to become aware of the glory of Jesus the Christ of God?

Step away from the basket of lies that was handed to us a child.  Hold out your tongue then a morsel of truth may be placed on its tip.  Learn to love the taste of what is true and to abhot the sweetness of Lies.

By His Grace