“I gave you legs.  How did you use them?   Did you seek My glory as you made step after step?   Or did you use them for uses of your own?

Arms adorned your temple.  Were they tools, raised for worship of Me?  Did you force them into My service?   Or have they gathered honor to yourself? 

David, My servant, admited that he was wonderfully and fearfully made.  And he went about striving to proclaim My sovereignty over all creation.  Day after day, men and women lift what I have made so that it is plainly seen that I am their God.  What about you?”

The cost is high.  The hatred for God runs deep.  Variety attends the imagination of man as he rebells against Him.  “This body is mine!”  And glory is stolen.  How do we expect to be welcomed as His friends?   If we steal while in flesh, what will we do in spirit?  What words will convince my brothers and sisters?   What will shove the mind into understanding?

This is not a place to gather.  It is a place to honor He who made us.  But lips are sealed, lest we offend.  “God is large enough to receive offence.  He will not harm us.  But man can take away our place.”  In one word we rob God of what is rightfully His.  It is not our place that is at stake.  All things have come from Him.  And we hatefully call them “Ours”.

It was rough to be fake before the advent of technology.   It’s so easy to hide behind things.  But this speaks from man’s perspective.  God not only sees as if from above, He sees from within.

Make whatever New Years resolution you want.  If it does not include transparency before God, you’re foolin yourself.

Happy New Year to all.  And to all, “good day”.

A rather popular belief is that, somehow, a miracle is born by going to “Church”.  That if you go often enough you’ll miraculously become a guy who loves God.  Or better yet, become loved by God.  Perhaps you’ll become a good Christian man.

But faith, that Living Faith, comes from God.  Nothing man can create in the way of faith can compare to what the Lord gives in an unseen moment.

The fear of the Lord comes from hearing.  A man knows to recognize his need.  But that acceptance before the Lord comes from the Lord.

Christians are born of God.  They are not trained into fellowship with God by man.  Attend all you want or can.  But eternity is guarded by the Father in heaven.  Please consider this.  Christianity is granted, never earned.

By His Grace.

Mary gave the Lord his blood. He used it to please the Heavenly Father.

When he was finished he poured it out on the ground. And, in time, Mary’s blood mingled again with his.

Now neither of them have use of blood. But forever his blood is His glory and her atonement.

Beautifully intricate and endlessly amazing is the mystery of Godliness.