Monthly Archives: May 2014

The spike of peace

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Our life can be considered as traveling upon a flat line.  What lay to the left is yet to come.  What lay to the right is written and sealed.  But the spike upon the line is the “now”.

What is to come is not.  What lays behind is done.  Only the moment should be of any serious consideration.  The faith of the future and the faith of the past squeeze together and cause us to be.

There is peace in the faith of what is to come.  For he who promises cannot lie.  There is peace in the faith of what is behind.  For the mercy of God in Christ covers us with beautiful righteousness.

So it is right to say as follows:

“I have peace regarding what comes for God is faithful and supplies.  I have peace regarding what has been for God is faithful to forgive.”

How then should we live in any anxiety?  The promises are sure.  Strength to sustain us is present.  And he has shed His Holy Blood as proof of our forgiveness. (Not only so, but he who believes in the forgiveness of Christ also gains a clean conscience)   How then shall we walk in anxiety?

This should be the aim and desire of every man and woman in Christ.  God has caused things to be in this way, so that his Glory maybe known for eternity. 

But if we live in dreams, desire, greed and anxiety about the future, how does that bring glory to God?  And if we quake and shake and cry and moan for the wicked things we’ve done, how does this bring glory to the Holy blood of Christ?

But if we live in peace, understanding, knowledge of truth, and trust, then we live in the place that God has desired for all men to live. Then a man lives in eternity. Then he is prepared to receive the good things God desires to give. Then the man becomes.

Practice trust.  The righteousness of God covers us.  And we know that his righteousness is Holy true.

The stingy apple tree

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If you walk up to an apple tree, do you have to tell the tree you’re hungry?  And if you tell the tree you’re hungry, do you have to tell him a long story about why you’re hungry?

Isn’t it true that your simple approach is sufficient?  And as your hand grasps the Apple and pulls it loose, do you have to say “thank you” to the tree?  No one has ever heard an apple tree complain when an apple is picked.

Does the tree look to see you coming?  Does it judge you by what it sees?  As you reach for the Apple does it withdraw the limb?

Does the tree tell you “No!”, then give you some lame excuse as to why?  Perhaps it might tell you it gives its’ fruit somewhere else.  So you say to the tree, “Can I just have a partly rotten apple?”  The tree just shakes its leaves and turns away.

If we, who are in Christ, are not prepared in season and out of season to give the fruit of God’s generosity, we will likely stammer about like the stingy apple tree.  And we should consider that we may be in danger as was the fig tree.  ” May you never bear fruit again.”

What’s the odds

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If you think about it there’s probably less than 100 million devoted Christians in America.  Yet there’s over 300 million people in the population. 

100 million may think they are saved.  God alone knows.  But what of the other 200 million?

If the Lord has not written your name in his book of life you will die.  How many then live their life on Earth without consideration of eternity?  The odds are you’re one of them.

I’m not casting aspersions.  I’m doing the math.   Think eternity.

A righteous man

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A man is not righteous because he does right things.  Is righteous because he himself is righteousness.

The good deeds are his children.  They are not his identity.

He has become a righteous man because righteousness is what he has desired most of all.  He has appealed to God through Christ.  And he has received that for which he has asked. 

Such a man has stopped doing and has become.

The power

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The world says, “We are many.  There is nothing we cannot accomplish.”  The church has heard them say this.  Mistakenly, they have taken these words to them themselves.  Instead of relying on the power of God, they have turned to the strength of numbers.  And the work of Christ has suffered horrible loss.

The church has failed to learn or remember that the kingdom of God is not to be quantified.  The kingdom of God is the power of Christ in His Holy Spirit.  And the strength of righteousness is manifested in every believer.  God does not look for numbers.  He looks for faith and faithfulness.

How many times has God done wonderous things through one man?  All the while, in that man’s time, there were hundreds and thousands of believers.  With a few, God has crushed vast numbers of enemy.

How is it we have not learned?  When the world makes boasts, their words are not for the church.  Yet, even now, Psychology, sociology, politics and various other sinful teachings have crept in among us.  Why do we make the same mistakes in every generation?

Closed covers

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The words of the Bible are powerful and true.  They are living words that are able to lead you to the living God in Christ Jesus.  But their power is nullified if the covers of the book remain closed.