Daily Archives: August 7, 2014

Beyond the Veil

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Just beyond the veil of your weakness and fear lay all the strength and promise any man can have.  No man can remove this veil, anymore than plucking out his own eyes will cause him to see better.

The eyes you now use to perceive your weakness and fear are useless in the gaining of this magnificent strength and promise.  To gain what is more you must receive.  Yet how can a man receive by taking from what he already has?

This is how many Christians live.  They strive to obey from their own resources.  But that does not come from the message they first heard.

They realized they were helpless so they turned to look for an answer.  But when the answer was provided, they turned back to their old way. 

How can they “become”?  How do they think they can now provide what they were not able to achieve before?

If peace was delivered by believing the power of God to transform, how is it we now turn to our own strength to do what is more?  By this error, born of pride and folly, many have shipwrecked their own faith.

The answer remains where it was found in the beginning.  Humble ourselves before the living God.  Ask with earnest and continuous prayer.  Read the Bible again and again; that you may learn the language of salvation.

If you will not do these things how can any man help you farther?  The sad part is you may not want what you think you want.

Double Mindedness

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My Christian Brothers & Sisters.  Why did you waste your time loving the world and desiring to serve God?  Why do you leave yourself double minded?  Why do you pledge your allegiance to the world and to God at the same time?  How can you think this is pleasing to either one of them?

The world will despise you, for you say you love the Living God.  And you present yourself unpresentable to He who lives forever.  For you love the world which hates Him.

How is it you think you can serve where man has been told it cannot be done? 

The world plainly says it will hate God even unto murder.  And God has plainly said, he has hated the ways of this world even unto annihilation. 

So how can you stand with one foot in the world and one foot in the temple of God?  You will be ripped in two, and fall, irreparably, into the endless chasm of destruction.  You will not be received by God.  And hell will not love you.

What is loss can be called loss, even while it remains.  What is gain, can be called gain, even while it remains a promise.

See these things, and decide for yourself whom you will serve.  Either abandon God and love the world, or abandon the ways of this world and love your God.

Grace is given to those who repent.  Do not think it belongs to the double minded.  The Lord has called us to death; that we may gain eternal life! 

He is not some sweet little cuddly teddy bear.  He is the Holy Lord!  His words are true and faultless, and he will do as he has promised! 

Destruction will come to all that hate him.  And eternal life will come to all those who despise his enemy; to the doing of his commands.

Do not be deceived.  Every man reaps what he sows.

Wisdom

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Wisdom is the application of achieving our desire.  The Fox is called wise.  It is not because of his knowledge of the things of men.  Rather it is because he likes to eat and to survive.  He is exceedingly stealthy and skittish.  For he perceives that there is no one else to provide for him.  So with all his strength, he applies himself to the things of himself.

The wisdom of this world and the wisdom of God are utterly different.  The wisdom of this world is stealthy and skittish.  It is designed to protect against loss.  And in this pathetic way, men call it gain.

But the wisdom of God is gain with no loss.  It is not defensive in nature.  For there is nothing to lose.  God is pure gain, unto eternal stability.

The things of men rust and dissipate quickly.  So, to the extent that a man desires these things, he will join with the world’s definition of wisdom.

The Holy Lord is, and will never cease to be.  All that is his, and that which he offers, can not fade or dissipate.  Therefore, those who desire His things define themselves by the wisdom of God.

The world will kill to attain and retain.  They are wise in defending their noxious desire.  But God freely gives from his endless Reserve.  What he gives is pure life. Those who receive his things fully, find themselves free of the greedy wisdom of this world.

This is central to the reason why men hate the gospel of Jesus Christ.  This is also central in understanding Christians.  To the extent of their belief, you will never move them from their place.

The wisdom of God goes directly against the wisdom of loss.  Worldly people are “hardwired”, if you will, to remain defensive.  So a man of this world can never receive the gospel.

To desire the things of God, a man must find fault with his own way.  Only then does he desire to find what is sure.  God comes to him and shows him the folly of man’s desire.  Now the choice belongs to that man.

Will he abandon, or embrace, what he knows to be folly.  See how his heart is laid bare.  God knows the man’s every thought. 

And so it is with all men.  For the Holy Lord has promised, there will be no excuse.  The wisdom of God still cries out in the very streets men walk to protect against loss.

Wisdom from God is offered to men freely and without judgment.  A man need only to believe that there is a difference between the wisdom of men and the wisdom of God.  Men lie in their wisdom.  God does not.