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Every man thinks he is something when he does not listen to the words of God. Thus a proud man is formed.
How is a humble man produced?
Let the proud man read the Good words God has written, and humility approaches with steady gait.
Let him cease reading what is good and humility will stop his approach.
Let him return to prideful ways and humility returns to God.
Most people think religion is a private matter. They don’t want anyone to talk to them about it. And they’re certainly not going to open the subject themselves. “What is between me and God is between me and God”.
I suspect that what is between you and God is that you are ashamed of his son among men. It could be a lack of education about God. But one with think that asking questions is more in line with that excuse; learning if you will.
Heaven stretches left to right a billion trillion years of Flight
Yet God’s forgiveness reaches me the moment his ears hear my plea.
The strength of God is not in his ability to annihilate his enemy. His strength is found in causing his enemy to love him.
Lord God, I love you.
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What has been given to Christ’s bride is precious and pure. He says to me to counsel my brothers and sisters to trust. It is by faith that we endure what is to come. Therefore I urge all of us to trust.
Though we do not understand, trust. If He has given it will be blessed. Only trust.
We have been told to speak for His name’s sake. We have been urged by our leaders to testify. And we have not understood the message. This understanding is missing from among us because we have failed to walk in His Holy ways. We have spurned the power of the Holy Spirit which He has given us. And by this spurning we have failed to testify with power.
Take to heart what I have said at His beckoning. If you do not understand what I have said here, then approach the Lord who has bought you by His Holy Blood and ask what you will. Understanding will be given to those who desire to serve. Only trust.
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In the flesh, all men and women analyze their value. Do I make enough money? Am I popular enough? Am I as attractive as I can be? What do people think of what I do? The focus of the flesh is always placed on what others think about us.
Now I ask myself, “What value has all that been to me?” If I were to present myself as beautifully as possible to man, there would still be many who would find plenty to criticize. And I would be forced to either hate them or go back to make a better try. In the end, I will get old and of no value to those who set the trends of society. So I quit trying to please man in that manner.
As is our nature, when we can’t find acceptance in one place we look for it in another. So I turned to God. I read that He is willing to accept us through the work of His Son. And I embraced it well enough. As I became clean, however, I found myself thinking I would again present myself to man. “Surely they will accept me now that I don’t do the things that are ugly.”
A rather large surprise greeted me at the door to humanity. I realized that they hated God and all His ways. And if I now embraced God and His ways, they were more than willing to hate me too. So, with perplexity in hand, I left man and all his ways. Now I serve the Living God with vigor. He is far more comfort than anything man has to offer.
I make this post to testify that God is better than the world in every way. A tiny few will believe what I have written. But the Living God has told of this from ages past. What’s the summation? Look to man and you will die a very slow death of competition, greed, pride, and every form of wickedness. Look to God and He will show you every good thing. Satisfaction belongs to those who place themselves completely in the hands of the Lord Jesus.
Who is this God, the living God, who is able to transform a thistle into a great Pine?
The Living God who takes away so that He can give me what is mine.
What wind will appear to drive me down as long as His blessing remains?
It is He who has blessed and transported my frame, for the sake of His Holy Name.
No longer a thorn to pierce His soft skin, to be counted as enemy prime.
His Grace spent on me has produced shade and food, according to His Great Design.
We: Live, Die, Face Judgment. Jesus or die twice.
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