When did you learn to hide from God? A child knows no such thing.
When did you taste the forbidden fruit, that tore down Adam and Eve?
Can you remember? Dare you look, at the first page of your sinner’s book?
You loved before then; no missteps to mend. The world was clean and beautiful.
Do you know you can have it again?
You don’t have to wait for heaven. The door knob is at your right hand.
Just kneel and pray to Jesus, “Please give me a wedding band.”
By His Grace
If you think God is a series of do’s and don’ts, you don’t know him. If you think obeying the Ten Commandments will make you a friend of God, you don’t know the gospel. If you believe all the social hype about religion, you are blinded by a lie.
Rather than explain those three statements, I’ll just ask you to read the New Testament. If you’re still confused, read it again. And if you still don’t get it, read it one more time.
The point is confusion isn’t necessary. Keep reading it until you understand. Because if you don’t understand, you’ll die.
By His Grace
It’s amazing how some things dawn on us ever so slowly. We think we understand but we do not know as we should. Many people would call humans rather intelligent. I am forced to think otherwise.
The comparison men use to grade themselves on intelligence, is born in the sea of men (the sum of which could be compared to a jellyfish). But compare our intelligence to the Most High God and His holy son Jesus, and we fall so far short we are not even worthy of mention in his righteous court.
We all make mistakes on a daily basis. Many of those mistakes can be referred to as sin; for we knew better but chose that way anyhow. Can God forgive our sins? The answer is “absolutely”.
It just dawned on me today how that can be so. Duh.
The Lord has allowed me to be with and love an absolutely wonderful woman. She knows my faults but chooses to overlook them. She is full of discretion and does not speak of them to others. She makes no excuse for me, but she buffers me against what could be an enemy.
If she is such a wonderous human being and yet falls so far short on the intelligence level, (As do we all.) How much greater and more discreet is the sweet love of the Son of God?
Certainly something to ponder when doubt overshadows our forehead.
By His Grace
The Lord came to me, in the Promise to all men: “I will be with you, teaching you what is right and good to do and be”. And so I grew in His Holy wisdom.
Misunderstanding dressed me, as He offered His pledge. “He has made me a righteous man; by knowledge, He has lifted me from sin to righteous doings.” But days passed. Years came and went. Though knowledge came, I found sin and folly were bound up in me still.
Perplexity confronted me. In my days and nights I pondered. “How can I know these things, yet do the abhorrent? Where is the fruit of purity? Where are the things, among my belongings, that pleased Him so in His Holy Son?”
Desire to become, rages within me. Yet I find mistakes. Where I expected to find clarity of truth, I found only sparadic (as if by mistake) “good works”. How can such desire, diligent desire, produce such shoddy a crop?
How could it be, that I should set my hands upon a sturdy and well honed plow, hitch it to such a strong and well trained work horse, set my eyes on the singular oak at the end of my field, yet plow such a crooked line?
And if I had reached into my bag of seeds, placed each one by careful measure, covered them with tender fingers. Why does my field produce bitter and wicked fruit?
Wisdom brings the answer, two fold.
I had not emptied my bag of seeds; that only good seed might remain. My balance is not perfected. Knowledge, within me, lacks a studious audience. And my expectations are those of a child who puts his tiny feet into his daddy’s giant shoes: “I see him walk well in these. I will also use them to do the same”.
And wisdom speaks from far beyond the ability of man: “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builder builds in vain”.
“Be patient, my frail and tiny child. I hold your promise in my Holy hand. When I call you to be an eternal man, you will have your desire in full.”
By His Grace
44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.” (John:6)
The hope of eternity.
The hope of today.
Hope in the darkness.
Hope under blazing sun.
Who can say he knows:
What to do or think?
Which direction should we go?
What words should we use?
Where should we stand, and when?
Man guesses.
Perhaps he is right.
Perhaps he is wrong.
How can he know for sure?
Some say it can’t be done.
Some believe there is no ‘Way”.
Some believe that knowing
Is like pointing in the dark, to day.
There is a way to know.
There is a thing to say.
There is a place to be.
There is a place to go.
Go back and get your childhood.
Stop believing like a man.
Remember what you used to know.
The child would hold his hand.
39 “You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” (John: 5)
By His Grace
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matthew 7)
What is this “narrow gate”? And why did Jesus say, “few there are who find it”?
The narrow gate is this: “37 . . .Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.” (Matthew 22)
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.” (Luke 13:24)
The reason why there are so few who find it and enter, has everything to do with greed. Men are destroyed because they want everything for nothing.
No man will enter the hope and Holy will of God, thus eternal life, without putting Christ first among all his things. Take note of how greedy desire restrains you. Take note of how callously you use the name of Christ Jesus. Take notice how carefully you avoid prayer. Take note of how many pages in your new Bible are still uncut.
How can any man travel any distance while he has tethered himself to a heavy weight? All the pleasures that belong to this world will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Nor will the man who holds them dear.
Look within you. See, with honesty, what you hold dear. Is it the will of God? Or is it love for what you can gain here?
You say you don’t know the will of God. I ask you, have you looked into it? Or have you preoccupied yourself with all the pleasures of this world you can gather?
There are two reasons why most men never enter the narrow gate. The first is that they hate restriction. The second is they love pleasure more than they love God.
If you want more provocation to do what is right, consider this, “Broad is the way that leads to destruction and many go in there by.” If you are one of those, you will certainly be destroyed.
If you don’t care if you are destroyed, what more can be said. But if you care about whether you live or die, be wise. The choice is entirely yours.
Follow the crowd and you will die. Follow after God and you will live. Follow the crowd and you will feel safe. Follow after God and they will abandon you.
By His Grace
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