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
The humble man in Christ Jesus may suffer a great deal of loss.
But the proud man, who fends for himself, suffers no loss at all.
The true Christian will be compensated beyond his wildest imagination.
But the godless man will die with the things which now protect him.
Define loss and gain, as you perceive them. Consider what is written above. Then redefine loss and gain.
When you have read this far you have lost that much more time. How much more time will you squander, o’ godless man of self? The door to your life has closed a fraction more as you read these words, which you are likely to dismiss.
Dear Christian brothers and sisters:
Entice loss to come up on you, even as our spiritual siblings before, enticed the wild beasts. Let the glory of our Lord Christ Jesus excel! He will certainly not withhold his hand from reward.
We suffer but a little while. Then the glory of the Living God explodes upon our soul, and it will never recede. How insignificant this time will become; as we have willingly suffered for his Great and Majestic Glory.
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While you, godless men
and women, continue in your willing blindness. The Holy Lord stands ready to give you eyes to see, a mind to understand, and a heart that is willing to obey. But you will have none of it.
Each man decides for himself. Will he humble himself and pray, and seek the Lord’s Holy Face, and read his Holy words, and strive with all his mind, strength and soul to learn? Or will he count all these blessed words as if they are less than trash?
15 “And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24)
Shake the trees with your great in majestic strength, O’ Living God in Christ! Send your righteousness upon all men. Inspect them, Father in Heaven,
even as they live dead among the dead. Rise up and judge your enemy. Bring a close to this great place of testing.
Let the righteous remain
righteous. Let the wicked remain wicked. Let all who seek Your mercy find it in vast abundance. But let all who hate you now be put to utter shame on that great day when you stand to judge the world.
In Christ Jesus, the Holy Son of God, amen.
By His Grace
One man percieves God as hideous monster; full of Holy law and demanding. Such a man does not know the law of God, he only knows his own hideous sin. He attributes what he knows to the Holy One. “Surely God is like me. He will strike me with death when I die”.
Explain to him that God is love, and out of the fear that is in his heart, he will nod in agreement. But there is no agreement in his soul. He keeps on in his way because he sees no hope of any change. If God is cruel then he is a dead man, even while he lives, and he knows it.
To another man, God is purely love. In this man’s mind, God throws His own Righteousness and Holiness aside to embrace the sinner. The man perceives that his sin will be erased by some miraculous working of God.
But he does not understand his own obligation to do “The Way” of Christ. He perceives “The Way” is too hard to walk, but he does not consider the power of prayer in Christ Jesus. This one hungers for acceptance. He does not hunger for righteousness.
This man thinks he will be granted entry into the perfection of eternity simply because he exists. Speak to this man of a necessity of holiness and righteousness, and he will count you a fool.
Still another man will perceive that God demands certain rituals from all his worshippers. This man may have started out in Christianity, by receiving forgiveness for his sins, but he has studied the law of God and has determined to do the law. This one will add to his worship “a little here and a little there”. In the end, he becomes far less a Christian then before he began.
Each man holds the perception of God that he has grown to love dearly. Some hold fear, some hold love, some hold law. As a man believes so he does.
Each of the above ways is flawed, and will suffer loss. How very sad, when the answer for wholeness in Christ lay so clearly before us. If a man will humble himself and pray, God will direct him into what is true.
But men love sin. Men love pride. Men love praise. All three of these, the Holy Most High God abhors.
You can have the perception of God you want. No one will stop you. They may try to teach you with all they have, but you will refuse. You men, as mentioned above, will do as you please regardless the will of God. The loss is yours.
What more is there to say
That is healthy to say?
What is written here is true.
What would you do?
mother wailing for ‘lost’ son (Photo credit: James Buck)
The mournful wailing of a mother who has lost her child.
Chills run up the spine that a human can make such a sound.
A man stands with his mouth open but no sound comes forth.
His wife taken in the prime of their lives.
Horrors bring horrible answers from those most horribly afflicted.
But has anyone heard the moans of God for the lost souls of this pitiful place of sin?
Who has seen his mouth open, that lovely mouth which speaks words of Life?
And who has testified that He is pained at the loss of that rebellious soul who could have held God’s promise in a perfected hand?
There is such a thing as “honor among thieves”. In full, we can consider all man’s intentions without God to be such. But there is an honor among the holy. And this can only be owned by submission to God’s Righteousness.
I mention this because all of us face temptations to gain what is not to be gained. James put it this way:
13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17 So then, if you know the good you ought to do and don’t do it, you sin. (James 4)
What shall be said regarding this? We who worship the Living God through Jesus MUST strive to be a honorable people. In the end, we must ask ourselves two questions. Are we willing to admit that we are chasing after something that should never belong to us? And are we willing to lay aside this “chasing” in order to do what is right before the Holy eyes of the Father in Heaven?
Since we will give account of all our actions, it is wise to become ready to abandon any evil chase. This is a hard thing to accomplish. And sometimes it is a hard thing to know what is purely good and what is called “a necessary evil.” May God grant us wisdom to know the difference. But above all, may we be willing to accept loss for the sake of what is pure and good.
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