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Hate the Lesson, But Love the Teacher

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Owning a love for God is a result of practise.   And this practise does not practice in mediocrity.  For no sooner does a mediocre practice, produce a “love”, and sin wipes it away.

Love him more than you love all other things.  The other side of the coin, which shows our beginning, says it the same: hate him less than you hate your brother; hate him less than you hate yourself.

A child may love the teacher until he is forced to learn what he does not want to learn.  Then a measure of hatred sprouts up.  With diligence and humility, the child overcomes and continues to learn.  But let him believe his own mind, and he will remain where sin entered in.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14: 26)

By diligence we practice toward a love for God.  If a man is diligent, he will find himself learning to love the Living God in Christ Jesus.  Mediocrity is an envelope containing hatred.

10 “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” (1 John 4)

By His Grace

Place and Toys

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Why do you let yourself fear man?  Why is your testimony before them weak and useless?  Why do you huddle behind your skin, shaking with fear to deliver the holy words of God?  Why?

Men such as Isaiah, Abraham, Noah, Enoch, Moses, the Apostle Paul, the Apostle Peter, and all the rest.  These inhabit the kingdom of the Living God in Christ Jesus.  But the faithless, and those who fear, are cast out.  So why do you let yourself fear man?

Shall we respect the respect of men?  Shall we give their hatred any credence?  Or should we respect the Living God?  Shall we strive to please man?  Or should we strive to please Christ Jesus, the Glorious One?

When we appear before him, shall we be forced to admit we did not love him more?  Does anyone think they will proudly stand before the Living God and proclaim that they have loved men more than him?

Why do you let yourself fear man?  It is because man can take away your precious place and toys.  In America today there is no threat of death for loving the Sovereign God.  But death confronted every one of those I mentioned.  Yet they remained faithful!

How do you propose to stand anywhere near them for all eternity?  Why do you let yourself in fear man? 

Let him ask you, “Do you love me more than these.”

By His Grace

Commanded? Not really

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English: 4 days of Evangelism Training in Sout...

English: 4 days of Evangelism Training in Southern California provided by LivingWaters Ministry. Obeying the great commission of Jesus Christ. “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to everyone” Mark 16:15 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I will confess that, at first, it’s really difficult to summon the strength to speak publicly about Jesus.  But I will also confess that once you start it is impossible to stop.

He is so full of what is good, and the world around us is so full of what is evil.  To love him is to tell others.   It is not so much that we are commanded to go to all the world, but we find ourselves compelled to go to all the world.

Got it? Really?

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Open hand. Original description: 2000. Español...

Open hand. Original description: 2000. Español: Esta es mi mano a los 20 años. El anillo era de mi madre, estaba hecho de hueso y un día, al poco de hacer el dibujo, se me rompió en dos. 😦 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Men are mistaken in their apprehension of God.  Even those who worship Him cannot fully understand His Holy ways.  Right about the time we think we understand, another test or teaching appears from the hand of He who Lives Forever.

When we find ourselves empty in our prayers, there is a reason.  If we have sinned, that silence may seem like an angry God.  But I do not see it that way.  He is stern with us, demanding that we adhere to His commands.  But not that pouty little boy way that men foist on those who spurn their advise.  His face is beautiful!  Even if it is looking away from us for a moment.

The Love of God is not like the love of man.  He is actively searching our wicked hearts so that He can lead us into all things best.  I have said it before, and say it again.  I would rather the rebuke from the Living God than all the fame, love, wealth, and pomp this world can muster.  The first builds me into something eternally valuable.  The second only serves to hold me hostage until a remedy can be found to enslave me once again.