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Useless Christianity

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The kingdom of heaven seems infinitesimally small to the man of the world.  What is important to him is to gain the things he can hold.  The natural man has no desire for the promises of God. 

“These are things that have no use among those who desire to be useful.  I would rather profit by the work of my own hands than to become so heavenly minded that I am of no earthly use.”  So says the man of the world.

But the one who enters into the kingdom of God says no such thing.  This one says to himself, “I perceive that men die.  I have faith that God is, and that he rewards those who earnestly seek Him.  Therefore I would rather be your fool among men and embraced by the living God, than to gain 10 pounds of the world’s riches.  I will become so heavenly minded that I am no longer of any worldly use.”

The one who sets his mind on the things of God will be come a son of God.  All the steadfast righteousness of God rises up within the man.  By rejecting the usefulness of the world. The man becomes indispensable to the world.  What the world counts as useless is exactly what it needs.

By His Grace

Life Eternal

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The rich young man came to Jesus and asked how get eternal life.  More pointedly, the young man wanted what specific things he needed to do to get eternal life.

He was considerably misguided.  But I’ll hand him three badges of merit.  He wanted the gift of eternal life after spending his time in this place of testing. He recognized that something more might have to be done.  And he knew enough to recognize Jesus as a teacher who would know the answer he sought.

Unfortunately we are witnesses to the man’s great weakness before God.  What great weakness does God witness in us?

The poor look down their noses at the rich.  And the rich often do the same to the poor.  But God’s eyes look straight into our very soul.

By His Grace

Holding God in Contempt of Man’s Aspirations

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All the world will hate God’s people.  Because it is God’s hatred for what the world holds as “highly valued” which divides the world and God.  Godless and ungodly people aspire to gain what they cannot keep.  God continually calls for all people to lay aside those aspirations and search earnestly after His Riches. 

We are created.  He is the creator.  But the world will hold God in contempt because He does not recognize the royalty of man’s foolish lies. 

By His Grace.