Thoughtful
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Posted:Jan 17, 2007 5:05 am
Last Updated:Jan 19, 2007 5:25 pm 4874 Views
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Forgiveness, forgiveness, FORGIVENESS, forgiveness, forgiveness, forgive others, forgive ourselves, forgive God forgive forgive, forgive, forgive everyone - then forget it throw it into the sea of forgetfulness or better yet give it to Father God and let him throw it for you.
If our preachers had only one word which sums up the millions of sermons preached world wide on how to survive this world it would be this very one word - Forgive - because the solution is not to learn to survive in this world and figuring out how to get more earthly success; it is overcoming and being prepared for the world to come.
It isn't a long twisted winding complicated road that leads you to try to figure out all the different ways to find favor with God and influence him into making this world a more comfortable place.
It is straight and narrow simple one way direct path to exactly what all those millions of words we call scripture are telling us to do.
Don't allow one NOT EVEN ONE unforgiveness issue to have any place in your heart and you will truly be touched in a way that brings you into the fullness of your relationship with God. To be one even as Christ and the Father are one. To be holy as he is holy, the king who became a lowly servant to all that through him the world would not be condemned but that it should be saved.
FORGIVE
Please help me share this word.
The Lord is coming soon let's get ready.
This is what qualifies us for heaven.
Forgiveness.
so, forgive and be forgiven
let us all be set free
and truly fulfill Christ's last command
to love one another
that is the way it was meant to be.
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God's Boxes
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Posted:Jan 6, 2007 8:18 am
Last Updated:Jan 10, 2007 1:00 am 4770 Views
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God's Boxes
I have in my hands two boxes,
Which God gave me to hold
He said, "Put all your sorrows in the black box,
And all your joys in the gold."
I heeded His words, and in the two boxes,
Both my joys and sorrows I stored,
But though the gold became heavier each day,
The black was as light as before.
With curiosity, I opened the black,
I wanted to find out why,
And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole,
Which my sorrows had fallen out by.
I showed the hole to God, and mused,
"I wonder where my sorrows could be!"
He smiled a gentle smile and said,
"My , they're all here with me.."
I asked God, why He gave me the boxes,
Why the gold and the black with the hole?
"My , the gold is for you to count your blessings,
The black is for you to let go."
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The Cure
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Posted:Jan 4, 2007 4:53 am
Last Updated:Jan 14, 2007 1:31 am 4865 Views
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Imagine you had some and one of them got sick unto death.
Would you just throw the sick away?
Imagine you had the medicine to cure the sick .
Would you give the cure to the well in order to make them even better?
Or, would you give the cure to the sick and heal it;
giving it all your attention until it was as well as the others?
If you who are evil know how to give good things to your how much more is our Father able to give to those He loves?
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My Heart Grieves
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Posted:Jan 3, 2007 6:05 am
Last Updated:Jan 4, 2007 6:27 am 4694 Views
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My heart grieves when I hear Christians say that Jesus loves the world but they believe He cannot deliver someone who is on the totally wrong path, whose sins are seen as too great to be bought with the blood He sacrificed on behalf of all mankind, that there is no way He could ever descend into hell and set those captives free, that His salvation is limited to those who realize it exists.
See, the Jesus I know can reach places and hearts in hidden unmeasurable ways than the human mind can concieve. He never stops trying to woo our hearts in order to complete the good work on a creation God proclaimed as very good when He brought it all into being and took His rest. The blood of the lamb was most especially for the ones who are blind and cannot see the truth; who are lame and cannot follow the way, who are hopeless and hurting and lost and He will do anything in Heaven and earth to call them His own. We were bought with that very blood before we knew it had been shed or felt a special significance of what it means to be forgiven or even accepted that it had any real meaning for our lives at all. The price was already paid.
So many people have passed from this life never having the joy of knowing Christ, never having heard or experienced His love; there are those who are not capable of understanding or die too young or passed before He came to show us the way. Doesn't God have a plan for all these who could not have the same experience we have, who did not get close enough to understand or accept what Christ's love is really all about, or were swayed by the things they were taught to believe which opposed the Lord's teaching.
What seperates Christ's love from all other is that He loves like no other in a way not even one of us can comprehend. He willingly laid down His life for a world full of sinners that knew Him not, loved Him not and even the ones who condemned and crucified Him. He loved all men unto death, that says a whole lot to me; it says that there is nothing that will stop Him from proving His love in His commission to redeem the world. I want to love like that.
Once there was a time when I thought I knew who wouldn't make it into the kingdom. I weighed them in my mind with sound reason. The man who and tried to kill me, how would I feel if he accepted Christ and I ran into him in Heaven? Could I face him, could I forgive him?
And what about all those I loved so very much I could not bear to not have them sharing in the glory? And most of all what about me, I have sinned as much as anyone else in the world if God is so picky and choosy then for sure I couldn't go.
Then I thought about how it would feel if even one of my didn't make it. How would it feel to lose just one of my ? I would do anything to know they were there even to lay down my own life to be sure they had that blessing. God's dispair over the loss of even one of His is no less than mine. He loves us all with equity. That means equally and with interest. The more forgiveness we require the more powerfully His glory and might is displayed in the simplicity of His forgiveness and salvation, the more interest He has invested in us; we become more valuable to Him just as the lost sheep of the Good Shepherd parable.
The story about the sheep and the goats, now that's a good one. I often see the sheep being seperated from the goats and realize that the goats are those who simply will not judge all men with righteousness and equity the way God does. So many of them claim to be Christian but they see division and unworthiness and failure on God's part to succeed at redeeming all He created in love.
See, none of us deserve the blessings of endless and immeasurable love God has bestowed upon us. He loved us before we loved Him. He kept loving us even though we ran from Him. He pursued us even after we denied Him, He kept on loving and forgiving until His love broke through as a tiny candle in the darkness and He keeps growing it until we are faced with a forest fire of light. That same love that began a good work in each and every one in God's creation will not withhold His love until He brings it all into completion in accomplishing His will.
I know I am just rambling and a lot of folks out there think I am a naiive dreamer. But these are the things God has shown me since I rid myself of condemnation, judgement and unforgiveness in my heart and accepted that those who are condemned simply are hurting or don't know better. Had they stood in the perfect light of love as I did they would not be able to resist it. The only difference is I was too weak to believe for one second I had a chance to make it in this world without God. Because I was weak and had no understanding of my own and prayed the Lord to show me His way and not the ways of man, many things have been revealed to me that prophets of old have longed to see but could not - that is just what He told me when He revealed it so those are His words not mine. I saw the victory. I know the end. It just grieves my heart that others will not take a stand and declare total victory in Jesus so that He truly becomes all in all and God's will that none shall perish is brought to reality.
God's love is not iffy, it is not fickle, it doesn't ever give up, it never gives in, it won't stop until it is all in all.
Praise You Father for Your precious love, oh that men could know, truly know it and we all can become one as you and the are one. We are not seperated grains of sand, but a solid rock of creation which includes the righteous and the sinners alike. All that is belongs to You alone. I magnify Your Holy Name and may my tongue be among the first of every tongue to confess that as You have declared it every knee shall bow and every tongue declare that You alone are God and worthy of our Praise. AMEN
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IF
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Posted:Dec 30, 2006 3:10 am
Last Updated:Mar 7, 2007 3:19 am 5940 Views
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If God can make a way where there is no way;
If God answers prayers that are within His will that none shall perish;
If God loves each and every person unconditionally and His love never fails;
If Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for the sins of the whole world;
If Jesus came to heal the broken and blind and save the lost;
Then I pray right now in faith that Saddam Hussein will be forgiven and join us all in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Messiah
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Posted:Dec 28, 2006 7:48 am
Last Updated:Dec 28, 2006 11:37 pm 4829 Views
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Messiah, mi-si'a, n. [Heb. mashiach, annointed, < mashac, to annoint.] The deliverer and Savior promised to the Jewish people; Jesus, regarded in the Christian religion as The Savior,; also Messias. (Usu. l.c.) a promised liberator; and ardent leader. -- Messiahship. n.- Messianic, mes e an'ik, a.
Savior, Brit. sav-iour, sav'yer, n. [O. Fr. sauveour (Fr. sauveur), < L.L. salvator, <alvare, E. save.] One who saves, rescues, or delivers; (cap). a title of God and esp. of Christ, often preceeded by 'the.'
Christ, krist, n. [L. Christus, Gr. Christos, lit. annointed as ruler; the appelation given to Jesus of Nazareth by the Christian world as the one fulfilling the prophecy in the Old Testament as a deliverer., a Messiah; first used as a title , Jesus the Christ, later as a proper name, Jesus Christ; an ideal type of person who resembles Jesus Christ.
Deliver, di-liv'er, v.t. [O. Fr. delivrer (), <M.L. deliberare, <L. de, from, and liberare, set free, <liber, free.] To carry and turn over the intended recipients things such as letters or goods; to give into another's possession or keeping; to give forth or emit; to give forth in words, utter, or pronounce; as, to deliver a course of lectures, to deliver a verdict; to discharge, launch, or direct; to cast, throw, or project; to set free or liberate; to release or save, as from evil or trouble; to aid in the process of giving birth to, as offspring; to aid in the process of being born; of oneself, to disburden of thoughts or opinions.-- v.i. To give birth; to make delivery; to pronounce an opinion or verdict.--de-liv-er-a-ble, a.--de-liv-er-er, n.
Deliverance, di-liv'er-ans, n. The act of delivering or condition of being delivered, as
from captivity, oppression, or danger; an opinion or decision communicated, esp. publicly; archaic, an utterance.
Jesus the Christ, He is described in his exaltation, with His Great Kingdom that shall be Spiritual rather than temporal. Ps. 2, 21, 40, 110. In other places He is seen as suffering for all mankind in humiliation. Ps. 16, 22, 40. Later on the prophets show the Messiah as King and ruler of David's house, who would come to reform and restore the Church, as in Isa. 11, 40-66. The blessings of the restoration, however, will not be confined to Jews; the heathen are made to share them fully. Isa. 2, 66.
Jesus Christ being both human and divine is fitted to be the true Saviour of mankind. In this, as in every action and character, he is shown to be "the wisdom and power of God unto salvation." As human, he reaches down to our natures, sympathises with us, shows us that God knows all of our feelings and weaknesses and sorrows and sins, brings God near to us, who otherwise could not realize the Infinite and Eternal as a Father and friend. He is divine, in order that He may be an all-powerful, all-loving Saviour, able and willing to defend us from every enemy, to subdue all temptations, to deliver from all sin, and to bring each of His people, and the whole church, into complete and final victory. He is to be the ruler of the entire world.
The crucifixion planned by hearts full of hate remains the only way we have of ending hate that this world has ever seen. Jesus gathered up unto Himself the sins of the whole world, took them with Him to the cross, bore the guilt which no man can bear for Himself; satisfied whatever needed to be satisfied in the justice, holiness and love of God and finally made possible the full and complete forgiveness for every human being, in every age, under every condition for all eternity. The of God is the King of Kings Who rules by enslaving Himself and by dying for His whole creation. He stole the keys of hell, death and the grave and set the captives free.
Just pray about it and realize that Jesus took His ministry out to the hopeless that the church rejected as unworthy and He proved that they could be saved, and quite easily at that. They had no pride or hope for heaven, that is what truly makes it a gift. They have no works to justify why they should recieve salvation, but cry to God in their hearts anyways. Like lambs led to the slaughter they have accepted that death is their fate without resistance.
What lie has been put into our hearts by the false pens of scribes and the traditions of man that would have our King to be found insufficient, mocked, His mercy to be less than mercy, and His love to be a lie. Was His death to be for less than what it was worth? The King of Glory turned King of maybe. He didn't die for nothing, He sacrificed His life for everything, and each and every one of us. To accept less than this is to hang Him back upon the cross to crucify Him once again, and say that what He did was not good enough.
Either Jesus was the perfect sacrifice, or He wasn't. Jesus came to save the world and die for all sin. Period. I believe that He has accomplished what He came to do. To say that He has not saved the world after that is what He came to do is to say that Jesus failed. Love never fails. The bad news is wrong!
The world teaches us that God starts saving at the top, with the really good, really "easy" ones and works His way down to the more questionable characters. The people at the bottom have little to no hope of being saved. That is a house that is built on the sand. God starts at the bottom with a firm foundation and then builds His mansion upwards. It is not difficult for God to save anyone; it shows no awesome power to start building a roof before the foundation; and an awesome God could not do anything less for His creation than to apply first His unlimited love to the point of its greatest need.
I am not willing for one to be lost. God is not either. If we expect Him to give us complete forgiveness, then we are completely forgiven when we completely forgive. For if we do this it will never again be a question which one of us shall be lost. And that is the way the Law of Love says it should be. The last shall be first and the least shall be the greatest.
God does not judge us for what we do not know. If we knew better we could do better. We as Christians should know better, that these words are not the proclamation of a new "religion" but the fulfillment of the same faith we claim to have and should already know.
It was the goal of our fore fathers to see to fruition their dreams of a salvation that would extend to all mankind.
This is the God I serve, God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the Lord of my life Jesus Christ. They didn't believe that God would half way save His creation. I do not either.
I cannot follow any other shepherd, for I am sure that if any sheep are lost Jesus will leave the others on the mountainside and search for the lost one until it is found. And when He does find it, truly, He rejoices over it more than the ones who were never lost.
This world belongs to God and everything in it. Every knee will bow, every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord and King over all the earth.
Can I get an "AMEN" ?
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This Rebellious World
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Posted:Dec 27, 2006 5:37 am
Last Updated:Dec 27, 2006 9:36 pm 4785 Views
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I just love reading books of faith written long long ago and hearing the echos of the believers of old; such as these written hundreds of years ago:
Christ has made peace by the blood of the Cross between God and this rebellious world.
A full amnesty is proclaimed by the New Covenant wherein it is declared that our Heavenly Father will remember our sins and iniquities no more.
He turns to us with a love and fulness of grace beyond man's power to measure its infinite depth and height.
God commendeth that wonderful, indescribable love towards our sinful race in that while we were all yet sinners, ere the world made any effort to return to Him, Christ died for us.
The Gospel of Christ is that our Lord has made a perfect redemption, propitiation and satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual, and no other satisfaction for sin is needed but that one finished on Calvary.
The original faith of our father's, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the prophets and yes even Christ has been for a salvation that would extend to all mankind. The hemming in and penning out of people in the Kingdom of God is a tragedy. It relies on works to enter and refuses entry to those who are unwanted. God's will is that none shall perish, that should be our will as well.
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