YES, *GOD* LOVES you, though HE LOVES you like a stern FATHER, one who is SOVEREIGN RULER OVER ALL, and EVERYTHING; a ROYAL, PERFECT FATHER, whom is bringing UP HIS Children by the rod, and by HOLINESS, because come the day HIS KINGDOM comes, there WON'T be more of the same in HEAVEN as there is in this world!!!
HERE IS A POINT WORTH CONSIDERING; YOU HAVE FREE WILL, and YES, HE COULD make all of us perfect, just like that, HOWEVER, IN our free will, which is a GIFT from HIM, we have the CHOICE TO LOVE HIM enough to fear HIM, to obey HIM, and to grow INTO HIM, OR, IF we deny that we have ANY part in HIS PLAN on Earth, then we have chosen what is now, over what is to come! HOW does one explain effectively that THIS TIME MATTERS TO OUR FINAL DESTINATION, AND that *GOD* HAS THROUGHOUT THE WORD, stated that HE GIVES US THE CHOICE between ETERNAL LIFE, or ETERNAL DEATH? HOW can HIS message be made more clear by mere humans than it IS???
*GOD* CREATED us, the world damaged us; there is no better way to make this fact apparent! IF we LOVE *GOD*, we SEEK to THROUGH HIM, and HIS WILL, heal from the damages the world has done to us; we SEEK to IMPROVE what is wrong with us, and what SEPARATES us from HIM, HIS WILL, HIS WAYS, HIS FAVOUR, and HIS GLORY! We AIM to PLEASE HIM, and we KNOW HE IS ALL WISDOM, ALL JUST, ALL RIGHT, ALL GOOD, THEREFORE, we TRUST HIS instructions, and TRY to follow them in the best of our knowledge, understanding, abilities, and LOVE OF HIM!!!
Many who are using HIS LOVE as a cover, are SURELY doing so because they just CAN'T part with their current lifestyle! They WANT to remain as is, instead of improving, growing, and developing into HIM! They want it both ways, and HE HAS STATED, clearly, that this cannot be, for when we serve 2 masters, we will LOVE one, and hate the other (1 KINGS 18:21; 2 KINGS 17: 41; MATTHEW 6: 24, and more), eventually, and as discovered from the beginning of mankind until this late date, MOST times, the master who ALLOWS them to practice what they WANT IS the one they will LOVE, so you see, HE HAS BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, and IS ALL-KNOWING, ALL-UNDERSTANDING, ALL-SEEING, and ALL-PERFECT, and SHOULD be TRUSTED totally!!!
REV. LWINSOR © 2014
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Worldly-mindedness is a common and fatal symptom of hypocrisy, for by no sin can Satan have a surer and faster hold of the soul, under the cloak of a profession of religion.
Something the soul will have, which it looks upon as the best thing; in which it has pleasure and confidence above other things. Christ counsels to make our best things the joys and glories of the other world, those things not seen which are eternal, and to place our happiness in them.
There are treasures in heaven. It is our wisdom to give all diligence to make our title to eternal life sure through Jesus Christ, and to look on all things here below, as not worthy to be compared with it, and to be content with nothing short of it. It is happiness above and beyond the changes and chances of time, an inheritance incorruptible.
The worldly man is wrong in his first principle; therefore all his reasonings and actions therefrom must be wrong. It is equally to be applied to false religion; that which is deemed light is thick darkness. This is an awful, but a common case; we should therefore carefully examine our leading principles by the word of God, with earnest prayer for the teaching of his Spirit.
A man may do some service to two masters, but he can devote himself to the service of no more than one. God requires the whole heart, and will not share it with the world. When two masters oppose each other, no man can serve both. He who holds to the world and loves it, must despise God; he who loves God, must give up the friendship of the world.
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