It is yet Easter-tide, a time of celebration, and revering our LORD *GOD*! A time to reflect on HIM, HIS WILL, HIS TEACHINGS, and HIS MAGNIFICENT POWERS which enabled HIM to defy death, and RISE to HIS THRONE ABOVE! It is a most BLESSED, HOLY, and REMARKABLE season, and this year is no exception, save for the increase of evil in the world which has had it's effects, but we PRAY, we PRAISE, we WORSHIP, we REJOICE, and we REMAIN IN HIM, FAITHFUL, and resilient, no matter what, AS we HONOUR HIM BY SHINING OF HIM in this ever darkening realm...
We are here to lend to the masses our LORD, and SAVIOUR'S GOOD, HIS LOVE, and the HOPE HE brings! We are here to enable others to see past the gloom of despair, that they might SEE HIM IN ALL HIS GLORY as HE beckons them to come closer! We are here to inspire others to REALIZE that there is MUCH MORE to our existence that the woes of this world! We ARE ambassadors of THE LORD *GOD* ALMIGHTY, and I tell you what, it is time to get real about our role in HIS PLAN, BECAUSE MANY souls ARE endangered by lack of belief, due to lack of knowledge, understanding, AND mostly, lack of good example!!!
I urge ALL to STUDY THE LORD IN FULL; particularly HUMILITY, LOVE, FAITH, FAITHFULNESS, and the POWERS we gain as we mature into HIM! CHRIST JESUS DIED FOR US, THEN GAVE US THE HOLY SPIRIT TO empower us TO be able to DO as HE did/does! Disciples ARE imperative TO THE WAY, thus let us step into HIS footsteps, with increased competence in being, and doing the works of RIGHTEOUSNESS; it IS FOR HIS GLORY that we do so, AND the greater good/safety of others, and their souls!!!
This old world is aging quickly, especially as wickedness surges throughout! Time is flying by, and we know NOT when it will end, hence, TODAY IS THE DAY OF SALVATION, which means; The gospel is a word of grace sounding in our ears. The gospel day is a day of salvation, the means of grace the means of salvation, the offers of the gospel the offers of salvation, and the present time the proper time to accept these offers. The morrow is none of ours: we know not what will be on the morrow, nor where we shall be. We now enjoy a day of grace; then let all be careful not to neglect it...
MATTHEW 3: 1-6: After Malachi there was no prophet until John the Baptist came. He appeared first in the wilderness of Judea. This was not an uninhabited desert, but a part of the country not thickly peopled, nor much enclosed. No place is so remote as to shut us out from the visits of Divine grace. The doctrine he preached was repentance; Repent ye. The word here used, implies a total alteration in the mind, a change in the judgment, disposition, and affections, another and a better bias of the soul. Consider your ways, change your minds: you have thought amiss; think again, and think aright. True penitents have other thoughts of God and Christ, sin and holiness, of this world and the other, than they had. The change of the mind produces a change of the way. That is gospel repentance, which flows from a sight of Christ, from a sense of his love, and from hopes of pardon and forgiveness through him. It is a great encouragement to us to repent; repent, for your sins shall be pardoned upon your repentance. Return to God in a way of duty, and he will, through Christ, return unto you in the way of mercy.
It is still as necessary to repent and humble ourselves, to prepare the way of the Lord, as it then was. There is a great deal to be done, to make way for Christ into a soul, and nothing is more needful than the discovery of sin, and a conviction that we cannot be saved by our own righteousness. The way of sin and Satan is a crooked way; but to prepare a way for Christ, the paths must be made straight, Heb 12:13. Those whose business it is to call others to mourn for sin, and to mortify it, ought themselves to live a serious life, a life of self-denial, and contempt of the world. By giving others this example, John made way for Christ. Many came to John's baptism, but few kept to the profession they made. There may be many forward hearers, where there are few true believers. Curiosity, and love for novelty and variety, may bring many to attend on good preaching, and to be affected for a while, who never are subject to the power of it. Those who received John's doctrine, testified their repentance by confessing their sins. Those only are ready to receive Jesus Christ as their righteousness, who are brought with sorrow and shame to own their guilt. The benefits of the kingdom of heaven, now at hand, were thereupon sealed to them by baptism. John washed them with water, in token that God would cleanse them from all their iniquities, thereby intimating, that by nature and practice all were polluted, and could not be admitted among the people of God, unless washed from their sins in the fountain Christ was to open, Zec 13:1.
We stay encouraged through FAITH, and FAITHFULNESS; through DUTY, and HONOURING THE LORD *GOD* as we PRAY, PRAISE HIM, WORSHIP HIM, and REJOICE IN HIM! We keep BUSY BEING, and DOING what HIS WILL guides, and leads us to! We KNOW the world is messed up, yet we HAVE knowledge of our TRUE home, thus we REMAIN confident, and assured IN HIM!!!
LWINSOR © 2017
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