How to Become Significant

 "Come close to God and He will come close to you. Recognize that you are sinners, get your soiled hands clean; realize that you have been disloyal wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts of your spiritual adultery.

As you draw near to God be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep over your disloyalty. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame for your sins.

Humble yourselves feeling very insignificant in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. He will lift you up and make your lives significant."

God's Word, Amplified.

How We are Atheists

 

 

We have a world full of gods from Allah to Zeus.  We love to define gods with our own ideas of who our god should be. However, we are quite small-minded, so we make limited gods for ourselves.

There is a God who is limitless.  That's why He is the true God, because a true god cannot be limited.  That's why references to Him in this blog entry are capitalized.  Why believe in a god who has limits?  That is the recipe for failure.

A limitless God doesn't need our assistance to accomplish His purpose.  Without limit means without limit.  That means that nothing exists or even moves without His full awareness, neither is anything moving or acting in a way that is not already included in His careful design; since ALL things are held together by the Word of His Power. Take a moment to think of all the destruction the human race has done as they have "assisted" their god by thinking they are a fill-in for his limitations.  Murdering, treachery, deceit and tyranny... 

We busy ourselves assuming that something that looks bad to us undermines Him.  Some say a true god shouldn't die a shameful death or humble himself at all - as if that undermines being a god, (of their invention).

I serve a limitless God.  Don't waste your time believing in any other, or even serving the elements and formulas of His vast creation. 

You've Lost That Guilty Feeling

 

A famous celebrity says he's a leftist because of "Irish Catholic Guilt".  Guilt certainly drives one toward unreasonable thoughts and fears.  If you ever wonder why someone is driven toward self-destructive thoughts and actions as well as unreasonable political ideals, internalized guilt is a driving factor.

Thank the Lord, He provides THE WAY to complete freedom from guilt.  The God who sent His Son to die for us, so we could receive honor, (as opposed to killing us for His own honor - as some guilt-ridden religions teach), is waiting for us with open arms, despite anything the we have done; despite any guilty feelings onto which we like to cling.

Read below to see guilt wiped out completely!

"For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.  He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation—he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ’s name.]"  John 3:17, 18 Amp

 

All Your Ways

In all your ways acknowledge Him.
In ALL your ways acknowledge Him.

Going astray from this is easy:  Thinking, "today will be an easy day.  I only have to do ------."  Or, "This car repair will be easy.  It's not like I have to take the whole engine apart, I only have to change the oil."

Have the wheels ever come off on your day when  only something simple was supposed to occur in your day or someone else's? 

In ALL YOUR WAYS acknowledge Him.

Bad News, (Confidence - again)

Psalm 112:7
"He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is firmly fixed, trusting (leaning on and being confident) in the Lord."

This one is quite difficult.  Bad news is available every day.  It's so easy to "swallow" it and become afraid and lose confidence in the Lord.

We don't have to stop listening to news:  It might actually be good training.  We need to have confidence in Him.

 

Not his Doing

Tim Tebow and his team "Go to the Playoffs, But Not His Doing", says the title of the article.

Another says, "his journey is a lesson is self belief..."

Both statements come from a lack of the acknowledgement of God and who He is.  However, unknown to the writer, the first title is TRUE.  There's only One that gets us anywhere, and it's not our own doing.  Your best bet is to believe in Him rather than yourself; like Tim Tebow.

 

Enhancement

Have you noticed that children have the power to enhance and elevate their parents?  A well-behaved and virtuous child causes people to look at their parents with respect and admiration.  Sometimes a parent would go unnoticed until the good character of a child turns attention to the parent out of curiosity coupled with respect.

We have that power to magnify Christ and His, (our), Father in this short time that we have here in this world's realm.  Our display of His good character and His virtues will cause those who do not know Him to turn toward our Father with a newly found curiosity and respect.

This opportunity for powerful testimony is in your hands.  Are you showing the virtues of your Father instead of promoting yourself?

 

Unsettled

 

Jeremiah 6:16
Thus says the Lord: Stand by the roads and look; and ask for the eternal paths, where the good, old way is; then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.

Today's church is riddled with unsettled souls who became impatient with God's eternal paths and set off to walk in a new way:  Maybe to please themselves, maybe to please their children or a spouse...

It could be that the good, old way is the Gospel and many are tending to believe more in themselves and not in the fullness of His all-sufficiency to remove sin and make us all in spotless right-standing as sons of God.