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| Man and his ways or God and His truth? |
Was just hearing a lead story on the new technology they are putting in cars or least on the list to implement in the next months and years. Yet when I heard what this entailed I was shocked indeed! They are wanting these new cars of the future to know you and your emotions. They want the A.I. to determine if you are sorrowful, or happy. They gave a scenario where you get in this car from a long day at work and the A. I. will know ahead what to suggest to you for your evening of relaxation. It will even tell you what is showing that "is your favorite type of movie" and even tell you that it will purchase the tickets for you! I thought it was a reaching and rather far-fetched when grocery stores were telling you to send in your list to them of your needed items and they will shop for you. Then you can drive up to the sign in the parking lot of store and someone will bring your groceries out to you. Remember the days when shopping for groceries was a family thing. I do and always looked forward to that time with my mother and later with my husband and daughter.
I began to think how far we had come in such a short time. My husband and I had watched during the holiday season a story of American history on refrigeration, marketing meat and vegetables from the mid to late 19 century. And I was in awe that people survived without fresh meat on hand, but actually were purchasing tainted meat because of no refrigeration. Of course, this was graphic detail in that the people dress in that period of history type clothing from that century and also gave a look of the spoiled food. And men in suits were buying this produce on their way home from a days work. And men dressed that resembled clothes of the dock workers who brought off the loads of fish from the fishing boats, as well as some working women who left the manufacturing company for the day to make that special purchase. Oh, but the food was still questionable to me in that they had no refrigeration and were selling it on the streets in like the city of New York and Manhattan.
The next thing to be invented was a hot sauce and it was invented to be strong enough to pour on the tainted meat when it was served on the table for the family. Again, I know not how people survived all that poisoning going on. But many people wanted to get in on this business "thing" of creating that great hot sauce and they were just mean enough to add things like wood shavings into the product and yes it caused problems. Ingesting this man-made thing killed people, the young and old alike.
The twentieth century appeared and within that time many new products were discovered and many new things came on the market like Post Grape Nut Cereal that was a stolen idea from the Kellogg's brothers. Still more cereals were invented, more money was made and some people's lives became simpler and more stream-lined in being effective in their work, in the home in regards to meal preparation and especially to creating refrigeration for foods within the home and refrigeration for those stores being set up as markets! Cars were being invented, and even catsup was on the list!
With that in mind, do we regard a simpler life with God? Our lives were certainly made the better through salvation in the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. By the Holy Spirit we have regeneration to live righteously being daily renewed by the Holy Spirit of God that works on our hearts and teaches us to avoid religion and legalism. It is in that power that we live, move and have our being.
But it is not for us to be lazy with no regard for our families, and it is not about us being catered to as in our emotions. Remember they make really bad masters! In studying God's word, we find Jesus came to serve. And He did that while He walked the earth and while He hung on a Cross. Are we serving those who we claim to love? For certainly, food has to be put together for a special dish for the family to enjoy or are we leaving a note where he, she or they can find some food in the refrigerator or the pantry to eat?
We should be able to prepare food for eating, and preparing a home for cleanliness and to work where finances are coming into our hands. But what do we do with the extra time we gain from someone else loving our family who diligently goes from aisle to aisle to find the items we require when we really need the exercise ourselves and to plan our meals to fit the days ahead for those we love and all that entails the busy lifestyles?
Certainly if you are disabled in body and not in your mind, this service might be a good thing. But in regard to that, how will that play out in our life and those we are an example in living for Christ and being readily available to help one in distress?
For you certainly will not be in the place to meet up with him or her who might need prayer or you might not be there in line at Costco when someone has lost a loved one or their wayward teen took off for the wilds of New York. The anointing on you will not be used to bring comfort to those who would be on your pathway, because you have someone else doing your job for you.
Power
for Regeneration: Titus 3:3-7 NKJV for we ourselves were also once foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts & pleasures, living in malice
& envy, hateful & hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love
of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we
have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of
regeneration & renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us
abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His
grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
It is
Holy Spirit Who regenerates life into our mortal being! He renews our hearts
& life to look eternally with Him all the while He teaches us to avoid
religion & legalism. It is in His power that we live, move and have our
being that is by the peace, truth and humility found in Jesus Christ!
You and
I must know what He spoke in the Gospels! That water of His word continually
flowing in our lives will always increase to where it is without measure. It
will appear as that river increasing to the ankles, to the knees and the loins
to the point of where the river could not be crossed.
Found in Ezekiel 47 we find the healing waters and relates to us the that those flowing waters of blessing are to be anticipated by us in the Holy Spirit's work in believers, yes you and me!
The Holy Spirit reveals tomorrow John 16:13-15 However when He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth; for he will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears he will speak, and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for he will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.
Are we captured by "next big thing"? Are we set to be the first on our block to have that new car that will analyze our body movements, those sighs, the tired breath, the slump posture of our body as we seat ourselves in the driver's seat, to escape the workday to only be talked to by something that sounds like a woman but really has no heart and no life! Seated to hear, the car that is given voice to speak in the thoughts of a non-human entity that will caress the flesh creature? And even more so, is that how many are swayed into its thinking so they begin to relax in what a machine is giving as solace to a human being.
Will creature comforts be better chased after than chasing life in God?
Back to John 16, it is the Holy Spirit's ministry to guide us His followers into all the truth. In this you and I have divine guidance and many have opportunity for the Spirit of God to ministry truth to them since He was given on the day of Pentecost!
Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'seek Me in vain', I, the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. It is in this relationship that God makes Himself known. This shows those who are pretenders, for only God speaks and Who reveals future!
So as Jesus taught by the Holy Spirit, He revealed the kingdom of God and in His speaking He was referring to the spiritual. So when He spoke of drinking His blood and eating His flesh, He referred to whether they would have a desire or even have a delight in Him! Would they continue with Him, but alas, His audience began to take an offense toward Him and this thing He spoke of. (John 6: 41-71)
Jesus spoke this: John 6:55 “For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven -----not as your fathers ate the manna and are dead, He who eats this bread will live forever.”
The Matthew Henry Commentary wrote this: If the soul does not hunger and thirst, certainly it does not live. It is certain that you can have no spiritual life, unless you derive it from Christ by faith. Separated from Him, we can do nothing. Our bodies may as well live without meat as our souls without Christ.
John 6:60-69 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?” 61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you?” 62 “What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?” 63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life. 64 “But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him. 65 And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.” 66 For that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. 67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” 68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” 69 Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Peter
had recognized the eternal in Jesus when we read of it in John 6:68-69. Jesus told them
that they would partake of the covenant blood of Christ in the means of being
joined to God and receiving the benefits of His life. In this would we see the
Christ as the covenant sacrifice and God’s provision for our sustenance?
What a
declaration? What a stand for truth when others were walking away from Jesus. Pretenders were revealed!
Simon Peter called Jesus Lord. He was calling Him the authority. In this
respect it is given to the one who is master, the teacher and is a title of
respect.
So many
walked away from the very “mystery” of Christ and His ultimate return for those
who are His! We share Him in this life, and we partake of those promises that
came to us through His work on the Cross!
The disciples agreed that He who had the words of eternal life, was also He would give eternal to all who would come to Him! What is the degree of our faith in belief towards Jesus? Where do we stand when things get 'hot' and everyone is trying to change what Jesus spoke in the kingdom of God? We really need to stay with Him who holds the word of eternal life!
Jesus had asked, " will you also go way?" Christ will never stop us if we choose to leave Him. The Holy Spirit is gentle and will not harass as some people harass. The Holy Spirit is there to give comfort, and to give us truth. And like Jesus, His ministry was comprised of those who followed Him and one who followed his own agenda. But the Lord knows those who are His and He will keep us in His truth.
John 6:44-45 NKJV "No man can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall be taught by God'. Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. "
Father thank You for this day You made for us!
We give thanks for Jesus Who is Lord who has the words of eternal life. Father
You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life
to as many as You have given Him. (John 17:2) And this is the eternal life,
that they may know You, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
(John 17:3) Jesus glorified YOU Father on the earth. He finished the work which
You had given Him to do. (John 17:4)
The
testimony: God has given eternal life and this life is in His Son. He who has
the Son has life; he who does not have
the Son of God does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12)
We give
thanks today that eternal life is ours! As believers, assurance of eternal life
began the moment we surrendered our lives to Jesus. We believe in our hearts
that Jesus is the Son of God who lived a perfect life, & then, obediently
died the death we deserved, so we could be reconciled with God Who is our
Father in heaven! We are thankful that Jesus defeated death when he rose from
the dead on the third day just as He said He would. As Christ followers, we
have the promise of eternal life. “For God so loved the world that he gave
his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life” according to John 3:16!
By faith
we enter abundant life through Jesus, who is the Door. We pray that we fight
the good fight of faith, that we lay hold on eternal life to which we were also
called and that we have confessed the good confession in the presence of many
witnesses. ( 1 Timothy 6:12) May we not miss one person we are to minister life to in this time we exist here in the community of which we reside. Help us Holy Spirit not to be selfish and self-centered but aware that much is going on and many people are losing their lives to be in hell forever!
Father,
may our lives be maintained in You. We build ourselves up on our most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Spirit keeping ourselves in the love of God, looking
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Now to
Him who is able to keep us faultless before the presence of His glory with
exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, be glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
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