Our Spiritual Biography

Dead to Sin!

Romans 6:8-11 NKJV Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Spiritual biography is that each who receives Jesus is dead to sin. No longer controlled by the love of sin or its ruling power in our lives. It is dead to enslaving us with its power. Each day we have a choice whether to yield to sin, to let it reign in our bodies or stand firm it has no place in us.

Sin has died  because Christ beat death to the finish line. He settled the account. He lives as God and now lives in that new relationship as the Risen One, Resurrected Christ in that new sphere where sin cannot enter!

 According to Romans 6:12-17 is that sin’s dominion has been broken by grace. Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, whether sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

James 3:2 For we all stumble in many things, if anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

What Jesus finished is that work He accomplished against sin. He did a work of faith. That work was perfect faith. He revealed obedience that demonstrated the reality of His righteousness. If anyone says it is okay to sin, is one tending toward antinomianism. It is contrary to Paul’s whole discussion of sin and to Jesus’ own words about the law we see in Matthew 5:17-20 NKJV 17 Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.  18 For assuredly I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the  scribes and the Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus spoke this of the scribes and the Pharisees as they taught false doctrine. This was the tradition of the elders. They were not only legalistic but also strong in their commitment to the false doctrine. Sadducees were those rejecting the Pharisees. These were those coming from social families and considered rationalists and materialistic. They did not accept the supernatural! So they would not receive Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. And these two groups hated each other.

So, too, you would have many groups with a belief system that has nothing to do with Jesus!

For us Holy Spirit has moved in us. He is there representing the power for holy living. And he is motivated by love for the Savior, not as to a fear of punishment but of God producing holiness. Romans 6:1-2 states plainly that Christians are not to sin, that is, break God's laws. Therefore sin—and thus God's law, which tells us what sin is—must still exist.

It cannot be both ways. If they say that the law is done away, then in the biblical context, it is logical to conclude that there can be no sin. It is therefore illogical for them to claim that it is still wrong for a person to murder or to commit adultery because those sins would not exist without the laws that determine they are immoral or illegal acts. But the true answer lies elsewhere: Their conclusion that the law is done away is wrong!

In Romans 2:1-3 we see this! Romans 2:1-3 NKJV  Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. 3  And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Oh, how we can see our faults more clearly in other people indeed. Yet for us, we fail to apply them to ourselves. Our own reaction is so often to criticize negatively that we usually do not see that we are guilty of the same things as seen in others. If we find a certain type of behavior especially irritating in others, we may have the same problem!

 To illustrate this blindness to our own sins, recall David's sin, recorded for all the world to see in  2 Samuel 12:1-5, when God sent Nathan to show David his sin with Bathsheba. Nathan told of a case in which a rich man who owned many sheep had stolen a poor man's pet lamb and killed it to eat for dinner. King David was outraged that anyone would be so greedy and selfish, so he pronounced the death penalty on this man. Then Nathan quietly pointed out that David had done the exact same thing when he stole Uriah's wife and sent Uriah to his death.

David was a man who, when he recognized his sin, would deeply repent. So how far his heart fell at that time, we can only imagine. He must have been devastated by his own weakness in sin.

What angers us about others in God's church? Consider this carefully, since in the answer may be a clue to our secret sins. "For you who judge practice the same things."

A friend was over this week. She has had some health issues but we expect her healing. She mentioned a specific thing going out by this gentleman criticizing those of a new program about Jesus. A friend sent it to her to see his complaint and I guess to prove he was right!  We had just started watching the Jesus series this past year and was caught off guard about this guy bashing the new program about Christ. So we listened on her phone that was sent by a friend of hers. We knew this had only two seasons and this man certainly pointed to some things.

But what captured us was that the man relates like the disciples are saved when walking with Jesus. He was not crucified, dead and buried. Jesus and John the Baptist had the Holy Spirit, but the disciples did not. They were being given the word of God, but they stood and walked and slept in their sinful natures till they could repent and receive Jesus as Lord. We must be cautious about people. We must know them where they stand and if they know of the Lord. Because without Jesus, they know not of their sin nor of their sinful natures before Him! Peter knew his sin when we refused to acknowledge that he knew Jesus, not once but three times he said he did not know Him.

Side Effects of the world are seen daily who choose to follow a sinful life, who persist in siding with the flesh and standing tall in culture, but siding with God is love and being full of unspeakable joy with much humility.

2023 is not the year to be deceived by satan. He as light can make you think about the light of God, but he will force one or more of his own designs into the pot and when deceived by them, one can choose to follow him without any arm-twisting. You can see that with the "gentleman" choosing to bash a program of Jesus that is taken word by word of the New Testament. He rallies with his own to bring deceitful ways and acts before you. But 2023 is to be the year for the believer with no side effects, those of the Lord’s way in truth and grace understanding that sin was done away. He carried sin for us, & in His mercy, we are new each morning!

We arrive on the wings of the Holy Spirit’s power to be in the right places at the right times for the plan of God for our steps are ordered in Him. May we not be committed to that which causes side effects to death but that which is to life and see with the light that shines at noonday in Jesus name.  When we were slaves to sin, the only freedom we knew was freedom from righteousness. Now that is a desperate condition indeed. It is bound to evil of every form and free from every good thing. In Paul we are challenged to take inventory of the fruits of an unsaved life, fruits in those activities of which we believers are now ashamed. For time is certainly squandered, influence is misused, best friends are wronged in some way, and our love is anything but nice nor friendly.

May we become slaves to righteousness in His name for His sake. For in you and I, we should know that to be our spiritual biography!

 

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Eternal Life

John 17:3  Amplified Bible And this is eternal life: [it means] to know ( to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with and understand) You, the only true and real God and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ ( the Anointed one, the Messiah,) whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You down here on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify Me along with Yourself and restore Me to such majesty and honor in Your presence as I had with You before the world existed. 6 I have manifested Your Name [ I have revealed Your every Self, Your real Self] to the people whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have obeyed and kept Your word.

 

The indwelling Christ is eternal life in us and through us to others. Christ in me will resonate with Christ in you! We become one in Him when we have accepted Him as Lord of our lives.

 

Jesus in His prayer time…prayed for the church! How is it possible for someone who is a “church go-er” to die …..without Christ. WAS there no teachings on this eternal life, no eternal knowledge available to the person who attended and did not either receive this truth or was never taught it?

The truth known in this instance, is that this person is separated from God found in Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and the faithless, and as for the depraved and defiled with abominations, and as for murderers and the lewd and adulterous and the practicers of magic arts and the idolators (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth by word or deed)----[all of these shall have]  their part in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. This is the second death. [Isaiah 30:33]

 

Did you know there are people who say they are Christians and practice those ‘angel cards’?  Another is those who practice sorcery. But Jesus speaks this in Revelation 22:14-15   “Blessed ( happy and to be envied) are those who cleanse their garments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and to enter through  the gates into the city.  15 [But] without are the dogs, those who practice sorceries (magic arts), impurity [ the lewd, adulterers] and the murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and deals in falsehood (untruth, error, deception, cheating).” 

 The Bible says in Psalm 97:10: “Let those who love the LORD hate evil…”  God hates sorcery.  Jesus was light sown for the righteous! That people would come to the light and not stumble. John 2:1-2 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

Eternal Life is made up those obedient to God’s word where His love is matured in us! That love is not demanding rights but is seen as that which is humbled before God for His purpose on earth.

 Jesus asked the Father to glorify Him with the glory that was His before the world began seen in verses 4-5 of John 17. Jesus, the humble, obeyed the Father. And we see this in :Phil 2:6-8. The Father exalted Jesus because of His act of humble obedience. Paul instructed believers to have the same mind or attitude Jesus had. Jesus serves not only as our example of an intercessor, but also of an obedient servant.

Jesus maintained a heart for His father and for people! Romans 6:16-23 Amplified Bible 16 Do you not know that if you continually surrender yourselves to anyone to do his will, you are the slaves of him whom you obey, whether that be to sin, which leads to death or to obedience which leads to righteousness (right doing and right standing with God)? 17 But thank God, though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed. 18 And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness ( of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action). 19 I am speaking in familiar human terms because or your natural limitations. For as you yielded your bodily members [and faculties] as servants to impurity and ever increasing lawlessness, so now yield your bodily members [and faculties] once for all as servants to righteousness ( right being and doing) [ which leads] to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But then what benefit (return) did you get from the things which you are not ashamed? [None] for the end of those things is death. 22 But now since you have been set free from sins and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life. 23 For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with ) Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

We are to keep the word of God in our heart: John 15: 7-9 If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will and it shall be done for you. 8 When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified and you show and prove yourselves to be followers of Mine. 9 I have loved you, [just] as the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [continue in His love with Me].

 

To obey the Word means we know who is the Word of God…that is Jesus Christ, the anointed One! He came and He stood in a place of authority representing the Kingdom of God, His Father. John 1: 14 Amplified Bible 14 And the Word (Christ) became flesh ( human, incarnate) and tabernacle ( fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually saw His glory (His honor, His majesty) such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth.  John 8:51 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone observes My teaching [lives in accordance with My message, keeps My word], he will by no means ever see and experience death. John 14:24 Anyone who does not [really] love Me does not observe and obey My teaching. And the teaching which you hear and heed is not Mine, but [comes] from the Father Who sent Me.

 

Fruit is Brought forth in perseverance: John 6:27 Stop toiling and doing and producing for the food that perishes and decomposes [in the using]; but strive and work and produce rather for the [lasting] food which endures [continually ] unto life eternal; the Son of Man will give (furnish) you that, for God the Father has authorized and certified Him and put His seal of endorsement upon Him. John 4:14…”but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

 

There are people who have a “thirst” today but it is for wealth and it is for power. It has nothing to do with loving others!

 

We are to believe and be saved……..when we thirst for life….it is only found in Him….John 3:17-19 NKJV For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

 

We are to be grounded in truth: Colossians 2:6-7 NKJV  As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Hebrews 3:6; 12-14….NKJV 6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.  12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called  “Today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.

Our lives should reveal a light of Christ Jesus that glows from a heart filled with His great love. And that love is to be given to those we encounter. The love demonstrated today is not what the Bible reveals. Love does not contain gossip, rumors, accusations nor does it contain any offenses. The love illustrated is that which is to get “one’s” way, to have a thumb rule holding people in a place which can be destructive and is far from being wise. It only brings further division of people! The only thing that will bring unity is sharing the same purpose, plan and power that Christ came to set up. It is the Father’s will on earth. That is for each believer set apart to do the ministry of truth where they live, work and play! God did this for us. He presented the greatest love of all!

 

The Biblical definition of the Love of God is found in:1 John 5:3 - "This is the love of God, that we keep His Commandments, and His Commandments are not burdensome."

 

Accepting Jesus Christ, is accepting His ways, and His word for living in this day and hour! We know there is a way to follow and missing it, points to falling away from His words of truth. You find it in the warnings given to the seven churches in the book of Revelation! We must be those who adhere to Him and that truth and anything outside that truth will be death. We miss a step in Him and we repent ….and in that asking of forgiveness we turn away from that sin…and continue to receive the eternal life with Christ Jesus.

Jesus Himself said in John 14:15 - "If you love Me, keep My Commandments." And this: in Matthew 5:17 - "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."

What is done away with under the New Covenant are the old requirements, as stated in Colossians 2:14 - "Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He, Jesus has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."

 

And if we love God, we do keep His Commandments! And we are happy about it, because keeping His Commandments means to live in righteousness and respect towards ourselves, others and God. Sin is not Love for sin creates a breach in relationships and separates us from ourselves, it separates us from others and separates us from God!  Sin will always hurt someone.  Romans 13:8-10 - "Owe no one anything except to love one another, because he who loves another has fulfilled the Law. The Commandments: "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet", and whatever other Commandment there may be, are summed up in this statement: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law."

What we see on many streets of this nation and around the world is a love that has nothing to do with God! The righteous way is living through that which came through His Son. That outside of Jesus is trouble and torments in the streets! It is the killing or taking of lives that were meant to serve God and know His great love.

The consequences of sin and iniquity can be deadly and without God. But God our Father desires our lives filled with blessings, yes those who know Him as the Father and call Him Abba. And His children hear His voice and they follow His ways.

 

  Certainly a judgment is coming and one will stand before Him (Jesus) at the Bema Seat of Christ or at the other called the Great White Throne Judgment. Are we visibly seen as one with Jesus Christ?  Is His Lordship seen in us and through us?

Jesus spoke this which also included His family: Luke 8:19-21 NKJV 19 then His mother and brothers came to Him, and could not approach Him because of the crowd. 20 And it was told Him by some, who said, ‘Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see You.’ 21 But Jesus answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.’

When we obey more light is given to us. Our pathway is clearly visible. But if we fail to take heed, we will lose what we have been given. Light is seen….and it will appear with Jesus. But like John 3:20-21 speaks:  “ For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he Who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen that they have been done in God.’

Yes, those with the Lord become brighter….unto the full light of DAY…their justice is revealed at noonday! Found in Psalm 37:5-9 NKJV 5 commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. 6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light. And your justice as the noonday. 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in His ways, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret----it only causes harm. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

 

Yes, those who adhere to the Lord now will be with Him on earth when He rules in His kingdom in Jerusalem. For eternal life is always serving with Him in the love of God and in the power of His might. Even so, come Lord Jesus, come!

 

Father, 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! We give thanks this day that our citizenship is in heavenly places for where Christ is there we are also with Him! We are pilgrims traveling through this lifetime, but our citizenship is in heaven. We eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. We have an expectancy of His return this day. We prepare to be the bride without spot or blemish.

Father we know there are always wars and rumors of wars but we win! We know nation will rise against another nation, son against the father, friend against a friend, but Scripture reveals that we ultimately win for God destroys the enemy. We as Your children receive this victory today. We are the healed, we are the peacemakers, we are those armed with Your great word that silences the lies, and closes the mouths of lions. We have the promise of triumph. No matter the outcome of this day or this week God has moved into our neighborhood. He made His home with us His people. He lives with us…..whom shall we fear? NO one!

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Will Not Worship Green Grass

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The value of God’s wisdom is incomparable. Wisdom of God brings enlargement to our lives. We are to see through His eyes & understand. His kingdom is moving & enlarging. As it does, the purposes for our lives will enlarge our capacity.  We are given a greater ability to see through His eyes as we humble ourselves to read & spend time in His presence.

Proverbs 8: 20- 26 NKJV 20 I traverse the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice, 21 That I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, that I may fill their treasuries.

22 The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. 23 I have been established from everlasting, from the beginning, before there was ever an earth. 24 When there were no depths I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth; 26 While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, or the primal dust of the world.

The power of God is the inherent characteristic of God. His nature is inherent power. We can see that in His creation.

Revealed in Jeremiah 10:12-18  Amplified Bible, 12 God made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and by His understanding & skill stretched out the heavens. 13 When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, & He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain & brings forth the wind out from His treasuries & from His storehouses. 14 Every man has become like a brute, irrational & stupid, without knowledge [of God]; every goldsmith is brought to shame by his graven idols; for his molten images are frauds and falsehood, & there is no breath in them. 15 They are devoid of worth, usefulness or truth, a work of delusion and mockery; in their time of trial & punishment they shall [helplessly] perish. 16 The Portion of Jacob [the true God on Whom Israel has a claim] is not like these, for He is the Fashioner and Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance----the Lord of hosts is His name. 17 Gather up your bundle [of baggage] from the ground, O you who dwell under siege. 18 For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time and will bring distress on them, that they may feel it and find it [to be as I have said, and turn to Me.].

God is real and He has presence. He has a voice that He speaks but do we hear Him speak? Without knowing Him we become like the brute beast. We become irrational and yes stupid. I do not know about you, but I do not want to be stupid in my daily living.

It is God who established the earth. It is He who regulates the times and seasons we read from verse 13 of chapter 10 of Jeremiah the prophet. God is called the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 45:11-13 NKJV 11 Thus says the LORD, The Holy One of Israel, & his Maker; Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; & concerning the work of My hands, you command Me. 12 I have made the earth, & created man on it. --My hands----stretched out the heavens, & all their host I have commanded. 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, & I will direct all his ways; he shall build My city & let My exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says the Lord of hosts.

From this passage, God is speaking to Cyrus and as God's instrument he was raised in righteousness to do God's will on earth. If you are born again to God, then you have His Spirit living in you to guide you in those daily affairs in life. In our turning to God we are turning to Him in faith and much trust. In relying on His wisdom, we live this life with His wisdom on our minds and in our hearts.

Proverbs 15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the fool does not do so.

We have to understand that there is a right way and a wrong way to disperse knowledge. When God reveals something to you and I through His word then we are to tell others, and teach them if necessary what the word means in our daily life.

John 8:32 says that the truth sets people free. And the truth is that which is revelation knowledge and it comes from God who is the God of love. He loves us greatly and sent His Son to prove it!

Corruption appears when we make idols!  Exodus 20:4-6    NKJV 4"You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Keep what God commanded has us as to those boundaries of safety in Him. There is nothing created on earth that can come close to displaying God or our Lord Jesus Christ. These two are unique indeed. They come from beyond this physical realm we know so well. They are the absolute. They are the pure and undefiled. They are eternal. Yet the idol is a something or a someone of any other realm that man can make and can value. But we are to give to God rightfully what belongs to Him and that is worship to our Creator.

 You and I must know who God is and know His love for in that is He revealed. We become what we worship. And knowing idolatry is a false thing and without life to it, why worship what cannot speak nor breathe? Acts 17:25 Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'for we are also His offspring'.

The bloodline is of God and the people, those men and women, are made in His image. Knowing God's true nature is important because we become what we worship. Thus, this commandment from Exodus 20 covers idolatry in a form in which the true God if worshiped through either a false image or a corrupt practice that is the false representation of His true reality. If we idolize that thing, we become the wrong thing. Then we act like what we worship and identify with it in our day to day living.

Ask yourself today if there are any idols in your life. Ask God by His Holy Spirit to direct you into seeing what you might have created as "an idol". For some it could be a hobby or for others it could be that band where you can exhibit your talent with the bass guitar.

What is that which spurs you into tomorrow? Is it God and to know Him and His love for you and yours or is it to make a name for you? This year was the year I got back into exercising and it consists of a lawnmower and a big yard. It was to get back out into the light of day and expend some energy to actually tone up some muscles that needed some real help. When one is ill and taken out of the daily living cycle, one can get depressed, and lose interest in life. That is why God's word is so important so that we can see daily the life He has for us from that living word. Getting back to eating the right foods and drinking plenty of good water, and exercise I have found more energy but I also find I have to watch & make certain that cutting the grass every week is not becoming an idol to me.

Paul wrote this: Romans 1:25....who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, & worshiped & served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

There should be no wrath for the children of God. And why? Because we find this from Paul: 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 NKJV For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, & how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Will I consider the verse above and remember turning to God is turning to the living and the true? For with all the false narratives and created lies and deceit, I would rather have life in God than in what some news programs can speak out as the pompous and blasphemous horn of hate to many men even though we all have the same blood given to us by the One true God. And the next time I cut the grass in the backyard, I will remember I got to do it because God met me in the early morning hours of March 18, 2015 to keep me alive to enjoy another beautiful day in the sun and give Him praise for His goodness to me in the land of the living. 

Will you consider what might overpower you to worship it? For me, I will not worship green grass!

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