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Proverbs
18:1-2 Amplified Bible He who willfully separates and estranges himself[ from God
and man] seeks his own desire and pretext to break out against all wise and
sound judgment. 2 A [self-confident] fool has no delight in understanding but
only in revealing his personal opinions and himself.
What we
display before others gives an account of what is in our heart! Yes it involves those personal opinion and himself! Whether we give
out of love to give the life and love of God to others or we give out of
self-confidence in ourselves and the value we place on ourselves above others and God.
It will certainly show up in the family home while growing up from a baby to a
young adult. If you watched any television news this week, you have most likely seen it. It is something that will be revealed in a marriage when trouble knocks on the door!
It will appear when down-sizing of a corporation that you worked at for many
years. Now from scripture we are told in Numbers 1:3 that those "from twenty years old and above---all who are able to go to war in Israel. Numbers 14:29-32 marks those twenty years as accountable to being rebels, those who are counted as sinners! V. 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.
What is revealed to us that accountability is at the age of 20 years! Certainly that spirit within those who is talked about in this passage are those who had no heart toward God or obeying Him. And it is God who calls on us to be devoted and to worship Him that we might move in Him by faith that He is faithful.
Harmony had appeared on earth in the Garden of Eden, but for a short time. God and Man
communicated. The commands of God were given and Man complied. Yet as the
population grew, what was harmonious turned into that which corrupted Eden.
What the adversary did was to tarnish the Image of God in that place and still
today, we find that very thing appearing, not only in business meetings, but
also in public squares and council meetings.
We are told
in Proverbs 9:9-12 Amplified Bible 9 Give instruction to a wise man and he will
be yet wise; teach a righteous man (one upright and right standing with ) and
he will increase in learning. 10 The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord
is the beginning (the chief and choicest part) of Wisdom, and the knowledge of
the Holy One is insight and understanding. 11 For by me [ Wisdom from God] your
days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased. 12 If
you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scorn, you alone will bear it
and pay the penalty.
If you take
on a new job, a new position or other, you still have to receive the
instructions of that which is new to you. We must pay attention to what they,
the new boss or executive desires. Certainly you should be educated to that job
that is to be performed, still we must have a heart to receive instruction to
how the position you now have fits and flows with other moving parts and
positions in the new work environment.
If one is expecting to be paid for their work,
then they should desire to not appear slack. Although the appearance today
appears to be about doing as less work possible but still gain that check at
the time end of the time period. I remember the day when “journalists’ actually
went out to find out what was going on in the world. Today there are many who just
make things up on hearsay! Now that is just a lazy person who will not make the effort to live as God intended us to live!
But in
truth, we must have and know truth that brings many days of life to us. In
thinking on the miraculous gift of the Cross we must know what the Father’s
heart was in sending Jesus to die for us. And the very core of that Christ died was and is today for us is that we would die to ourselves and the very life and light of Christ
would live on through us, yes through you and me!
Just like
appearing on your first day of the new job or position, you would not appear to
tell the boss or CEO what your desires are for that work nor while you are
there. The very same is that we do not live to tell Father God what He must do
for "us" this day, but be so glad to hear what He desires for me to do for His
glory of that in His Son Jesus Christ. We must celebrate He was mindful of us to send us His very best indeed!
So many today are
demanding their own rights and their entitlements. There are no entitlements. Social Security is not entitlement, it is what was paid in from those working and paying their taxes for decades. The real truth for everyone: Get a job! And then be the "one" who keeps a regular working schedule and in about 35-40 years you can retire
if you need to, you can certainly draw on that which you saved along the way of life
in working.
Certainly things change for companies, whether creating power, manufacturing certain products or even the forces that deliver those products to your home, but we as a people are to work together like the harmony that had begun in the Garden of Eden. And if an adversary appears, we must be those to pray and ask the Holy Spirit how to continue forward in love for the person we work with but also know how we keep to His commands so that we are not accepting or approving that which is wrong in God ‘s sight!
Certainly things change for companies, whether creating power, manufacturing certain products or even the forces that deliver those products to your home, but we as a people are to work together like the harmony that had begun in the Garden of Eden. And if an adversary appears, we must be those to pray and ask the Holy Spirit how to continue forward in love for the person we work with but also know how we keep to His commands so that we are not accepting or approving that which is wrong in God ‘s sight!
In
remembering those choose to be greedy for gain, they choose less quality but
more quantity so they make more money quickly. If our hearts pursue gain, is it for
our glory, for our own name to make some ground with those of influence in a short amount of time? Truly
being honest is speaking truth in all arenas of our lives! It is one standing to honor
God in the avenues of life where we choose daily whom we will serve.
There is a
day coming when man or woman will have to leave business at the door with understanding that time is short and without an open heart to God, then we fall short and without Him entirely. My prayer would be that people would be open to hear the good news of life eternally that gives honor and glory to God only. There is coming a day
when one will be asked to give up their old life for that which brings life and
not the deadly path so many encounter today.
If God did
not allow King David to build the Temple because he was a man of war, how much
so in our time for those who go to the HOUSE of God? How much more today should we
find our full attention given to Him Who gives life? For where our heart is, there is where we
will go for an eternity! For what we treasure, that is that which holds maybe
in not such a good place, but never the less, the place we treasure and hold
onto is where our heart will lead us.
Jesus saw the Temple where God would come, and was seeing the day when the
Holy Spirit would come to abide and comfort each individual on earth. His
interest was in maintaining that which was holy unto the Lord and represent His
Father on earth. Jesus’ heart was for Mankind. He was not about buying, trading
and selling, but about having worship toward God. It was about employing prayer
and relationship with God the Father. God's house in us is to be a house of prayer. It was for all men and women to hear and speak to God in prayer. If
people would only come there with a humble heart, then there would be no need of war anymore! Spend time
to know what is in the Father’s heart. Follow His commands to live for Him and not accept or approve that which He forbids!
Certainly the Flood should point many away
from perverse behavior, still the Father did say He would not Flood the earth
again and put the rainbow in the sky as His promise to us. Still, Jesus talks of
the seven churches in the book of Revelation.
The church at Laodicea had no commendations, they were indifferent to
what was going on around them and His instruction to them was to be zealous and
repent! Of the church at Sardis, that some were commended that they had kept
the faith, it was a dead church and they needed to repent and strengthen what
remained. For Pergamos, the commendation was to keep the faith of Christ, the criticism
was that they tolerated immorality, idolatry, and heresies and they were told
to repent. Ephesus no longer held a fervent love for Christ, but they had
rejected evil, persevered with patience. Their instruction was to “do the works
you did at first”.
Jesus tells
each church this: “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches”. We are to hear what the Spirit speaks and especially in these days
when many are turning a deaf ear to those with agendas to serve the flesh and
not the living God who promises eternal life with His Son. In knowing our
Father is Spirit, might we be keeping time to keep the spiritual of God alive
in our hearing so we not take a step into that which is a death chamber of
horrors to where there is no end? Do not accept or approve what God forbids!
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