I Gave You Breath

Who but God, gives us life? Who but God has the right to take life from us?

No one, that is who. And only God does.

And yet every day, there are many babies aborted because parents did not want them but yet, did not take precautions to not have them in the first place. And so those babies pay for the sin of their parents.

Like wise, every day, people die from overdoses of medications  or other ways.And many take their own lives on purpose

Who but God gives life? No one. Who but God has the right to take life away? Only God. That is who. 

Job 1:21 Naked I came from my mother's womb and naked will I depart. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away; may the name of the Lord be praised. 

Every breath we take, comes from God himself. I wonder what God thinks when he looks down on his creation and finds the babies killed because of the selfishness of their parents. Jesus said: in Luke 17:2, that it is better for someone to have a millstone hung around `their neck and thrown into the sea, than to make children stumble.

Milestones can weigh hundreds of pounds. That would be a serious punishment for anyone that had
done anything to hurt a child.

The 5th commandment in Exodus 20:13 says: Thou shall not kill. 

People killing other people. People killing innocent babies and children. People killing themselves.

It goes on everyday and in every way. What is the God of heaven to do with his sinful creation?

One day, when Jesus comes back, the killing will stop. He will take those that have accepted him as Lord and Savior home with him. He will defeat the devil and his cohorts and there will be no more of the sin that runs rampant  in the world today.

But there is only one problem. To be taken home with him forever, we must be born again. For those that aren't, it will be too late.

Will you be counted in the number of those that will be allowed to enter heaven? If not, his love note today is for you. Pray the following prayer, so you don't miss it. Because believe me, you won't want to miss heaven.

Thanks for coming by today Friends. Until next time, God bless you today and always!

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I Will Teach you

Lord, teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again. Job 34:32

How many times when we pray, do we actually ask God to teach us about ourselves so that we can learn what we should not be doing? Sometimes we are doing something wrong, and just don't realize it. We may be sinning by default. 

There are some people that just do not want to know. They think that whatever they do is okay. That they are right and everyone else is wrong. That their ways are better ways. That no one "does it like they do." And if everyone doesn't take their advice or do something the way they think they should...well they are just wrong. 

Maybe we are all like that at times. 

 Just maybe we all need a good dose of humility at times, Knowing that God can teach us the things that he wants us to know and do. And not do. 

Job asked God to teach him the things within himself that he could not see. The things he had done wrong without knowing. Is it too much to ask God to teach us those things that we do not see in ourselves? Hidden things in our hearts. 

That is what growing as Christians is all about. From the time we become born again, God wants to grow us up. To become like him. But it takes time. An infant isn't born one day, only to do the things that he would learn as he grew. It takes time. 

However, God wants us to grow up. We are not to stay as babies in our Christian lives. And the way to do that is through the Holy Spirit whose job it is to teach us the things that we should know. And one of those things are  to learn of the things we do wrong, that we can confess and not do any more. 

Do we ask God to reveal those hidden things of our hearts?

If not we should. And we should be doing it on a regular basis. Because we want God's forgiveness all the way. Not just a little bit. But all the way. David in Psalm 51:10 asked God to create in him a pure heart after he had been with Bathsheba and took part in their affair. And God did. And he will for us too as he changes us from the inside out. And teaches us his ways which are better then our own.  What better a life is that? But the teaching we get, comes from God and our desire to know it and him. What better is a life for us then that?

Lord, teach me what I cannot see. So that I may not do wrong again. Teach me your ways that can know you better.

It's one way to grow as a Christian. 

Have a wonderful and blessed weekend, Friends. 

You Are My Child

No longer are do we Not belong to someone.

What?

Even as those that feel they are orphans in today's world, those whose parents have abandoned them and ended up in foster care. Those that whose mate left them. Those that have virtually nobody

If they have God, the  have the one person that they need more then anyone else.

The gospel song: This world is not my home, I'm just passing through....is not just a song to make us feel good about where we will eventually ended up. It is the truth. Because 1 Peter 2:11 tells us that we are strangers here. This place we call home, is not really our home at all. It is just our journey into the next world. Where ever that may be.

If we have found God and committed our lives to Jesus Christ, we are on our way to everlasting life in the most wonderful place we can imagine.

And as such, we then have the right to be adopted by God into his family and become joint heirs with him. Galatians 4:7

Any kind of earthly inheritance we might receive  pales to dust when compared by what we shall receive when we stand at heaven's door. And yet sometimes, when on this side of heaven, we hope to receive an inheritance from someone, sometimes our greed kicks in and we forget what is important.

What is important is whether or not we have the right to be called God's children.

And it is only through the shed blood of what Jesus did on the cross, and whether or not we accept him as our blood sacrifice for our sin, that gives us that right.

Can we say we diffidently have that right? We have to be sure we can because at the exact second that our life ends here, we will know for sure.

Hello Friends. May you have a wonderful day with Gods blessings showering down around you.  

No Certain Group

I am not a Jew. But I love God. And yet, I have no hope for heaven since I am not a Jew. Because God's chosen people were the Israelite people.. Right.?

Well, the answers to those questions are wrong and right?

Ok so what am I getting at?

Before coming to this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was coming would be revealed. So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. So you are all children of God through faith, for all you that were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew or Gentile, neither slave or free, nor is there male or female. For you are all one In Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:23-29

That means that once we have become a child of God, there is no difference. At the foot of the cross, no one is turned away. We are all the same in the eyes of God.

Dose it matter to us that salvation is for everyone, and not just the Jews? It doesn't because it does not matter to God.

After all, he created us.

God's love note for today promise us that just because God's chosen people were Jews, we have nothing to fear by being left out. Because we aren't left out at all. There is hope for all and Jesus is waiting to welcome us into his arms. Will you be one that make it there? Or, will you be left behind.

I Will Give You Peace

Peace? How can we possibly have that in this day and age? Things happen every day that scares us. Is there really such a thing. I mean come on, when God gave that love note, the world was in a much better shape. Wasn't it?

Well no, it wasn't. The whole bible is filled with things that did not make God's people always feel really peaceful.

"Peace I leave you. My peace I give you. Not as the world gives you..." John 14:27

Ah, so that is the key. The peace that Jesus gives. Because you see he said that to his disciples after he had been crucified and had risen from the grave.  Jesus was trying to prepare his disciples for when he would  be returning to his Father in heaven. 

He knew his friends w would miss him. After all, they had lived with him for three years. Now he was going away? What would they do? 

Thoughts of that time had to be troubling to them. Losing him just wasn't what they had thought would happen. They had watched him die on the cross. Had they really thought they had lost him then?

Now here he was. Back with them talking about going away. "Did this really have to happen, Jesus?"

But it had to. It was part of God's plan. 

And yet how would they get along without him?

"I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you."  (vs 18)

Were they quietly wondering....How is going to do that? If he was in heaven, how did he intend to go back to them? 

I think if I had been there, that would have been on my mind. Or something like that. 

"Anyone that loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them and we will come to them and make our home with them..." (vs 23-24)

"All of this I have spoken to you while still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have said to you."

"Peace I leave you; my peace I give you not as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."

After Jesus rose from the grave, it was imperative that he go back to the Father so that the Holy Spirit could come to those that love God and obeys him, can then dwell within them. The Holy Spirit has specific jobs to do as he lives in us. Two of them are to teach us the things that God wants us to know. But the other one is PEACE. He brings it to us as we are obedient and grow in grace. 

Despite all the bad things that go on in the world, peace is attainable. 

There is only one way to have true peace.And that is the peace we can have through the Holy Spirit and knowing Jesus Christ.  I hope that you have it. Because it is the only kind worth having. 

Thanks for coming by Friends. May the blessing of God's peace surround you today!

I Will Order Your Steps

Have you ever known anyone that has tried to get you to go do something or be something that you never want to do, or be?

Many kinds of people would lead us away from the truth. Of the love of God. Of everything that Christ has done for us.

And many of us go. Maybe because we don't know any better. Or maybe because a way of life that seems more fun.

And then at some point, we realize that those ways only led us to grief, unhappiness, and a whole host of other unpleasant situations that we wished we would never have followed someone into.

Sin. It takes us in directions sometimes that we never wanted to go. Never thought we would go. And yet, there we are. Hoping for what it can give us and finding out it isn't what we wanted in the first place.

However, there is one person that leads us not into sin, but away from it. God. 

His love note for today goes ike this:

The steps of a  good man is ordered of the Lord. And he delights in his way. Psalm 37:23

But what does that mean?

When we belong to God, he gives us direction for which way he wants us to go. And then because he loves us, he enjoys seeing that we are going the ways that he wants us to go. It is that simple. 

Sin no longer has dominion over us when we are God's.child. We are then under his grace and it does not have to rule over us.  Romans 6:14.

It is our choice. Do we want to go down our own path or follow someone that wants to lead us that way. Therefore living the kind of life that brings sorrow to us. Or do we want to take God's path and know that he delights in watching us as we fulfill the things that he has set us for us to do?

Which way do you chose?

Thanks for coming by today Friends. I hope you had a blessed Lord's Day. May Bod bless you in the new week ahead!

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