What Is Your Will In Christ?

“And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him! "  Luke 12:4-5 (NKJV) I will say something here that the spirit may recognize as true and greet with the anticipation of greater joy, but that the flesh will very likely abhor. And from that recognition there may spring a greater hope of understanding the depth of the challenge that we're currently facing in this "life"... This physical body that we might be tempted to invest so much in toward its pleasure, lusts and vanity ... has no value ... ... other than as a temporary vehicle to provide a temporary opportunity for the eternal soul within it to be propelled by its right choice-  toward the God that created it.  Our physical bodies are merely a vehicle for our eternal soul as it passes through this temporary pl...

"But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.  Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded, in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you". Titus 2:1-8 (NKJV) If all of mankind were to hear what God has said from the beginning of time and heed it- adjusting his or her  heart,  life, and motives in whatever way necessary to comply and conform to ...

Jesus speaking:   “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."   Matthew 23:27-28 (NKJV) I believe firmly that such people still exist today.  In fact, mankind has used what God graciously offered to him, in terms of His word and relationship, to create institutionalized religion in a number of places. And some of those have existed from a time not long after Christ's burial and resurrection- the events that signaled the power of His humbleness to conquer vast and powerful evil. It was Christ, who set aside His right title and position to LOWER Himself, for the benefit of all mankind, to suffer horrifically at the hands of His own creation, that fulfilled victory forever over all evil-including death, in the most epic war of all ...

"But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber."         2 Peter 2:1-3 (NKJV) It's an inescapable fact that we were created by the same God that created the heavens and the earth and everything in them. Mankind may say or declare, even forcefully, anything contrary against it, but mankind's warbling has no effect on the truth of what God's said and it'll be proved out when He avenges against their wickedness in defense of His own name. There are those among the secular scholars and Darwinists- the "intellectuals",  that dispu...

I find so much revealing of God's heart in the history of His word. So much about the perfection of His character shows up in so many places. Many may argue about the harsh response that He's taken against those who worshipped other gods as He's warned against or bore evil hearts and ways that made themselves eternally useless against His purpose for having given them life. Our God knows the difference since He knows the hearts and minds of every being that He's given life to. Some might blame God for the consequences of destruction and evil in the world since man- through Adam invited sin into it, but they would be in error. God's heart is clearly displayed for anyone who chooses to look for it. Reading the prophets and what God said through them in context begins to tell the truth of a heart passionate for those who love and obey Him... "Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not re...

For the last year I've been engaged in a writing project that requires me to answer a series of questions posed over the fifty two weeks of the year. My answer to the last question that I chose to answer is one that I decided to share because it's always on my heart and mind... What do you worry about? I know that worrying itself changes nothing but there are some things that cause me deep worry. And of those particular things, there are none that I have the power to change on my own, but they are instead those that I have to appeal to Christ’s mercy to intercede. I have deep worry for the souls of all of my loved ones because I know that despite all that we might find concern for in our passing through of this world, there’s only one account that will, for all time, require an answer from all of us. That response, having already been made while we journeyed here, will leave us without further opportunity to answer. Our choice, made in this current life, will leave us either pr...