Life is about more than just making choices, it’s about where those choices are taking you and who those choices tend to prefer. Will they lead you to greener pastures, or will they make your life one of bitterness and remorse? The freedom to choose can be considered a blessing, but it can also become a curse. Left alone you will most often do what is right, but when the tempter is parked at your door, will you choose to follow him instead of doing what is righteous and good? God has given you the ability to know right from [Read More…]
True wisdom comes from God… Everyone should learn to think for themselves. Whether it is accidental or intentional, the absence of knowledge will generally lead to foolish thought or action. Showing misjudgment or stupidity out of a genuine lack of knowledge or personal ignorance is somehow understandable, while foolish actions derived from allegiance to an unrighteous cause, be they for recognition or financial profit, should never be considered moral or justifiable. Selling your soul for any cause or reason that is not Godly can never be considered judicious. The elimination of sound doctrine or reason must always be considered the [Read More…]
Security, what is it? Where does it come from? Recently I was given the opportunity to enter the Publisher Clearing House $5,000.00 a week lottery. Having a lot of instances where I could put that money to good use, I was thinking how nice it would be to win such a contest. It seems that there is never enough money to go around and that there are more causes than cures. The house is in need of repairs; and, the family is in want of what they consider, the necessities of life. The church warrants my financial assistance; and it [Read More…]
Whether I am saved and I tell the world about its wonderful God, the One who created it all; or, being lost, I warn them about my empty, unfulfilled life, my recommendation would be the same. Whether I am saved or lost, He is still the best option. Trusting in Him gives my soul true meaning and purpose; it gives me eternal prosperity and the blessed hope of a better day. Without Him I was full of doubt and despair, I was alone and afraid. I had no peace or security, nothing to hold on to, nothing good to [Read More…]
Truth, the only remedy; forgiveness the only hope … Where do you find any good in justifying the perverse or in distorting the truth? How do you give true comfort by condoning evil or make a man’s plight less burdensome by pretending to agree? Pacification is not a remedy nor is consent a cure. Faith in all things mortal is troublesome and foolish. To rely upon man for your deliverance is shaky and unpredictable, only a fool will think himself more high and noble than he really is or could ever hope to be. True compassion is not bitter or [Read More…]
The fool that says there is no God has given up any hope of redemption for God’s personage is the only way of obtaining redemption. If God does not exist than there is no possible way of obtaining forgiveness. So many say that you cannot prove there is a God. If you mean that you will not believe unless you visually see His image, you are right. Proof of God exists in all of His creation and to refuse to accept this fact is total foolishness. The Bible says that if we as man would look upon a holy God [Read More…]
Life is a journey that all of us will make, but so many of us just don’t seem to be able to handle (Psalms 1:6). The irrelevant has over-taken the needed and the necessary has been exchanged for the trivial. We have placed ourselves in jeopardy and are unable to reason or understand. The true importance of life has been over-shadowed by delusions and outright deception. We have been placed in the position of hopelessness; but, by the grace of almighty God, we have been given a chance of restoration, a chance of total victory. Blindsided by the insensitivities [Read More…]
God will always make is presence known in the life of His child. You cannot hide from God’s judgment or His blessings. God’s presence will be felt in our highest high or in our deepest sorrow. Sad to say we do not always perform as we should but God’s actions are not as inconsistent. He will be there in the storm as well as in the triumph. There is no one that can take His place and without Him we will never accomplish those things that are needed and desirable. To celebrate His goodness He must be with us but [Read More…]
God’s true intent is to be a friend to man and to share of His enormous wealth. Wealth to God is a relative term; it has nothing to do with gold or the “so-called” valuable things of earth. The wealth of earth will be destroyed, but the wealth and mercies of God will abide forever. God’s abundance is limitless, but what good are those things which are not being used or appreciated. All that God owns will be forever His, and He will create whatever He needs to fulfill His mandate. In reality, man is nothing while God is everything. [Read More…]
There is nothing wrong with wanting the best or wanting to have it all, the problem arises when we are left to define or determine just what “good” is, or just what the “best” happens to be. The necessity or need for God can never be over-estimated or over-rated. I know that in my own strength I will never possess the right or power to become God; and, I know that being made a man in His image, my highest goal or dream must be to become “like” Him, with His motives and aspirations. To be truly blessed must become [Read More…]