Saturday, July 16, 2005
# 23: A Great Show-off
God showed us His love for mankind by giving us His Son. In what other ways does He display His love for us? By overtly revealing Himself to all who truly desire to know Him. This is not a wishing game. Wishes don’t count. God runs an all-or-nothing business. It is very risky to put all of one’s eggs in one basket, especially when the basket is invisible. Another way God displays His love is to inspire those who make every effort to live up to the perfection of Jesus Christ. God would love to be a showoff.
He desires to manifest Himself in the material world through His followers. The reason being, God is not ashamed of who He is. And when His followers display His awesome power, then all will see what God is really like, also, some will desire to be like Him. There is no other way. Goodness never desires to hide but to propagate itself and His disciples are the way God chooses to accomplish this.
I have been engaged in a crusade of desperately attempting to make some sense of why the teachings of Christianity and the teachings of the Bible are not synonymous. I have come up with a myriad of explanations. Could I somehow lump them into one concise answer? Here goes. God is not as real as the physical world to most, if not all, religious people. Certainty will always triumph over speculation. How can a person make the invisible God, not as real but even, more real than the material world? One answer. When the physical world becomes so distressing, in one way or another, that one desires to leave this world. If and when that situation become a reality, then a great need for anything better (Christ) will materialize.
Then, God has literally put His foot into one’s door. In short, the physical world must be devalued into a next to nothing situation. Then, God will have little or no competition. I truly believe this could be the answer to religions problems. But, don’t look for any monumental solutions. And what is my excuse? Though I believe and teach what is in the Bible, my life does not completely coincide.
I’m very interested in what you doing with this web site. I agree with many of your principles and I always check the Bible. I don’t wish to stand toe to toe and argue God’s word with you but more like Proverb 27:17 (NLT) “As iron sharpens iron, a friend sharpens a friend”. Sometimes people need be awakened and/or reawakened and reminded that God’s son died for us and sometimes it hurts; we don’t like the life that we’re living. You seem to be that type of person – jolting believers back into formation. I’m a sergeant in the US Air Force and when we have mass meeting, the commander may sometime say something that makes many people mad. I’ve found over the years that those are the people that the commander was try to reach and the anger in them is being provoked by their guilty conscious. This seems to be your style.
I don't think you meant to copy paste this comment with this element. You used it with another comment I posted.
I even found in another article where you used the "iron sharpens iron" verse. I'm slowly making my way through your web site. For the next 4 1/2 weeks, I have a lot of time on my hands to reflect on God.
So what are the rules for communicating, free thinking can be dangerous; I’m sure that’s how Jim Jones got started.
Do you want me to sale my house and give the proceeds to the “Church of Blog”? (that's a funny by the way)
-----Your second question. There are many,many more important things to be concerned about than selling your house for God's glory. Selling one's house doesnot make one right before God. There are many people who sold their homes and gave the proceeds to their church or the such, and are going staight to Hell, because their church was steeped in heresy. Take care of the little Godly things first and the big decisions will take care of themselves. In other words, give yourself fully to God which is most important, and once that is done without compromise, don't be concerned about tomorrow, today has enough concerns of its own. and concerning giving money to a religious organizations, I say, forget it. You know how I feel about that.
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