I was just sitting down and came up with this. Many people are in fear of coming to Christ in fear that God will not take us as we are. In our trials, our inequities, or sins or maybe even our lifestyle. But Jesus said come unto me as you are. He meets us where we are at. This is the power of God in our lives and the essence of his love that is deeper, further and deeper than any other.
Ephesians 3:14
14For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15from whom his whole family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Listen to AS I AM.
Monday, May 30, 2005
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
The Power of the "F" WORD.
Now some will read in horror or Hopes of hearing something other than what I am going to write about. A Revelation. Yes.. Perqandrioum to most.
The "F" Word is a GREAT word. It represents freedom. It is the greatest form of expression and RELEASE from bondage that one might ever expect. The "F" word is powerful. It is one of the most intriguing developments in Man. It is what has been called a GREAT Mystery. Yes the "F" word is one of the greatest words and one of the Greatest things you can do for one another and to one another.
Before you become to overjoyed laughing on the floor or start to fall on your knees to pray for me. The "F" Word I am speaking of is forgiveness is to forgive cannot be compared. I am stating this in a way that Saved, unsaved Or just plain don't care can understand.
All must agree that Forgiveness is a great thing. It wins the battle every time. It gives comfort. It promotes love. It also starts fresh a new light in each who is forgiven so that they might have that same forgiveness towards others.
What am I saying? Sometimes I don't even know. But I do know that it takes no Bible to understand forgiveness. But to truly Forgive it does. God is Love and is the only one who can forgive like no other. It is like trying to create a REAL apple pie without Apples. Or trying to place baseball with a small box instead of a ball. It just does not work.
Forgiveness - to Forgive Forgiveness (Love) covers a multitude of misgivings, wrongs, hates, hurts and even well pretty much anything our grimy little heart or ...Umm (perfect untouched hearts might create or muster up) :P
In this we find peace. Peace for each other and peace in God.Forgiveness is the essence of what all might say when stating "A FRESH START" "A NEW CHAPTER IN LIFE" "A CLEAN SLATE" Let that "F" Word Ring in your Heart today. For when you hold grudges or do not forgive as it has been said."Bitterness is a poison that he who wield it drinks and non-other"In Otherwords. The only one that hurts from not forgiving or accepting forgiveness. Is yourself. I know this because the Lord Jesus Showed me.
If you do not know. Or you do and want to share please drop me a
comment.
Feel Free to email or visit my other Blog
Blog.http://www.livingforjesus.blogspot.com or
email me: jamesmb123@yahoo.com
The "F" Word is a GREAT word. It represents freedom. It is the greatest form of expression and RELEASE from bondage that one might ever expect. The "F" word is powerful. It is one of the most intriguing developments in Man. It is what has been called a GREAT Mystery. Yes the "F" word is one of the greatest words and one of the Greatest things you can do for one another and to one another.
Before you become to overjoyed laughing on the floor or start to fall on your knees to pray for me. The "F" Word I am speaking of is forgiveness is to forgive cannot be compared. I am stating this in a way that Saved, unsaved Or just plain don't care can understand.
All must agree that Forgiveness is a great thing. It wins the battle every time. It gives comfort. It promotes love. It also starts fresh a new light in each who is forgiven so that they might have that same forgiveness towards others.
What am I saying? Sometimes I don't even know. But I do know that it takes no Bible to understand forgiveness. But to truly Forgive it does. God is Love and is the only one who can forgive like no other. It is like trying to create a REAL apple pie without Apples. Or trying to place baseball with a small box instead of a ball. It just does not work.
Forgiveness - to Forgive Forgiveness (Love) covers a multitude of misgivings, wrongs, hates, hurts and even well pretty much anything our grimy little heart or ...Umm (perfect untouched hearts might create or muster up) :P
In this we find peace. Peace for each other and peace in God.Forgiveness is the essence of what all might say when stating "A FRESH START" "A NEW CHAPTER IN LIFE" "A CLEAN SLATE" Let that "F" Word Ring in your Heart today. For when you hold grudges or do not forgive as it has been said."Bitterness is a poison that he who wield it drinks and non-other"In Otherwords. The only one that hurts from not forgiving or accepting forgiveness. Is yourself. I know this because the Lord Jesus Showed me.
If you do not know. Or you do and want to share please drop me a
comment.
Feel Free to email or visit my other Blog
Blog.http://www.livingforjesus.blogspot.com or
email me: jamesmb123@yahoo.com
Jamming once again
Ok so there is no name to this audio clip it is about a 1 minute clip of some stuff I have put together with a home studio that is still in the works. But you will get the general idea. Sounds like something out of a line wait at six-flags Magic mountain at the Roaring Rapids. All of my recording as of now have been basically via a cell phone or handset phone through audioblogger but I am re-recording all of my songs and some more once I get the highs and lows down on this studio and these mics to Mp3. A tedious process but process that will be pleasing once perfected.
Any comments are welcome..
Click here to listen to the mini jam
Any comments are welcome..
Click here to listen to the mini jam
Monday, May 23, 2005
Worship in Life
As I listen to Worship with David crowder once again. I sit on the forefont of realizing the pleasure of worship. I found myself of course with my favorites but I can easily say there is no praise or worship I hate most of it I like some more than others. Even older Hymns that bring down the pleasure of scripture in verse. To even the modern supplication of Worship, intimate and personal to open and congragational. Each with its own purpose and each at most. Praising God for what he has done. Professing testimony or simply a pleading verse for those who do not know him. His purpose is seen clearly for those who seek it.
God has found a place in many areas. Just recently reviewing a MWS (Micheal W. Smith) Worship DVD see where Michael added a Song to his worship set called 40 Written by Bono and Edge. So it is clear that God is and Has been speaking to the multitude.
My point in this Blog is to say that Above all the music the chimes and the such of it all. The banging of the drums. Or even the chorus of the woman, child singing praises to the King. The essence of worship is in the Life that we lead. Though many times Worship can and has been gratifying to those of sing it. It can be exciting to jump up and down and praise God with our hands in a crowd of 1000 or hundreds or even 20's or 10's but in a crowd of one is it that simple?
As we pass through life living from one glory to the next or should I say living for the blessing upon next. Do we recognize where they have come from. Sometimes God continues to give us these things even when we do not recognize that they are from him. He is merciful and giving. Loving and sharing and intimatly caring for his people everyday. He has even set provision for those who do not know him but seek him.
In my times of not knowing him but seeking him I learn some interesting things. his provision has been there since I wanted him. It was only till understanding just who "GOD" was have a realized all that he has done.
The day I said yes was truly a day of transformation and revelation. A slow and tedious walk towards what God wanted to have changed in me. Still eventually find myself battling things from the past but indeed much of the past is now behind me.
This is a great relief to know that I may never be what I was but far better than what I was. Not always by deed. By pay or even by opporunity in the terms of how this world might see success but in knowing just where my source of strength, love, joy, sucess, and life comes from. The Worship in Life is that I might know and be an example of What god has done for me daily. I have never let my lip lay rest to this fact and I never will. For as long as I live will other know that Jesus is the only way. That Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of all and in the practical sense for all those searching for the practical of it all. Without Jesus there is no purpose for you being here. If all of it is to a end. WHat mantel can hold your trophy? Who will be there to see it when all has passed away. Will you even care once you have left this earth that people even view it?
When all is said and done where are we going? Why are we so involved in that which holds no eternal purpose? It it becasue we believe in no eternity. If you don't believe in eternity then do you believe in God? If you do then do you not believe that GOD is not all but one. That in fact what GOD is what he has been tapping you daily on the shoulder about. Whispering in your ear. Even in the church we cannot hear him. In our bedrooms sometimes silence. Is it becasue we wish to hear him...Perhaps what he has to say is not as pleasing as what we want to live.
Daily gods points to my misgivings, my faults and my issues. This is why it is hard for those to seek God. God seeks out us not others. We hear for ourselves.
I heard recently that it is for our own good to seek out our own clear conscience. Not others. If all understood this than many of the issues we have today would not even exist. In this worship in life we realize that in both accomplishment comes a responsibility to be a beacon for what God has done. Don't let the glory or the blessing become the focus but the one who brings it. even when were are not so keen as to recoginize immediatly from whom the blessing came from. Jesus loves everone and wishes all to come to him. THrough signs and miracles, through a soft voice in the night. Through our worship with him. Like a close brother or friend. Commune with him and understand that he so dearly wants to have a close intimate realationship with his children.
-LFJ
God has found a place in many areas. Just recently reviewing a MWS (Micheal W. Smith) Worship DVD see where Michael added a Song to his worship set called 40 Written by Bono and Edge. So it is clear that God is and Has been speaking to the multitude.
My point in this Blog is to say that Above all the music the chimes and the such of it all. The banging of the drums. Or even the chorus of the woman, child singing praises to the King. The essence of worship is in the Life that we lead. Though many times Worship can and has been gratifying to those of sing it. It can be exciting to jump up and down and praise God with our hands in a crowd of 1000 or hundreds or even 20's or 10's but in a crowd of one is it that simple?
As we pass through life living from one glory to the next or should I say living for the blessing upon next. Do we recognize where they have come from. Sometimes God continues to give us these things even when we do not recognize that they are from him. He is merciful and giving. Loving and sharing and intimatly caring for his people everyday. He has even set provision for those who do not know him but seek him.
In my times of not knowing him but seeking him I learn some interesting things. his provision has been there since I wanted him. It was only till understanding just who "GOD" was have a realized all that he has done.
The day I said yes was truly a day of transformation and revelation. A slow and tedious walk towards what God wanted to have changed in me. Still eventually find myself battling things from the past but indeed much of the past is now behind me.
This is a great relief to know that I may never be what I was but far better than what I was. Not always by deed. By pay or even by opporunity in the terms of how this world might see success but in knowing just where my source of strength, love, joy, sucess, and life comes from. The Worship in Life is that I might know and be an example of What god has done for me daily. I have never let my lip lay rest to this fact and I never will. For as long as I live will other know that Jesus is the only way. That Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of all and in the practical sense for all those searching for the practical of it all. Without Jesus there is no purpose for you being here. If all of it is to a end. WHat mantel can hold your trophy? Who will be there to see it when all has passed away. Will you even care once you have left this earth that people even view it?
When all is said and done where are we going? Why are we so involved in that which holds no eternal purpose? It it becasue we believe in no eternity. If you don't believe in eternity then do you believe in God? If you do then do you not believe that GOD is not all but one. That in fact what GOD is what he has been tapping you daily on the shoulder about. Whispering in your ear. Even in the church we cannot hear him. In our bedrooms sometimes silence. Is it becasue we wish to hear him...Perhaps what he has to say is not as pleasing as what we want to live.
Daily gods points to my misgivings, my faults and my issues. This is why it is hard for those to seek God. God seeks out us not others. We hear for ourselves.
I heard recently that it is for our own good to seek out our own clear conscience. Not others. If all understood this than many of the issues we have today would not even exist. In this worship in life we realize that in both accomplishment comes a responsibility to be a beacon for what God has done. Don't let the glory or the blessing become the focus but the one who brings it. even when were are not so keen as to recoginize immediatly from whom the blessing came from. Jesus loves everone and wishes all to come to him. THrough signs and miracles, through a soft voice in the night. Through our worship with him. Like a close brother or friend. Commune with him and understand that he so dearly wants to have a close intimate realationship with his children.
-LFJ
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Tears
What is it with Tears.
That roll down my face
when I think of your love and
your undying grace.
What is it with these tears
tell me why it is salty and bitter sometimes
In weakness find no words to rhyme.
What is it in the wealth of life we find
expression so hard. What is it and how
can we change the pride inside without your hand
to weild our tide.
In love and joy these tears that fall cannot
give me direction but do you feel them Lord.
What is thy affection to mankind so inclined to
hurt, so inclined to love and so inclined to give up.
Lord please give me your Cup
How is it you feel my pain when in kings clothes and throne
you are ordained? So what can I bring in these tears?
What can I bring but fears of what was not could or would not
yet left me Red and stained.
In purpose and Glory I find your feet.
Knowing I must hang on. KNowing there is far more to
go and never left a shadow. In this I realize that
my purpose is still not my own as I wished sometimes it might have been.
Ohh what sometimes a stuggle to be beaconed in. To be fit for something
another motion, another notion of what might have been but never was.
Clear my mind, clear my heart, clear it all so that left with slate all
that left will be a reminise of these salty, tears.
-LFJ
That roll down my face
when I think of your love and
your undying grace.
What is it with these tears
tell me why it is salty and bitter sometimes
In weakness find no words to rhyme.
What is it in the wealth of life we find
expression so hard. What is it and how
can we change the pride inside without your hand
to weild our tide.
In love and joy these tears that fall cannot
give me direction but do you feel them Lord.
What is thy affection to mankind so inclined to
hurt, so inclined to love and so inclined to give up.
Lord please give me your Cup
How is it you feel my pain when in kings clothes and throne
you are ordained? So what can I bring in these tears?
What can I bring but fears of what was not could or would not
yet left me Red and stained.
In purpose and Glory I find your feet.
Knowing I must hang on. KNowing there is far more to
go and never left a shadow. In this I realize that
my purpose is still not my own as I wished sometimes it might have been.
Ohh what sometimes a stuggle to be beaconed in. To be fit for something
another motion, another notion of what might have been but never was.
Clear my mind, clear my heart, clear it all so that left with slate all
that left will be a reminise of these salty, tears.
-LFJ
Saturday, May 14, 2005
A Good Work In You..Till Completion
Philipians 1:6
Being confident of this that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Sometimes we wonder if we have been left aside. That our pain is but a dwindling background noise to our Father in heaven. In our minds, bodies, lives and attitudes. The Heart. Is where he works. His divine hand perfecting us and showing us our imperfection so that we cannot stand on a pedestal. We can walk proudly. Even upward in making no mistake and in this we make the mistake. For God is the ultimate Father. It is ours to seek his perfection not our own. He will complete that which he started. Will we?
I was listening to "Take you Back" by Jeremy Camp and found in the scriptures that our Father will always be there. In our pain. In our confusion. In our "fate" as the world might see it. God has planned a different path one that holds the key to life and death. One that does not go by the worlds rules. This is why a Fool such as myself..or an unworthy man such as myself might inherit what God has for me.
How Devine he is in holding our hands even when our hands are not worthy of his. How awesome of a God we have that see's our heart and our desire and makes it so.
I write this to encourage as God has me.
Those who are lost without Christ. And those who are lost in him because they have not accepted the Revelation of the Perfect Father. Perhaps many times we do and we loose the grip of it. But God does not see us as what we are but who we are to be. Gradually he changes us to this perfection so that we might learn that we did not do it on our own.
To God be the Glory in who, and what we are. To God be the Glory for what we overcome.
For those who do not know. Christ is all and forever will be. He died for you and me that we might not be prisoners of our own hearts and separate from God.
God's perfection is far greater than our efforts could ever be.
Jesus came so that we might have perfection before God even though in ourselves it is impossible. God provided one way. One and Only way to Him. Through his son Jesus we are given the freedom of the kingdom and freedom from the Law. That we might observe and know that we can never be clean before his eyes without the Blood of Jesus but that we might continue to pursue the righteousness of GOD and in our hearts given no excuse for sin. Our desire to LOVE GOD, To Follow the Fathers ways and be humble and contrite in Spirit that we might be worthy and not have called: Lord..Lord..But walked Lord..Lord...In this we must set down our effort and focus our worship on him. So that in our efforts they might not be in vain.
What good is a Castle without a King?
What good is a Church if Praise or Worship it does not sing?
What good is a heart that has not seen the King
Some might say I am extreme but so is the God that I serve.
I do not carry a Cross around; not around my neck. In my or on my car or on a T-SHIRT. For Jesus has risen. But in my heart that GOD (JESUS CHRIST WHO IS LORD) is burned upon my heart as are his laws, his love and his values that he is ever shaping in my life. I need no rememberance for daily I could not forget of such a great thing.
I am a Normal person with a SUPERNATURAL GOD and it is here that I express these things. For Eternal...For Love..For All the things we call "GOOD" In this world
Have come from and are resourced by all that is ever good or ever will be GOOD.
Jesus Christ...GOD ETERNAL!
FOR IT IS THRU THE FATHER I KNOW OF HIS POWER AND HIS ONIPTANCE
AND THROUGH HIS SON I KNOW HIS LOVE AND GRACE
AND THROUGH HIS SPIRIT I KNOW HIS COMFORT, WORSHIP AND PRAISE.
In these I know he is REAL. More Real than anything that In my life has been claimed to be. One must not loose hold of the righteous fear of GOD.For it is easy for him to fall in Spiritual Bliss far from Gods Will
or In to Physical Good Will Far from his Spirit.
I must confess. That If I ever have or ever will loose an earthy Love for Him than so be it. For I have not lost but gained. I have felt and experienced No GREATER LOVE than that of Christ Jesus.
In my humbleness I have been apologetic and this is good. In my letting go. I have been freed. But there is no tear in my heart any longer. There is no missing spot.
There is no doubt in my mind or in my heart that I am saved through Jesus. This is greater than any love, any marriage, any family, any child, any friend, any success, any agenda, any paradise, any dream, any music, any fame, any spiritual experience, any future, any goal, any gift, any prize, any sacrifice, any deed, any word, any will, any inheritance, any promise, any Gods, any Idol, any vacation, any business, any riches, any pleasure, any drug, any earthly glory, any purpose, any war, any battle, any earthly love, anything. But it does not discount me from having them all if it is God's will.
WOW..Ok..So You See..All is Futile without Christ Jesus. If you do not know him. Only then once you know him will you ask how you ever lived without him. If you knew him but you know him no longer. You never really knew him. It is through his grace his love we truly know what Love is. Christ has come to save the world so that all might be saved. his Grace and his love is so strong that he has waited and continues to wait for you till you can see. He uses people like myself that are called. Fools, CRAZY, WEIRD, Fanatic..So that you might not perish forever. If you who are out there are reading have this same revelation. DO NOT BE ASHAMED. We are not looking for a prize. No looking to be noticed.
Simply wanting to be heard so that those who have been destined with a tag on their foot for a fiery place might live in eternal bliss with the father who created you and desires to be with you.
If this is true then I might not be a preacher, I might not be a prophet, I might not be a fanatic, I might not be a writer, But A friend to all seeking GOD and redemption. I might not be anything. This is the wonder of it all.
GOD LOVES YOU.
WE AS CHRISITANS, THE CHOSEN, THE BELOVED ARE ALL MERE VESSELS
I believe that this scripture is always cut short when quoted so here it is in its entirety. Read it for what it is not what you want to see it as.
15that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.[e]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
-LFJ (JAMES)
RICHARD KIND AND ME
Many people do not believe me in my endeavors, How meeting Elton John in Los Angeles, talking to him during his signing of an Album. I used to be a REAL big fan.
But sometime we get pictures of such events that people never believe. Upon looking around I found a PICTURE that I thought I had lost forever.
Here it is. Richard Kind and Me. Great GUY by the WAY. At that time. I did not know Christ. I wonder if he did? Boy if I could have been able to get past the CBS gates then. I wonder if now it would be possible. This time with a message. Naw they would probably shoot me at the Gates. I will have you know that Paul Ryan. Also a great guy at CBS studios has a prayer list that he prayed for everyone and everything. Awsome Paul. See all of Hollywood ain't evil!
This Photo was taken around 3 Years Ago. I found it hiding in my archives
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
To Forgive and Forget
Philippians 2:2
"Then Make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conciet, but in humility consider others better than yourself. Each of you should look not only to your own interest, but also to the intrest of others. "You Attitude should be the same as that of Jesus Christ".
Ephesians 4:29
29Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Colossians 3:12
12Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
___________________
We must learn to let go and forgive for the sake of others and what GOd has called his Gospel to be not what we intend it to be. "His Good News".) could get past this feeling. As a stream that passes and cuts through stone only can do.
What power is there in words with no action? What strength is there if there is no source? Clearly a intellectual discussion must appease both parties to continue much like a musician must play one good note before his endeavor to sing or play would continue. Whereas others continue to sing even when their voice is bad. All are different. In this we see and I see another Mistake I have made in the last few months. It was coined clearly by my Shepard Jose.
Sometimes we are too Spiritual to be any Earthly Good.
And Far to Worldy to be any Heavenly Good.
There must then be found a Balance. Of Practical and Spritial. Not just one nor just the other.
This is why a BIBLE BASED church is important. For Religion, Rituals will take us away but Gods Word Sets Us Free.
In our Freedom we find that might be a freedom for ourselves but might be a bondage of another or our bondages might be freedoms to another. Self Rigetousness is a issue dealt with Strongly in the scriptures. Solomon says in Ecclesiastes says:
Ecclesiastes 7:15
15 In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:
a righteous man perishing in his righteousness,
and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
16 Do not be overrighteous,
neither be overwise—
why destroy yourself?
17 Do not be overwicked,
and do not be a fool—
why die before your time?
18 It is good to grasp the one
and not let go of the other.
The man who fears God will avoid all extremes . [a]
What am I saying. That we might not be in a place where we ourselves place ourselves as the throne of judgment. Though we might speak they are but ill hallow words without action or without understanding of the scriptures. It is has been proven that we can seek out both his glorious and faith filled scripture to puff themselves up as he might searh the scriptures to condemn others but the completeness of the scriptures is freedom for going one way or the other. The Bible Complete we find what gods glory is and religious intent it is not. But peace that we would read appy what we read and give account to our Father in Heaven (God) to how we have lived according to his scripture.
Hebrews 4:12
12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
"Then Make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conciet, but in humility consider others better than yourself. Each of you should look not only to your own interest, but also to the intrest of others. "You Attitude should be the same as that of Jesus Christ".
Ephesians 4:29
29Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Colossians 3:12
12Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
___________________
We must learn to let go and forgive for the sake of others and what GOd has called his Gospel to be not what we intend it to be. "His Good News".
Encompassed in his death is the power of forgiveness as he has forgave us. We must learn this. As easy as this is to write; to do is a far more difficult task. Forgiving is easy but forgeting is not. I have prayed that I could forget and the desire has always been there but like digging against rock all I could do was dig. But made no progress. Only the ROCK itself (my prayer and God
What power is there in words with no action? What strength is there if there is no source? Clearly a intellectual discussion must appease both parties to continue much like a musician must play one good note before his endeavor to sing or play would continue. Whereas others continue to sing even when their voice is bad. All are different. In this we see and I see another Mistake I have made in the last few months. It was coined clearly by my Shepard Jose.
Sometimes we are too Spiritual to be any Earthly Good.
And Far to Worldy to be any Heavenly Good.
There must then be found a Balance. Of Practical and Spritial. Not just one nor just the other.
This is why a BIBLE BASED church is important. For Religion, Rituals will take us away but Gods Word Sets Us Free.
In our Freedom we find that might be a freedom for ourselves but might be a bondage of another or our bondages might be freedoms to another. Self Rigetousness is a issue dealt with Strongly in the scriptures. Solomon says in Ecclesiastes says:
Ecclesiastes 7:15
15 In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:
a righteous man perishing in his righteousness,
and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
16 Do not be overrighteous,
neither be overwise—
why destroy yourself?
17 Do not be overwicked,
and do not be a fool—
why die before your time?
18 It is good to grasp the one
and not let go of the other.
The man who fears God will avoid all extremes . [a]
What am I saying. That we might not be in a place where we ourselves place ourselves as the throne of judgment. Though we might speak they are but ill hallow words without action or without understanding of the scriptures. It is has been proven that we can seek out both his glorious and faith filled scripture to puff themselves up as he might searh the scriptures to condemn others but the completeness of the scriptures is freedom for going one way or the other. The Bible Complete we find what gods glory is and religious intent it is not. But peace that we would read appy what we read and give account to our Father in Heaven (God) to how we have lived according to his scripture.
Hebrews 4:12
12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
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