You Choose!

 Morning Musing: December 19, 2018

You can choose to bring forth good fruit or bad.

We were not created depraved and helpless...God is our help and His grace teaches us His righteous ways. But He created us with the power to choose. Had He not He would be to blame for the many evils; and we would be blameless for having no choice in what we do.

It seems to me people have created theologies that point to this idea that we can not do any good and some would perhaps say we can not do any bad. But what do the Scriptures say:

Isaiah 7:15
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

Isaiah 7:16
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

The power to choose enables real love to exist. Otherwise what people do would be rather meaningless since they have no choice as if God alone controls them...He enables us to choose to serve Him, to choose to do good, or to choose to serve our own desires. This means His judgment is just. He would have all men to come to repentance, He is long-suffering towards us, patiently waiting for us to choose to love & serve Him of our own free will.

So don't wait for God to make you choose what is right....it doesn't work that way. Yes, we need His help...and He will help us by allowing us to suffer the consequences of our bad decisions to help us see it isn't worth it to choose our own deceitful lusts. But if we love Him (we have the choice to love Him) we will keep His commandments.

John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Being a Believer means:
because we believe what Christ taught we make choices accordingly....we keep His commandments because we believe His warnings of what will happen if we do not. Otherwise, we are just make-believers.

John 3:18-21 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

*Photo courtesy of : varjag

Wasting time?

Morning Musing December 3, 2018

Waking up with a burden this morning...don't know if I can say these things Loud enough so please hear me...

2 Peter 3:9
[9]The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

El Señor no retarda su promesa, según algunos la tienen por tardanza, sino que es paciente para con nosotros, no queriendo que ninguno perezca, sino que todos procedan al arrepentimiento.

His LONG-SUFFERING IS SO AMAZING! You know why?

There are things going on that many of us could not stand if we saw or heard of them...we already see and hear through social media a small portion of the ABOMINATIONS people daily commit....what some of us do know about the evil makes us feel physically ill and we have to war against fears & /or depression &/or losing our minds! We have to forget about the evils we know or have seen or heard so we can go on with our lives.

But God sees and hears all of what we know and an extreme amount more.

An abomination is a thing that causes disgust or hatred.

DISGUST/HATRED is what we feel when we hear certain evils people do to children or animals or Each other.

God is Longsuffering, He is holding back His anger not only towards those who are committing such like abominations but to US also...because He wants to see us perfected in His image. He is NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE!!!

What are some of you doing while He is so patiently holding back His righteous anger?

I have seen some of you on FB treading on His mercy; wasting the precious time He is giving to bring us to complete repentance.

Some of you are taking precious time to post foolishness; whether it is jokes about passing gas or lusting after certain foods or certain like things...some of you even dare use Scripture and spiritual things to make jokes!! Friends, anyone with a God-honoring/fearing mind is not laughing with you but grieving for you...God is grieving also....stop turning to jest & light-heartedness to cope with reality.

James 4:8-10

[8]Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
[9]Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
[10]Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

We don't want to be numbered with the abominable...our time here is short and there is more JOY to be had in forsaking the foolish to live for the will of God than any jesting could ever give you.

Look what the Proverb says (this is wisdom that is becoming extinct...please pass it on to children and be an example of it)

Proverbs 9:6
[6]Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Notice it says, "And LIVE" because there is no LIFE abiding in a fool...God is life and He doesn't dwell with a fool. If you want that true peace and fullness of joy Forsake the foolish... and go in the way of understanding.

Do we really lay to heart and understand that this world is about to be utterly destroyed and the inhabitants have made themselves worthy of this destruction with all their abominable lusts & deeds?

Then why are some wasting their time as in the days of Noah carrying on like the world isn't coming to desolation?

1 Peter 3:20
[20]Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

FEW WERE SAVED....don't think that because you "got saved" you have a special ticket to heaven...Heaven is reserved for those who love what God loves and hate what He hates; for those who don't waste precious time but diligently seek Him (He is a rewarder of such) and allow His grace to work in their lives...causing them to deny ungodliness & worldly lusts and to live righteously and soberly in this present evil world. (Titus 2:11-12)

Some may not realize that biblical sobriety is not about not drinking alcohol to excess, (although it would not be sober to do so)

but about having a sound mind...having that gravity of mind that gives you the wisdom to make sound judgments; to discern what thoughts to cast down and never let come out your mouth and/or never let lead you.

Friends...I simply want to see more of you take being a follower of Christ; Being called a Christian more seriously. God is waiting so patiently...be broken about the mistakes you have made and get up and go forward making the right choices for His name's sake.

Feel for God knowing He is seeing and hearing all these abominations as He waits for YOUR full surrender...your life of surrender... He LOVES YOU SO MUCH HE IS WILLING TO BEAR WITH ALL THE ABOMINATIONS GOING ON UNTIL YOU REPENT AND LIVE ACCORDING TO HIS WILL....but time is short & today is the day to turn to Him with your whole heart; We are not promised tomorrow.

Being "saved" is not something we experience at one time and then go on doing the things this world does. God turns our reality upside down and shakes out all the stuff we shouldn't be holding on to until our reality is made new so much that people we know wonder: why don't you watch these movies with me anymore?

Why don't you dress like us anymore?

Why don't you laugh when we laugh?

Why do you seem so serious?

Why do you read the Bible so much?

Why don't you go to the ball game anymore?

Why don't you...

Let them ask and give them a good reason...

Did Christ suffer to redeem you from destruction...is God suffering Long even now?


Will you not suffer yourself to be as Christ in this world... He was about His Father's business, (are you?) unentangled with the cares of this life (are you?)...He cared for others...He gave His time & energy to serve the physical & spiritual needs of others (are you?). He wasn't sitting around watching sports games or thinking how He could beautify His living space by purchasing ornaments to decorate His house, He wasn't coming up with jestful sayings to get His friends to laugh (are you?)...

Philippians 4:8-9
[8]Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
[9]Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.