Just because I know what is going to happen if my child walks over to the camp fire and puts her hand in the fire does not make me an evil bad dad for fore knowing that fact if she goes up to the fire disobeying me and puts her hand into the fire burning her hand. That foreknowledge I have of that choices consequence does not make me evil because I knew before hand of the dangers. It just means I have knowing, knowledge, wisdom, insight. I would be evil if I did not warn my child of fires dangers and that it must be handled wisely and with care. Well you may say. Well if you were really a real good dad you would never have made or created fire to start with for then the child could never have been burned. That my friends is ridiculous thinking but so many talk about God that same way as if He were evil. Fire has its life giving position and place in creation. The Sun for instance (Hello)...That's like saying God should not have made any water because people could drown in it, forgetting the fact that water is essential for life to even be and to be sustained. You just have to handle water wisely and with care. God told Adam and Eve don't do that. Don't go there. If you do you will suffer death and loss. Satan came up to them and lied to them about God and he is the evil one who caused man to make the decision to disobey Gods love warnings and by Satan Adam made the wrong choice and brought death, pain, sorrow and curse into our world. He himself in that decision even caused the shedding of the blood the Gods Son. Satan and man caused all that. Had Adam resisted the devil as Jesus did, Jesus would have never tasted the cross. And Jesus certainly was not going to the cross because he was bored and was looking for some kind of excitement. His tears and recoiling from the cross in the garden pleading for that cup to be taken from him reveals this truth plainly. Folks the real revelation that came to us by Jesus Christ is that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. That God is love and the He loves us even as He loves Jesus (John 17:23). And that God is a good God with the purest eyes and lovely and beautiful in all the beauty of holiness. That He loves and cares for us all deeply. The cross and the tears of His Son Jesus Christ proves this emphatically. Love by its own nature is going to get rid of all those that love darkness more than light. It is going to rid the creation of all liars, deceivers, manipulators, murderers, mean and brutal people, and all those that love the pleasure of sin as to go about tempting others to sin and sin and to sin and who refuse to repent of sin...You would do the same thing if these came to harm and take down your children. Today people are so hard in their hearts that they are mad with sin cravings, They love their sins. Promote their sins and they have no desire to do what is right and they say in their hearts that they could care less what God or anyone else says about it. These Love must imprison for peace to become perfect again for all eternity....deno.
Thru the way of the Law Gods wrath was stirred up and so many got stoned to death for their transgressions and the pointing of the finger and the fault finding blame game was on keeping us all at a great distance from God who hid Himself behind the veil of the curtain in the holy of holies as He waited for the day of Christ to come to walk on earth among His people to preach peace. And when Christ did come finally in the flesh, oh what a great and different picture we see that came to us By Jesus Christ who was full of grace and truth and the real character and nature of the love of God. We see God in Christ preaching peace by Jesus Christ. We see God in Christ preaching His Good news and bringing everywhere His glad tidings of great joy.We see God in Christ preaching the need and the blessings that come by repentance and by faith toward God by Jesus Christ. We see God in Christ showing love, mercy, and having great compassion on the people who were bound to their troubles due to the worlds curse and to to even much sin. Jesus did not withhold Gods love, good news, nor his grace and mercy from any man or woman. We see God in Christ hugging children in his lap. We see God in Christ full of joy and rejoicing even with imperfect people. We see God in Christ eating, drinking, and dinning with people sinner and saints. We see God in Christ celebrating with people at wedding feast and ceremonies. We see God in Christ loving going to church. We see God in Christ having one on one conversations with people signifying to us that each of us are loved and important to God. We see God in Christ making the best wine for celebrating celebrations with people. We see God liking and approving marriage between a man and a woman. We see God opening up an out door grill and feeding thousands and thousand of people as God prepared the food. We see God in Christ going on fishing trips with people. We see God in Christ taking road trips with people and even going sight seeing. We see God in Christ camping by the lakes, fishing and having cook outs and they broiled and baked fish. We see God in Christ hanging out with the wild animals. We see God in Christ visiting people in their homes and rejoicing with them and teaching them the more important things as well as rejoicing in God together We see God in Christ taking boat rides with people. We see God in Christ changing peoples failure into success and lack into far more than enough. We see God in Christ going thru some storms of life together with others HIS WAY with the power of God. We see God in Christ helping people and bearing their burdens and carrying away their pains with His love, abilities, gifts, talents, and with the power of God. We see God in Christ surprising people to the point they thought at times he was a ghost. We see God in Christ debating with men and having conversation with loose women to forgive and to save them. Jesus never knew a stranger. His love was the same for all every day. We see Jesus going about doing good healing all that were oppressed of the devil. We see God in Christ healing broken hearts and setting at liberty them that are bruised. We see God in Christ rebuking those that needed that kind of love approach and we see God in Christ encouraging those that needed loves uplifting grace who felt so worthless and so unworthy that they would not even look up into heaven but had the attitude, Lord be merciful to me a sinner. The goody two shoes who said that they were glad they were not like sinners, well those goody two shoes Jesus said they by their judgment of others and their boast in self righteousness condemned them before God. We see God in Christ laying down His life to save people by the sacrifice of Himself, not to destroy them. Do you know this Jesus of mine?.....deno......share freely.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Some times God just wants us to go or to do something without us knowing or understanding how He is going to work things out or what is about to happen. I believe when God tells us to go, He has got the whole entire trip already mapped out and all things covered in the Go plan and all of it is filled with His grace for every need and for each and every adventure. Abraham found this out thru his walk of faith into the promises of God. Most of the time we want to know before we go. But God does not get much pleasure out of that. He loves it when men and women calling upon His Name, who believe and belong to Jesus hear His voice and Know that the Lord told them to go and they do so questioning nothing, for like Phillip, they heard the voice of the Lord and they knew for a surety that the Lord told them to GO. But faith is not always blind faith anymore. We have the scriptures. We have the faith history and adventures of those who ran the race before us. We have the promises of God to read, to hear, and to mix our faith and hope with energizing us with their sureties, and with their grace and faith stories inspiring us with their much assurance along our own NOW GO paths that Jesus has called us to walk. As I have studied the scriptures of those who ran the faith race before us, one thing I noticed and can be clearly seen. None left their homes, lands, houses, families, friends, communities, traditions WITHOUT FIRST REALLY CLEARLY HEARING FROM GOD TO GO. Study this for yourself. They all first heard from God. They heard His voice. The call was real. It was clear to them that they were ordained and called by God to GO. Then after being made by God and fully assured they were the one or the ones called by His Name to Go, then the obedience of their faith KICKED IN GEAR and they went forth. If you go having not heard from the Lord to go, you may not be in His will for you. In the bible some who Jesus healed said Lord I will go with you and follow you to the ends of the earth. Jesus replied. No, your desire to GO is not what I want for you. For you I want you to stay local and tell your family, friends and community what great compassion the Lord had upon you. His GO was a local GO. But even that local GO he FIRST HEARD TO DO IT FROM JESUS. Lets follow the Lords plan and desire for us and not our own. Even though we may have a strong desire to GO with Jesus to the ends of the earth like some did in the bible after they tasted the goodness of God it was not their want that Jesus permitted. It was HIS GO for them that was allowed and ordained. So be sure the Lord has said Come and Go with Me to this or to that before you go....Seek God in submissive mode..He is Lord....He is the Boss........deno.
True prophets are empowered by God to say Behold, YOUR THE MAN, if sin is at the door. But that is not where new covenant prophets stop, for in the true new covenant prophets is the Love of God in Christ. Paul said, Christ love compels him. Then they become Intercessors to stand in the gap to ask God to have mercy, forgive, heal, restore, reconcile, and to cleanse. Even to hold back judgement's as they remind God of all the manifold purposes of the blood of His Sons Cross. The true prophets do not just point the finger at our sins and leave us there embarrassed, feeling shameful, guilty and condemned. For true shepherds of the TRUE SHEPHERD--care for the sheep--to save and not to destroy. Yes they will tell us to REPENT for the Lord is holy. But they will also tell us to believe in the love God has for us to forgives us of our sins and to cleanse and save us from all our unrighteousness thru Christ. Satan is the one who day and night comes against us as a roaring hate filled lion who accuses us before God with constant fault finding finger pointing to make us feel hopeless, helpless with shame upon shame, guilt upon guilt, condemnation upon condemnation unworthy accusations until our faith and hope and joy is withered and all dried up like a dried up river bed. Jesus came not to condemn or destroy but to forgive, heal, save, restore, intercede, reconcile, rescue, redeem and to ransom. It is not the well and the perfect that need Jesus but the sick and the sinners. Jesus ever lives now the scriptures says, to pray for and to make intercessions for his people. Why? We need Him SO MUCH.....deno.
