For Believer's Only: Which god are we serving? (pt. 5)

By virtue of one miraculous gift, God compressed years worth of doctrinal instructions into two simple commands.  Honor the only God and no other, and love thy neighbor as thyself.  In doing these things we accomplish the entirety of God's expectation of humanity.  Our desires and wants become our god's and as a result we get left to the power of the god's that we covet.

If Jesus was any type of example, this war is for  the sake of the least of these. Mankind was created for the same mission and there are no bystanders in this war.  You are either fighting to save souls or you are only fighting for your own.  God intends for us to achieve balance with these pursuits, and we do this with our tongue.

By, Michael Duever

 We shall be known by our fruit, so our words only carry so much weight as we live.  Yet, in the heavenly realm, our words express a recognition of earthly struggles versus struggles against principalities.  Many of our blessings get tied up in the heavenly realm while we walk around desperately speaking earthly wants.

Does God need me to recognize the forces of evil  against  me just to bless me?

The earth belongs to God and all that is in it.  He is not short of provisions, but His promises have been spoken against sin and its messy minions.  Sin is a messy business that existed on earth long before we came to join in the party. As we find ourselves stuck in the mud, it pays to remember that this is not our mess, its just our mission.   We released sin on earth and thus, are born of it, but sin did not create us and will not satisfy that deepest WANT that shall never escape those made by Him, for Him and in His image.

Born of his image, we have the power to go get it; whatever it is we want.  When our want aligns itself with God's plan, and especially God's plan for us, than all of our wants seem to come flooding in.  When they don't, we can still go get it, its just harder and it never seems to satisfy that deepest WANT.

In all thy getting, get an understanding.  Understand that your obstacles along this journey will be whatever your words make it. Obstacles are connected to action, and to whom much is given, much is required. There are obstacles in the Land of No Want, but you perceive them as the other side of a blessing; as muscle building for the journey.


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