We all have different purposes in life. We also do have two main purposes. This is to live godly (to live for christ) and in our own way bring souls to Christ.
Having children helped me understand and see the love and purpose of Jesus Christ in my life. My children know that I love them. I tell them all the time. They know that they can come to their father and me for anything. They can get a hug, food, snacks, information, and many other things. They trust us. On that same note, they fear their father and me. If they break or disobey an order, lie, cheat, or steal, they fear the punishment that we are going to give.
God is our father. We trust him. We know he loves us and provides everything we need. Yet, I don't think we fear him enough as our father. We still care too much of what this life has to offer. We will be with our heavenly father one day. Why don't we fear God. We must know that judgement will come if we are not obedient to His WORD. We must study and learn his Word just like our children study and learn how to follow the rules to live in this world. In the Word of God, we have learned and are learning the many pitfalls, traps, and dangers that will convince us to fall or go away from God's love and mercy.
Leaving off at 2 Corinthians 5, we find that we are and will struggle with the limitations, temptations, and weaknesses of our bodies. We MUST know that these bodies are temporal. They are not forever. If we follow the Word of God, we WILL get new eternal bodies. These bodies will lure us to be slothfulness, wanting to give up, or to live in the moment without thinking about the consequences and judgement of our actions. We should focus on what it tells us in 2 Cor. 5. The more we feel the weariness of these bodies, the more we need to be confident that this is not our home. We need not to get fustrated or discouraged. God has made these bodies to weaken with age. This is to HELP us know that we serve a UNLIMITED God that will provide us a heavenly body that will never feel pain, sorrow, disappointment, fatigue, and many other burdens.
Matthew 6 teaches us that we need to be genuine, unselfish, honest and generous. We cannot be these things if we are just looking for accolades or a pat on the back. If the Lord puts a work or a deed in our hearts, we should not analyze and think about what we will get out of it. We must do it. We need to pray genuinely, unselfishly, honestly, and generously. We should only try to please God.
1 Corinthians 10 shows how honoured and grateful I am that the Lord came to the Gentiles to offer his plan of salvation to us. In Genesis, God chose Abraham and his seeds to be his chosen people. These people were to show the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of God. How? This power was shown by the plagues in Egypt, the deliverance out of Egypt, and the journey of his people in the wilderness from Egypt. The children of Egypt should have unwaveringly believed in the power of God. On the other hand, they doubted him and did one of the most offensive things to God, murmured and complained. In this scripture, Paul warns us strongly to not do as what these people did. He urges us to see what God's people had done in the wilderness and warns us of the propensity of us now as children of God to do the same. Don't think you can be strong alone without the omnipotence of God. If you don't recognize the power of God, we will fall in the SAME sin. We must be careful in what we do on a daily basis. Somethings may be allowed but it not helpful or necessary. We need to make sure that in our daily and constant communication with God we are doing things that are necessary and helpful.
James 1 is so obvious in instructing us what we need to do in order to please the Lord and live for him. Believe, have faith, and DO NOT WAVER in Christ. Keeping the commandments of God seems overwhelming at times but we must realize that he has given us a way that we can follow that will help us in this walk. We all CAN be like Solomon. We can ask for wisdom and he will freely give it. Don't think this walk is an impossible walk. We can easily be what Jesus Christ wants us to be. We just have to be QUICK to LISTEN and slow to speak. This tongue can make this walk worthless. We must study the Word to live for him and thus be more like him.
Romans 8, like in James helps us realize that Jesus has not left us alone here. We may feel physically and mentally alone but we are not alone. The enemy will try to convince our minds that we are lonely, powerless, condemned, forever flawed, forever broken, and so on. In this chapter, it first tells us that there is NO CONDEMNATION for those who belong to Christ. The definition of condemned is to judge someone guilty of a crime. We are not guilty, Christ and no one else, has paid the price for our sins. For the power of the life giving Holy Spirit has freed us. We are not like those living under the Law. We were bound to this flesh. We, with our own limited energy and Will had to try not to sin. And it was our nature to sin, we were born into sin. But Christ with his infinite love and mercy, gave us a way where we can obtain help and be comforted not to sin. We are VICTORIOUS because of his Holy Ghost and the Word of God. We are so fortunate and blessed beyond measure. We can now have an intimate relationship with God through his Word.
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