Meditate on this!
Psalm
19 is a masterpiece of wisdom and better then a gold mine for the
prospector who seeks to know God. The law of God is perfect; it is able
to restore the soul of man to a right relationship with the Creator. Oh
if we could understand the value of this truth. Psalm 19:7
When
is the right time to share the LORD Jesus with someone who is unsaved? I
believe that if that moment is not ordained by God, then the effort
will fall on deaf ears. So this brings up another question; are there
prerequisites; in other words are we to be prepared? Colossians 4:2-6,
I believe that there is enough evidence in the Holy Bible to say yes.
Even the thief as we have titled him on the cross next to Jesus was
prepared and the timing of his salvation was evident. Luke 23:43;
since the other Gospels do not mention the thief’s conversion; would
this indicate that only twenty five percent of God’s qualified saints
are prepared too witness the work of God that brings justification to
the; whosoever wills? I recall to mind that on most of the submarines I
served on about ten percent (13) of the men were saved, but only two or
three of these men were willing to walk in wisdom and redeem the time. I
do not have a lot to do with percentages, but it is evident… at least
from my simple observation that our nation is in trouble. This trouble
is not because of all of the worldly hype that falls out of the mouth
and actions of the unsaved, or even those so called Christians, but if
you boil off all of this dross you will see that very few of us saints
(believers) are praying that God would open the door for a word of truth
to be spoken. Yes; like a fine recipe; our speech should always be with
grace and seasoned with salt in order that we might know how to answer
each prepared heart.
Ephesians
Sometimes
our personal misconceptions block our view of the grace of God. In our
upbringing we gain characteristics that are developed by our moms and
dads. If they are deceived in some way we too become deceived. As we get
older we either develop in the like mindedness of that deception or we
come to a point when we realize the error and seek to make changes. Even
when change does happen there will be excess baggage that does not
easily go away. Many traits of our family follow us to our grave.
In Ephesians 4:25-32
we are commanded by God to not grieve the Holy Spirit whom He has given
to us. How do we grieve the Spirit? At the top of the list is lying,
next anger, then giving place to the devil and stealing is in these
verses too along with corrupt communication. As we march through the
final verses God points out through the apostle a list of sins that
grieve God. Bitterness, wrath, anger, loud quarreling and evil speaking;
these ought not to be found in the house of God, nor in the homes of
his saints.
Anger
is unavoidable, it is an emotion that occurs everyday, Paul under the
power of the Holy Spirit says that we can be angry, but not to sin as a
result of it. When we sin we immediately knock out fellowship with God
and the person we are angry at. This does not, nor will it ever produce
the tenderheartedness that God calls each of us too. Forgiveness is a
choice; it is also one of those “one another” commands from the Word of
God that basically says, “I first, demonstrated my love to you through
my Son Jesus” Romans 5:8. If I can forgive you and I have, why should you hold a different point of view?
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