Idolistic and Material world
Spring is one of the most glorious seasons of the year, It is this season which reminds me of how God really takes living things from looking like they are dead to becoming alive with colour, radiance and full of bloom.
But sadly as time goes by, people are no longer look at this season and thank the Lord for all his glory. Their eyes and minds have become closed to this.
As God says to Moses...
Thou shalt not make unto thee any craven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
God also reiterates this statement both in 1 John 5:21, and Acts 17:29...
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. For as much then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the God head is like unto gold or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
How many of you as children fell fowl to following your favourite band or artist? I can tell you that there isn't a person on this earth that has not ever done that. It may not necessarily be an artist in a form of a musician, it could be an actress or even everyday things like cars, computers, houses or buying the latest technology, or looking at someone wishing you could be like them.
In other words loving material things and people more than God. Some Christians would say I love God he is my idol. Jesus is my saviour, yet they also have the love of money and what money can buy.
They would rather be rich than poor. So how can they be deemed as saying I love God and only God; and all that God is. Yet in their prays, I must have that house, I must have that car, I must buy that latest gadget. I must be better and more powerful than thy neighbour.
Excuse me, hang on. These people on Sunday will praise the Lord, preach the gospel, and say thank you for saving my life Jesus, I love you, oh Lord. But in their hearts I have new the truth is written.
A man who has nothing who comes to believe and accept Jesus as his or her saviour truly loves God and everything he stands for and worships only him. They see when they get a job a blessing not, I must get a job to have a nice holiday, a luxury car, get a handful of doe to give to the church, because they feel that by giving on Sunday it will ease them. And release them from the guilt of not worshipping God and only God 100% and putting him and his son Jesus above all other things.
When non believers read and see how wealthy these men and women of God as some of them profess to be are, it puts them off. They tell me how can we accept Jesus as our Lord and saviour and believe in him when the so called me of God, all they can address is money in their sermons and worldly things, professing the word of the Lord by saying give totally one self into Jesus, believe in him and he will reward you with riches.
They forget the point riches means eternal life, they make it known as riches being, a better paid job, a bigger car etc.
And when these things do not materialise then people become disillusioned and turn away from God. It just makes me so sick, that I didn't become a born again christian to be better off in this world. I became born again to live my live like Jesus did without fault and love for all things God created not those in which man has created.
As Jesus tells us in John 14:1-2 KJV...
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my fathers house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Jesus is not talking about a mansion on earth, but a mansion that God has built in heaven for all that receive him. By receiving is accepting and becoming like Jesus. Jesus never profited on earth, as he says in John 12:49-50 KJV...
For I have not spoken of myself: but the father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: what so ever I speak therefore, even as the father said unto me, so I speak.
Jesus knows that all of us humans who speak of him and the Lord God but do not profit from this, will have everlasting life.
What I mean by profiting is becoming rich on earth, loving the worldly things that man has made rather than that of God and God's creation.
As Paul went and preached the gospel the true word of God, he told the crowd of people who gathered at Mars hill in Athens...
Ye men of Athens I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions I found an alter with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
God made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
(Acts 17:22-24 KJV)
Therefore if one does all these things that have been mentioned then he has just fallen fowl of God, but living with the Devil and his followers. Whom as told throughout the Bible can pose as an angel of light, preaching false doctrine, and earning big sums of money in the process. In order to tempt people away from following and worshipping God our creator of all living things.
In 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 KJV...
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descent from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.