It's amazing to think about what God has in stored for those who trust and believe in him. Sometimes the way seems hard but it's proclaimed that our latter will be greater than our former. Everything that God has planted will bring forth fruit; Even a plant it self starts off with a seed, and overtime blooms into the most beautiful flower the eye can behold.
Look how a plant grows; it start off with a seed. God knew us before we were even in our mother's womb. The plan he has for our life is started with a seed which he planted in us. A plants' nourishment is sunlight and rain. We as people are really like plants, for we need sunlight and water.
The sunlight is exposed as the jubilant times in our life; a period where things are comfortable and fitting for us.
The water and rains are presented as the times in life where things become uncomfortable for us. Whether it be a trial or tribulation that we are faced with.
I love how God( the planter) works, because he balances both the sun and rain in our life. We can go through a storm in our life that seems it's going to overtake us;but as we persevere, trusting in God, we then see a glimpse of the light, and soon we find ourselves stronger after the storm than before it.
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" 2 Corinthians 4:17
A plant grows over time, one must have patience to see time in which a flower blooms. It doesn't happen overnight(like a rose). When God ultimately establishes us, it's with time... both good and bad.
In order for the seed that God has planted to grow in us, we must make sure the ground is fertile and not among thorns or briers or anything that will hinder its growth. We can have things or even people in our life that's deadly to what God is developing in us. Hate, strife, lying, backbiting, evil,etc, are like thorns, weeds, and briers that grow around our hearts. Our hearts is ultimately the soil in which the seed is planted.
If you ever looked at a field where things are planted, if thorns and briers are near by, overtime eventually those thorns and briers will overtake the field preventing any growth which means no harvest. People in your life, who you may not even be close to, like a brother or sister, if their life and actions are contrary to what you believe and who you live for, you have to be careful.
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Mathew 7:14-20
We must tend to our field, so that there can be growth and a harvest. The same promise God gave Abraham, the same promise is given to us.
Saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Hebrews 6:14-15
It's often said that patience is a virtue, and it is. Know that thing which God has started in you, he will perform and perfect it; Don't give up on him, but trust in him. We serve a mighty God.
"Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.” (Ephesians 3:20).
Let us take our rightful place in God.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Talkers of God, but Lovers of Sin
Sriptural book text: (King James Version) Jeremiah chapter 3
1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Once we confess God as our lord and savior, we accept him. God is a loving, kind, and merciful God; but he is not to be taking for granite. How long must we continue to indulge in sin? We have learned of him through reading the bible, sermons, but most of all through his hand in our life. God is saying you confess me as your savior, your father, but you act as thou I'm not.
We can talk about God's abundant grace, but what about our life? Is our daily walk a light to others? How long will thou continue to say you love me but yet love sin. it's time to turn loose from our old ways and press toward the mark, God says.
Let's just take a moment to really think about what God is saying. ..
here is a scenario: You are in a relationship with someone. They profess their love for you, but their actions say other wise. They actually go out and do things as if they weren't in a relationship. After while they leave you for someone else; and after seeing that person is not what they thought, they return unto you. Now imagine how God feels.
Often times we become attracted to the things of the world. We even become consume by them, yes the grass may look greener on the other side, it may seem that the people of the world are living it up, but one day every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess.
God is simply saying, I still love you, Repent of your sins and turn to me. Turn from your ways, For onlyI can save you. If you read the next verse in Jeremiah chapter 3, it talks about how the showers have been withholden and no latter rain. that's our Blessings that's been withholden!
Repent and turn to me God says, he can heal our backsliding ways.
God loves us all. I encourage and challenge all of us to repent, turn from our wicked ways, keep God first and serve him whole heartedly. He loves us more than we will ever know.
1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Once we confess God as our lord and savior, we accept him. God is a loving, kind, and merciful God; but he is not to be taking for granite. How long must we continue to indulge in sin? We have learned of him through reading the bible, sermons, but most of all through his hand in our life. God is saying you confess me as your savior, your father, but you act as thou I'm not.
We can talk about God's abundant grace, but what about our life? Is our daily walk a light to others? How long will thou continue to say you love me but yet love sin. it's time to turn loose from our old ways and press toward the mark, God says.
Let's just take a moment to really think about what God is saying. ..
here is a scenario: You are in a relationship with someone. They profess their love for you, but their actions say other wise. They actually go out and do things as if they weren't in a relationship. After while they leave you for someone else; and after seeing that person is not what they thought, they return unto you. Now imagine how God feels.
Often times we become attracted to the things of the world. We even become consume by them, yes the grass may look greener on the other side, it may seem that the people of the world are living it up, but one day every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess.
God is simply saying, I still love you, Repent of your sins and turn to me. Turn from your ways, For onlyI can save you. If you read the next verse in Jeremiah chapter 3, it talks about how the showers have been withholden and no latter rain. that's our Blessings that's been withholden!
Repent and turn to me God says, he can heal our backsliding ways.
God loves us all. I encourage and challenge all of us to repent, turn from our wicked ways, keep God first and serve him whole heartedly. He loves us more than we will ever know.
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