My last post before the pandemic began included a passage from James.
Quote:
James 4:13-16 “Comes now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.”
Never forget Christians are humans and have questions and concerns about God like everyone else. Because I’ve encountered God in my life, I know it’s okay to be curious and even the importance of asking Him why He says certain things (in a way of seeking to understand). And I asked Him, why did He view us as evil for just trying to live, and then remembered how “just trying to live” without God wasn’t going great for me. Don’t forget the things God has done for you, and the ways He’s kept you through.
But even if you’ve never had any problems in your life, the arrival of the pandemic reminded me of the reality of life’s fragility, and how we as people should always be concerned about the sick, the dying, the less fortunate who experience that fragility, daily or routinely, and know there’s always a reason to seek and honor God, and see the wrong in eliminating Him and His promises which include true hope and peace.
Sin is the Cause of Pain. God is the Leader to Healing.
Reality is that we live in a fallen world. There is evil present in this world, so to live as though you are not under grace, is to not be thankful, or humble, or beneficial to the people who need God, or considerate of the people who do know about His supernatural reality.
God does not take racism or any injustice lightly. God declares right and wrong, naming wrong sin and sin as evil. And God is not passive. He has a judgment against every generation of sin, everyday.
Scripture teaches:
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Everyone encounters their death penalty, sometimes life reaps corruption right away and people deal with other consequences and sentences for their actions. God is love. He is a consuming fire that warms the righteous and punishes the corrupt.
His love seeks restoration, harmony, and joy, not pain and sadness like that resulting from sin. These are things God is dissatisfied about because it leads to pain in people’s lives (from heartbreak, to fear and feelings of pain and/or emptiness:
16These six things the Lord hates,
Yes, seven are an abomination to Him:
17 A proud look, A lying tongue,
Hands that shed innocent blood,
18 A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that are swift in running to evil,
19 A false witness who speaks lies,
And one who sows discord among brethren.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are:
adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like;
of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
There are also things God’s taught in His word about these areas, to give us warning, hope, foundational wisdom and promise.
Romans 2:3-11
And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;
but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.
Acts 3:19-20 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,”
God’s Hunger for Justice not Blood/ How He Give’s Loving Warning and Wake Up Calls
So, sometimes God shakes the world to shake evil people and wake up empathetic believers who’re falling asleep and being influenced.
Hebrews 12:26-28 “When God spoke from Mount Sinai his voice shook the earth, but now he makes another promise: “Once again I will shake not only the earth but the heavens also.” This means that all of creation will be shaken and removed, so that only unshakable things will remain. Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe.”
I received my own shaking and rude awakening last year that I’d like to share, as I feel it has relevance. It was a humbling remembrance of God’s word saying, Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?” which shook me from a misbelief that I had, which was that LOVE is ultimate the thing everyone cherishes and wants. I realized that’s untrue, because we’re naturally ungodly people without His Spirit and the thing everyone truly wants is EASE.
A sense of ease leads people to sacrifice what’s good and loving all the time. God calls His people to be bold in Him, as courage is the only way to truly love among corruption. He calls us to supernaturally love, as love seeks not its own but the welfare of all.
God bless all of you courageous people!
I read through Ezekiel and Jeremiah awhile ago and God pressed me with the reality of people saying, “Peace, Peace where there is no peace.” (Jer.6:14,8:11 ; Ez.13:10) And how it’s possible to give people false comfort, which angers Him because there could be true comfort, and not solely for us encountering new afflictions, but those forgotten (people consistently troubled all over earth, the poor, the sick, orphans, slaves and people who God tells us not to live against or forget about. But think of ways of outreach and bring awareness towards.
God says we strengthen the hand of evil and the wicked when we don’t remember His callings and ways.
Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and our Gospel and lives of love should include callings to repentance, receiving the Holy Spirit and sharing reliefs that last like Jesus would.
God is alive and He wants us to be awake and proactive; steady and unchained from fleshly ways and influence that lead to vanity and other pain in the world.
He wants for us to carry a heart for justice: humble, fair, and zealous in good!
• Dear Christian, your life should be one that restores people, through Gospel preached and acted out, not one of heaping up selfish pleasure.
‘Again, I asked God what was wrong with people just wanting to be ‘happy‘, He responded that it’s not reality without Him… I accepted that, and the pandemic came, he presented how now many of the happy people don’t have peace, but the world hasn’t changed. It’s always been unpredictable. BE UNSHAKABLE IN CHRIST
Dear people deceived by the enemy and have allowed you flesh to rule over you and trap you in evil mentalities and actions (from jealously, pride and covetousness to hate and murder) Repent. God has more grace than I would ever give some, but as a person who’s been humbled I’d love to see any right their wrongs and add light to world from here on forward. What’s more loving that opening that door for the world. It’s already fallen, and it can only improve. God reigns! Think of the next generation!
Dear empaths, don’t push against God. Change the world! Honor the fear of the Lord, He’s a true savior, let Him humble the world, a time is coming against evil, and it can start today by upholding His name. The devil’s best move is to get us to put away the God who holds true justice, healing and hope. Be a light in Jesus name! He’s a chain breaker and serpent crusher! Change the world!
If we don’t seek righteousness then God will. So many evil things have always happened in people’s private lives and some of those are frequenting the public eye now. God is not pleased with racism in this world or any other sin!
My intentions for this blog is to warn you to account for yourself as I do for myself, but I also want to leave you encouragement that God truly does hate seeing the affliction of His children, Black Community included!
A Special Urging to the Black Community
Dear fellow Black Community,
Don’t get overwhelmed in these times. Things coming to the light hurts, but it can finally make for healing through God! I pray and believe many will be saved in these times, and experience the redemption I know God wants us all to have!
—Black men’s mental health matters!
—Black women’s mental health matters!
—Black men’s physical state matters and black women’s physical state matters both at home and in the world!
Please, away with domestic violence, rape, abortions and theft!
God created you from the womb with delight and purpose dear beautiful image bearer! God has not made a mistake in your design or where you’re born, you are able to receive treasure in Jesus right now where you’re at. He brings salvation eternal!
— Repent, and have faith in Him. God is bringing judgment against participants of sin/everyone, but you don’t have to be counted with the wicked. You are being graced by God to say, “thank you Lord for letting me know the Gospel of Jesus Christ on how He paid my fine for sin by bearing the afflictions of the cross and being rejected by you. Help me to cast off my sin, it is not who I am in You. I want to be Yours and find freedom in your grace.” God is faithful! Jesus has finished it!
God loves you. Away with doubt. Trust Him in hardship, grow by learning Him. And pursue what He would have you to in your life. Grace the wicked, share the Gospel knowing a day is coming. Extend the mercy of God.
Away with murder and music that enchants our hearts and influences evil in our lives! Away from sinful lifestyles.
I know much of it has amounted from injustice, stress, frustration and coping mechanisms, but God wants you to return home! Many people lost faith or never placed it in the power of Jesus, but God is revealing Himself to be alive, judging evil and a true home! Return to His love. Don’t place your hope in the change of your enemies hearts or your fragile human self, but in the living God!
Please hear, there can be, and I believe is coming, a time of change restoration over our community, fellow passionate hearts, students of life, and black souls made to love and be loved in godliness!
The enemy has crafted great bondage over the black community and it is terribly sad but not hopeless. Imagine if the enemy used a racist person with power over the media to decide, “I’m only going to pay the artist who will sing sin and things that will keep these slaves enslaved.” God breaks all chains! Do not sell your soul for wealth! Some people have been deceived by the one true enemy, Satan. Pray.
And what a gross double standard it would be if we only pray freedom and blessings for our own race, or think it’s okay to return evil for evil. Seek justice not and eye for an eye. Seek ORDER not more fire.
• Everyone is an image bearer!
Gods creation is to be united and loved. Let’s look out for one another. Leave vengeance to God! Right now endure and see potential in all, and in the earth we share!
God bless everyone!
Please keep your enthusiasm in hearing that and go and bless everyone, especially those who seldom feel it dear readers of other races.
Much love!
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