There Was No Other Way!

Matthew 26 says so, Matthew 39 says He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me/ nevertheless m not as I will, but as You will.’

Matthew 42. Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying “O My Faith,mid this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.”

Matthew 44. So He left them, and went away again, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

When someone tells you something three times they are pretty absolute about what they are stating. God through this scripture, is showing us, beyond a shadow of a doubt 2 truths:

1. Our sinned nailed His Son to the cross, there was no other way to redeems us.

2 Jesus died for us willingly (“Your will be done”).

We can either choose to take responsibility for our part or not. I chose to accept this fact and repented. I choose to ask for forgiveness from Him. I choose to follow Him and give Him my life because He gave His life for me. And even then I will fall short. Which is all the more reason I need His blood to cover me.

Lord Jesus you my refuge. Thank you for paying the price that I could never pay. Because of you I can face tomorrow knowing my eternal destiny.

The Truth About The Battle For Your Soul

I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul- 1 Peter 2:11

Have you ever noticed that whenever you are around a bad odor for awhile your nose adjusts and it no longer smells as bad?

We are living in evil days and if we aren’t careful, after a while we don’t even notice how rotten things have become.

After some time, even Christians start absorbing the world’s values.

The things that we once considered to be wrong begin to seem acceptable as we become more tolerant.

A few years ago my son and his girlfriend needed a place to stay for a few nights. My son and her came in the house and he started to put clean sheets on the bed in my spare bedroom. Without asking he had decided this was where they were going to stay. I proceeded to tell him at they could stay here, but they wouldn’t be sleeping together. They could sleep in separate bedrooms. It wasn’t that I didn’t know they weren’t sleeping together, but they we not married so that wouldn’t be happening in my house. To say the least they found somewhere else to say.

We think it’s okay to live together outside of marriage, especially if it save money because that’s what the world does.

We accept divorce for incompatibility because after Akko shouldn’t we be happy?

And we tolerate lifestyle’s that in the Bible are abominations. Unhealthy and perverse. In the world today they are even trying to push that there are more than two sexes, and the critical race theory thing to say people are better than others based on their skin color..

We begin to look just like the world except that we go to church occasionally.

This is what Paul calls unwise and foolish behavior.

The Bible (especially in Proverbs), we are told that foolish people live for immediate gratification according to their feelings, impulses, and desires.

Like the rich man who built bigger barns to store his goods, but never stopped to consider the fact that today could be his last day on earth, and then he would have to face God and judgement.

Many don’t think about storing up their treasures in heaven.

They are focused completely on the here and now,

In short, they do not understand the will of the Lord, so they are not living wisely. Research shows that in a 2021 census three in ten US adults are now religious,y unaffiliated this is down 75% a decade ago.

To live wise,y, we have to know what God wants us to be, and how to get there. Without spiritual wisdom, we will not be alarmed at the treats to righteous living.

The Bible warns us about the dangers that can sabotage walking wisely with the Lord. Are you living for the here and now, or are you building up treasures in heaven.

Don’t allow the evil one to create an idea in you that focusing on heaven destroys the enjoyment of living out your days on earth.

There are always consequences for our actions,

Remember, Satan attacks and influence are subtle, with degrees of submission. He doesn’t just hit you with haymaker and then walk away and leave you alone. No, he works his way into your mind and changes your logical thinking, so that you will accept more of the world’s values, as a replacement for God’s values.

Godly wisdom is the first line of defense against his attacks. To increase your wisdom, you need to draw closer to the Lord and concentrate on living a righteous life.

There are few people that has the best in mind for your soul. God, you and a Bible believing teacher.

Give Your Brain Time To Regroup

It’s probably not a surprise that our brains receive too much information in a given day.

Studies show that many of us spend more than half of our day receiving and managing information rather than using it to what we need to do.

So, today try to do one of two things. Either you give your brain a break for half an hour (no phone, no work, nothing) or start planning for a full day off. Meaning schedule it, write it down, request it.

Give yourself space to replenish your own energy is critical to you, to your employer and to your family.

It might not seem like taking a walk of getting your nails done would be good for your health but anything that helps you to relax is exactly what we need in this hectic world.

There is a reason God told us to rest on the seventh day.

When you spend some time relaxing. You will be amazed what it does for you. Schedule a time to relax today.

When Worry Replaces Prayer

When our mind is captured by the cares of this world… Worry replaces Prayer..stress replaces Peace… Grumbling replaces Trust. And before long we look no different than those without a Savior.

The Warrior for Christ refuses to go remain in such a state. We should run into the Lord’s presence. Fall at Him feet, and release our worries and trust our worries to Him, trust the outcome.

The enemy cannot hold us down. We are Childten Of God. We are Childten of a King.

Today is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24)

The Golden Calf

When the people say that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt we don’t know what happened to him (Exodus 32;1).

Forty years earlier, the people of Israel have seen it all. They had heard the thunder and saw the lightning, the smoke billowing up from the mountain and Mount Sinai trembling. They saw Moses climb up to the peak, and the glory of God looking like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. So, where did they go wrong? How could they have been so fragile and been convinced to build a golden cow?

The Bible tells us that out of the Israelites needs a golden path, God tells Moses to go down, because your people, whom you have brought out of Egypt, have become corrupt. God doesn’t say my people but your people. the Midrash (rabbinic interpretation of scripture) these people who became corrupt, and who were corrupting the rest of the nation, we’re part of the “many other people” (Exodus 12:38) who joined the Israelites during the exodus from Egypt just months prior people that Moses accepted into the nation without advising with God.

According to rabbinical tradition m these rabble-rousers didn’t just mislead the nation at Mount Sinai. There were multiple times in the Israelites journey to the Holy LANs when they called to return to Egypt or craved for physical desires, such as in Numbers 11:4. “The rabble with them began to crave other food,’ trying to bring the whole of the nation down with them.

But these were a minority, and they shouldn’t have been able to overcome a large people. If this were only the truth. How many times have we been witness to a small minority of people, or people with a minority opinion, take over their country and running it into the ground. How many people found themselves just “following order”! Unfortunately, there are too many examples to list.

It’s happening today, right under our noses, and it’s not even recognized.

We don’t know why the Israelites has such a weak moment. But the fact is that they did – and with all due respect to them, this is perfectly normal it can happen to anyone,

Therefore it’s vital to set up fall-safe boundaries, so we know where the line is between good and evil and we can stop our deterioration before it gets out of hand. We need to protest against the minority- as small as it may be. Better yet we may draw it closer through love and turn the bad into the good.

I just hope it’s not to late for our nation.

The lesson of the golden calf is not just one for our state or our people or our religion, but a lesson for each and everyone of us. Sometimes we are too busy looking for the enemy from the outside. But more often the enemy is from within- more precise from within ourselves.

What characteristic do we have inside us that is waiting for the right mommy to completely take over, I think the last few years as been an eye-opener for most people. It maybe a desire, it may be a craving or just a weak trait that people have,

We need to be strong in faith and not heed to the call of evil inclination. For when Moses calls “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me,’ let us do as the Levites did, rallying around him and declaring that we are God’s true servants.

Don’t look for shortcuts to God. The market is flooded with sure fire easygoing formulas for a successful life that can be practiced in your spare time. Don’t fake for that stuff, even though crowds of people do. The way to life – to God is vigorous and requires total attention.

Because:

Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and there will be few that find it. (Matthew 7:14).

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