God's Loving Character will always Shine through! Matthew 27:46

After all the questions in life, God's Loving Character will always Shine through! At the moment, our limited understanding may be blind to His presence--Jesus, when He cried on the cross,"My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me" Did not accuse the Father of "behaving badly." Questions will be there to ponder, only for us to patiently wait for God's answer; in the end, God's loving Character will always shines through in our lives as we trust in Him!

But I see the premise where people are full of questions, even myself ...at times, as to How God intervenes, leads and direct his people according to His will. And Jesus on the cross, indeed, asked that question as He was enduring the pain and suffering for the penalty of my sin; Yet in the end, we can rejoice in His perfect and Holy will to the outcome and unfolding of His will revealed in History, even as Job did! We can have a questioning heart if our understanding is limited to the actions and providence of God in our life, and in the lives of the OT people; and some people may believe God to be arbitrary, capricious,ruthless, unfair in their eyes; but to say, Hence, "bad Behavior" is wrongly applied and concluded--if we have a limited knowledge and understanding to how God is moving in our lives, because it may go against our concept of fairness, it is not in our place to dishonor God with that label--Look at Job, through all his sufferings He never cursed God as Evil, behaving badly--he did not listen to his wife. In the end, God's Loving Character Shines!Our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, He saw the outcome and travail of His sufferings and Has great joy in bringing many sons and daughters to glory

God is loving toward all His creatures Psalm 2:12

Psalm 2
1 Why do the nations conspire[a]
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together
against the LORD
and against his Anointed One.[b]
3 “Let us break their chains,” they say,
“and throw off their fetters.”
4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord scoffs at them.
5 Then he rebukes them in his anger
and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6 “I have installed my King[c]
on Zion, my holy hill.”

7 I will proclaim the decree of the LORD:

He said to me, “You are my Son[d];
today I have become your Father.[e]
8 Ask of me,
and I will make the nations your inheritance,
the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You will rule them with an iron scepter[f];
you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”

10 Therefore, you kings, be wise;
be warned, you rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear
and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry
and you be destroyed in your way,
for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

God is loving toward all His creatures;yet not all his creatures respond back in a loving way toward God. Especially those who reject Christ in their life and choose to ignore God's loving care for them.

God is Loving toward all governments, Nations, countries and people groups; yet not all governments, nations, countries, and people groups respond back to God in a Loving way, especially in their governance,they surpress the truth of God's word to enact laws that reject the rule and Governance and Authority of Christ in their life.

When you bite God's hand that feeds you, what will you do in the end when His wrath is unleashed against you?

The Right Attitude in Mind Romans 12:1-3

The Right Attitude in Mind Romans 12:1-3
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will

When you have the right attitude in mind; you will have a right life and walk on a right path of life.
When you have the attitude of Christ in your mind, you will walk like Christ in your life.

Living in Light of Accountability John 5:28-30

Living in Light of Accountability John 5:28-30

²⁸ “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out—those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned. ³⁰ By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

The problem with most people is they often live life as if there is no accountability and no final judgment.

Even though there is a delay in the final judgment in our present state; That still does not mean that the judgment day will not happen. When you live your life with no view of Judgment and accountability, you will hide in the darkness for fear that your deeds will be exposed; trying to scheme, lie, cheat, steal, indulge in immorality and pleasures for a season. Then what will you do when God executes His Judgment in the wine press of His wrath and the Scales of judgment are not in your favor and it begins with your life? Will you stand before the Judgment seat of Christ? Or, will you shrink away and depart in shame and fearful expectation of eternal damnation; where all hope is abandoned and there is no turning back, and it is too late to change and repent, and all hope of change and repentance has run dry, and it is too late, only to rise out of the grave to be condemned? Do you hear the call now? Come out of the Darkness, right now! and Trust in Christ for that final day of Judgment!

When you live in light of accountability and knowing that there will be the Judgment seat of Christ, then you are living in the fear of the Lord and you will come out in the light today, and let Christ expose your helplessness to sin and unrighteousness; that you may plead the mercy and forgiveness of Christ in His blood to be delivered from eternal condemnation, death, destruction and torment. Then you will live pleading God’s mercy to keep you on the straight and narrow, in hopes of daily repentance, in hopes of daily sanctification to change today through the power and vivification of the Holy Spirit!

The Spirit of Christ will not let you go; He will pierce your ears to listen to Him today, and will hold you accountable today, that your deeds be exposed and true repentance and accountability be met in you today; leading to a confident stand in the work of God's grace and Sanctification before the Throne of Christ. That you may stand on the day of Judgment and you will enjoy bodily resurrection to live and enter into the Joy of your Master, the joy of your salvation, into perpetual state of the eternal light of the joy of Christ and rise to live unto eternal life forever with Him..

God is greater than what meets our Eye! Mark 12:24-25

24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? 25 When the dead rise...," Mark 12:24-25

Jesus did say to those who did not believe in a bodily resurrection... They didn't believe, because of their self-centered interpretation of Scripture and limited view of their knowledge of God. Limited view, because they based their knowledge of God not on the whole counsel of God's inerrant word, but based their knowledge on their limit view of Scripture and tried to come to knowledge of God through their own reasoning and understanding, and efforts apart from what Scripture teaches--Hence, they concluded there is no bodily resurrection.

Such a teaching went against the grain of their reasoning and philosophy in man centered limited thinking and according to what met their eye and what they believed was agreeable to the law of physics, that a Human cannot be raised bodily. So, they had a limited view of Scripture and the power of God to raise the dead--Unbelief in the Resurrection.

Unlike Abraham who believed God and it was credited to him as righteous, even though he was old and Sarah's womb was barren and of old age, Abraham believed that God would give him a son through Sarah.

Jesus did say, "When the dead rise..." Jesus establishes the Truth and Fact of the bodily Resurrection of the Dead, not just all the dead, but the dead who die in the Lord--God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Those who die without Christ will be bodily raised to eternal physical torment.

God is greater than what meets our eye! Know that the power of God is greater than anything your eyes can see and experience in this life today!

Though the pressures of life and hardship of life may seem greater in our eyes—this must never blind us to the greatness and power of God; mighty to deliver!

what we go through will never compare to the greatness and power of God to deliver us in the promise of the hope of our Bodily Resurrection in Christ.

Humanity in the Midst of Divinity is seen in "I Thirst" John 19:28-29

Humanity in the Midst of Divinity John 19-28-29
28 Jesus knew that by now everything had been completed; and in order to make the scripture come true, he said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A bowl was there, full of cheap wine; so a sponge was soaked in the wine, put on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted up to his lips. 30 Jesus drank the wine and said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Jesus was not only fully Divine that He saw Andrew under the Tree. He is also fully human that He said,” I am thirsty,” after 6 hours of hanging on the Cross! He is not a God far removed from our Pain and suffering, but He is with us knowing the pain and suffering we experience in our human limitations; because He experienced such Human limitations and frailty, pain and suffering all at once as He endured the pain and suffering on the Cross, despising its Shame! Just as Moses experienced the glory of God in the midst of the burning bush; God was in the midst of the burning bush, He was not far removed from it. He was in the midst of Israel’s pain and suffering when He called Moses to lead His people out of the bondage of Egypt. Even so, Jesus’ Pain was central in His body as He suffered on the cross, after 6 hours! Did He then say, “I am Thirsty”—He truly emptied Himself of all His life to be the source and ever quenching fountain of Eternal life to all who would believe on Him! Just think, the everlasting fountain of life, was emptied of life and thirsted on the cross, in order to become the source of Everlasting life for all who would believe on Him—He was emptied of His own human resource, that His body had need for Hydration, but in His Divine Nature is He ever the everlasting fountain of life to all who would believe on Him!
Shawn Brix on April 12, 2011, Writes in today’s Devotional, concerning Christ’s Humanity and Divinity on the Cross:
In this statement Jesus expressed a need so human that anyone could have said it: “I am thirsty.” Of all the needs of the human body, water is one of the most basic. More than 60 percent of the human body is water! As we become dehydrated, our blood vessels and other cells literally begin to dry up.
By the time Jesus spoke these words from the cross, he had already been hanging there for more than six hours, and his body was becoming parched. Foreshadowing this moment, Psalm 22:15 says, “My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.”
A bruised, beaten man nailed to a cross and murmuring through cracked lips, “I am thirsty,” is not what most of us picture when we think of God. But these details remind us of a great truth. At the center of the Christian faith is not a remote and distant God who lives beyond human pain. At the core of our faith is a person who is not only fully divine but is also fully human— indeed, human enough to be thirsty.
“I am thirsty.” These words remind us that “the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14).

Deliverance from Death is found in Christ Alone! Proverbs 11:4

"Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. "Proverbs 11:4

You can have all the wealth in the world, but if you do not have the wealth and riches of the Righteousness of Christ in your life, then you have nothing! Wealth cannot deliver you from Death--Deliverance from Death is found in Christ Jesus alone!

In this life, I cannot rest in the lap of luxury if my heart is not resting in God's Grace Proverbs 23:1-8 Psalm 49:11

Psalm 49: 11-14
The Folly of Trusting in Riches.
11Their inner thought is that their houses are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.
12But man in his pomp will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.
13This is the way of those who are foolish,
And of those after them who approve their words. Selah.
14As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.
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The fleeting deception of riches. Living in the lap of luxury is a deceiving pursuit.
People live as if riches and luxury will never leave them, as if it is always there. But the shocking reality is it is a temporary existence under the sun, in comparison to time and eternity; here today and gone tomorrow. Rest content in the lap of luxury will only end up in a restless unsatisfied eternal existence.

The law of my being, is the pursuit of Knowing God, and I will only rest content, when I find permanancy in the presence of the Lord forever. In this life, I cannot rest in the lap of luxury if my heart is not resting in God's Grace.

Psalm 23:6 "Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. "


Proverbs 23
1 When you sit to dine with a ruler,
note well what[a] is before you,
2 and put a knife to your throat
if you are given to gluttony.
3 Do not crave his delicacies,
for that food is deceptive.

4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
have the wisdom to show restraint.
5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

6 Do not eat the food of a stingy man,
do not crave his delicacies;
7 for he is the kind of man
who is always thinking about the cost.[b]
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten
and will have wasted your compliments

There is no Greatness in Me John 3:30

John 3:30 "He must increase, but I must decrease.

Colossians 1:27 "To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."


New International Version 1984, ©1984 (NIV1984)

There is no Greatness in Me!

There is no greatness in me, except for the Greatness of Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God taking residence in me through the Holy Spirit! There is no greatness in my life, except for the Greatness of Christ living through me. There is no greatness in my glory, except for the greatness of Christ being glorified in me!

If not governed by the Truth of Scripture, then you will be governed by Perversion!

If not governed by the Truth of Scripture, then you will be governed by Perversion!
We Must Be Governed by the Truth of Scripture! Romans 1:18

18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, Romans 1:18

If we are not governed by the truth, then you cannot and will not enjoy the blessings of God’s creation the way God purposed and planned all things to be enjoyed.

When you ignore the truth of Scriptures to rule your heart and mind through the governance and rule of the Spirit of Christ upon your heart; then all the blessing of creation that surround you, even the blessing of how you are created by God, will be abused and perverted to obey wicked lusts that pervert the truth of God’s creation, and you won't enjoy it fully the way God intended. It will be perverted to the point of limited functionality, away from God’s purpose and intention of Creation to be fully enjoyed and applied in life.

If we are not governed by the truth of Scripture and the rule and direction of the Holy Spirit, then you will be governed by perversion and a lie!As you suppress the truth you will see the blessings of God's creation dimly and dark with limited sight to His blessings.

Refocus on Jesus!

Refocus on Jesus!

How in our natural self, we have the tendency to take our eyes off of Christ being so concerned how others are following him--in this instance; it is time to refresh, refocus and redirect your charge and calling to follow Jesus personally in your life, regardless how others follow. John 21:22

Jesus' words to Peter, are his words to me and every believer--What is that to you?"

22 Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.”