“Helping a believer believe and helping a believer Think”!
Do you have your confidence in God as opposed to yourself?
Are you exercising faith in God because He is the “Saver of the soul”? Rather than trusting in your strength or wisdom?
Are you a believing believer?
Who in the world would not want to understand the truth? Everybody wants what they believe to be the truth, don’t they? No one would purposely believe in them, the “Big Lie”, (fill in the blank) would they? Sad truth is, if you hear it enough like in today’s world of thirty second sound bites, they would. In fact, every day the world struggles very hard to make what is not true appear to be true. You see the primary rules of the big lie are: never allow the public to chill; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your rival; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him or her for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. Sound familiar currently? Like Days gone by, “the band plays on”!
“And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring. And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died. In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”
Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.” Mark 12:18-27
This text gives us an excellent example of how the Sadducees evade the big questions in their religious life and try to make the teaching of the resurrection look ridiculous or untruthful. And today some are still avoiding the big questions of life by asking less important ones or replacing it with the power of impressions, or the big lie, “which can influence our spiritual lives”? These impressions if you get my favor of thought, ‘flow in a constant stream often times uninvited in ways that make me wonder’, “by what authority it does come from?” It is a mistake not to allow the Scriptures to be our final authority; or, as Jesus put it to the Sadducees; "You are greatly mistaken."
Sometimes instead of leaning on the Lord, people use situation ethics, to try to determine right from wrong. What is this human standard? People of Truth, Is it possible to argue this formula, a + b = “nothing is not wrong”; because it is according to the situation? Because You see Identify Politics’ contained by unfruitfulness, Has been your formula?
My Spiritual prospective,” we have to be reminded we cannot do this alone” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
“O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray and to concentrate my thoughts on you:
I cannot do this alone.
In me there is darkness, But with you there is light;
I am lonely, but you do not leave me;
I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help;
I am restless, but with you there is peace.
In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience;
I do not understand your ways, But you know the way for me…
Restore me to liberty, and enable me to live
now that I may answer before you and before me.
Lord, whatever this day may bring,
Your name be praised.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,
but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.” Proverbs 10:9
As we walk this Faith journey, joining Jesus on his mission, do we create our friendships and relationships based on his Truth or Has your career been made or stalled depending on how the world viewed your capacity. As I view our Political world it often is selected not by what they actually believe and represent, but what people think they believe, representing a truth of an inspirational speakers, “Big Lie”, of Truth.
To me our views of God, of spirituality, and of the church have all been impacted by impressions from our life experiences. So, what’s the essential big question? Do we busy ourselves with the less important questions so that we do not have to face the big questions dealing with our relationship with God and the mission of the Church? There is that danger. Or is it we live in a society today that craves spirituality, but does not have an interest in absolute Truth.
In order to understand absolute or universal truth, what must we do? First, we must begin by defining truth. Truth, according to the dictionary or Truth according to the bible? Truth, according to the dictionary, is “conformity to fact or actuality; a statement proven to be or accepted as true.” Fortunately, there is such a Creator, and He has revealed His truth to us through His Word, the Bible. Knowing absolute truth/universal truth is only possible through a personal relationship with the One who claims to be the Truth-Jesus Christ.
Jesus claimed to be the only way, the only truth, the only life and the only path to God (John 14:6). The fact that absolute truth does exist points us to the truth that there is a sovereign God who created the heavens and the earth and who has revealed Himself to us in order that we might know Him personally, God with us, we are not allow anymore. He is the standard for absolute truth, and it is His authority that establishes that truth.
The truth is; God is never far away and he is in control. Don’t be afraid to take steps of faith, even if they seem to you to be giant ones. God will never let you down! Let’s learn from Jesus visit with the Sadducees and remember to talk about the big questions, “Whom do I belong too? Who am I? What is my Purpose? And where do I stand in my relationship with God?” The conversation is still relevant.
God Bless You and This Ministry!
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