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The glory of God is the purpose of all things. Many don't like that and resist this truth. That always results in failure. God created man, marriage and methods for all things to work. Cooperation and embrace of His plan is the way to successful living. Here are some musings to encourage your cooperation and help you embrace His plan. Friday, February 1, 2013 What comes first? I heard it again this week, a person who professes Jesus Christ but is certain that it is OK to be living together with their "future" spouse. Finances are such that it just makes sense is the first reason. Second, we are old enough and neither of us are virgins. Third, we are together so much anyway why does it matter where we sleep? Now we all know that we can rationalize almost any decision we are tempted to make but to then profess that it makes no difference in the eyes of God is silly. He cares for us so deeply tat he gave us the secrets of how we work best. Those secrets are his commands. What comes first? Following what you want or following God expects? Posted by Unknown at 6:11 PM No comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Thursday, January 3, 2013 Does Personal holiness Matter to God? As I was driving down the street tonight I noticed a new church had opened its doors in our community. The name of the church included “Holiness” and it made me begin to think about God’s expectations of His church. Was He looking for corporate holiness or personal holiness? Was He hoping to have large groups of people generally seen as holy or was he wanting individual people to become holy before Him? Certainly, the expectation is that holiness is an individual thing and we are challenged to become individually and personally holy. Here is what it says in Romans 12: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” Nothing about the collective there. So perhaps that new church is going to focus on personal holiness. Individuals working to be “acceptable to God” by following His ways at every possible decision point. You know what, if that is their intent, I welcome them to our community. Posted by Unknown at 7:24 PM No comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: personal theology Tuesday, January 1, 2013 What's it all about? Recently I read an editorial in our local paper expressing that God was mean, and loveless. I trembled at the writers perspective. As he saw evil in the world he blamed God. He proclaimed that God had no compassion and should not be worshiped. Wow, is his perspective missing a dimension. Certainly there is evil in the world - ushered in by man disobeying God. And in spite of that disobedience and the fact that it continues, God made a way to escape the eternal consequence of disobedience. Now that is the absence of mean-ness and the demonstration of love. I hope one day the writer of that editorial sees it. God is worthy of our worship and He is the very picture of compassion. Posted by Unknown at 2:16 PM No comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: Marriage Home Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Followers Blog Archive ▼ 2013 (3) ▼ February (1) What comes first? ► January (2) About Me Unknown View my complete profile Simple theme. Powered by Blogger ....