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FELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS Experience Spiritual Christianity |
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POWER OF PRAISE Poetry of Spiritual Christianity |
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5 x 8 Perfect Bound Paperback 128 Pages
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ISBN: 0-9747692-7-4 |
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God’s Love.
One of the great struggles for the Christian is the double edge sword of discipleship. With the eventual realization and therefore necessary acceptance to follow Jesus Christ, belief slowly becomes a prerequisite response of everyday action and not merely a one-time conversion of understanding.
Having surrendered with enlightened intentions to faithfully emulate Christ, many believers may discover the trials and tribulations in their lives increasing with exacerbated intensity and/or frequency.
Two reasons this may occur are: First, the forces of evil in the world do not wish to lose even one soul to the discipleship of Jesus Christ. If you are familiar with the Bible then you’re aware that Satan already knows how the story ends. The devil knows the will of God better than any man or woman alive and he is cognizant of his destiny. With this knowledge, his sole mission is to take with him into the depths of the abyss and to separate from God as many souls as possible. The second reason is as much a part of God’s plan for each of us, as is His allowance of the force of evil itself. It is found in His providential granting of our ‘free will’ to choose and decide our own spiritual fate. God waits patiently to discover if our behavioral responses of repentance will finally take root in our hearts with each revised penitent commitment we make.
Will we exhibit our decision to come closer to Him through obedience to His word by ‘staying the course’ on a path of faithful belief? Or do we continue to ask for a momentary reprieve from the perils of our immediate troubles and then silently slip back into our daily existence of self? Life is full of struggle and we each experience trouble and heartbreak. Jesus advised of this reality in His sermons and parable teachings while giving guidance and instruction as to our human condition. In the Gospels he proclaims, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me.” It is here we find the answer which many Christians miss, others search for, and most grapple with. True Christian belief and discipleship is grounded in the principle of daily denying of self and daily living in obedience to God’s Word; through the examples, thoughts, words and deeds of Jesus the Christ.
A co-existence between the spiritual and the pragmatic is essential. Not only does God know and love each of us as we are, but more importantly He is waiting for each of us to know and accept Him for who He is.
This acknowledgment of God coupled with a new found understanding of His love and compassion encourages us to accept ourselves and discover His Son’s examples of how we should live and treat each other. Jesus described this treatise on life in the biblical account of Matthew 22:37 when He instructs us to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. . . and Love your neighbor as yourself.”
There are none who are better in God’s eyes, for each transgression against His holy instruction is unacceptable in his sight. When we come to realize and understand this, it frees us to look for and learn a different way to live; in obedience to Him and at peace with each other. |
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