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Thursday,
September 10, 2009
Cry No More
Revelation 21:3-4 And I heard a great
voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and
he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be their God. (4) And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are
passed away. (KJV)
Do you want to know what one of the
reasons is that the people of God are crying about? Well, some of it will
be the fact that now that they are able to see the eternal realm clearly,
in its entirety for themselves, they will briefly look back and wonder,
“How did I ever get so caught up in the temporal realm”? We will ask
ourselves, “Why was I trying to please people, who were more concerned with
earthly matters than heavenly ones, rather than God”? And yes, we will
realize the times that we sold out and caved into our own earthly desires
and passions of the flesh, selling our soul briefly for a feeling. But just
like with forests, there will be a cleansing fire, followed by a new
growth, this one lasting for eternity.
Williams New Testament translation
of James 4:13-17
13. Come now, you who say, "Today or
tomorrow we are going to such and such a city and stay a year, go into
business and make money," 14. although you do not have the slightest
knowledge of tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? It is really nothing but a mist which
appears for a little while and then disappears. 15. Instead, you ought to
say, "If the Lord is willing, we shall live and do this or that."
16. But, as it is, you boast of your proud pretensions. All such boasting is wicked. 17. So when
a man knows what is right but does not do it, he is guilty of sin.
You as a mature Christian in Christ
should know for yourself what the reason you are here on this earth for, and
who it is that you should be pleasing. You were not put here to see how
much money you could make, or how big of a legacy you could leave in your
name, but rather your only desire should be to serve our Lord, in Spirit
and in truth. So when you pray about a matter, do you base the answer on
the financial outcome, or are you more concerned with the Spiritual one?
Anything other than serving our Lord is just a crying shame to say the
least.
2 Timothy 2:3-4 Thou therefore endure
hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. (4) No man that warreth
entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him
who hath chosen him to be a soldier. (KJV)
Sometimes we think we are getting
shortchanged, or the short end of the stick and we end up getting angry and
frustrated. However, maybe some of that frustration is a result of you
hitting a brick wall in your walk, trying to go somewhere with the wrong
motives. If you have prayed about a matter, and the Lord hasn’t asked you
to move in that direction then it would be in your best interest to hold
your ground until you know it is the Lord moving you on. Maybe the reason
the Lord has you in a holding pattern is because you are still holding to
the world and its fallen ways, rather than letting go and seeking a deeper
spiritual understanding of the will of the Lord.
1Thessalonians 2:4-6 But as we were
allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as
pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. (5) For neither at any time
used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is
witness: (6) Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others,
when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. (KJV)
Sometimes people wonder, “Why doesn’t the
Lord use me more to teach and preach on His behalf”? Well like with the
Marines, He is looking for a few good men who haven’t sold out to the world
and its worldly ways, those that are no longer crying over spilt milk, but
rather those who are partaking of the meat of God’s Word.
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