Friend, as a believer in Christ Jesus, we have the assurance that He, (God) is with us at all times, in everything we face.

He is the One who sees ahead when we see but through a darkened glass.

When we are in the storm of life, He is there and will show us the Way out. He will be the One who we can cling to when the waves overpower us and try to drag us into despair.

Never forget, He is with you.

The thing we must face or weather, He has allowed, and in it, He wishes to grow our spiritual muscles and prove that He is Love. He will show you how to overcome the evil that has beset your life.

Just trust Him.

We can have His Divine help when we let Him be the Leader of our soul. Let Him take the driver's seat for your life. Just be happy that you have found Him and go forth each day into the world to be a blessing and He will be with you always.

He is the Helper of the helpless, so He can help you, and He is willing. 

Are you?

Friend, the Bible recommends that we draw close to God, seek Him and search for Him, and He will come close to us.

He waits for our approval. He waits for our acknowledgement that He is King, Creator, Truth & Love.

Can you say today that you believe these things about God?

If not, then what do you believe?

Is there a Good God?

Or is He an angry and vengeful God seeking to destroy all peoples, seeking to put them in chains and punish them?

Friend, there is a Good God.

He is Almighty, over all other idols and man-dreamed up gods. 

Native peoples from milleniums past have tried to understand their surroundings and the happenings within their communities, and have come to their own wildly devised conclusions that monkeys or elephants or the sun or moon are gods therefore to be worshipped or appeased.

No, God is Good and those are things He created, which we made into idols, not seeing the one who created, to our detriment.

Face it, early peoples lived very simply and allowed others to rule over them who too late; they may have found out that they were just hungry for power; not knowledgeable about Godly things at all; found themseves subjected to that ruler's whims.

They were sheep for a bad shepherd.

But Jesus is the Good Shepherd!

He takes care of His sheep. He went to the Cross for His sheep. He made a Way for His sheep to be returned to His flock.

That's me. I am a sheep returned to the flock!

When you turn to Hiim and draw close, you become conscious of Him more clearly, showing you new delights - the things that make your soul and spirit happy.

Thankfulness is a good start to drawing close. Look around there is always something to be thtankful for and if it is a good thing, then it was given, freely to you from the King of Heaven.

If you are in need you can appeal to Him and draw close also.

You don't need to go to Him with gifts. He is handing you the Gift of Life Eternal.

You only have to say, "I believe, help me Lord." You may be in rags, crawling along the ground, with scaps to eat and draw close to Him. He will welcome you. He is waiting for you to recognize Him.

That is the KEY. 

Leave all your complaints and worries at the foot of the Cross to be burnt up in the Fire of His Presence. He will from those ashes, make a beautiful smelling flower of your soul.

His Presence can overturn all the circumstances in your life to bring together great Harmony, Peace and Love, and you will know Truth and live in His Light.

Meditation

Scripture.  For there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are One.  1 John 5:7 KJV

God Himself here clearly states that the Father, Son and Spirit are One. One God, triune in nature.

When God sent His Son to the Cross, in actuality, He came Himself to defeat sin. 

Only He could defeat sin.  Only He could come up with a Plan to defeat sin.  Only He cared for His own creation enough to save it.  He knew that only Holy blood would cleanse us because He is the Creator and Designer of the Holy Law of all creation.

Evil was trumped when Jesus went to the Cross.  Evil thought it had triumphed by executing Jesus.  But, God knows the workings of everything in His universe, so therefore is familiar with the workings of evil, knowing it's every thought.

Prayer

Lord, thank You for considering my future and defeating sin.  Help me to look to the Cross as a symbol of Your Love for me.  Reveal to me the wonderful Majesty of the Cross and all it shows of Your Love.  In Jesus's Name.  Amen.

Friend, examine your ways before the gaze of the Most High and Holy God, Jesus, the Word and Creator, Almighty in All Power.

Does He see a hard-headed, cold-hearted, unbending necked, deluded person?

What are your beliefs? Do they agree with Almighty God's or are they of human origin which we know from God's perspective, is flawed - having been influenced by the evil being that has been given our world as a principality.

God wants you to see Him in this flawed world. He is at work and His Majesty is to be found if we can discard the layers of delusion and come into the Light where He will guide and direct us into a personal relationship with Him and welcome you into the Kingdom of Heaven when your time on earth  is fulfilled.

Examine your soul and spirit, friend. It is an urgent thing to do this. Do not go down the same road getting the same results. Stop and ask for the Truth even if you think you already have the Truth.

If it does not say yes to Jesus as God, you must discard that belief.

Satan has many ways and religions and infiltrates even Christianity to disrupt and draw people away - all the while making them feel warm and fuzzy about their (phony) holiness.

We must have a personal relationship with Jesus and we must be willing to read his Word, the Holy Bible. King James Version (preferred as most factual) to be guided by the Holy Spirit.

When you get it, you really get it and nothing will turn you away from the Truth.

Meditation                                                                         

Scripture.  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  2 Peter 1:4 KJV

Peter wrote this shortly before his death.  He wants us to know of the precious promises that are ours through faith in Jesus. 

He encourages us to get to know the Lord better in this short letter.  He explains that we are able to overcome because of Christ's Divine Nature - as we take more of it on daily through communing with our Lord, asking for His guidance, reading His Word to receive that guidance and walking in God confidence.

The world is full of "the lust of life" and through Christ we can escape the corruption of sin.  This is a great and precious promise of God to us.

Prayer

Lord, thank You, that You have made a Way for me to escape the corruption of this world. I accept it. Help me to be a partaker of your Divine Nature.  In Jesus's Name.  Amen.  

Friend, we make a mistake when we judge goodness by our own idea of goodness.

Each one of us has within us, a "brand" of goodness we think is righteous. We may all agree on ten things as our idea of goodness but then we will find there are many other ideas on which we cannot come to an agreement of goodness according to our own personally held beliefs.

It's rare for two people to agree fully on every idea, subject, action to take, beliefs within faiths, decisions, and outlook on life and the hereafter.

Jesus the Word through the Holy Spirit's indwelling of holy men who were inspired and wrote, gave us the Scriptures for our edification.

He set out God's Goodness in those pages.  He wrote us an encouraging letter over many generations so that we could see that His Word applies throughout the ages until He comes again to put the devil in the bottomless pit and seal it up for 1000 years.

We must eventually give up our ideas of goodness and look to the Word of God to find the correct measure of Goodness.

Many of us will find that some of our ideas of goodness are correct and this is a good foundation on which to build into our thinking, the Goodness of God.

Some may have to abandon all the old and bring in the fresh new Words of Goodness that will change our lives dramatically.

But, we must open our hearts to accessing the Word of God to read what He says so we can move forward on our journey of renewal of soul and spirit that affect our mind and body.

Friend, here are some verses to ponder...

Romans 12:1-3

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.

And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good , and acceptable, and perfect, Will of God.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is among you, not to think of yourself more highly than you ought, but to think more soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Verses 9-15

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring another over self, not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

Rejoicing in Hope, patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; distributing to the necessities of the  saints who work for the Lord, given to hospitality.

Bless them which persecute you; bless, and curse not.

Rejoice with them who rejoice and weep with them that weep.

Recommended reading, Romans Chapter 12-16 on this subject. The Apostle Paul gives a good account of what God has taught Him and he passes on the words of wisdom to the church in Rome. They were believers both infants in the faith and others, strong born - again believers. The message is for all, given through Holy Spirit inspiration to Paul who laboured for Christ after his conversion from Judaism to Christianity on the road to Damascus where Christ appeared to Paul and changed his life forever from one "goodness" to the real Goodness of God.

The reason for Jesus wanting to change Paul was because Jesus had already come and carried out the Sacrifice and what Paul a very holy Jew was doing was persecuting the believers, and waiting for the Messiah when in fact He had come!

Jesus proved to Paul that He was who He said He was, and after that, Paul went on to spread the Good News with great authority because he was a learned scholar of the Holy Scriptures which told of the coming of the Christ and he knew of all the prophecies that had been fulfilled. It was undeniable to him, so Paul became a convert from Judaism to the Christian faith.

It is through Paul's conversion that many Jewish people come to the same conclusion and his teachings have converted many an unbeliever as well.

Friend, when we hear and read about the Lord there comes a day when we actually have the feeling that we understand.

It's a knowing within, that this is Truth.

We come to a "realization."

Much of what we have been meditating upon comes to Light in a beautiful realization of the Majesty and Glory of God.

It's like opening a door in our inner soul and allowing Him to enter and take up residence on the Throne.

From this position He can speak, and we hear. We are a believer, beloved of Holy God!

This is the work of the Holy Spirit. He strives with us from the minute we are born to reveal our Wonderful God to us and all Heaven rejoices when we finally come to the realization of who He is.

For all the readers of this blog, I pray "realization." In Jesus's Holy Name. Amen.