Self - We Love It

Oh how we love ourselves, our "self" our ego.

And many of us love our body, our beautiful features, our hair; preening endlessly by a mirror.

We spend all our hard earned money of preening items; even those who have more disposable monies, spend endlessly on "things" that bring self esteem, pleasures for the mind and body; cars, homes, clothes, jewelry.

Everything is allowable by God. He wants us to enjoy these things.

But when they become more important to us, our self, than Him then He knows we have a problem; because He knows that satan has entered in, and is setting up home within the body, mind and spirit.

When we put Jesus first always, we will be convicted and see that what we are doing is too much; we will be given the opportunity to correct the course and praise Him for helping us "see" the Righteous Path.

There is another path that we often fall into as well and that is to do good works solely for the purpose of promoting "self."

A believer at it's redemption by Christ gives itself to Him for the Refining of the soul.

He will do a Good Work in us. We give Him the Holy Right to cleanse and refine us.

He immediately Justifies us to Himself. We are "marked" as His.

Soon we are able to say, "Not my will, but Thine be done in me, Lord." 

We surrender to His Authority.

We know that He will not harm us; even though at times we may feel overwhelmed. During those times we must remain faithful to Him and continue to be surrendered to Him.

Some of us fight against it, but if the self was surrendered to Him fully at conversion, He will fight for that soul.

His adversary is not you, it is Satan in you.

Until we give Him the power to fight for us, He cannot override our free will.

He knows the Righteous Path by His Holy Law to remove satan from his stronghold of evil thoughts, actions and desires.

We must trust Him. We get up every morning and face the new day knowing He is on our side, and we let Him go before us, wherever we go. 

He will convict us of places we should not go, people we should not see, things we should not say and do.

We should respond to Him in the positive whenever we are convicted, "Yes, Lord."

The soul who obeys Him every time, is the soul who will have an easy journey into the Pure Light of life. It is the soul able to sing and pray and enjoy His Lord and Saviour because the road of submission leads to peace in the soul.

Bucking against the light yoke is not a good choice, but many of us do this. Eventually we will get tired, or hurt ourselves, and in some cases because we want to have our own will back, we fall along the wayside; where satan comes and scoops us up to inflict his evil ways upon us once more; but even worse this time because he knows eventually we will want to go back to Jesus. He must get us so far into evil that we are "drugged" in our minds and flesh by his continual injections of venom, keeping us so consumed with lusts, that we are not able to think clearly.

The soul: God wants it, for it is His, and satan wants it, for it is God's!

There is a choice to make for all of us. It is our right. But we must make it in a moment of clarity, willfully ignoring satan; ready to receive Forgiveness for our past.

We can be so drunk or drugged that others would say we have lost our mind, but God is able to give us that moment of clarity in the depths of addiction, to draw us to Him. 

Our whole purpose on this earth since the Fall in The Garden is to be reconciled to The Father and He has made a Way that fooled Satan and that is through the birth, death and resurrection of His Son.

It is our one and only chance to have Eternal Life. Yes we will die of the flesh, but after that, there are two realms we could go. One is with God and one is without God.

"With God," means a fruitful, peaceful, meaningful existence filled with great joy, experiencing beauty in all it's forms, helping in the Kingdom. 

Without God means left to the devices of a very evil being. Sorrow, regret, pain, thirst, nothing good or desirable for even the most evil soul. 

Satan trumps the most evil human who has ever lived in pure savagery, whoever you would imagine that one to be, by extremes of measurement. 

Even the most evil human would say, that's going too far but they themselves, will be tortured day and night never-ending; for satan hates every soul made by God for the earth. 

While we're alive on earth we can in a split second, choose to repent and ask God for Forgiveness through His Son, Jesus.