"If you don't know God He will probably look like you."
How true could this be? What does God look like to the world in the Western World? I suppose it depends on who you are looking at? Main stream picks up on a harsh, judgmental and mean God who is cruel and unforgiving. I believe this because I see the hatred towards believers - or those who believe they are Christians of good intent. Reading comments on news articles online are a great place to view the hostility. Can we fault the world for seeing the "Church" through angry eyes and tainted glasses? Who made them that way?
What have we done as a people who are called by His name? We have been adopted into a family that was not our own and not received our birth right through our adoption. We received the new name but not the inheritance. We have moved into our new Home but have not taken time to get to truly know our new Father. We are distrusting and distant; selfish and not wanting to really change. We read His words and miss the intent of His heart because we listen not to His Spirit.
What is God telling us in His word? He's telling us that He loves us. That He does not want to condemn us, but that He desires to save us and unite us in Heaven with and through His son! BUT...we're NOT listening as a whole! Brothers and sisters of the Kingdom, I appeal to you to look at Jesus again and again and again until you see He is LOVE personified. He is our example. He wants to instill His heart into ours. WHERE did He condemn anyone when He walked the earth? When did He throw the sins of the people in their faces and shame them? No, no, no! He was received by those around Him because of His Love and Compassion.
When we leave our homes each day people should see God as He is when watching us. We should be different in our behaviors than everyone else. When we look at others we should look through God's eyes of compassion and Love and not our own. His eyes will always see differently than ours. But how we do this is by having that personal and intimate relationship with Him. We CAN come boldly to the throne of the Creator of all things through His Son. We can be ourselves and allow Him to work Himself into our lives. We NEED to for the sake of millions of souls missing out on the greatest gift given to mankind from God Himself....salvation...eternal life and freedom.
It is not right for one to hoard for themselves what God intended to be distributed throughout the world. When we fail to love as He loves us we are not the light in the world, but rather are static causing shorts all around us.
Lord, please help us to draw nearer to You. Give us courage to step away from the gates of Your Kingdom and to boldly come into Your presence to receive Your great love so that we may go out into all the world and share it to others. Let us be the reflection of Your Son and a true bright light drawing others into Your Family!
How true could this be? What does God look like to the world in the Western World? I suppose it depends on who you are looking at? Main stream picks up on a harsh, judgmental and mean God who is cruel and unforgiving. I believe this because I see the hatred towards believers - or those who believe they are Christians of good intent. Reading comments on news articles online are a great place to view the hostility. Can we fault the world for seeing the "Church" through angry eyes and tainted glasses? Who made them that way?
What have we done as a people who are called by His name? We have been adopted into a family that was not our own and not received our birth right through our adoption. We received the new name but not the inheritance. We have moved into our new Home but have not taken time to get to truly know our new Father. We are distrusting and distant; selfish and not wanting to really change. We read His words and miss the intent of His heart because we listen not to His Spirit.
What is God telling us in His word? He's telling us that He loves us. That He does not want to condemn us, but that He desires to save us and unite us in Heaven with and through His son! BUT...we're NOT listening as a whole! Brothers and sisters of the Kingdom, I appeal to you to look at Jesus again and again and again until you see He is LOVE personified. He is our example. He wants to instill His heart into ours. WHERE did He condemn anyone when He walked the earth? When did He throw the sins of the people in their faces and shame them? No, no, no! He was received by those around Him because of His Love and Compassion.
When we leave our homes each day people should see God as He is when watching us. We should be different in our behaviors than everyone else. When we look at others we should look through God's eyes of compassion and Love and not our own. His eyes will always see differently than ours. But how we do this is by having that personal and intimate relationship with Him. We CAN come boldly to the throne of the Creator of all things through His Son. We can be ourselves and allow Him to work Himself into our lives. We NEED to for the sake of millions of souls missing out on the greatest gift given to mankind from God Himself....salvation...eternal life and freedom.
It is not right for one to hoard for themselves what God intended to be distributed throughout the world. When we fail to love as He loves us we are not the light in the world, but rather are static causing shorts all around us.
Lord, please help us to draw nearer to You. Give us courage to step away from the gates of Your Kingdom and to boldly come into Your presence to receive Your great love so that we may go out into all the world and share it to others. Let us be the reflection of Your Son and a true bright light drawing others into Your Family!
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