God vs. man
Last week a friend of mine, Scott Rodgers, wrote a great post on Swerve, the blog for LifeChurch.tv. In this post, Scott reminds us that we should be about building the kingdom of God and not our own “kingdom.” That post jumped into my mind as I read Deuteronomy 9 a few days ago.
God was reminding the Israelites that it wasn’t really their giftedness or righteousness that earned the promised land, but rather His grace. (Deut. 9:6) From the beginning of time there seems to be this tension between what is accomplished by God and what is built by human effort. I think we can go too far either way. There are people who put themselves down to the point that they dishonor the fact that they are made in the image of God and that through Christ they are a “new creation.” And, there are others who confuse God’s blessing for their talent. Both miss the mark. At the end of the day, God wants to “give us the desires of our hearts” but only when we “delight in Him.” (Psalm 37:4) That’s always the key: dying to ourselves, taking up our cross and following Him. When we TRULY do that our passions become His and the dreams we have for our lives are His dreams for our lives. Ultimately, we will never have the life we dream of having if it is about us. It must always be about His fame. As we like to say here…”what’s life all about?…..not.U! 
I read his blog just today, and I was thinking, yeah, I hate it when people post things about God and then leave links to their own site! Wait a sec, that’s what he did, and wait a sec, that’s what you just did, and whoa, that’s what I’m doing too!
I guess we’re all hypocrites… Scott!
AD – did i link to my own site in this post? Ah well….we are all a mess!
Hey, more God talk and less me talk is a good think so I’ll try to keep the posts back to the Scriptures at a high level…
Well said, The holy spirit will only speak of Jesus and will only lift Him up, the battle is when God uses us and then we have the fight that you speak of, the cool thing is God knows that and uses us anyway.the cooler thing is when we begin to grow up and we neither have the false humilty or the pride,as we just get to particapate. That’s ( Grace )
Woven.
Christianity is woven throughout our entire nation, being the very fabric that makes up these islands. It keeps the judgement of God from falling on us that is why we have been preserved from the many wars that have buffeted our shores.
We need never feel that the darkness that comes upon us is permanent, for the light of Christ will always prevail by dispersing it with his glory. We need not be troubled by wicked people, for our God is surely dealing with them. I am amazed when I see Christianity in all our great institutions, I cannot begin to speak of all our workforce, builders, lawyers, nurses, miners, factory workers, who make our nation so great and confess Christ Jesus as Lord, Well, the list is never ending, where God’s people can be found, Christianity is literally everywhere. It cannot and will not ever be removed from these islands.
Do not listen to doom prophets, when you hear them say things for example, like the abortion issue, they say, “surely this will bring God’s wrath upon us all, for that wicked thing that people do to our unborn children.” Well, God’s judgement will fall on them that commit such horrific killings, but I assure you, the righteous will not be included in God’s judgement.
We remember how God’s mercy is shown to us in Genesis 18:24-26, I quote,
“Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee: Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? And the Lord said, if I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”
You can see from this scripture that God will surely spare our nation, because there are more than fifty righteous Christians living here. Now Jesus has told us that this world is inhabited by the children of the kingdom and the children of the wicked, and that He will not bring final judgement on the wicked until the end of the world, because He will not destroy the wicked while the righteous are here.
At the end of the world Jesus said in St Matthew 13: 41, – 43, “The Son of man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”And so, that is how we can be confident that God will not let us be overwhelmed by these recent troubles that we face in our nation. Praise God, for every born-again believer that God has placed in our lands.
EVANGELIST BILLY BOLITHO
http://www.evangelistbillybolitho.blogspot.com
Brent – so thankful for the GRACE of God…i had an awesome pre-law professor that used to always say “There but for the grace of God go I.” so true!
Billy – thanks for dropping by not.U. I love your passion to live in the righteousness of God!