Goodness to Repentance

The goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance...

Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness,

tolerance and patience, not realizing that

God's kindness leads you toward repentance?

Romans 2:4

Our God is patient with us,

just more proof of how much he loves each and

everyone of us. Nobody could really blame him..

if when we sinned, he just said..

"Alright...I gave you a chance you knew right from wrong,

now i'm through with you"

Some people think he's like that, I promise you

he is far from that, and yes he is a loving God..

but at the same time he is a jealous God,

and he wants to be the center of your life...

If you are putting money/worry/stress/yourself ect..

if you are putting anything above God..

He's going to let you know it..

He wants all the attention, and the glory that he deserves.

The fact is we are suppose to be growing in Spirit...

not remaining in a comfortable zone

When I was a child, I talked like a child,

I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

1 Corinthians 13:11

God is going to let you know if there's something

you need to repent for,

and sometimes he may have to be firm,

like a parent would be with a child who just doesn't listen..

but never will he totally lose hope in you,

never will he leave your side, and just say;

"AHH! this person is hopeless...I showed them over,

and over again and yet they still don't listen!"

God wants you to grow..

so he will show you the things you need to change

in order to do so.

Everyone has their flaws, we all have things we would

like to be better at or things we wish we didnt do.

God "will give to everyone according to what

they have done."

To those who by persistence

in doing good seek glory,honor and immortality,

he will give eternal life.

But for those who are self-seeking

and who reject the truth and follow evil,

there will be wrath and anger"

Romans 2:6

By being persistence in doing good?

persistence/persisting means:

"To be obstinately repetitious, insistent, or tenacious.

To hold firmly and steadfastly to a purpose, state,

or undertaking despite obstacles, warnings, or setbacks"

Some people think,as i've stated before,

that you become a Christian, and you never screw up..

you're all "holier then thou" and blah blah...

that's a load of crap,

because you will still screw up and you will still sin,

which is why Christ died on the cross for us.

But we are suppose to be persistent in doing good...

meaning we will be beatin down...we will fall...

but every time we have to stand back up and fight.

We are not only in a battle with the devil

but with our own fleshly desires...

we are soldiers on the front line, and when

things get crazy and everything around us

comes crashing down, and those bullets

of trouble and worry and stress and anger

come piercing by us, and even hit us from time to time...

we have to stand back up.

You know what makes it easy?

GOD! he will help us up every single time...

I heard this from a much wiser man then myself,

but God didn't put you and me here to suffer..

He didn't put us here so we can keep screwing

up and then feel guilty and ashamed and hate ourselves.

All God wants is our trust in him,

with him all things are possible right?

does he not give us our strength?

can he not take away any struggle we are going through?

rely on him!you and him together can do all things!

You want to stop a sin? you want to stop doing drugs?

you want to stop drinking?

Obviously you ask God for help,

but it is going to take effort on your part aswell..

not only to allow him to take it away and put your

trust in him....but to know that YOU

don't need that fix....

Don't need that drink...ect ect..

all you need is God,

and he is waiting..

not with disappointment..

not with an angry scowl..

He is waiting with open arms...

waiting to give you a loving embrace

and will never want you to leave him.

He doesn't lose hope in you...

Don't lose hope in him.

Enjoy this video/song by Decyfer Down it's called "Fading" off their

new album "Crash", and also check out the meaning behind the song

from Decyfer Down themselves!

The Fall of Lucifer

The Bible has a couple of places where it talks about..

Lucifer/The Devil/Satan, there's not alot of focus obviously on him..

but we can get the general Idea of how he use to be,

and why exactly he was cast out of heaven.

How you have fallen from heaven,

O morning star(Lucifer), son of the dawn!

You have been cast down to the earth,

you who once laid low the nations!

You said in your heart,

"I will ascend to heaven;

I will raise my throne above the stars of God;

I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly

on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;

I will make myself like the most high.

But you are brought down to the grave,

to the depths of the pit.

Isaiah 14:12-14

You were the model of perfection,

full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

You were in Eden, the garden of God;

every precious stone adorned you:

ruby,topaz and emerald,chrysolite,onyx and jasper,

sapphire,turquoise and beryl. Your settings

and mountings were made of gold;

on the day you were created they were prepared.

You were anointed as a guardian cherub,

for so I ordained you.

You were on the holy mount of God;

you walked among the fiery stones,

you were blameless in your ways

from the day you were created

till wickedness was found in you.

Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence,

and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from

the mount of God,

and I expelled you, O guardian cherub,

from among the fiery stones.

Your heart became proud on account of your beauty,

and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.

Ezekiel 28:12-17

Inevitably talking about Lucifer falling from heaven

brings up the question...

"Do Angels have free-will? and if they have it,

and this "Lucifer" was so wise, then why would he try and become God,

knowing full well that God created him in the first place?"

Obviously angels were given free-will otherwise

Satan would have never had the choice to turn against God.

From those scriptures it would seem he became "Proud"..

which if you look up proud in the dictionary it says:

"feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which

you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride."

Reading into those scriptures, and how he became

proud on account of his beauty,

the only way to take that would be he was prideful ..

meaning...

"having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain

of those one views as unworthy"

Lucifer was the most beautiful angel..

he was the most wise, he was second to God,

and his ego got out of control..

he wanted to make himself higher then the Almighty.

Which in my eyes, I'm thinking..

"How freakin stupid can you be?

God created you, and yet somehow you think you can be more

powerful then him?"

it just doesn't make much sense to me,

It says though in Ezekiel..that his wisdom was corrupted,

so obviously because he became so prideful of himself

that it clouded his judgement.

and there was war in heaven.

Michael and his angels fought against the dragon,

and the dragon and his angels fought back.

But he was not strong enough, and they lost

their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down

that ancient serpent called the devil or satan,

who leads the whole world astray.

Revelation 12:7

What, you may ask, does this have to do with us?

satan wants payback, and he walks through the earth

as I speak.. seeking to devour whomever he can.

"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls

around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."

1 Peter 5:8

Satan knows he can't touch God,

and the only way he can hurt God..

is to attack Gods greatest creation...

the creation he loves most, and that would be US.

Satan is jealous that God could love such imperfection..

such filth and sin. He's going to take as many

of us away from God as he can.

Some may question then..

"Well then why did God create Satan if he knew he would

just turn out like this?"

It really comes down to... freewill

Satan/Lucifer/The Devil is pretty much the embodiment

of free-will, he was the first to choose not to worship God,

He was the one who whispered lies and tricked Eve

to eat of the forbidden fruit introducing Sin to human kind.

God doesn't want us to be mindless zombies,

you have a choice to worship him or not..

you can choose to reject him altogether just as Satan did.

I've recently come across a fantastic series of books

called "The chronicles of Brothers" by Wendy Alec..

the first in the series is called "The fall of Lucifer"..

It's fiction but it is surrounded and based off of truth,

and the word of God, obviously it being fiction

it probably didn't happen like the author wrote it..

but it is a brilliant book.

I've recently finished the first book, and I was amazed

just how much I loved the story.

Wendy Alec, for those who do not know

is the creator, along with her husband, of GodTv

and I'm not even a fan of the channel..

but thank God one night I stumbled upon it,

and there was Wendy talking about her book,

and I was like

"hmm..that sounds like an interesting book"

so I went ahead and ordered it from her site,

and I was a little scared to tell you the truth..

because I'm not a huge fan of "Christian fiction"

and I figured it being something off of Godtv(no offense)

it had to be cheesy and dull..

needless to say it was far from it!

I'm serious when I say this is up there with Lord of the rings..

or Chronicles of Narnia...

I guess Wendy wanted this idea of hers

"The Chronicles of Brothers"

to be a trilogy of movies much like Lord of the Rings,

but it never got off the ground, so she ended up writing the books,

and I guess since the first two are so popular..

(Third one comes out later this year)

it's going to become a trilogy of movies.

After reading just the first one(Working on the second),

I can honestly say..

this could be made into such an awesome movie.

I just hope it's not totally turned into crap

like the Chronicles of Narnia was....

which I have high hopes it wont be because

Wendy mentioned Batman begins and Lord of the rings

when she was comparing what she wanted the movie to be like.

If you would like to get a copy of these books

or would just like to know more about it,

and why wouldn't you?

Click here---> Chronicles of brothers

here's a sample of the book in video form..

God bless..

What is Love II

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 13:34-35

I'm sure you have "heard" me say

Christians get the label of "hypocrites" 

and most of the time it's rightfully so..

simply because we don't have any love for one another.

I don't mean we don't love each-other as "Christians"

I'm saying we don't love others in general,

specially if they are not in our little "Cliques" 

People are so quick to throw out "I'm a Christian"

but do they ever think of the responsibilities that employ's ?

Now before you get all..

"Well I'm not perfect...and jesus died for my sins.." 

Blah blah blah

hear me out...I'm not trying to judge or

say you are going to burn in the fires of hell,

because we all have our moments of not loving

when we should be loving.

However maybe if you think about what I'm saying..

it may pop in your head for a reference point when you're thinking

about being hateful..

Back to my point..

Do you really understand what it means to be a Christian?

to utter those words? you do realize people look at you right?

people will watch to see what you do since you say you're a "Christian"

again comes the point of being that good example right?

As a "Christian" we are suppose to be of love..

to show that love to any and everyone..

because just as it says in John 13:34

People will know that you are a follower of Jesus Christ,

not by you running around screaming "I'm a Christian!"

no...by you showing love is how they will know.

Showing the love that Jesus showed us all..

If we don't show that love, if we don't forgive others

as Jesus forgave us of our sins...

then do you think we really deserve to be forgiven?

I'm pretty sure it's Matthew that says

forgive as you were forgiven.

Again we are not perfect, we are human after all..

but we can be humble and admit to our mistakes and flaws,

and at the same time try and improve our attitudes 

towards others. 

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,

but have not love, I am only a resounding gong

or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy

and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,

and if I have faith that can move mountains,

but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all

I posses to the poor and surrender my body

to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

                                1 Corinthians 12:30

You can quote scriptures, you can know the way..

but if you don't have, and you don't show love..

you have somehow missed the most important thing,

As the scripture says you are nothing...

We must try harder to show the most important commandment of all..

This world isn't all there is..there is so much more

don't waste your time with always having to be "right"

or always having to get the last word,

when we are made fun of/put down/laughed at

if we hold our composure and show love in such a trying time

then and only then are we ever deserving to be called "Christian".

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

1 John 4:7-21

I'm not claiming I'm always full of love,

but God help me I try to be..

I want to be that good example, and I don't want to make God look bad.

There's a lot of pressure on you, or at least there should be,

for when someone knows your a Christian to act like it.

If they look at you and see the world, if they look at you

and you have a bad attitude, and they see your reaction to things..

what is going to make them want what you have?

We are here on this earth to be a witness to stand up for God...

to be different, to be that helping hand, if we treat everyone

the same as the world treats them how are they going to see a difference?

I know this is a total cliche thing to say...

but each day we should strive to be better then we were yesterday,

not for salvation, not because we have to...

but because we want to show the love of Christ.

If you know the hope there is in Jesus Christ..

If you know his never ending..never changing love..

then rejoice! because there is plenty of people who don't!

If you don't know his love...if you can't comprehend it...

If you think he could never love you..

I swear to you he already does love you!

He doesn't care what you have done, how many mistakes..

he sees your struggles, he knows you want to change..

focus on him...look to him and he will guide you

ask him to take away the things you wish not to do,

ask him to change you and make you new.

he wants a relationship with you!

He doesn't want your works...

he just wants you to acknowledge him...

He wants to be the one to lift every burden worry and stress,

He wants to be the one to take you out of the mess you are in...

out of the confusion and hopelessness the abuse

out of this world because you are not of this world!

You are not a burden..

He LOVES YOU!

Yes...

YOU!

not that self created good person you see in the mirror

YOU!

Full of sin.. burden down by the world around you..

shooting up to just feel again..

HE LOVES YOU!