As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Do you fear God?
This requires addressing as the reality is most liberals fear God more than every Christian combined, and that is why liberals are always so sullenly insane in their rancid outlook on life.It is because they know they do not measure up, indulge in activities which they should not, and are running themselves to death away from God, because they are terrified when God is going to catch up with the on their death beds.
Read the following Bible verse and begin to learn what pleases God.
Psalm 147
11The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Most people reading the above would conclude like liberals that God enjoys terrifying people, but that is not what this verse means in the least. Here is the Hebrew word for FEAR and the various translations.
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See in thee above, you also find CAUTION, REVERENCE, REVERE, and that is the truer translation of what pleases God in God is pleased when people RESPECT HIM. This is what HONORING God means. It means respecting God, so that your thoughts consider God in all things, and out of respect you do not blurt out "f*cker" to someone who cuts you off in traffic, but instead take a breath and pity them, in knowing they are just speeding closer to a car wreck and God's Judgment as that kind of aggression is from their soul in a rage over life, due to frustrations that God is not doing what they say, and all of their expensive toys are not fulfilling them.
The Study Bible has an even better insight of when you respect God in fearing Him, that it not only pleases Him, but God FAVORS you for respecting Him.
Yes there is a rewards program in this, in you do not demand in this a prid pro quo of you did God a favor and now He owes you, because that is a no sale from the start, but it is a knowing inside of you, that when you behave and please God, He is always looking for ways to favor you in every situation, and that includes a boring ride home from work, where you did not see the car crash he saved you from by keeping you a few seconds which you were upset about.
Study Bible
11The LORD favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness.
I was bothered by that Fear statement for the longest of time, as I honestly could have benefited from being terrified a bit more of God, because I never have been afraid of God. I searched in the Bible and the Holy Ghost showed me the answer to what fear is, and the beginning of Wisdom as Proverbs teaches is the fear of the Lord, and Proverbs explains the fear of the Lord is TO HATE EVIL.
Very simple things in you Love God and you hate evil, or you do the things God expects to keep you safe in the 10 Commandments and you do not things which are evil that will hurt you, harm others or you will have to be paying for.
So fear of God is not being terrified, but trusting that Jesus forgives you for not sinning deliberately in plotting sins, and forgives you when you stop plotting sins and doing them (repentance), and in doing good, God favors or promotes you, or empowers or blesses you, as you are a fruit of his garden and not a weed anymore.
Now look at the rewards program further in this, in you have disciplined yourself to God's Word and are pleasing Him, so God favors you, and God in this interaction is teaching you to EXPECT GOOD THINGS from Him by teaching you He is KIND.
See this is a cause and effect. You don't get to be like Cain in thinking you are doing God a favor and He owes you for offering something to Him, and then being sullen when God does not make you a CEO or winning the lottery, but it is like an infant nursing. The infant cries because the child has needs, and the milk flows from the breast because this is natural. The child does not demand the breast produces milk, but it nuzzles the nipple in expecting something good will come.
That is what so many of us, and that includes me, when God says WAIT, it is not stand around forever suffering for all your life, but wait mean to expect like gravity if you drop an apple it will fall. You do good in pleasing God, and just like when you walk out in the rain, you have the same expectation that you will get wet or receive goodness from God, because His Mercy, His Loving Kindness, His CARING FOR YOU is without end as long as you obey Him, and His Caring for you is bottomless an overflowing. Just like a plant grows, God's Love for you keeps growing and becoming more expansive every moment.
Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.
To be pleased with, to be accepted. God accepts you for you, as He created and forms you every day. You are a wonderful project for Him, in He nurtures and tends you every moment of this life.
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In my logical Holy Ghost Inspired Spirit, it made zero sense to me to be afraid of God, to run from Him or to think I was going to get away with something. It was illogical to run from Someone I could never flea from and Who was going to catch me in the grave. It just made sense to try to do what was right all the time, to accept God's punishment as I deserved it and He was doing this to correct me, not because He ever hated me, but because He Loves me and always knows what is best for me.
I desire to address one thing in closing. I have been where all of you have been in praying, ranting, upset, disappointed, and frustrated with God. He expects you to stay around even when the milk runs out just like you expect your kids to obey you when you are not around. I had great plans an have written of them here. I had many things from building a starship with gravitational warp drive which I designed, to making movies, to writing poetry to trekking the wilderness and living in solitude. I had no intention of being a John as I was a kick ass James. I had no intention of writing a blog to guide people and become a target of the cartel and the deep state, nor to deal with the endless hurtful emotions directed at me when people do not like the Truth. By God's Grace I am effective here because I do not desire this limelight. I had too much responsibility as a child and shunned all leadership after that, and I was put back into it as God put me here for His purpose and I obey.
Obedience is hard when it is not the things we want. I would be doing such fun things if I could, not fun to you, but the things I enjoy, but this is always about pleasing God and not putting me first, as God is well aware of what beats in my heart and when I have to deny things that make me cry, then that is the rules of this relationship in proving God comes first, and not just pew recitals about how great of Christian I am.
God always rewards you for a relationship with Him. Nothing is easy in this life, but it is a great deal better with being on God's side.Any of us could be dead tomorrow, so it matters what good we do today in obeying God, as the world is not going to stop just because we are not here.
Be thankful for the things God does for us, whether it is being able to walk today, or thankful that we have a mind to see with even if we are blind. There are good things in all of our lives, even if I was bitching about snow, clouds, cold and feeling like a horse ran over me in exhaustion this morning. God knows and understands and He made the sun come through and warm up more than they said it would, so His Mercy and Grace are always there and I am thankful for that.
For the Christian, we are already in a relationship with God. We have more than any liberal will ever have until they stop running. We have learned that we are not perfect, that Jesus is Who fills in the craters in our rough spots to present us to the Father in Heaven. We simply are not deliberately digging the Grand Canyon of sins into our lives every day as liberals do as they run from a God Who will catch them in the end as all are caught.
Coming to God for punishment or reward is still the same Loving God. You won't die from correction and no one is going to laugh at you for not measuring up, because no one does measure up except Jesus, and that is the reality, because if we were all perfect, there would be no reason for God's Plan.
Just remember God is looking to do good things for you, to bring you Joy, and what is required is your simply obeying Him by showing Him that you are not plotting to do harmful things or self centered things, and accomplishing that with Christ and the Holy Ghost, like mother's milk, flows the expectation that wonderful things always come from a relationship with God through our Lord, Jesus the Christ, by the Guidance of the Holy Ghost.
Nuff Said
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