One of the things that ever yet gives me some added encouragement…is when i find myself getting irked—a sort of righteous agitated percolation…when i hear, overhear, see, ascertain etc., when and that , people (creatures) are mad at God. I love and am grateful that I find I have an innate revulsion toward/against that spirit! I love God, turns out! Praise God!; because left up to fallen, naturally God-hating creature in this world (as the Bible makes clear we all are)… I’d be like the rest of these God-haters…
Well, and yes, obviously, that is the whole tenor of this fallen world—the whole thing is pretty much about a bunch of ungrateful CREATED brats who are hell-bent on causing a ruckus, whining, endess complaining, caterwauling, tormenting, projecting their pain and viscious demonic hatred, then machinating and conspiring to unseat the “mean, unfair Father”…. CREATOR OF ALL! Lol. No thanks!
And so, the wicked little, ungrateful knuckleheads don’t realize or appreciate they couldn’t take their NEXT breathe on their own, BUT FOR GOD having created and sustaining it; let alone all the other pleasures of LIFE—eating, bathing, working, dreaming, sleeping, procreating, planning, hoping, seeing, feeling, hearing, walking, talking, sharing etc., and etc.!
The worst are those who claim to believe in and trust in God and the promises of His Words…but then carry on complaining and angling just like the unbelievers!
At least, those who hate God openly and defiantly ACTUALLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED WITH HIM. Hence, why…I suspect The Lord made a point of spitting out “the lukewarm”!
What is truly chaff (i dare say) are those who stake their claim in God, but then never stop trying to hedge their bet, play it safe—who deep down are actually wedded to the worldly side and draw of things…..riding the fence….
Anathema to that!…..(I fear, for them…)
This is indeed a time for choosing. And by that, i mean, a time for finding yourself taking up the cudgel to dive in, adhere, respond, re-commit, re-assert, implore ever increasing closeness and relationship with The Lord! And with that, ever yet recognizing and prayerfully asserting the grace and gratitude you’ve been Given! GIVEN!!!
Strength! Faith! Knowing/Knowledge! Love of THE ONE AND TRUE AND ONLY GOD!
…..is where its atπππ»