Keeping our eyes on Jesus (part 2)

As I said, one avalanche of lies demands a greater avalanche of truth.

Maybe I should say waterfall,when concerning truth, instead of avalanche. Waterfalls never quit.

Cultural confusion gets to us in a back to back, avalanche type fashion. There intense but there tend to be breaks between attacks.

God's truths, when seen, or shown, by God's Spirit, is more like a waterfall of truth, of hope, of joy that the earthly mind can not comprehend, but it's there.

Yet as we live day to day in this sin cursed world, that Joy comes out "funny"  (kinda like this post :-)

This will take some time

(and right there is the #1 reason this is not popular, truth demands time to be fully seen )

but the Bible's central theme of love, grace mercy, wrath (over sin)  compassion, patience is summed up in one word, and that word is

Jesus!

And this message rains down on the reader daily in countless ways. 
You can't turn a page without seeing it.

Then, this truth addresses and answers all of life's confusion and puts it all in its place, as the pieces fit together. 
Problem is, when God's picture is (close to) completed, it looks nothing like we once thought.

When anyone has that much truth raining down on them, non stop, talk to me again about those problems you have.

Problems will never go away. They'll only get worse.

Try telling that to church goers not in God's Word. 
No fun, I can assure you.

Becoming aware is a most scary thing.
Truth is not so much a thought or idea as it is actually, knowing where to look.

Some might say, they are aware. 
Whose to say? 
Most times, when people think they got it all, they find themselves in a situation that reminds them, they don't.

If at these times, if they read God's Word for comfort, not in a way to fix there problems, because truth isn't about fixing a broken world's problems.

Truth is something that's done, on cross, problems are something that keeps us from seeing truth, God's Word is something that sustains us till we receive our ultimate reward (no, not heaven. The reward is when we see Jesus, heaven pales even to that) 

That last thought I'm still working on asking, do I truly believe that?

You'll know when you turn that corner though, the corner that shows, God's Truth will forever outweigh your problems.

Many church goers say they  know that yet continue to add a "but"  to the tail end of God's truth.

Christians know when they turn that corner when they know , God's Word is absolute! 
I can't explain How they'll know, they just will.

This indeed, is a tough sell because, when I looked up, on Google, verses pertaining to us keeping our eyes on Jesus, wonderful verses, like 
2 Corinthians 4:18 or Hebrews 12:2,

the problem was, the verses were  presented as not only pertaining to Jesus, but "our"  surroundings as well.

No!  Stop doing that. 
There's a generation that has no clue as to how to read the Bible.

Even any verse that hints it's about you, isn't about you simply because without Jesus, there's no verse, no grace, no mercy.

So where does anyone get off making it about them?

The minute you take a truth about Jesus (only) and mix in some application to fix whatever problem your having,

you turn that truth into a law,

and a law, that doesn't even work, at that?!

Any strength we get from God's Word is not in its application. .

It's in the knowledge and sense of knowing how much another loves us, be it our kids, our spouses but only demonstrated perfectly in God.

I've been married over 30 years and what's cemented our marriage is discovering how much we love one another. 
It's scary.

When this kind of love comes packaged in the "unconditional"

as it is in God's Word,

It has a repelling nature to it, because we feel we don't deserve it.

And when you realize, you DON'T deserve it, yet receive it anyway, graciously, things in ur mind begin to pop.

(my way of saying, you get it)

And the more you get it, the more it humbles you.

In marriage, this is not eternal but in Bible, it is forever.

This kind of love is "funny"

For the unbeliever, the more their loved (unconditionally) , the more they hate it. The hate is matched with the love, till they leave it. People will always find something to unconditionally love and they will be happy but they are no fun to talk to concerning anything serious. To maintain there state of happiness, they need to not only ignore God's truth but even truth which is defined clearly by  by nature as well as society.

For believers who don't know how to hear God's voice as they read, this (unconditional) love creates a desire to earn it, as a way to quiet them knowing they don't deserve it.

Then there are those who are thanking and praising God, they were given enough life, to get a taste, a glimpse of the fruit of unconditional love. 
The fraction of a fraction of that love is all I can handle.

I will conclude this, next post.