SO YOU HAVE BEEN WRONGED?!

Someone has betrayed you?    So you will never forget?   Who hasn’t?  Hasn’t everyone?  Has it ever occurred to you that in the midst of the ‘anger’ that you carry within your heart that ‘they’ have won?

It is a grave misconception that to hold a grudge makes you or I the ‘winner’!     This is so wrong!    When someone has wronged you, whether it is by accident or intentionally, forgivness is where the ‘peace’ is!!

To what length are you willing to go to achieve ‘peace’ in your heart?

To harbor ‘ill-will’ within your heart, is to outrightly refuse to love God!!   Not directly, but indirectly!    For God forgives, and teaches us to forgive.    Remember, Jesus said,  “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do”.    He said that for a multitude of reasons.    For one, He knew we do not know what we are doing.   To ‘know’ is to forgive!   At all cost, forgive!   To forgive is to grow in ‘peace’.     No matter what it is, that has happened!

Evil lurks within our world!

Satan’ s plan is to destroy the ‘peace and happiness’ that is from God.   Whereby He wins!   To realize the difference we must choose the teachings of God, over the desires of the ‘flesh’

The ‘flesh’ is what is within the world.    The ‘spirit’ is of the next world.   It is focusing on God, and the will of God within your life.   It is ‘thy will be done’ instead of ‘my will be done!’    Not so easy!     Know for whom you are living!   Know for whom it is you wish to please!   For to please oneself before God, is to be within the world!

God instructs!    But, as any Father instructs, He ‘can not’ make you obey Him and His teachings!    Our Heavenly Father has given us all free-will!    This is the life He has put before us!   He wants us to want Him.   So He will not ‘make’ us obey!   As with any love that is given freely, so it is with the ‘Love Of God’!

Being wronged is a part of this life!   People will always be saying and doing what does not please us.    To realize that this is part of life is the first step to growing in the faith and love of God!    Why?    Because opposing to all the teachings of God Our Father is the enemy, Satan.    Satan has his demons!     Just as God has His Angels!

The two forces are within the ‘spirit’ of who we desire to be!    To walk with God, to be a friend to God, to love God, is the ultimate!

To achieve the ultimate, is to forgive!

Seems simple enough, does it not?   Yet, people do not wish to give up control!    The One who made each of us, is He who desires us-Our Hearts, Our minds, and Ours Souls!     When we desire to let it go, to forgive, then we have achieved the first level of peace!    Yes, there are more levels to ‘peace’.     The greater the forgiveness, the greater the level of ‘peace’.

God is not about the ‘stuff’!    God is not about the attaining of ‘things’!    God is not about whether you or I are a ‘CEO or a ‘PRESIDENT’!    God is about the state of our heart!    The state of the heart is dictated by forgiveness!     That means forgiving ourselves as well as our nieghbor!    For sometimes the evil one wishes to convince us that we do not matter to God!    This ‘evil’ is in the world, and has played havoc with the world!    The ‘me-first’ sydrome is in effect and the state of the world is in turmoil, because it is running to Satan and away from God!

God’s form of discipline is for ‘peace’ in our hearts, our minds, and our soul!   His plan really works!!    That is why He has sent people to profess the faith!     The faith is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God!    He has conquered death, and unites the world to the Father when He is called upon!    However, few are calling upon the LORD!   For the LORD is with the Father!      The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, making up the, ‘Holy Trinity’!   God, in three persons!   You do not have to understand it, but you do need to embrace it!     The power that is, is then revealed when ‘trust’  has been extended to the Very God, who reigns over Heaven and Earth!

GOD BLESS YOU!    May you find the peace that surpasses all understanding by embracing  Christ Jesus,  as your LORD and SAVIOR!

BOOK OF  MATTHEW: CHAPTER  18  verses 1-4   AGAINST AMBITION

1)”Just then the disciples came up to Jesus with the question, “Who is of greatest importance in the kingdom of God?”   2)   He called a little child over and stood him in their midst 3) and said, “I assure you, unless you change and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of God.   4)   Whoever makes himself lowly, becoming like this child is of greatest importance in that heavenly reign.”

BOOK OF MATTHEW:   CHAPTER 16  VERSES 24-28  DOCTRINE OF THE CROSS

24)Jesus then said to his disciples: “If man wishes to come after me, he must deny his very self, take up his cross, and begin to follow in my footsteps.   25) Whoever would save his life for my sake will find it.   26)   What profit would a man show if he were to gain the whole world and destroy himself in the process?   What can a man offer in exchange for his very self?”   27)  The Son of Man will come with his Father’s glory accompanied by his angels.   When he does, he will repay each man according to his conduct.   28)   I assure you, among those standing here there are some who will not experience death before they see the Son of Man come in his kingship.”