Monday, February 2, 2009

NOT PEOPLE OR THE THINGS OF THE WORLD BUT GOD

Posted by George Soepboer Sr

People are for the enjoyment of God. God creates people on the world to live in friendship with God, for that reason people are created in the image of God.
( Genesis 1:26-27 ).

When we seek our enjoyment on this world apart from God then we sin against God, for if the things of the world are our hope for living on this world instead of living in friendship on this world with God then we do not live for God.
( 1 John 2:15-17 ).

If people become our joy and hope for living on this world without living in fullness with God then we also sin against God. We may enjoy the company of people, however, if people hinder us from fully enjoying God then we must make ourselves free from the people who keep us away from fully enjoying God.
( Matthew 10:34-39 ).

We also may enjoy all of the good things on the world for they are a gift from God; however, if the things of this world hinder us from fully living on the world in friendship with God then we sin against God. We cannot live for the things of the world and pleasers of the world and live for God, for if we live for the things of the world then the things of the world are our gods.
( James 4-4 ).

We must seek the freedom within our life to enjoy God for that reason God created people to have us live in fellowship with God. We must always remember that we belong to God, our love for God must overpower everything else on the world for then we live in harmony with God, people will not enjoy the fullness of God without truly loving God.
( Mark 12:28-30 ).

Also other Christians can hinder us from fully enjoying God, for when we seek our hope end strength by people then we remove ourselves from God and then we do not enjoy the company of God. When we think we enjoy the company of God through the people of God then we are wrong for then we do not enjoy God but then we have removed ourselves from God.
( Luke 8:18 ).

We may and must be part of the people of God for that is the will of God. However, the people of God may never come between us and God for that is not the will of God. When we wish to live in fellowship with God then we must not listen to people that hinder us from fully enjoying God we must only listen to God. Moreover, if people become a problem to us by hindering us to live in fullness with God and obeying God then we must remove ourselves from those people for that is of God. We may never allow anyone to hinder us from living in fullness with God and from obeying God, for we are created by God to enjoy God not to please people who hinder us from living for God, for we cannot please people and live for God.
( John 12:42-43 ).

We must never seek the will of people but we must seek the will of God, for we do not belong to people but we belong to God, our heart must be with God.
( Matthew 6:19-21 ).

There are many people who claim to live for God but they do not live by the Spirit of God, therefore they are not part of God, those people only think that they live for God, but their heart is far from God, and they have never surrendered life to God.
( Matthew 7:15-23 ).

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