Saturday, February 21, 2009

TRUE FAITH IN GOD

Posted by George Soepboer Sr

Works for God or anything that we do for God or say about God does not measure true faith in God. True faith in God is stillness within our heart and mind, knowing and truly believing that everything in our life and on this world is within the control of God.
( Psalms 46:10 ).

Our striving for perfection hinders us from enjoying the presence of God. When we strife to do everything right for God then we become overpowered by our shortcomings and then we do not enjoy God, but then we lose our joy with God. Our joy with God does not depend on our striving for perfection for God and on our good works; we think we do for God. True joy with God is a love relationship with God. Works for God cannot bring us into fellowship with God. Fellowship with God can only be ours when we trust God and when we love God.
( 1 Corinthians chapter 13 ).

When we seek God by what we do or do not do for God then we bypass God, for through our works we will never find God. God is a Holy God and if we wish to work our way to God by our good works for God then we must reach perfection by God. It is never within our power to reach perfection by God, for we do not have knowledge of perfection that knowledge only belongs to God. If we would have knowledge of perfection then we would be like God, for there is no one perfect beside God. In addition, no one will ever be perfect for that only belongs to God. Our way to God can only be ours by the grace of God, for it is a gift from God, and it can only be ours if we humbly ask for it by God.
( Ephesians 2:8-9 ).

If we wish to be part of God then we must humbly confess our sins and shortcomings to God, and ask to be forgiven of our sins by God, and then we will receive forgiveness of our sins from God through the love of God, for Jesus Christ the Son of God paid for all of sins by God.
When we are forgiven of our sins by God then our sins are, removed by God. Therefore, it is only through Jesus the Son of God that we are acceptable to God, for it is only through the death of Jesus on the cross that we are forgiven of our sins by God.
( John 3:16-18 ).

When we humbly seek the grace and love of God through Jesus Christ the Son of God then we become part of God. In addition, when we are part of God then we must trust God by truly putting our faith in God and we must love God. It is not only the grace of God that makes us part of God, but it is also only by the grace of God that we can live in fellowship with God and enjoy our friendship with God. However, we must be willing to open our heart to God and trust God if we wish to live in friendship with God. God will never overlook a humble heart and an open mind that truly seeks for God. However, God will bypass all man made efforts that seek through perfection to please God, for none of them people are pleasing to God. Nevertheless, if we humbly place our life in the hands of God then we are acceptable to God, for only then do we please God.
( Romans 4:1-8 ).

All people who truly live in fellowship with God are part of God by the grace of God through Jesus Christ the Son of God, no one, can be forgiven of his or her sins by God without the Son of God. If we do not come to God in the name of Jesus the Son of God then there is no hope to be, forgiven of our sins by God for it is only the Son of God that made us acceptable to God when He paid for our sins with His life on the cross by God. There is no other way to God.
( 1 John 5:11-12 ).

All people can live in fellowship with God through Jesus Christ the Son of God. However, no one will ever be accepted by God and live in friendship with God without Jesus the Son of God. We can never come to God and be part of God without the Son of God.
( John 14:6 ).

Our faith must only by in the work of God through Jesus Christ the Son of God to make us acceptable to God. And our faith must only be in God through Jesus the Son of God for us to live in fellowship with God, for there is no other way to please God, and if we do not please God then we will never be accepted by God.
( 1 John 5:11-12 ).

We must not only seek forgiveness of our sins by God through Jesus the Son of God, but we also must ask for the indwelling of the Spirit of God by God in the name of Jesus the Son of God.
( Luke 11:9-13 ).

It is only by the Spirit within us of God that we can live in fellowship with God, anyone who does not have the Spirit living within them of God is not of God.( Romans 8:16 )
Only if we live by the spirit of God do we live for God, there is no other way to live for God and to live in fellowship with God.
( Romans 8:15 ).

When we have the Spirit living within us of God then we must set aside all of our man made efforts to please God. For when we have the Spirit living within us of God then we must listen to the voice within of God by the Spirit of God, for only when we listen to the Spirit within us of God can we truly please God. However, if we seek to please God in any other way then we will be ignored by God, for any other way is not the way of God but is the will of satan who will seek to lead us away from God.
( 1 John 2:26-27 ).



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