Tag: Faith

~ Give God Your Best. (Part 2~Enthusiasm) ~

People get Very Enthusiastic about things like sports, pop stars, celebrities, TV shows, getting drunk, gossip, the latest trends and many other 'worldly' things. Yet when it comes to God, they suddenly lose all their Enthusiasm.

Why does that happen ?

Because evil 'worldly' people have Corrupted other people with Deceiving Lies & Manipulation into thinking that God is boring.

Well if people choose to Believe that God is boring, then they obviously haven't spent Any time with Him.

From my own personal Experience of spending the first 24 years of my Life following the 'world' and doing 'worldly' things with 'worldly' people, compared to spending the next 20 years or so Following God & Jesus, I can Honestly say that even just one single minute spent With God is far More Exciting, Fun, Amazing & Enjoyable than an Entire Lifetime spent with the 'world'. 

God Created Joy.
Jesus Gives us 'Life to the Full'.

So don't let Anyone Deceive You into thinking God is boring, 
because He's Not.

Get Enthusiastic about God, and then You'll Truly understand what Life is Really about. 

Worldly people have also Deceived people into thinking God is very strict & bossy.

They've even made up Lies to make it seem like God is a dictator.

Well a 'dictator' by definition is someone who Forces their opinion onto someone and makes them feel that they have Not got any Choice but to do what they say.

That's Clearly NOT God's Way, because God has Lovingly Blessed us All with Freedom of Choice.

God has certainly got the Power to Make You do what He wants, but He Loves You so much that He Gives You 'Free Will'  (the Freedom to Choose).

Don't Believe the Lies by 'wicked worldly' people. They want to Turn You Away from God so that You will 'Do What They Say'.

Don't Fall into the Traps of the 'world'.

Instead, Ignore the 'worldly' Nonsense and Believe the Truth.
Jesus is “the Way the Truth and the Life”.

When You Believe the Truth about God,
Your Enthusiasm will Bubble up inside You
and Overflow like a Beautiful Fountain. 

Then You can Give God Your Best Enthusiasm.

~ Give God Your Best. (Part 1~Time) ~

The Best Way to Live Your Life is to 'Give God Your  Best' in Ever area of Your Life.
God Gives You His Best, so surely it's only Right that 
You Give God Your Best.

The next 5 writings will be based on Ways to Give God Your Best, starting with ' Your Time '.

Many people try to Squeeze God into their busy Time schedule, but the Truth is Your Time schedule should be based around God.
Without God You wouldn't have Any Time to do Anything.

Giving Your Best Time to God can be in many ways, such as, 
~ Praying.
~ Reading the Bible.
~ Doing something Good for God.
~ Guiding other people to the Joys of knowing God.
~ Spending Quiet Time with God.
~ And it can also be Not doing things that take Your Time away from God.

Some people say they've not got Time for God because they're too busy.
Well if You've got Time to watch TV, You've got Time for God.

Many people spend hours and hours on social media, and then say they haven't got Time for God.
Simple Solution ~ Stop 'Wasting' Time on social media Nonsense, and then You'll have Plenty of Time for God.

God is available to You Every moment of Every Day.
You don't need to wait till you go to bed to spend Time with God.

Spending an hour with God on a Sabbath morning doesn't mean You're Giving God Your Best Time. The Entire Sabbath Day is Gods Day.

Even if You spend a Day with God but then spend the rest of the week with the 'world', then that's certainly Not Giving God Your Best Time.

God should be at the Centre of Everything that You base Your Time around.

If while You're Giving Your Time to God, you find it's taking longer than You thought, then Everything & Everybody else should wait.
God should Never have Time Limits put on Him.

Avoid putting God into 'Time Slots', (eg. 5 mins of Prayer here, 10 mins of Bible reading there). 
If Your Life is so Hectic & Busy that You can only manage 5 or 10 mins with God, then You Need to make some Big Changes to Your Life. 

God doesn't give You Time Slots that He Squeezes You into and then spend the rest of His Time ignoring You. 
'God has Always got Time for You'.

Any Time of Any Day is the Right Time to spend With God.

Time with God should feel Completely Natural & Free.

Give God Your Best Time.

~ God Really Does Love You ~

One of the most well known Bible verses is (John 3:16) 'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son'.

I've heard this said so many times that I have 'Very Wrongly' taken for granted the Huge Scale & Importance of God 'Giving' His Son to show us that He Loves us.

But while I was spending Quiet Time with God over Christmas time, I started thinking about just how much God Really Does Love us.

I looked for Bible verses that clearly say that God Loves us, and when I read (1 John 4:9) 'God showed how much he loves us by sending his one and only Son into the world', I suddenly realised what a Massive Task it was for God to actually 'Send' His Son.

It wasn't just a simple case of sending a box of chocolates through the post to tell someone you Love them, or sending a text with a love heart saying I Love You. This was the Biggest thing in the history of humankind.

Even though God's own Heart & Soul must have experienced Unimaginable Hurt & Pain when the Entire world had previously become evil in every way, and had turned their back on God, He still wanted to show us that He Loves us. WOW, that's Real Love.

When God decided to 'Send' His Son to show us that He Loves us, it required so much planning & organising that was so complex, that even the most advanced computer in the world would not be able to work it out.

Think about what God needed to Do just to actually 'Send' His Son,

~ First of all He needed to work out how to turn the Spirit form of Jesus into a Physical Human form, that is Entirely Human whilst still being Entirely the Son of God.
That in itself would have blown the circuit boards of Any computer trying to work it out.

~ Then He needed to find a Lady who Trusted God with Complete Faith & Belief , that she would be Willing to give birth to God's Son even though she didn't Understand How it could happen. 
She also needed to be Pure with No evil in her whatsoever, so that there would not be any conflict between Good and evil while Jesus was in her womb.

~ God then had the Huge task of finding Many people from different Places, different Backgrounds and different Ages, who would All put their Complete Trust in God, and be Willing to Change their 'Own Plans' so that they could Fulfil 'God's Plan'.

~ God Needed to find a man who was so Humble & Faithful to God, that he would Accept that he would not be the actual Father of Jesus, because he knew He had a Greater Father in Heaven.

~ God needed to find Shepherds who would Believe there was a far Better Shepherd than themselves.

~And God needed to find some of the Wisest Men in the world who would Humble themselves to Seek the One who is Wiser. 

These were just a few of the things that God needed to organise just for Jesus to actually be Born.

It's believed that the Nativity fulfilled over 350 Old Testament Prophesies. WOW, think about that. Things that had been Spoken about and Prophesied about Hundreds and maybe Thousands of years earlier, all took place when God 'Sent' His Son.

An examples is,
~ (Micah 5:2) “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me One who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”

 All of this was just the Beginning. 
30 years later God needed to find more people who were Willing to put their Trust & Belief in Jesus, so that God's Plan would be Achieved.

~ He needed to find 12 men who would leave Everything to Follow Jesus.
~ He needed to find men & women who would Turn from their sinful ways and Follow Jesus' Way.
~ And Many More things that God needed to Do for His Plan to be Fulfilled, to be able to show His Love for us.

Then after Everything that God had done to 'Send' His Son, He then Humbled Himself by sacrificing His Only Son on the Cross, so that He would take the place of 'Our Sins' so that He could Restore the broken Relationship between people and God.
That is Real Love.

Go did All that (and More) simply because He would like to Enjoy a Loving Relationship with You.

So if you ever feel that God doesn't Love You, think about the Amazing Huge scale of things that God did simply to 'Send' His Son.

The Birth of Jesus was the Beginning of all the 
Wonderful Ways that God Shows His Love for us. 
And He's got Many More Wonderful Ways
to keep showing us His Love,
because God's Love 'Keeps On Growing'.

God Really Does Love You.