Gospilled Minute #196
There is no shame ever in trusting in the LORD. There is always shame to be found in trusting in ourselves.
Psalms 25:1 KJV Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms 25:2 KJV O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
Psalms 25:3 KJV Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
Marital problems are a net common to both men and women, but the path to escape, peace, and safety is far less common, and that is the real issue. If you believe this path lies in another’s net, you will only further exacerbate your entrapment and pain.
Psalms 25:15 KJV Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalms 25:16 KJV Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Psalms 25:17 KJV The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Psalms 25:18 KJV Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Psalms 25:20 KJV O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
Psalms 25:21 KJV Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
According to God’s will, He offers the gift of faith to all people through the power of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ. God has also given humanity free will to accept or reject this gift.
Why did God grant us free will? Without it, we could not freely choose to love Him, and we would be mere algorithm-driven automatons. No one can force another to love them, for coerced love is not true love. Likewise, God does not program or compel such love.
If a person rejects God’s gift of faith and His profound love, the consequence of such rejection can only be profound wrath. God’s presence is love; His absence is wrath.
I love God, because He first loved me.
Hebrews 2:1 KJV Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Hebrews 2:2 KJV For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
Hebrews 2:3 KJV How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Hebrews 2:4 KJV God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Even the angels have free will; they choose to love God, because He chose to love them.
Hebrews 2:5 KJV For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
God (Jesus) tasted death for every man, not just His elect who have tasted His redeeming sacrifice. Those who refuse to taste His resurrected life will taste His death.
Hebrews 2:9 KJV But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Jesus is equal with God, and there is no explanation for this outside the doctrine of the Trinity.
Philippians 2:6 KJV Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Gospilled Minute #195
The seed of Abraham is the Body of Christ, not the body of antichrists.
Hebrews 2:16 KJV For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
Galatians 3:29 KJV And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Jesus always knows the way of escape. Follow Him.
Hebrews 2:18 KJV For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
The Promised Land was delivered and divided by God, but all of Israel did not deliver and remained divided from God on their end.
Joshua 19:51 KJV These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
Baruch was a faithful servant of God in a supporting role as Jeremiah’s scribe, facing genuine problems and struggles. God acknowledges his suffering, exhaustion, and pain, yet encourages him to remain steadfast, promising that his life would be preserved.
Jeremiah 45:5 KJV And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
Father, may our marriages be filled with integrity. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
