CORRESPONDENCE
My Dear Brethren,
A quick look – why are we here?
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. Therefore He gives when he wants to give.
The purpose of this dispensation of time is not to amass wealth but to live a life that recognises the maker on HIS TERMS.
God blesses the bad and the good but now it is a ‘window period’ to find out what and how by consulting His inspired word.
All things in life are done well by those who spend time and energy on them. We have to commit ourselves to God by giving the best of our abilities towards developing obedience based on knowledge and wilful endeavours to please Him all the days of our lives.
For God is pleased by our synchronised efforts relative to what He makes available to us more than anything else. God looks at our hearts and considers our sincerity in line with our objectives, he knows how we are formed and therefore knows us. He considers our ability to do good and credits that to us as far as we can conform to the way of salvation he has given to all man.
Pro 8:17: I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Psa 34:18: The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
It is very easy
to live a life of assumptions that we are His and turn that around
and start taking Him as if He is ours for our manipulation.
God does not change but we do.
This is why we are constantly reminded to remember the first love and go back to that former state. Which was founded on joyness of heart through something new we had just found.
Just as the parable teaches about finding that which we lost through Adam and found through Jesus and then rejoicing because it is worth more than anything we had before.
Amos 5:23: Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Luke 12:15: And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
An honest consideration of the above verses will show that there is more to life than we search for daily.
Ecc 7:29:Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Jer 10:23: O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Isa 8:19:And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
Many men tell us how to get rich and others will tell us God has purposed us to be rich but the word of God teaches contrary to this for it says many times in different ways Mar 8:36For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
If only we can remember that it is His will and pleasure to see us in the kingdom, but God will not tolerate evil, we therefore have to conform to His word because it brings the qualities acceptable to Him.
In that as we learn and apply, conform, that is if we maintain the position of searching out the scriptures and prayerfully adopt that which we learn for the sake of living by them.
Mal 3:7:Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, `In what do we turn back?'
Mal 3:8:Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering!
Jer 29:13: And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Zep 2:3:Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Jas 4:8:Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Ecc 12:13Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Brother Tendai
Gombera Nailuwa