Saturday, July 28, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Marry and Multiply - Light in Goshen [Revisited]
Reprint: First Published 10-21-2010.jpg)
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease."
Marriage.
Marriage according to Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
Dear Saints,
Marriage is a promise we make to God about another person, the person that becomes our spouse. When we break the marriage, in essence, we are breaking the promise to God, not simply a promise to the spouse.
But,... Why?
Why is it so easy to break this promise to God these days?
One theologian suggests that it is a "perennial temptation of Christians who seek to come to terms with the surrounding culture to bend the Gospel to fit the preconceptions of the culture." ---Bloesch, Faith and Its Counterfeits
How did we get here?
Well, even the philosopher/theologian, Paul Tillich futuristically warned of our current state. [Just a point of clarification before you read the quote that follows. Tillich frequently uses the term "horizontal plane." He is making reference to focus on activity of humanity without any reference to the "vertical" which would be focus on God.]
Tillich maintained,
[And, Saints, here is the crux of Tillich's argument.]
My summary is this.
Saints, it is distance from God that has led us here[to heights of irrationality], in a diabolically spun place of mind where even the current Webster dictionary now redefines marriage.
According to Merriam-Webster:
Saints,
I contend that there is not only a loss of depth, a superficiality associated with our God-given lives, but there is also a rejection of the idea that there is absolute truth. Without Truth as absolute, anything goes. And, the absence of Absolute Truth is the darkness of Egypt.
The "darkness" of Egypt---when it slithers into the Church--- leads the Church to speak of the gospel as "a good way to get to God" rather than as the only way to God.
I agree with those that say that the Church is tempted to draw on the truth claims of other religions and philosophies in order to build the case of the gospel. The consequence then becomes that the "point of departure of the church is no longer divine revelation but religious and moral humanity."--Bloesch
In God's mercy, He has given us the Holy Bible to Light our path so that we will know the good Way and can walk in it! Amen!
The Bible says that Christ Jesus holds the whole universe together.
If allowed, Christ Jesus through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, can [and is the only one Who can] empower us to keep our marriages together, to keep the promise we have made to God.
We must follow God's instructions in our choice of spouse, our role as spouse, our fidelity to Christ, our love of Christ shed abroad to cover others, including our spouse. We must ask for Wisdom from God, [James 1:5]if we are to bless our households, Saints.
I so love the lyrics of Sabbath Prayer from Fiddler on the Roof.
[The Words are on point.]
Here they are:
[Parents sing to the children...]
May the Lord protect and defend you.
May He always shield you from shame.
May you come to be
In Israel a shining name.
May you be like Ruth and like Esther.
May you be deserving of praise.
Strengthen them, Oh Lord,
And keep them from the strangers' ways.
May God bless you and grant you long lives.
(May the Lord fulfill our Sabbath prayer for you.)
May God make you good mothers and wives.
(May He send you husbands who will care for you.)
May the Lord protect and defend you.
May the Lord preserve you from pain.
Favor them, Oh Lord, with happiness and peace.
Oh, hear our Sabbath prayer. Amen.
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“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease."
Marriage.
Marriage according to Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
"MAR'RIAGE, n. [L.mas, maris.] The act of uniting a man and woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and woman for life. Marriage is a contract both civil and religious, by which the parties engage to live together in mutual affection and fidelity, till death shall separate them. Marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, for promoting domestic felicity,and for securing the maintenance and education of children.
Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled. Heb.13.
1. A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage for his son. Matt.22.
2. In a scriptural sense, the union between Christ and his church by the covenant of grace. Rev.19."
Dear Saints,
Marriage is a promise we make to God about another person, the person that becomes our spouse. When we break the marriage, in essence, we are breaking the promise to God, not simply a promise to the spouse.
But,... Why?
Why is it so easy to break this promise to God these days?
One theologian suggests that it is a "perennial temptation of Christians who seek to come to terms with the surrounding culture to bend the Gospel to fit the preconceptions of the culture." ---Bloesch, Faith and Its Counterfeits
How did we get here?
Well, even the philosopher/theologian, Paul Tillich futuristically warned of our current state. [Just a point of clarification before you read the quote that follows. Tillich frequently uses the term "horizontal plane." He is making reference to focus on activity of humanity without any reference to the "vertical" which would be focus on God.]
Tillich maintained,
"If the symbol of creation which points to the divine ground of everything is transferred to the horizontal plane, it becomes a story of events in a removed past for which there is no evidence, but which contradicts every piece of scientific evidence. If the symbol of the Fall of Man, which points to the tragic estrangement of man and his world from their true being is transferred to the horizontal plane, it becomes a story of a human couple a few thousand years ago inwhat is now present-day Iraq. One of the most profound psychological descriptions of the general human predicament becomes an absurdity on the horizontal plane. If the symbols of th Savior and the salvation through Him which point to the healing power in history and personal life are tranferred to the horizontal plane, they become stories of a half-divine being coming form a heavenly place and returning to it....
"If the idea of God (and the symbols applied to Him) which expresses man's ultimate concern is transferred to the horizontal plane, God becomes a being among others whose existence or nonexistence is a matter of inquiry. Nothing perhaps, is more symptomatic of the loss of the dimension of depth than the permanent discussion about the existence or nonexistence of God---a discussion in which both sides are equally wrong, because the discussion itself is wrong and possible only after the loss of the dimension of depth.
[And, Saints, here is the crux of Tillich's argument.]
"When in this way man has deprived himself of the dimension of depth and the symbols expressing it, he then becomes a part of the horizontal plane. He loses his self and becomes a thing among things. He becomes an element in the process of manpulated production and manipulated consumption. This is now the pattern of public knowledge. We have become aware of the degree to which everyone in our social structure is managed, even if one knows it and if one belongs himself to the managing group. The influence of the gang mentality on adolescents, or the corporation's demands on the executive, of the conditioning of everyone by public communication, by propaganda and advertising under the guidance of motivation research, et cetera, have all been described in many books and articles." --Tillich
My summary is this.
"Things" are disposable.
Man as a "thing" is disposable.
It then follows that "Promises" generated by that which is disposable, are also disposable.
Saints, it is distance from God that has led us here[to heights of irrationality], in a diabolically spun place of mind where even the current Webster dictionary now redefines marriage.
According to Merriam-Webster:
Definition of MARRIAGE:
1a (1) : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law
(2) : the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage
b : the mutual relation of married persons : wedlock
c : the institution whereby individuals are joined in a marriage
2: an act of marrying or the rite by which the married status is effected; especially : the wedding ceremony and attendant festivities or formalities
3: an intimate or close union
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Saints,
I contend that there is not only a loss of depth, a superficiality associated with our God-given lives, but there is also a rejection of the idea that there is absolute truth. Without Truth as absolute, anything goes. And, the absence of Absolute Truth is the darkness of Egypt.
The "darkness" of Egypt---when it slithers into the Church--- leads the Church to speak of the gospel as "a good way to get to God" rather than as the only way to God.
I agree with those that say that the Church is tempted to draw on the truth claims of other religions and philosophies in order to build the case of the gospel. The consequence then becomes that the "point of departure of the church is no longer divine revelation but religious and moral humanity."--Bloesch
In God's mercy, He has given us the Holy Bible to Light our path so that we will know the good Way and can walk in it! Amen!
The Bible says that Christ Jesus holds the whole universe together.
He (Christ Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the first born over all Creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. ---Colossians 1:15-17, the Holy Bible
If allowed, Christ Jesus through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, can [and is the only one Who can] empower us to keep our marriages together, to keep the promise we have made to God.
We must follow God's instructions in our choice of spouse, our role as spouse, our fidelity to Christ, our love of Christ shed abroad to cover others, including our spouse. We must ask for Wisdom from God, [James 1:5]if we are to bless our households, Saints.
I so love the lyrics of Sabbath Prayer from Fiddler on the Roof.
[The Words are on point.]
Here they are:
[Parents sing to the children...]
May the Lord protect and defend you.
May He always shield you from shame.
May you come to be
In Israel a shining name.
May you be like Ruth and like Esther.
May you be deserving of praise.
Strengthen them, Oh Lord,
And keep them from the strangers' ways.
May God bless you and grant you long lives.
(May the Lord fulfill our Sabbath prayer for you.)
May God make you good mothers and wives.
(May He send you husbands who will care for you.)
May the Lord protect and defend you.
May the Lord preserve you from pain.
Favor them, Oh Lord, with happiness and peace.
Oh, hear our Sabbath prayer. Amen.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Advice to a Generation - Revisited
Reprint. First Published January 25, 2011
To: John
From: Aunt Livvy & Uncle Mac
Dear Nephew,
Many ask, "What does it take to succeed in this life?"
This important question gets often asked of those devoid of answers, sought out in absurd places, places heavily trafficked by the clueless in physical and now virtual venues where there is no hint of answer nor for that matter any sincere interest in this vital question. Such a pivotal question as this requires serious thought as its answer has the power to determine the tone, direction, and caliber of the life you will have on this earth.
John, you should consider yourself the recipient of a great legacy dating at least as far back as your great grandmother on your father's side and to you through the Godly heritage on your mother's side. Your pioneering relatives on both sides of your family made strides guided by the mighty hand of God. If you take to heart the answer to this question of "success" now rather than later you will follow a righteous path that will honor your parents and your family heritage. Of course, it stands to reason that it is never too late to receive this insight, in other words, it is better to know the answer on this side of eternity than to go to the grave without ever knowing the answer to this important question. But John, you would be wise to not wait until the end of your life to know and operate according to the correct answer.
I have it on Good authority what the answer is to the question,
"How do I succeed?"
Uncle Mac & I discovered the power of the answer to that question rather late in life unfortunately, but we are thankful nonetheless to know and exercise it now.
Here is the answer, John:
The power is in moment to moment relationship with Christ Jesus and that secret is revealed in His Written Word, the Holy Bible.
God Almighty, the One who created you and the rest of us made sure we would receive an open letter, a letter that the entire world is invited to read. God made sure you were to get His message in detail by putting it in 66 books, transcribed by 40 human authors, to guarantee that there would be sufficient redundancy so you would not miss the message if you actually wanted to know. I have selected a summary statement from that compiled document for you. I have paraphrased it for you to further make sure you get the point. Psalm 1of the Holy Bible outlines the answer to success. Here is what it says,
"Happy", "Blessed", meaning "Successful" is the man that can truthfully say that he has not traveled this life following the advice of wicked people, individuals that have twisted notions; folks with weak-minded ideas that only appear strong enough to sit in when their thinking requires the amount of contorted twists and turns you find characteristic of wicked furniture; those members of humanity that appease animalistic appetites and in doing so neither reverence nor fear our Creator God. The successful do not take stands with those who violate God's law; nor do the successful comfortably seat themselves, having a stationary place among those who are hardened cynics, critical of all while not offering any contribution to the better. Understand this. Cynics cannot offer the good. Good eludes them because the cynic's point of focus is devoid of God and consequently devoid of that which is good. The very word, "good" finds its root in "God." That which is of God is the very definition of "good."
The happy man, the successful man, delights himself in the law of the LORD; and because God's law makes marvelous sense to him, this now divinely joy-filled, Godly man prefers to order his thinking according to God's Word, judging all that he sees and hears based upon the standards established by the Word of God. The successful man infuses his thinking day and night with the Holy Bible so that the Word, called to memory by the Holy Spirit, serves God's man to maintain worthy aspirations, well-chosen relationships, conversations, and all daily pursuits.
The successful man is happy, not simply because circumstances or people have made him happy. Rather, the success of God's man "bubbles up", "joy-filled", being very much out of the reach of the erratic emotions counted normal accompaniments to worldly dependencies.
God's man is successful because he has sought first a solid relationship with His God, maintaining as first priority his citizenship in God's Kingdom, free now to walk away from sinful life-styles, now having uninterrupted relationship with the KING of Kings, KING Jesus, the Savior, the One Who saves God's man in this world for eternal life in the world to come. But, Who also saves from the murmuring, monotonous, marauding that characterizes empty existence devoid of Him Who is by definition, the Way, the Truth, the Life.
In fact, God says that His man, this happy man, is well recognizable. In God's words, "… he [the successful man] shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf never withers; and whatever he does prospers."
Indeed, God says you can easily see the difference between God's "Happy" man and the man that is not God's man. God calls them wicked and says they are "like the chaff, mere dust or residue, which the wind drives away." The "wicked" lack the internal/eternal stuff that will enable them to withstand the scrutiny of God's judgment, that which can only be withstood by those in whom God can see the reflection of Himself, that is the very image of His Son in the one being judged, where Christ's blood covers the soul belonging to Him. Yes, God's man can come before the judgment bench justified, while those who do not bear Christ as their Righteousness will not even be able to join the congregation of the righteous.
John, for those who receive Christ Jesus as "Lord", meaning "Master", the LORD will divinely intervene and apply the full litany of promises that comprise all eleven hundred plus pages of the Holy Bible. For those who decide to ignore the open invitation to succeed, who decide not to decide [which is also a decision]consciously or worst yet, unconciously, putting off deciding whether or not to be profoundly happy, those who choose to ignore the offer afforded by the inventor of happiness, those people will have chosen by default not to succeed. In either case, there is a conscious choice to be made that you must become cognizant of moment by moment in this life, John. It is not something to be reserved for Sunday 11 AM services.
Being God's man really is a personal choice, John. Your parents cannot choose this for you. Grandma Maggie could not decide for you. Being in church will not do make this happen for you. Nor will checking-off adherence to the Ten Commandments; nor being exposed to religious education guarantee success for you.
Success resides in an active, personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, a relationship nurtured by daily reading and meditation on God's Word, the Holy Bible, so that He can inform your choices, give you right thoughts, right actions, and right words needed to best navigate all aspects of this life.
John, your Uncle Mac and I value you as a blessing from God to your parents and potentially a blessing to your generation. We pray with all our heart that you will heed the words of that book.
Don't just dust off the Holy Bible, digest it.
Don't just read select portions of it, read the whole thing.
Don't just read it once, read it every day.
Don't just rely on what others say about it, understand it for yourself.
God communicates this information to you, John, as He directs this correspondence to all who really desire to succeed in this life.
By success, John, I am not talking about avoidance of life's problems nor am I speaking of the wealth in the sense of a mass accumilation of things of this world. Life has its problems, its challenges, etc.
No. By "success" I am talking about finishing your run in this life without regret, avoiding debauchery and dissipation; and, operating in the full knowledge that you rightly appropriated and hence appreciated what God has given you to steward. ["Appreciation" is an economic term with biblical roots exhibited by thinking people, people that appreciate the value of that received. God's man shows thankfulness to God by increasing the value of all that God has placed in his hands. That is the precise meaning of the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30; Luke 19:12-28)]. As God's man you can increase all that God has bestowed upon you in terms of blessing and talents in such a way that when it is all over you will be able to stand before God, standing not with material items as they will all pass away, but with those things of most value that transcend the material world.
What are these transcending items?
John, such transcending items include a heart that has loved God and consequently (either consciously; or, better yet, unconsciously), a heart that has served God by serving God's interest in other people, and not just your own interests in others or in yourself. You can take the testimony of love that made it possible for you to love even those who are by worldly standards un-love-able, terribly unlovely.
In seeking God First in all things, God makes a written promise to you, John.
In the Holy Bible God says that He will indeed order every other aspect of your life John. He will order your life for His glory and for your good.
John, May you take God's promise to heart and be found faithful!
Faithfulness is a walk, not a one-time event. The walk began with sincere confession of sin to God. He is not interested in hearing anything else until one recognizes the need for confession and does it. Your walk began when you confessed your sins and accepted Christ Jesus as your Savior. Beware. One's walk can be very precarious unless one prays and applies what the Holy Bible says.
Since we are still in this world, John, get use to having a life of repentance. Confess your sins daily so that you walk in right relationship with God.
The wisest persons present are those that routinely delight themselves in and then faithfully apply the truth found in the only item in this world that successfully survived fallen nature of humanity unscathed, the Holy Bible.
John, it would be a good idea to make it a habit to start your day with prayer and bible reading. Don't just wait until trouble arises to pray. You can avoid a lot of trouble if you develop a life of daily prayer.
Our prayer is that God's Wisdom, the wisdom found only in the Holy Bible, the wisdom required to succeed in this life, will reside abundantly in you, John.
Dear LORD, please hear our prayer in the name of Christ Jesus. Amen.
---Livvy McDonald :)<><
To: John
From: Aunt Livvy & Uncle Mac
Dear Nephew,
Many ask, "What does it take to succeed in this life?"
This important question gets often asked of those devoid of answers, sought out in absurd places, places heavily trafficked by the clueless in physical and now virtual venues where there is no hint of answer nor for that matter any sincere interest in this vital question. Such a pivotal question as this requires serious thought as its answer has the power to determine the tone, direction, and caliber of the life you will have on this earth.
John, you should consider yourself the recipient of a great legacy dating at least as far back as your great grandmother on your father's side and to you through the Godly heritage on your mother's side. Your pioneering relatives on both sides of your family made strides guided by the mighty hand of God. If you take to heart the answer to this question of "success" now rather than later you will follow a righteous path that will honor your parents and your family heritage. Of course, it stands to reason that it is never too late to receive this insight, in other words, it is better to know the answer on this side of eternity than to go to the grave without ever knowing the answer to this important question. But John, you would be wise to not wait until the end of your life to know and operate according to the correct answer.
I have it on Good authority what the answer is to the question,
"How do I succeed?"
Uncle Mac & I discovered the power of the answer to that question rather late in life unfortunately, but we are thankful nonetheless to know and exercise it now.
Here is the answer, John:
The power is in moment to moment relationship with Christ Jesus and that secret is revealed in His Written Word, the Holy Bible.
God Almighty, the One who created you and the rest of us made sure we would receive an open letter, a letter that the entire world is invited to read. God made sure you were to get His message in detail by putting it in 66 books, transcribed by 40 human authors, to guarantee that there would be sufficient redundancy so you would not miss the message if you actually wanted to know. I have selected a summary statement from that compiled document for you. I have paraphrased it for you to further make sure you get the point. Psalm 1of the Holy Bible outlines the answer to success. Here is what it says,
"Happy", "Blessed", meaning "Successful" is the man that can truthfully say that he has not traveled this life following the advice of wicked people, individuals that have twisted notions; folks with weak-minded ideas that only appear strong enough to sit in when their thinking requires the amount of contorted twists and turns you find characteristic of wicked furniture; those members of humanity that appease animalistic appetites and in doing so neither reverence nor fear our Creator God. The successful do not take stands with those who violate God's law; nor do the successful comfortably seat themselves, having a stationary place among those who are hardened cynics, critical of all while not offering any contribution to the better. Understand this. Cynics cannot offer the good. Good eludes them because the cynic's point of focus is devoid of God and consequently devoid of that which is good. The very word, "good" finds its root in "God." That which is of God is the very definition of "good."
The happy man, the successful man, delights himself in the law of the LORD; and because God's law makes marvelous sense to him, this now divinely joy-filled, Godly man prefers to order his thinking according to God's Word, judging all that he sees and hears based upon the standards established by the Word of God. The successful man infuses his thinking day and night with the Holy Bible so that the Word, called to memory by the Holy Spirit, serves God's man to maintain worthy aspirations, well-chosen relationships, conversations, and all daily pursuits.
The successful man is happy, not simply because circumstances or people have made him happy. Rather, the success of God's man "bubbles up", "joy-filled", being very much out of the reach of the erratic emotions counted normal accompaniments to worldly dependencies.
God's man is successful because he has sought first a solid relationship with His God, maintaining as first priority his citizenship in God's Kingdom, free now to walk away from sinful life-styles, now having uninterrupted relationship with the KING of Kings, KING Jesus, the Savior, the One Who saves God's man in this world for eternal life in the world to come. But, Who also saves from the murmuring, monotonous, marauding that characterizes empty existence devoid of Him Who is by definition, the Way, the Truth, the Life.
In fact, God says that His man, this happy man, is well recognizable. In God's words, "… he [the successful man] shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf never withers; and whatever he does prospers."
Indeed, God says you can easily see the difference between God's "Happy" man and the man that is not God's man. God calls them wicked and says they are "like the chaff, mere dust or residue, which the wind drives away." The "wicked" lack the internal/eternal stuff that will enable them to withstand the scrutiny of God's judgment, that which can only be withstood by those in whom God can see the reflection of Himself, that is the very image of His Son in the one being judged, where Christ's blood covers the soul belonging to Him. Yes, God's man can come before the judgment bench justified, while those who do not bear Christ as their Righteousness will not even be able to join the congregation of the righteous.
John, for those who receive Christ Jesus as "Lord", meaning "Master", the LORD will divinely intervene and apply the full litany of promises that comprise all eleven hundred plus pages of the Holy Bible. For those who decide to ignore the open invitation to succeed, who decide not to decide [which is also a decision]consciously or worst yet, unconciously, putting off deciding whether or not to be profoundly happy, those who choose to ignore the offer afforded by the inventor of happiness, those people will have chosen by default not to succeed. In either case, there is a conscious choice to be made that you must become cognizant of moment by moment in this life, John. It is not something to be reserved for Sunday 11 AM services.
Being God's man really is a personal choice, John. Your parents cannot choose this for you. Grandma Maggie could not decide for you. Being in church will not do make this happen for you. Nor will checking-off adherence to the Ten Commandments; nor being exposed to religious education guarantee success for you.
Success resides in an active, personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, a relationship nurtured by daily reading and meditation on God's Word, the Holy Bible, so that He can inform your choices, give you right thoughts, right actions, and right words needed to best navigate all aspects of this life.
John, your Uncle Mac and I value you as a blessing from God to your parents and potentially a blessing to your generation. We pray with all our heart that you will heed the words of that book.
Don't just dust off the Holy Bible, digest it.
Don't just read select portions of it, read the whole thing.
Don't just read it once, read it every day.
Don't just rely on what others say about it, understand it for yourself.
God communicates this information to you, John, as He directs this correspondence to all who really desire to succeed in this life.
By success, John, I am not talking about avoidance of life's problems nor am I speaking of the wealth in the sense of a mass accumilation of things of this world. Life has its problems, its challenges, etc.
No. By "success" I am talking about finishing your run in this life without regret, avoiding debauchery and dissipation; and, operating in the full knowledge that you rightly appropriated and hence appreciated what God has given you to steward. ["Appreciation" is an economic term with biblical roots exhibited by thinking people, people that appreciate the value of that received. God's man shows thankfulness to God by increasing the value of all that God has placed in his hands. That is the precise meaning of the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30; Luke 19:12-28)]. As God's man you can increase all that God has bestowed upon you in terms of blessing and talents in such a way that when it is all over you will be able to stand before God, standing not with material items as they will all pass away, but with those things of most value that transcend the material world.
What are these transcending items?
John, such transcending items include a heart that has loved God and consequently (either consciously; or, better yet, unconsciously), a heart that has served God by serving God's interest in other people, and not just your own interests in others or in yourself. You can take the testimony of love that made it possible for you to love even those who are by worldly standards un-love-able, terribly unlovely.
In seeking God First in all things, God makes a written promise to you, John.
In the Holy Bible God says that He will indeed order every other aspect of your life John. He will order your life for His glory and for your good.
John, May you take God's promise to heart and be found faithful!
Faithfulness is a walk, not a one-time event. The walk began with sincere confession of sin to God. He is not interested in hearing anything else until one recognizes the need for confession and does it. Your walk began when you confessed your sins and accepted Christ Jesus as your Savior. Beware. One's walk can be very precarious unless one prays and applies what the Holy Bible says.
Since we are still in this world, John, get use to having a life of repentance. Confess your sins daily so that you walk in right relationship with God.
The wisest persons present are those that routinely delight themselves in and then faithfully apply the truth found in the only item in this world that successfully survived fallen nature of humanity unscathed, the Holy Bible.
John, it would be a good idea to make it a habit to start your day with prayer and bible reading. Don't just wait until trouble arises to pray. You can avoid a lot of trouble if you develop a life of daily prayer.
Our prayer is that God's Wisdom, the wisdom found only in the Holy Bible, the wisdom required to succeed in this life, will reside abundantly in you, John.
Dear LORD, please hear our prayer in the name of Christ Jesus. Amen.
---Livvy McDonald :)<><
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