Sir, you don't know what plans of action I've already taken in life. All the jobs I've held, all the attempts to reach out and make friends, all the times I asked God to make his presence known in my life, all of which amounted to nothing. Sometimes people like me don't WANT "plans of action." We just want somebody out there to listen. "God helps those who help themselves?" Please, tell that to all the people Jesus healed without asking for it first.
It's judgmental people like you who drive people away from God in the first place. Just consider yourself fortunate that I'm savvy enough to know the difference. But not everyone is. Here's my "plan of action" for you: Take a lesson in empathy.
Hi HistoryPrincess,
To be honest, I believe that you are very close to the kingdom of God, from the words that you speak. But again I will have to interject and give you the lesson of one verse that I have been learning over the last few days.
Over the last few days I have tried to delete my account from this website and became very upset that such a feature was not available and was not implemented by the creators. But then I realize that it was God who brought me here and he was in charge of my life and not me, thus I came back on the site only to find that there were those, even if only a few who had a spirit of kindness, even one who I had wronged by not being merciful.
The verse I am going to quote is Hosea 6:6
Hos 6:6 For
I desired mercy, and not sacrifice;
and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
and also
Hos 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
I have come to understand that even though the context of those verses were to the people of God, Israel, who
God called my people, we too are the people of God.
God gave them to us as an example of what not to do else we too will be destroyed if we follow in their footsteps.
Again you appear to have been given a lot of knowledge by God. Yes and you must have worked very hard for it. (In fact Paul in one of his Epistles, boasted that he worked harder than all the other apostles). By the way to boast that you worked hard for Christ is not a lack humility, especially when no one wants to work for him, his own people.
With our knowledge we are expected to give it back to others. We cannot save them but we can share with them, with good temperament.
Mat_10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils:
freely ye have received, freely give.
In these last days it is our knowledge, that God has given to us and not to raise from the dead or cast out devils. We are the only generation of people who have been given the entire word of God from Genesis to Revelation (from beginning to end). We are a chosen generation and now are the people of God. Yes, even though we are the last to receive (because as Peter and John has said - This is the last time), we have become the first and most precious.
These are a few verses of what our attitude toward giving is. The bible states it is better to give than to receive.
Rom_8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him
also freely give us all things?
1Co_2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God.
Rev_21:6 And he said unto me,
It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
One last point that I want to make is that I believe that immediately after death we come directly into the presence of God. (those who are saved)
The unsaved go immediately into hell and afterwards into the lake of fire. (Again do not interpret these verses as earthly or temporal, it is a place or a state where the corrupt go and as we know from our existence here on this earth corruption causes suffering.)
There is nothing such as time in the spiritual world. Yes on this earth we have time but we cannot carry it over into the spiritual world. Time is endless, of course we cannot understand it now but we only know in part for now.
Heb_9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Do not try and interpret this verse only one way. God is infinite and often all verses have multiple if not infinite interpretations as God is infinite and transcends both the temporal and the spiritual.
Rev_14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write,
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit,
that they may rest from their labours; and
their works do follow them.
Our works - our goodness, our kindness, our love
Rest from our labours - this is our entire objective here on this earth, finding rest in God's kingdom.
All of my views here are personal and I am sure that there are many others whose experience with God transcends mine as they have probably worked much harder in knowing the One True God.
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