Nearer To God Or Away From God?

We as humans have decision to move towards God or move away from God. It is daily choice one faces in life. As long as we live in world, we face trials. The question is whether we move toward God or move away from God. If we move away from God, we deceive ourself which means we kill our spirit work in our life just like spirit of Judas. The moment we follow ways of God and not considering the pain we are facing , we will growing in our spirit and the pain will be turned by God into something beautiful. Let us change our perception about Jesus who is kind toward us and not severe. 

Further readings: Romans 11 and Mathew 25.

My One Year Of John Bible Study...

 

Tabernacle In Christ

God wants to dwell in us and walk with us daily. He walks with us to change our sinful nature. He turns us to different person. Just like Israelites was hated by people but God dwelt with them and changed their history. No one can destroy our strength and joy because God dwells in us. God has plan for us and we are not to run with the world. That is why God dwells in us. Hebrews 8:5, we can understand that we are to move as per the plan of God which we have received specifically from God. Moses built tabernacle based on the plan of God. In Old Testament, God dwelt temporarily in hand made tabernacle.The blood of animals cleansed people but could not enter temple. Now in New testament, blood of Jesus cleansed us. We in Christ. Where we dwell, He comes and we are in Him. Christ in us, the holiness increases.

Cross Of Jesus!

The Cross of Christ means so many things to so many people.

For many, it is nothing more than a piece of jewelry which they use to accessorise their clothing.

For some the Cross is designed for worship; they kneel before the cross and pray to it.

For others, the Cross is an object that contains supernatural power to ward off demonic spirits and the presence of evil.

But what does the Cross mean to you?

Paul gives us some insight in the first chapter of his first letter to the church at Corinth.

In it, he declares that the Cross is both the POWER and WISDOM of God.

It is the power of God because through the Cross, God forever destroyed the devil and his cohorts and broke the power and dominion of sin.

Because of the Cross - still today - the devil is a defeated foe!

It is the wisdom of God because in the Cross, God used a means that neither man nor Satan could have ever foreseen to accomplish redemption for humankind.

- John Torrens

All For My God!

And Jesus said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." (Matthew 22:21)

When we live in a nation, we experience the benefits of road, park or it can be various other governmental services. We render means to pay back or give back to the government in the form of our obedience to the laws and payment of various taxes. In the same way, we use render to things of God. When we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, trusting in His incarnation, His crucifixion, His resurrection, His ascension and His seating in the heavenly place. Our old identity conforming to the world and its sinful patterns has ended. We are made new creation in Christ. We experience the blessings of God in our life because all promises are yes in Christ. We simply confess and receive these promises by faith. We render our love, our praise, our worship, our obedience and even our very self because of all the goodness bestowed on us by God the Father through His Son Jesus Christ.

Word Of God Purified And Refined

 

In our daily life, we often times find people who speaks falsehood and we find it difficult to trust on people. Even the devil bombards our mind with negative thoughts saying there is no way out from our problems. There is only one place where we can fully place our trust on which is the word of God. His word is pure as silver is refined seven times. In the Old Testament, the promises of God were conditional based on fulfilling the law which man could not due to their sin nature. In the New Testament, when we are born again, we receive a new nature from God which enables us to live righteously. The promises of God are yes finding their fulfillment in Christ which means we are blessed by trusting in the finished work of Jesus not by our good works. Jesus has opened for us a new and living way to God whereby we have full freedom and confidence knowing we have answers to life issues.

We Are Made Righteous In Jesus

And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. (Philippians 3:9)

A divine exchange takes place the moment we trust in the finished work of Jesus namely His crucifixion, His death, His burial, His resurrection and His ascension. Our sins are washed clean with His blood and we are made righteous with the righteousness of Jesus. This righteousness that comes from God purely on the basis of faith not through the righteousness that comes from obeying the law. God sees us righteous in Christ and all the blessings of righteous belongs to us not based on our good works. Our self righteousness apart from faith is not pleasing to God. When we receive the righteousness from God by faith, we are being with filled with fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus manifested as good works in our life.