OK I have been busy and that is no excuse not to keep up with this important work. I wrote this article last month, but just now took the time to clean up and post.
It is important to everyone to reject idols and to worship only the One True Living God!
God Bless those who have ears to hear!
SELF RELIANCE
SAY AGAIN?
What is self reliance? We are taught from an early age that we must learn to do everything for ourselves. We must become independent. We must not rely on others. We are alone and on our own??
Wow this is some heavy lifting for the young- for anyone at any age. I can recall putting this on many applications and it was the headline on my resume for years:
SELF STARTER
INDEPENDENT SELF MOTIVATED
SELF RELIANT
However, I must admit now that none of these descriptions fit me and they were not true. In fact, none of these describe any of us if we were to look deep into our inner self.
There some of us may find a spirit and a soul. This is our essence of life. It is the force which keeps each of us alive and kicking.
For those who believe -- really believe and have a personal relationship with God He is the only Being who is a Self Starter and fully Independent. Before there was He Was and is to come- Jesus Christ, Jesus Spoke everything we see know and feel into existence. Nothing that is now ever was until He spoke it into existence.
I will restate what I tell everyone I know as I fulfill God's Great Commission: We are born into this world with no pockets , no credit cards and no worldly possessions. We leave the planet the same way.
God does this so "None can boast" Each us must Honor His Grace and give all Glory to Him. For it is by His grace that we have anything. And anyone who does have some temporary worldly possessions really does not have them;. You did not bring it here; you cannot take it with you.
Therefore, everything you have or will ever have is simply "Borrowed" from God. He graces some more than others.
Then there are those who have material goods via ill gotten means. Mostly we See these people making “Idols” of the things they own. These “Things” become their God. Thus the Evil one supplies too but he does at a great price.
Usually the cost is your soul, if you cannot make it back into the Light of Jesus. Your reward for these false idols of material comforts on earth is eternal separation from our Creator- God Almighty!
The Devil provides these things to people to take their worship from the Lord Jesus, Satan is substituting the desire we should all have to worship the Savior and replacing it with the worship of material goods.
Worshipping Jesus and gaining salvation is for all times. Worshiping material goods lasts only in this life time, and you cannot take these things with you.
We must all guard against having or possessing "material goods or money lest they become the :false Idols" we worship. Then we forget that anything and everything is created by God via the Savior Jesus Christ.
In the end, as it is revealed in Revelation, Every knee shall bend and every tongue shall acknowledge Christ Jesus.
No one is an Independent Self Starter. No one can say "I earned it and it is mine"!
All you possess is merely borrowed for your short time here on earth.
Next time you are in the shower, look down and see if you are a special being who was born with pockets full of money attached to your thighs.
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