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Before The Law Was Given

During a personal study, I discovered that in the entire history of mankind, there's only three occasions where God did an open display of His mighty power and fierce anger toward sin, than at any other point. And the amazing thing is that these incidents all took place before the law was given. Below are the incidents: The first one took place during the time of Noah where God outrightly expressed His anger toward man. In His anger He said, “ I will destroy all human beings that I made on the earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that crawls on the earth and the birds of the air, because I am sorry I have made them. ” (Genesis 6:7 NCV). I believe you knew about the great flood that followed. The second one was during the days of Abraham. The People of Sodom and Gomorrah provoked God's anger by their horrible lifestyle of homosexuality. Despite being aware of their filthy lifestyle, it appears as though God wasn't too convinced that He had to come ...
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Only One Life!

The journey through life is quite adventurous. Like the rising of the sun, and the going down of the same, so can life be rightfully described. But the difference between the rising and setting of the sun cannot be all static, or characterized by inactivity. Man's daily activities are not independent of decision making at any point. It can therefore, be inferred that our activities are driven by our choices. But irrespective of the choices we make, it is important to note that we have only one life to live, and that the decisions we take are sure to affect this single life either positively or negatively. Another thing worth taking note of, is that the end of one's life is not necessarily tied to or determined by his beginning. The beginning usually looks promising at first, but then, the decisions and choices made as one advances in life, determines his end. A typical illustration of how things could turn out in one's life, can be seen below; Michael could have be...

Tear Your Hearts

" Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish. " (Joel 2-13) In ancient times it was customary to tear one's clothes to express one's dismay, anger or grief. So long as the person concerned was sincere in his or her heart, God recognized it. However, as is the case with all outward actions, the danger was present that the emotion was insincere or uncontrolled. For this reason the high priest, for example, was forbidden to tear his clothes. The proximity to God, in which he lived, did not permit such an outbreak of human feelings. Against this background it is easy to understand the meaning of expression " tear your heart ". God is teaching us that turning to Him, which cannot be done visibly, is a process that begins to take place deep inside us, in our hearts. If I re...

There Is A Day For Accounting

" Each of us shall give account of himself to God. " Romans 14:12 A farmer in the U.S. state of Illinois once wrote this letter to the editor of the local weekly newspapers: "Dear Sir, I have carried out this experiment. I own a field of maize and ploughed it on Sunday. I also sowed it on Sunday. I did all the work on it on Sundays. I reaped the field and brought in the harvest on a Sunday. I have discovered that this October I have harvested more per acre than all my neighbors. The editor of the newspaper was not known to be at all religious. The farmer had assumed that he would sympathize with his derisive attitude. The letter was published word for word in the following edition. Underneath, in capital letters, was the editor's comment. " GOD DOES NOT ALWAYS SETTLE HIS ACCOUNT IN OCTOBER. " Not always in October, but the day will come when our life's account will have to be settled with Him. That is what motivates Christians to persuade peopl...

Setting Your Relationship With God In Order

" You know the commandments: Never murder. Never commit adultery. Never steal. Never give false testimony. Never cheat. Honor your father and mother. " (Mark 10:19) If I ignore a red traffic light, I not only risk causing accident, I also break the law. Yet even traffic offence is insignificant compared with ignoring God's commandments. Nevertheless God leaves the decision to us as to whether we carryout His will or not, for we are not puppets. Ignoring a red light only once can have a disastrous consequences. But paying no heed to the living God and His Word and thus missing the purpose of our life is much more serious. Many traffic offenders escape getting a summons because their transgression went unnoticed by the officers of the law. Before the Judge of all the world, however, not even the slightest wrongdoing escapes His eye. Everyone has to do with God, and if his life is not put in order with Him, he will be pronounced guilty at His judgement throne. ...

The Believer's Source Of Help

The Believer's Source Of Help " Blessed are those who find strength in you. Their hearts are on the road that leads to you. Their strength grows as they go along until each one of them appears in front of God in Zion. " " But that's not all. We also brag when we are suffering. We know that suffering creates endurance, endurance creates character, and character creates confidence. " (Psalm 84:5&7, Romans 5:3-4.) To be able to "go from strength to strength" the Christian must be conscious of the fact that his source of help is in God. Now we surely know that as a general truth, but our faith must be re-activated daily in order to accept, to hand over, to wait and to receive. Our life brings both visible and hidden troubles and suffering with it. How do we react to such trials? We shall not overcome them if we act as if they were nothing, nor if we rebel by asking the tormenting question, "why?" Faith enables us to accept them. Let...

The Wrongs Which Separates Us From God

" But your wrongs have separated you from your God, and your sins have made him hide his face so that he doesn't hear you. " (Isaiah 59:2) At some point everyone of us wonders, "Why I'm I here on earth?" We are all God's creatures, and our life makes sense only if we lead it in a proper relationship with God. This is where the difficulty lies and makes us ask these questions. Our disturbed relationship with God has been caused by our sins. If we are honest, we shall admit that we do things knowing them to be wrong. Sometimes they make us feel thoroughly ashamed. In addition, the egotism in our lives has an adverse effect, separating us not only from some people, but, above all, from God. What we truly need is forgiveness, to put our relationship with God in order. Someone suffering from cancer needs a doctor, whether he realizes it or not. The same applies to us regarding forgiveness. Once we acknowledge our problem, we can confess our guilt of sin...

God's Side Of The Story

" For everything that was written long ago was written for our instruction, so that we might have hope through the endurance and encouragement that the Scriptures give us. " (Romans 15:4) The tribe of the Guananos in South America now numbers only about one thousand members. Some of them are Christians. They even possess the New Testament in their own language. They naturally compared the Bible message and its stories with their own traditions. One Guanano man has given this report: "We have our own traditions as to where we came from. When I heard God's version, how everything started with Adam and Eve, I could not believe it at first. I thought it's a white man's story. However, the more I heard the whole story of God and man, it became all the more clearer that it is true, and I was convinced. Our traditions never gave us any hope: life ended with the grave, and there was only wailing and despair. God's account takes us beyond the grave wi...