When God’s Justice Is Questioned. Part [4] 10/13/2025 (Morning thought)

Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine.

Don’t let any smooth talking preacher, soothsayer or bling televangelist tell you otherwise, for God does not cut a deal with us as mortals, where we come to the negotiating table with our own set of ideas, and preferences, the way deals are made when countries are negotiating tariffs. Instead, in His capacity as God, He sets the terms and conditions, and He bids us choose to obey Him with our free will, and if we so choose, He sends us His Holy Spirit to empower our choices.

That is the only type of discipleship or Christianity that God recognizes…. Exodus 19: 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 You have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 6 And you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

Exodus 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, all that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord…. Hebrews 8: 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

When God’s Justice Is Questioned. Part [3] 10/13/2025 (Evening thought)

Matthew 16: 24 Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself,  and take up his cross, and follow me.

First up, we must understand that He is The Creator and we are His creatures, and because of this He retains the sole prerogative to lay out the terms and conditions of discipleship. There’s a cute brand of Christianity on display in our day, where many additions, and subtractions are made to God’s revealed word, so as to make accommodations for personal ideas preferences and biases.

Some attempt to mix politics and religion into a diabolical brew, and then throw over it the name of Christianity. Others have incorporated pagan concepts and Darwinian ideologies into their own brands, and the result is my truth, not God’s. Therefore, the truth in the matter of discipleship must now be made abundantly clear. Following Jesus will call for self-denial, and obedience to His every word, according to the light that is shed on our pathway.

This is accomplished through the inner working of His Holy Spirit in our minds, but God does not by-pass our freedom of choice to force folks to obey. The choice is ours, and if we do choose to serve, love and obey Him, it will have to be on His terms alone. So yes, there will be times when you will have to grit your teeth in denying that which your human nature craves, and yes, there will be times when you will have to do mortal battle against internal and external foes, of which the internal foes are the most dangerous.

Galatians 5: 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that ye would.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!