How I Feel - True or False?

Often people tell us, “to follow your heart or feelings.”  The famous Isley brothers once recorded a very influential song titled “It’s your Thing, Do what you want to do” and in today’s society it seems that many people are doing just that.

Some feel the urge to kill innocent people because of envy, greed, bullying, and/or obsession.

Some feel sexual urges that leads to rape, molestation, fornication, adultery and/or homosexuality.

Some feel that they no longer love their spouses and choose to cheat and/or leave their families.

Some feel they no longer want to be a parent so they abandon their responsibilities.

Some feel that life is not worth living, so they take their own lives.

Some feel that it is okay to steal from others things they may need and/or desire.

Some feel that they are depressed and/or empty and choose let alcohol or drugs order their steps.

I’m sure, at some point in our lives; we have acted on false feelings.  I know that I have but God’s word tell us, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding.”  I’m so thankful that God’s promises are real and His grace and mercy endures forever.

John 8:31b-32 “…”If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.  “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  So don’t be overcome by your feelings because we know that our feeling change moment by moment.  If your feelings or your actions don’t line up with the word of God then they are not true but in-fact false feelings and ones to be ignored!  God will not go against His spoken word by giving any of us the approval to indulge in sinful things because that’s what we feel and it feels right. 

2 Timothy2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  In other words, knowing God’s word will help you to know whether or not your feelings are True or False.  I pray that each of us will choose to live according to our true feelings today!

Prayers of blessings to each of you.

Love,

Benita

Loving Someone to Hell

In today’s society the phrases “Do You”, “Be true to you” or “Do what makes you happy” are very common and are often use to encourage or to validate that someone’s behavior is okay. We in today’s time have come to point where we believe that we are entitled to do whatever we want. In addition, there are people especially Christians who believe the same.



There are certain things (sin) that we as people may want to engage in that may make us feel good but will be detrimental for our salvation. Romans 6:23 warns us “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”. When we as Christians, fail to tell the truth and be honest we others, then we are in fact loving them to hell while they are in the midst of their sins.


Now every individual will have to stand before the Lord and answer for their own actions. However, when we know that our friends and or love ones are doing something to cause death then we should try helping them out. Our love for that individual should trump their personal desires when it comes to telling the truth regardless of their final decision. Henry Ward Beecher says “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”


Our love for people should lead us to give them good and Godly advice and not worldly advice. If the advice “Do You”, “Be true to you” or “Do what makes you happy” was really good and true then it would be okay for robbers to rob, or molesters to molest, murderers to murder etc. because these individuals are doing what their hearts desire.


I’m so glad to have had parents and others who never upheld me in my sin but in fact spoke against it. I am raising my children the same way. I will not let any past sins or possible future sins keep me from telling the truth concerning God’s word. I am choosing not to love anyone to hell but in fact to give hope in a God who is able to take away sinful desires and or acts. Psalm 79:9 teaches us to pray for our sins “Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake”.


Shailer Matthews believes that “Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong”. It is my prayer that we will not allow our love for family and friends to encourage and or validate them in sin but rather our love will encourage them in the Lord.


Benita

Stand for right regardless of your Past

Many people today choose to look the other way when it comes to sin. We believe that since we’ve sinned in the past we aren’t worthy to correct or point out sin. We will instead let others including our own children fail and get stuck in sin because we feel unworthy to speak out because of the past. When we choose to lock our mind and mouths to sin, we give Satan all the power he needs to get control. If God has delivered us from a particular sin or sins, we should share and try to help others from going down the same road or to steer them down another path.

We must share with people that God wants us to live a holy and righteous life. When people remind us what we use to do we must boldly say “Yes I did and just like it was wrong for me then it is wrong for you now.” Sin is sin is sin and it doesn’t matter your status or race there is a price to pay for sin. Be ever mindful of Romans 6:23 that tell us “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Make sure that your sin is in fact a sin of the past! It is hard to be a witness if we are still doing sinful things or not living according to God’s word. We must follow David’s lead when he asked in Psalm 26:2 “Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart”. David wanted to be right with the Lord so that he could proclaim with a voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all God’s wondrous works (Psalm 26:7). In other words, regardless of your past if you live right your witness can be pure and true.

He who does not forbid sin when he can, encourages it. Seneca: Troades 1. 291

Let us stand up for right with ourselves, our family, our friends and the world. It is my prayer that we won’t let our past forbid us for standing for right.

Be Blessed in the Lord,

Benita