Month: February 2017

February 25, 2017

I was inspired to write this because I so often see people around me trying to deal with spiritual matters in a physical sense.  I saw this first hand growing up, because although I came from a wonderful home, there was much distress brought on by devilish influences, which I didn’t learn about until many years later when I took a class on the Bible.

What I didn’t know was that the distress that I saw in my youth needed to be handled spiritually, whereas the people in charge were treating it chemically.  Nobody knew God’s Word and how to deal with devil spirits or how to operate the power of God and, alas, all I could do was watch.

In Genesis 1:31a it says, ‘And God saw everything that He had made and, behold, it was very good.’   Up until that point, the different things that were made were described as being ‘good’.  However, when it got to the section were it described ‘everything’ that God had made, it described it as being ‘very good’.  ‘Very good’ because God had made it; because God is spirit! – John 4:24 (KJV)

Man’s mind is designed to hold God’s Word, which are spiritual words, and yet the man without spirit often has a problem with comprehending spirit, because it cannot be detected in the senses realm.  We live in a very beautiful and wonderful world.   Nature was designed by God to bless us and to sustain us physically and mentally.  However, we still have major problems with sickness and disease.

Genesis 3:17b tells us, ‘cursed is the ground for thy sake’ – and from there it just mushroomed and grew until, as we can see now, man cannot cease from wars and disease can barely be contained.  All of this is because of disobedience to God’s Word starting back in Genesis, and then the continued disobedience of man to God’s Word throughout the years from then.

The answer to all of man’s problems is spiritual.  Man needs to come back to the grace, mercy, peace and love of God.  Jesus Christ said in John 14:6 , ‘I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.’  So Jesus Christ is man’s answer to spiritual problems; to life’s problems.  It’s so simple and yet we make it so difficult on ourselves.

If you can bring yourself to just make Jesus Christ Lord in your life and believe that God raised him from the dead, and work on living as he says you can live: as the Church Epistles tell us to live, lo and behold, the problems will shrink.  They won’t all go away, but they will be a lot easier to handle.

As we live our lives information and the means to move information will always bring us bad news.  This is the result of the Devil’s ebb and flow.  This will always be so until Jesus Christ comes back to gather his Church.  In the meantime, we can maximize our daily energy output with a healthy diet of God’s Word to make our minds and bodies as vigorous as possible.

Proverbs 3:5-8 tells us, ‘Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways, acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.  Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord and depart from evil.  It shall be health to thy navel and marrow to thy bone.’   How wonderful to know that all we have to do is trust in the Lord and lean not to our own means.  ‘…in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.’

Yes, life truly is spiritual, and I’m sure glad it’s given me a chance to have funglimpses!  Thanks for reading!  Will Grove

 

February 6, 2017

I wrote this on Friday, January 13th and in the minds of so many people, and many of them are Christians, it’s Friday the 13th.  In our culture, Friday the 13th is expected to be a harmless, superstitious day when anything negative can happen.  Well, isn’t that wonderful?

Psalm 118:24 tell us. ‘This is the day that the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.’  I think that when God had the Psalmist write this, He wasn’t thinking about how our culture would be perverting certain days in our Calendar by the influence of the adversary, and expecting bad things to happen on these days:  Halloween is an example!  I’m being silly, of course, God knew this would happen.

God sent Jesus Christ to do certain things so that we could have a more abundant life, as it tell us in John 10:10.  This was the redemption of mankind:  As believers, we can claim whole, healthy lives and rejoice in each day, as God would have us to do.  We do not have to rely on such superstitious things as luck.  We can claim the promises of God laid out in His Word.

We have been redeemed: which is to be bought back from the power of the adversary.  We have been sanctified, which is to be set apart as sons of God, able to claim the victory that we have in Christ Jesus.  That victory is being born again of God’s spirit:  That doesn’t mean we’ll never get sick again.  That victory means that we can claim in our minds the physical and mental wholeness that can be gotten via the new birth.

111 John, Verse 2 tells us that, ‘Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prosperth.’ (KJV).

This is God’s desire for us:  And when we get to the place where we can claim this, it is greater than any counselor or psychiatrist.  They are wonderful, but the good principles that they share originate in God’s Word.

The world is not going to change until Christ’s return and in the meantime,  the word ‘luck’ and others like it will be an integral part of our culture.  But as Christians, we are not dependent on ‘luck’ or the lottery; we should look to the promises of God to guide our lives.

Remember, we control what we put into our hearts.  Proverbs 23:7a tells us, ‘As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he’.  It’s fun to think God’s Word!  They are the ‘words of life’!

What a life it is to know we don’t have to depend on superstition to balance out our thinking, but rather on God’s wonderful Word, which lives and abides for ever.

In the meantime I will continue to have funglimpses!  Thanks for reading!  Will Grove