Image via WikipediaTest of this love.The real test of this love and respect is the submission of our wills and actions to his desires. We show our love, by desiring to do and actually doing everything desired by the person we love. We will be looking at the specific ways we show our love and respect. Two of the ways we will concentrate on our beliefs and our actions.
This will be done, by looking at what has revealed about him and what he expects of us. We will be looking and discussing various information reflecting the signs of beauty, truth, goodness, justice, and compassion of our Father in Heaven.
Religion is a sigh of health. Skepticism is a mark of illness. Unbelief is abnormal; belief is normal. For the normal human being will joyfully embrace faith and belief.
Each time God helps us through a moral dilemma; we become a little stronger, a little better, a little closer to him. God allows us to have moral dilemmas not to destroy us, but to make us whole.
How do you plan on mastering your moral dilemmas (e.g. money)?
We will look at his Justice and Love. God exercises his justice because he loves. It is for our own good and the rest of his children; that he will not tolerate our rebellion against him. He acts in order to bring us back to him and to our true selves. He becomes angry because he cares for us and cannot stand seeing us hurting ourselves and slowing our growth to reach our ultimate goal. He wants to also see us live as the human's he created us as; created for meaningful human lives. We only have to look at the following verses to see this: (Amos 3:2), (Proverbs 3:12), (Hebrews 12:6), (Revelation 3:19), (Romans 6:23), (Psalm 139).
(Christian Doctrine-Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr.)"God treats men as persons. That means, he wants a two-way relationship. he speaks and he wants an answer. He loves and he wants to be loved in return. He commands and he wants obedience.
"If you turn to God, he will turn to you. his love, help and life-renewing power are available to all, but effective only for those who ask for it. Or to put it another way, Christ achieved potential salvation for all men, but it becomes real salvation only for those who decide to believe in him, depend on Him and follow him.
"Was it not emphasized in the Old Testament covenant that 'it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he commanded us' (Deuteronomy 6:25)? Did not the prophets promise God's favor 'if you are willing and obedient' (Isaiah 1:19)? Dose the new Testament not teach that 'whoever calls on the Lord shall be saved' (Acts 2:21)?"
What are some of the ways we "try to keep God boxed up and out of everyday affairs?"
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