“You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glry and honour and power: for You have created all thingd, and for Your pleasure they are and were created.”

 

Note, “they are and were created.” God is still creating for His pleasure. God is still creating life in the womb. God is still creating unions between men and women. God is still creating families and al. Of these arefor His pleasure. God pleasures in lives and unions and families that love Him and honour Him.

God has, does, and will create for His pleasure and others Scripture adds for His purpose. You have been created for God’s pleasure and purpose. Even the lost will serve the purpose of glorifying God’s wrath, justice, holiness, righteousness in their eternal torment in Hell. Reader, ALL things are created forHis pleasure and purpose…all things, “even the wicked for the day of evil.”

Yet with this truth being stated throughout Scripture, persons think, persons believe God is there for them…for their use…for their ordering. I have heard preachers present God as a Santa Claus….”If you do this, God will do this.” While it is true; there is a type of spiritual law…if you honour God, God will honour you.  We love God because He first loved us. These are spiritual laws but this is not what these preachers are spewing. They speak as if God is a vending machine….put your good works in and you can. expect God to drop X in to your life or bank account. This is not how God works. We aren’t good so we can get. We are good because God is GOoD.

One (1) might negotiate with the Almighty but the spirit must be right and the heart pure. The heart pure….let’s speak to that for a minute. What is a pure heart? A sinless heart? I don’t think so, beloved. While we strive to keep our hearts and to guard our hearts, it still has the penchant to deceive us. The pure heart is the heart that is open and transparent to God….of course God sees everything….i’m talking about opening our hearts willingly, happily and inviting God to look. We are seeking to share with God all that is in there….even the stuff we wish were not in there…but we do not try to hide even that. We say with David, “Search my heart, O LORD.” Are you able to do that? Are you willing to seek out God and purposely ask Him to search your heart, your mind? If so, you are of apure heart. If not, you are not of a pure heart. Reader, be honest with Him, He knows it all already…He knew it all from eternity past. He knew it at Calvary, He knows it now. What you don’t know, is He took it with Him when He entered Paradise and their He left it. You keep digging it up, not Him. It is either you or the enemy that digs it up and throws iit.in your face.  It is not Christ. When the enemybrings it back up, laugh him to scorn and say, “oh, foolish creature, Christ has taken that and cast it away. That is something He shall never do for you….depart from me, satan, get thee behind me devil….in the Name of Christ, YOUR Lord!!!”

Did God bless Samson because he was good? Did God bless David because he was. good all the time? What about the disciples, were they perfect all the time? Yet they were perfectly loved.

Reader, if God loves you, it is unconditional. He did not begin loving you because you were lovable, He chose to set His eternal and abiding love upon you in spite of anything lovable. Does not even a human parent yet love the wayward child?  Does not the .shepherd leave the ninety- nine (99) to search for the one (1)?

Reader, He loves you if He loves you, You are loved by Him if you are loved by Him. Everything God does is for always and forever, beloved, Now, Be-loved.

Godspeed.