Luke 18: 25 For it is easier for a camel to go
through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
I see a confused nation. They’re walking around dissecting
the bible as if it was written to be dissected. They believe in every wind of
doctrine and follow false teachers in a parade of arms waving them on.
Some might say I walk around in a blind ambition but let me
tell you, I am not blind to what the Lord is showing me. Maybe He tells you to
dig and dig to find the truth, dissect book by book to find the true meaning of
the Word. Maybe He is the one leading you into
false doctrine? I doubt it.
People are a curious lot. They need answers to all their
questions and they will shovel anything that someone is out there ready to
cover them with. They will call it deciphering Bible prophecy and to my mind,
they’re trying to know God’s mind and that is, to me, impossible and not
able to be dissected.
I think what people are trying to do is put a Religion into
a box, wrap it up and look at the beautiful present they have before them. I
was always taught to think outside the box and not to conform to what others
want me to think and believe, thus the very reason I consider myself a
Spiritual Christian.
There is a verse in the bible that has always stuck with me:
Matt. 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be
converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom
of heaven.
While I don’t feel in any way that this is a literal
statement meaning we should all walk around with pacifiers in our mouth spewing
goo-goo ga-ga, I do feel it is meant for us to become of the utmost innocence
that only a child knows.
When a newborn babe is wrapped in your arms, you are
touching innocence from the realm of God in the purest sense of all creation.
Did you ever wonder what was going through their minds as they looked around at
their new surroundings? I always thought they were wondering how to get back to
the God realm and as they grew and grew they found that there is only One way
to get back there and throughout life in all their journeying they were being
led back TO Him.
I never felt in any way that God wanted me to pick His words
to pieces, dissect book by book looking for meaning, I always felt God taking
me on a journey based on faith. The newborn has faith like no other. He is
striving to be led by his Creator. He doesn’t need to understand the why’s of
the things God wrote, or the how’s of how he did it, or the when’s as in the
precise time God created the world; all that a newborn knows is trust and
faith.
To become as little children always meant to me, to take on
the innocence and purity of faith and all that means. If you cannot see with
your own eyes that bible prophecy is coming to fruition and you need some
stranger to dissect and point it all out in black and white, you’re throwing
mud in the face of faith. You’re slaughtering all that God intended you to be,
a faith-filled servant.
“Religion is the belief in someone else’s experience,
Spirituality is having your own experience.” ~ author unknown
If you are going to fall into the snare of religion, you are
only following others and what they learned on THEIR journey. To be a
spiritually vibrant person of Christ, you will have your very own journey/experience
led by God, it is YOUR story to relay to people, not regurgitated words of
someone else.
We live in a world where ministers are telling us, “We sin,
we go to hell”, “You are saved by the blood of Christ, you’re going to heaven”,
“Sin all you want, you’re saved, you’ll go to heaven.” By the way they make it
sound, we’re all destined for heaven. I tend to think God had it right when He
said, “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not
enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Point blank, no explanation necessary.
When I think of Jacob, Peter, David, Noah and the other
sinners God used for his message to be delivered, what they all had in common
in the end, they had FAITH in God and ALL His works and needed no
clarification. (google and wikipedia wasn’t on hand) so they HAD to become like
little children tasting the truth on their tongues as newborn babes in purity
and innocence.
I Walk with Him.
Rom. 1: 17 For therein is the righteousness of
God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by
faith.
