Beyond hope!

Someone may be toying with an idea, knowing that the Word of God has been rather specific about a certain decision in their lives but they are hoping beyond hope that it will pan out positively.

How can someone look “beyond hope”? This is something all are prone to do outside of Christ. Sadly the world has been hood-winked into believing beyond the reality of any given truth that has not yet arrived. The reason for this is that man’s ways are variable whereas God’s ways are everlasting. God determines all that exists to obey His Word, even the seas stop where they stop and go no further; all of creation obeys His voice! Phenomenal, and yet certain!  Mankind on the other hand believes that if they ignore the Word of God all will be well. However for those who oppose His voice, I can with absolute assurance inform you that it will end badly. Some like to believe that they will be favoured just because they are who they are. Breech the Word of God and it will cost you dearly! Eve took a chance against the Word of God; God specifically commanded her not to eat from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and she acted against it in spite of God’s warning and eventually experienced death, sadly she was not the first to die, but she ended up burying her son Abel whom her other son Cain had killed. A costly mistake! Here then is the lesson for all to observe and understand the consequence of disobeying the voice of God. A tone to His awesome power established way back in the beginning.  

I can with utmost assurance say that I am fully confident that if you heed the voice of God and trust it regardless of the opposing voices to it, it will be well with your soul, for this life and into eternity. God has promised to never leave nor forsake one of His own, praise the glorious name of Jesus Christ, my God, my Lord, and my Saviour. Bless Him even the more for here on in, Amen and Amen!

However ignore the Word of God at your own peril! But before it seems as if I am being rather harsh with my tone, please understand my heart in the matter, I’ve had to learn the hard way and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone else. It’s not necessary. Rebellion to God’s voice comes from the devil and his influence. If God says do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers is that not a warning for our benefit? It informs us that if we disregard his instruction there will be a consequence to our disobedience. It’s a help and not a stick. We must learn to apply that principle to every instruction through God’s Word and we will be so full of joy and peace it will almost be uncontainable. This is what it means to walk in the Spirit; there is nothing mystical to it. Disobey and it proves one thing, that we are carnal (a natural way of processing information) and have our minds set on the flesh and all it’s deceitful lures.

You may be asking, what about all the grey areas in my life, those crevices that are hard to breech, where you are not sure, do I abstain or indulge? The Apostle Paul covers this and apprises us to present our bodies unto God which is nothing more than a reasonable sacrifice. If we are born again, given the mind of Christ and we have His Spirit which has taken up residence within our bodies, then we no longer are our own independent individuals, we belong to Him as He belongs to us.

Christ had to die to redeem us from our sinful states and He took the brunt of God’s punishment for our mistakes and sins. We have been bought at a great price; “although salvation is free it isn’t cheap”! And by God’s design there will be a testing whereby our lives will be filled with decisions along the way; “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” (Romans 12:1-2) – Therefore there will be areas in our lives that will need testing to work out right from wrong, but we must always use the Bible to find the correct answers and once we have the understanding needed it is crucial that we act on it, so that we may grow up into Christian adulthood, which will benefit us tremendously. But above all to bring our God glory as we shine like beacons of light in a world filled with so much death and destruction.

Let me leave you with a very comforting thought which I too received from another…

“Human action is frequently the hasty result of passion, or fear, and is followed by regret and alteration; but nothing can take the Almighty by surprise, or happen otherwise than he has foreseen. His ways are the outgrowth of an immutable character, and in them the fixed and settled attributes of God are clearly to be seen. Unless the Eternal One himself can undergo change, his ways, which are himself in action, must remain for ever the same. Is he eternally just, gracious, faithful, wise, tender?-then his ways must ever be distinguished for the same excellences. Beings act according to their nature: when those natures change, their conduct varies also; but since God cannot know the shadow of a turning, his ways will abide everlastingly the same. Moreover there is no reason from without which could reverse the divine ways, since they are the embodiment of irresistible might. The earth is said, by the prophet, to be cleft with rivers, mountains tremble, the deep lifts up its hands, and sun and moon stand still, when Jehovah marches forth for the salvation of his people. Who can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? But it is not might alone which gives stability; God’s ways are the manifestation of the eternal principles of right, and therefore can never pass away. Wrong breeds decay and involves ruin, but the true and the good have about them a vitality which ages cannot diminish.” (Charles Spurgeon)

In conclusion when it comes to the voice of God our heavenly Father let us treasure it way above anything else in our lives for it can be trusted. Praise His name now and forever more, Amen!

Signing off

Tyrone