How often are we arranged the way we
should be? Life has its pressures which no one can deny. So when we to find the
sweat spot its pure bliss. Golf teaches you a similar principle; a player
swings a club and hits the ball perfectly in the sweat spot and the ball goes
where intended and this is extremely rewarding. The opposite applies when you
shank or miscue the ball and this brings with it immediate thoughts of frustration
which is hard to conceal leaving that individual unbalance. If you have played
golf long enough you soon see the true colours of those around you, as it is a
game that reveals character like no other.
Some guru’s propagate that in order to
be balanced you must have all the clutter removed plugging the gaps around ones
aura. Sadly they are misguided in their application, their intent to find peace
is noble, but without the finished work of the cross as their axis, true peace
will always remain just out of reach. Heaven will and can only ever be seen
through spiritual conception, without that event in ones life one will
continually clutch at straws looking for the answer to life and just when you
think you have worked it out you realise that you have been deceived. And so we
start again down some other road hoping to find peace. We all have an inherent
God given drive to search out truth.
Repentance in the Lord Jesus Christ is
the world’s solution and there are many voices that point in other directions,
but they are all lures designed to deceive. Did you know that the world will
strive to find peace and will eventually believe that they have arrived and cry
“peace and security”? It is at that time in world history that another one of God’s
judgements will be manifest and all because they rejected Him and shunned the Lord
Jesus Christ and his followers; “While people are
saying, "There is
peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as
labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.” (1Thessalonians 5:3) – Lets face it; I only understand that because God has revealed it to me
in and through His written Word. My eyes
have been opened to this true because I have been give eyes to see. Every born
again believer has been made alive in the spirit and we have received the mind
of Christ. Therefore we are now able to see spiritual truths, those who remain
dead in their trespasses and their sin cannot see what the Christian sees. It
is impossible for the unbeliever to have enough faith to believe what has been
penned; the Lord Jesus had this to say to someone seeking the answer to life; Jesus answered him, "Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the
kingdom of God." (John 3:3)
To the Christian peace will only ever
bare its intended fruit once we learn to right our wrongs, in other words until
we learn to put our Lord and Saviour first in every area of our lives. If not,
we will continually miscue in the zones we refuse to relinquish. It is really
as simple as that; trust and obey the voice of God. Seek first the kingdom of
God and His righteousness and then the other compartments to our lives will
begin to find alignment. Hold off in some slots and the peace of God will elude
us. Our God demands that we walk by faith in order for us to find “our centre”,
to be complete in every area of our lives.
With that in mind let us now consider
the instruction to the church at Sardis “"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of
him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.
"'I know
your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake
up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your
works complete in the sight of my God. Remember,
then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you
will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not
soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are
worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed
thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life.
I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.'” (Revelation 3:1-6)
Lord willing we will
unpack some of the detail in the next post…
Signing off
Tyrone
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