This is just a thought that has come to me when seeing what most in these last days see as good and what they love.
Men and women today love to get ahead by any means and cheat trample and lie to get to their goal. Men and women love to commit adultery and in every imaginable way and we could go on as to what men and women see as love.
Now men and Women see booze, drugs, and porn stuff good, the TV and all kinds of media come forth with it. Junk food as good and now health is going down the drain and obesity is seen with way too many.
We can only come to know righteous Good and righteous Love as we behold God and His Great Love and of His Goodness!
His is True Love and is Truly Good. True Love does no wrong to any in any way and will not lie and cheat in any way.
It is said Only God is Good and for us we are not inherently Good.
"Partakers of the divine nature." Is this possible? Of ourselves we can do no good thing. How, then, can we be partakers of the divine nature? By coming to Christ just as we are, needy, helpless, dependent. He died to make it possible for us to be partakers of the divine nature. He took humanity upon Himself that He might reach humanity. With the golden chain of His matchless love He has bound us to the throne of God. We are to have power to overcome as He overcame. {HP 59.2}
To all He gives the invitation: "Come unto me.... Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls . . ." (Matthew 11:28-30). {HP 59.3}
We must by beholding God and His Great Love and Goodness to us who do not deserve be changed to be not of ourselves no longer but to be of Him and for Him from here on out through all eternity must be our continual Holding fast in our minds, hearts and spirit.
His Righteous Love and Goodness instilled in us!
1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Very nice words, Gibs. Especially this struck me as being appropriate today:
True Love does no wrong to any in any way and will not lie and cheat in any way.
So often I see and hear, even among those professing to be waiting the return of our Saviour in the clouds, that sometimes lies can be good, or even necessary. They point out the example of what to do if you were harboring a Jew in Germany and the SS came to inquire about it. I say it is best to follow God's words every time, and let him accept the responsibility. Having said that, it is also true that we are to be as wise as serpents, and harmless as doves, but i don't believe that means we are to lie like the serpent did!
The way I understand it, Rahab told a lie, but as she was just starting to learn about the way of the one true God, her heart motive was approved of, and she was not only spared, but held up as an example of those who work to help God's people. If her knowledge of God had been better, she would not have lied, and God would have been able to work in an even mightier manner.
Some people say: "What about if the Nazis come by your house and ask if you have any Jews? Would you have them killed to avoid saying a lie?" I say always tell the truth, and let God take the consequences. I've read some stories where people were actually asked this, and they said nothing, and the Nazis searched, and didn't find anything. No doubt God helped blind their eyes.
So why lies are never to be told, you don't need to go out of your way to publicise things that don't need to be told abroad. I think Jesus gave us a good example by telling his disciples the deep meanings of the parables, but just the surface story to the crowds and enemies.
The way I understand it, Rahab told a lie, but as she was just starting to learn about the way of the one true God, her heart motive was approved of, and she was not only spared, but held up as an example of those who work to help God's people. If her knowledge of God had been better, she would not have lied, and God would have been able to work in an even mightier manner.
Some people say: "What about if the Nazis come by your house and ask if you have any Jews? Would you have them killed to avoid saying a lie?" I say always tell the truth, and let God take the consequences. I've read some stories where people were actually asked this, and they said nothing, and the Nazis searched, and didn't find anything. No doubt God helped blind their eyes.
So why lies are never to be told, you don't need to go out of your way to publicise things that don't need to be told abroad. I think Jesus gave us a good example by telling his disciples the deep meanings of the parables, but just the surface story to the crowds and enemies.
This has always been my response until.... last year a dear man told me that he has to lie to his wife that has altzeimers... he said that when she asks where her parents are and why they can't visit them, if he tells her they are dead [truth] she will cry for hours. So, he told me that he has to make up things. They are both in their 80s and he is the care giver and it has been very tough for him. Some times she will just take off for hours and be lost in the woods and he has to go out and find her...
I'm thinking that this might be the only exception...
The way I understand it, Rahab told a lie, but as she was just starting to learn about the way of the one true God, her heart motive was approved of, and she was not only spared, but held up as an example of those who work to help God's people. If her knowledge of God had been better, she would not have lied, and God would have been able to work in an even mightier manner.
Some people say: "What about if the Nazis come by your house and ask if you have any Jews? Would you have them killed to avoid saying a lie?" I say always tell the truth, and let God take the consequences. I've read some stories where people were actually asked this, and they said nothing, and the Nazis searched, and didn't find anything. No doubt God helped blind their eyes.
So why lies are never to be told, you don't need to go out of your way to publicise things that don't need to be told abroad. I think Jesus gave us a good example by telling his disciples the deep meanings of the parables, but just the surface story to the crowds and enemies.
This has always been my response until.... last year a dear man told me that he has to lie to his wife that has altzeimers... he said that when she asks where her parents are and why they can't visit them, if he tells her they are dead [truth] she will cry for hours. So, he told me that he has to make up things. They are both in their 80s and he is the care giver and it has been very tough for him. Some times she will just take off for hours and be lost in the woods and he has to go out and find her...
I'm thinking that this might be the only exception...
sorry newbie again...trying to get used to this new computer and changing fonts and all and forgetting to log in my 'name' lol
