GOD needs to come first now, or He sure will NOT come first in eternity.

' Let us live and die with God. Sufferings will be sweet and pleasant while we are with Him. Without Him, the greatest pleasures will be a cruel punishment to us. May He be blessed by all.

Let us often consider that our only business in this life is to please God, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity'

The above quotes are from -  Practice the Presence of God - Brother Lawerence

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Let us LIVE with God.

Let us DIE with God.

Suffering sweet?

Suffering pleasant?

Without God-  are our greatest pleasures- cruel punishments?

Is our only business right now in this life to PLEASE God?

Is ALL besides pleasing God- folly and vanity?

Seriously, let's ASK ourselves these questions. We should have NO trouble asking ourselves, no trouble examining ourselves as deeply as possible in order to determine where we in our relationship with God.

Do you believe that without God the greatest pleasures will be cruel punishment?

We love our pleasures, we often live for our pleasures whatever they may be. When something interferes with our pleasures we tend to get irked don't we? You're going to sit down and relax but something comes up, don't you groan a bit? You've waited all day to watch your favorite television show and something else calls you away from it, again, don't you groan, even inwardly? You've spent weeks setting up a special date night and again there is interference even a natural- no fault interference like illness, aren't you filled with disappointment?  I'm not saying we shouldn't be disappointed, but honestly we do not like our PLEASURES interfered with. Yet, WITHOUT God those pleasures are NOT good, they are in fact, Satan disguised trickery that hide completely that those very pleasures are cruel punishments.  Pleasures that weigh us down heavily and we don't even recognize it.  Asked to give up our pleasures we shrink from that and start making up excuses as to why they are good and God would understand.  If we EVER have to ask ourselves or rather try to convince ourselves that God will understand our special circumstances we better take several very good long hard looks at ourselves and figure out why we are trying to believe God will understand. Are we really saying God will excuse us, that we have special circumstances, that our case is different.  If we have to do these things then we REALLY need to ask ourselves if our pleasures mean more to us than God does. 

GOD needs to come first now, or He sure will NOT come first in eternity.

In ALL we do God needs to be there!

In every job, every pleasure, in everything. If you need to keep God separated from any part of your life then you are NOT living for GOD at all, but Satan in disguise. You are worshipping the god of self if you have to keep GOD the Father out of any part of your life.

God DOES understand all our circumstances and HE LOVES US and will make it possible for us to LOVE and WORSHIP HIM in all things when this is our desire, to submit to His will, to have faith in Him.

It's no wonder so few will be alive when Christ returns, because so few want God in their life completely. So few believe worshipping and loving God, living for Him is the greatest pleasure.

More on this tomorrow by the GRACE of our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST!

Now and forever, amen!