Spiritual Battlefield

Told to be STRONG in the POWER of HIS might, we are told to put on HIS ARMOR!

Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.


The WHOLE ARMOR of GOD.

Whose armor?

GOD'S!

How much of the armor?

The WHOLE armor!

We are NOT told to put on our own armor. We are not told to put on some of the armor. We haven't been instructed to take just the boots and put them on, and we haven't been told to just pick up the shield, and maybe grab the helmet.  We are told quite plainly to put on the WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD.

This isn't just any ol' armor. This isn't armor we can manufacture all by ourselves and yet we really do believe that we can fight protected by ourselves. We do! Don't deny it! We believe we can fight the battle ourselves, off our own accord. We believe we have to fight all by ourselves and yet we are NEVER told to do that, not once!

When a person fights physically they have to use their own strength, their own cunning, their own smarts. A person who is jumped from behind is at a disadvantage and yet we have self-defense classes that can teach someone how to fight, even when they are jumped from behind. Some people train a lot to become great fighters. We can watch many television movies depicting great fighters, some unbelievably so. These fighters seem to be able to defeat enemy after enemy, taking a few licks here and there but overall they are victorious. Yet you have to ask yourself this one question- would they be any good at fighting had they not trained their bodies and minds to fight? How many people are just naturally amazing at fighting? Not too many. You might get the huge guy who knows how to swing his might into knocking out someone in one punch, but even he would fall victim to the trained fighter, right?

We can agree that a really good fighter is one who is trained, yes? There isn't a whole lot to debate there. To say the trained fighter wouldn't be very good compared to the untrained would be kind of crazy.  So if we can agree that someone who fights physical battles needs to be trained, why can't we agree that someone who fights spiritual battles needs to be trained?  Seriously. Spiritually trained for the spiritual battle.

The thing about physical fighting is that the majority of people I know do not have to EVER engage in that sort of fighting, not ever.

However, every single person I know HAS to engage in the Spiritual warfare taking place all around them.

The thing is- with spiritual warfare- often the ones who are losing this battle don't appear to even be the least bit injured and that's because it's a spiritual injury unseen, just as those we are battle with are unseen--

Eph 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Not flesh and blood. We aren't out there with our fists facing a flesh and blood enemy. Some of the deepest spiritual cuts will leave a person spiritually dead but thriving physically.  We can't tell when someone has been killed spiritually, we often don't have a single clue when a person has been spiritually wounded and is near spiritual death.

While we fight in this battle of the Spiritual kind, we are not allowed to see the spiritual bruises upon each other. Those living in the spiritual realm- God, His Son, the Holy Spirit, and the angels- good and evil- they see, they know, they can spiritually discern our spiritual state of being.

We are unique beings truly unique- flesh/blood/spirit beings.  Not a single angel will ever have true flesh and blood, they may take on the appearance of such, but they will never be real flesh and blood. God the Father has never taken on flesh and blood, but through His Son He knows, truly knows all it means to be flesh and blood. God the Son took on human flesh and blood, becoming flesh, blood, and spirit like we are.

We have to truly realize the spiritual aspect to our lives. Satan would have us ignore it completely as if it doesn't exist at all, but God tells us differently.

We are even told we will fight against those in the spiritual realm, those who have gone bad and desire to destroy our spiritual life.

So while we cannot see these spiritual foes, we can know they exist.  Is it an unfair fight because we cannot see our enemy? No. It's not unfair because we equally cannot see our ADVOCATES, our champions, our helpers.

We are told we must align with the ADVOCATE, the ONE who secured our victory.

We will be beaten and bruised but we can never lose the spiritual war not if we are aligned with our CHAMPION.  Yes, we will be called to fight against the spiritual evil that would tear us away from our alignment with the Spiritual Champion. It is only by staying aligned that we have hope and the spiritual evil wants to sever that alignment.

You'd think it'd be a cinch, putting ourselves on the side of the winners, when the war has been won. But we are on the battleground and we are at risk of being taken away from the winning side.  Spiritually seduced away from that winning side and made to believe that the losing side is really the winning side. In fact many will tell you how it seems the evil cheaters, liars, corrupt people seem to have a lot more wealth and prosperity than those who are not corrupt, cheating liars.  Many will say that their lives seem to be much easier when they aren't fighting against evil, and it's true their lives may seem to be better, easier, less stressful, but that's an awful evil façade of the spiritual evil one.

We live upon a spiritual battlefield and we can't let the spiritual evil lull us into blinding ourselves to that TRUTH.

By the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR more on this tomorrow.

All in HIS AMAZING LOVE! By HIS GRACE and MERCY, HIS FORGIVENESS, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!!!!!

Spiritual Combat

The Whole Armor!

Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

The whole armor of GOD.

We are in a war.  The war between God and Satan. The war between love and evil. We LIVE in this war. We are born on this battlefield and we are raised on this battlefield. Yet how many of us truly understand the war we are all participants in? Did you grow up being told that you are fighting a war? Did you grow up understanding that there is an enemy and a Savior?  Some people have grown up this way, but it's safe to say the majority of people are not raised with the knowledge that they are personally participating in a war. 

We've regulated all of our war talk to the physical realm and have neglected the spiritual. There are physical wars right now taking place where men and women are physically dying as they fight their physical war.  We know the toll wars can take, we can read the numbers and comprehend the loss of life. Losing even ONE life is a tragedy even if it does not affect you personally, the loss of ANY life is tragic.

The spiritual war we are all in rages around us at a mostly unseen level until someone or something calls attention to it.

We would be looked upon as strange by the majority if we pointed out the spiritual combat in our lives and the lives of those around us.  Some would roll their eyes and gesture that we are off our rockers and ready to be put in psychiatric facility.

People don't want to chalk up their bad days where everything seemingly goes wrong to being fought against on a spiritual level.

You're asked by someone- 'How was your day today?'  And you reply, 'Awful, I was attacked so hard by evil angels it wasn't funny! Every time things seemed to settle down something would come up. Soandso told me my hair looked kind of funny and of course an evil angel was right there to encourage me to get instantly depressed about my hair and become overly self-conscious. Then at lunch time I reached for the last piece of pie when someone else did and they rolled their eyes and me and there another evil angel was all too eager to encourage me to think the other person thought I was too fat and didn't need the pie, even though they didn't say a word. Then when I was finished with my work my boss came over and dumped another pile of papers on my desk and told me they forgot but they needed to be filed before I could leave. So, yeah, you guessed it another evil angel was right there to help fuel my desire to curse my boss, even though I did it silently. So, yeah, a pretty rough day, how was your day?'

Some will read that and instantly think that the person is just blaming 'others' and not themselves for their actions, their thoughts, their feelings. What those people don't realize is that on the spiritual realm evil angels are constantly encouraging any and all evil within us, constantly. People would rather believe that the spiritual realm doesn't exist, but it does, and it was in that realm that sin first began. 

It's a REAL place, a REAL fact, not fiction. We are just too darn spiritually blinded to want to believe in it. As long as we don't believe in the spiritual realm as a real life interactive existence then we will never fully believe in our Savior- it's impossible because He believes in the spiritual realm as a reality, He is FROM the spiritual realm. 

Jesus went about casting out demons- SPIRITUAL entities!  Do you believe that? If you believe in Jesus you have to. So was Jesus crazy for living with the reality of the spiritual existence surrounding us? No. He was drawing our attention to it, pointing it out, wanting us to recognize it.

We are told to put on the WHOLE ARMOR of GOD to stand against -

- the wiles of the devil.

The wiles of who?

The DEVIL!

That SPIRITUAL being!

So do you suppose we are to put on physical armor to stand against this spiritual being? Do you imagine there is physical armor of God? This is SPIRITUAL!

We have to pay attention to our SPIRITUAL life!

The whole armor of a SPIRITUAL God is SPIRITUAL armor for a SPIRITUAL battle.

Ignore the spiritual in favor of believing in anything but the spiritual, that's your choice and only you can make it. Let yourself be deceived by the leader of spiritual evil, again it's your choice.  You not believing in no way negates its existence. Do you know we are told this about the spiritual evil beings…

Jas 2:19  Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Devils believe, of course they believe! They know! Do they have the advantage of spiritual sight unlike those of us who are flesh, blood, and spirit? Maybe, but, their advantage is also their greatest disadvantage, they gave up all hope when they chose spiritual evil over spiritual love, they will never have a Savior, only us flesh, blood, and spirit beings have a Savior.

The WHOLE ARMOR of GOD is at our disposal. We all have access to this armor.  We all NEED to wear this armor because not a single one of us will escape the wiles of the devil.

We have a Spiritual Leader, a Spiritual Savior, a Spiritual Helper- we have God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We must commit ourselves to them- flesh, blood, and spirit all of it belongs to them who GAVE us our lives, our very existence.

Tomorrow we are going to talk more on the WHOLE ARMOR of GOD, all by the grace of God as HE wills!

We have to talk about it! We have to bring it to LIFE. To so many it's like the fairy tale Pinocchio- it's a wooden thing, not really alive. It's a part of us but not really recognized in it's fullest sense. We cannot afford to let our spiritual selves be made of wood, they have to be alive IN CHRIST!

All through HIS LOVE!

Strong in the power of HIS might

Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

We are to be strong IN THE LORD.
We ARE NOT to be strong in ourselves.

We feel weak, we recognize our weakness as we call upon our LORD to help us through our lives. We want strength and yet the world has deceived us into believing that we can gain that strength in ourselves when we can't.

 What does it mean to be strong in the LORD?

Are we left to guess at it?  Are we left to try our own things and figure it out? God seldom leaves us to wonder. God will NOT be accused of not letting us know what He desires of us.  We will NOT be able to say we were clueless, that's just not going to be possible. For everyone who cries out to God wanting to know what to do, how to handle living in this world, He has answered that cry, He has given a reply to them all.  It is up to US to listen.  We need to listen to God and before anyone tries to say that He doesn't talk, there are so many ways of communicating and if we limit them to hearing the voice of God as we hear one another then we are boxing God into corner, limiting Him, and HE WILL NOT be limited! Ever since man was created he had the attributes of communication that have gone beyond voice and ears.  People have believed that those who are deaf cannot communicate, but you ask the family of the deaf throughout history and they'd tell you a different story. Am I saying that we can know God even if we are deaf? Yes, I am. There is so much more to God than being able to hear His voice. The deaf can even read, yes? The blind can read, yes? The mute can read, right?  There are very few people that do not have the ability to learn to read in some form, even if it isn't the standard form.

God might not speak to us so that we hear Him giving us plain instructions such as my telling someone to do this, or that, but GOD does speak to us through His word.  His word is so incredible that it can be read over and over and over, endlessly speaking to us.

We are told this---

Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

We are to be STRONG in the LORD.
We are to be STRONG in the POWER of HIS MIGHT.

And then we are told THIS right after we are told to be strong in the LORD, strong in the power of HIS might.

Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Told to be STRONG in the POWER of HIS might, we are told to put on HIS ARMOR!

More on this tomorrow. It's something we've discussed many times, but it needs to be discussed over and over. This isn't a subject that can be exhausted, not at long as we are living here on this sinfilled earth.

All by the grace of our LORD, our SAVIOR, our GOD, our KING!

Truth comes to the LIGHT

Joh 3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Doing truth.

Truth.

We've talked about truth a lot because it's incredibly important. There are truths and lies, nothing else. There is nothing in between those two though many will tell you there is a lot between truth and lies. I'm not saying life doesn't have a lot of gray areas, it does but those gray areas should never compromise the ultimate truth and lie of a situation. 

We cannot call lies - truth, and the opposite is true as well, we cannot call truth - lies. If we dare to subvert the truth then we will reap the punishment that results. 

Satan is the father of lies.
Satan is the opposite of truth.

Our Savior is truth.

Joh 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Jesus is the truth.

If we do the truth we are doing what our Savior would do.

We come to the LIGHT and the LIGHT will reveal our deeds. 

We can hide NOTHING from God, not a single thing.  Everything is revealed to our God.

If we are a true child of God then we WANT all our deeds to be manifested, all of our deeds. We want the good deeds to be shown that we find our good IN HIM, through HIS GOODNESS. We want our evil deeds to be known so we can ask for forgiveness, so we can repent of them.

We can't HIDE from God so even bothering to try is completely pointless. Yet people do try to hide their deeds from God. When they believe in God and they believe that they will be judged by Him, they often do try to hide their evil, thinking that if they hide it then it won't matter as much. It matters, it matters a lot.  More often than not though, people who even believe in God and that they will be judged by Him, believe that He will forgive them everything no matter what it is and they don't even have to think about it much. They don't have to seek true repentance and forgiveness because they believe that God understands and won't fault them for their weakness, their sins.

We are told by Christ Himself to not sin, that sinning is wrong.  He says over and over-  'Go and sin no more.'   He does not say- 'Go and try to sin no more.'  He does not say- 'Go and don't worry about sinning.'  He does not say- 'I forgave you once so all is good, you're forgiven for anything you do in the future.'   He SAYS- 'GO AND SIN NO MORE.'

He is the LIGHT, He is the TRUTH and all our actions need to be revealed to Him, and we need to reveal them WILLINGLY.

Just as a parent who knows their child has done wrong hopes that child will confess that wrong to them rather than their having to confront them with it- God wants us to confess NOT to hide our evil deeds and YES our sins are evil, we CANNOT pretty them up, they are EVIL.

Joh 3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

If we do TRUTH - all that Jesus has told us we are to do in HIM- then we come to the LIGHT- we come to HIM- and our deeds are revealed and if we are doing those deeds in TRUTH it will be revealed that they are WROUGHT IN GOD.

We must do TRUTH.

3Jn_1:3  For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.

2Jn_1:2  For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

JESUS- we must live with JESUS in us, as a REAL part of our LIFE!

IN HIS LOVE!  ALWAYS IN HIS TRUTH!

Love the LIGHT, accept REPROOF

Joh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Joh 3:20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Light is come into the world.

Jesus.

Joh 8:12  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Joh 9:5  As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

JESUS the LIGHT of the WORLD.

LIGHT (JESUS) came into the world and men loved darkness (evil) rather than LIGHT (JESUS).

Why?  Why do men love darkness (evil)?

Because he does NOT want to be reproved!

Why don't we want to be reproved? In general, why don't we like being reproved?  When a person is reproved they are being shown where they've erred. We don't like to be wrong. Our pride gets in the way of our acceptance of reproof.

Being wrong about something is admitting to IMPERFECTION, right? 

We can say we aren't perfect, and we KNOW we aren't perfect, but we sure don't like to be reminded of that by anyone else. We go through life doing the best we can and when we screw up we never feel good about it, and we shouldn't, should we? Our screw ups point out our tendency to do wrong. Feeling good about doing wrong isn't something we want, right? Feeling a sincere repentance when we do wrong is necessary to the comprehension of our existence with sin.

When we do something wrong accidentally we still feel bad about it, we don't like to mess up, but the sad fact is - accidentally or not - we will mess up.  We will go through life believing that we know what to do, how to exist in the world comfortably enough to get by.  But we can NEVER get to that place where we are depending upon OURSELVES for our own goodness, for our right doing. We can NEVER get to that place where we excuse our wrong offhandedly.

So all too often people will choose to embrace wrong, to love wrong, rather than strive against it.  They will love their evil deeds so much because to be reproved and told they are doing wrong is too appalling to them. Feeling the depths of their sin is something they abhor.  They want NO REPROOF! They do NOT want to be told they are WRONG. They do NOT want to deal with the fact they are a vile creature in need of a pure, holy Savior! They HATE the LIGHT!  The LIGHT shines upon their evil in all its forms and reveals it to them and they shun the LIGHT rather than let it expose their sin. They prefer the darkness and the evil it hides.   That darkness cocoons them in a state of selfish self love allowing them to revel in themselves, feeling no shame, no remorse, no repentance, no need of forgiveness, desiring no Light whatsoever.

Those who LOVE the LIGHT will feel REPROOF.  They will feel the harsh whip of chastising not just once but often, very, very often. While our bodies might not bear physical scars from this whip, our spiritual body will be covered in them. We NEED these scars! We NEED the painfulness of reproof to remind us always our need of a SAVIOR.  To remind us that we do understand as much as we are able to that we will never not need a SAVIOR. We need the CONSTANT reminders. We need to bask constantly in the LIGHT because to choose darkness is to choose death, not life.

Joh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Joh 3:20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Please LORD reprove our deeds! Please LORD help us to LOVE the LIGHT! Please LORD help us NOT to choose darkness over any light!

It is true the world is filled with haters of the LIGHT, help us NOT to be among them in any way! BY YOUR GRACE, YOUR LOVE ALWAYS in ALL WAYS!

He that believeth NOT is condemned already

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Joh 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Read that a few times, let it all sink in.

So many love to say that people everywhere will be saved, no matter what they believe, but that's not what the Word of Truth tells us.

If we BELIEVE in the SON of GOD we will NOT be condemned.
If we DON'T BELIEVE we ARE condemned.
If we do not believe in the NAME of the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON of GOD we are condemned.

Can it be any clearer?

Do you believe in the NAME of the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON of GOD?

Right now in our world's current events we have numerous attacks and protests taking place against people who dared to be associated even remotely associated, with someone who made a parody movie against Mohammad. People are being KILLED by these protestors all in the name of a PROPHET, not God, but a PROPHET. Supposedly this prophet DOES not want violence and yet you see so much of it happening in his name.  Contrary to what these people believe, those of us who believe the Bible, believe that our GOD, sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON into our world, and HIS SON NEVER advocated violence.  Throughout our history people have chosen to ALSO use the SON of GOD to commit violence. Yet our BIBLE, the very word of GOD, the very words of GOD'S SON, tell us NOT to be violent but to submit to our enemies, to turn and offer our other cheek to one who would hurt us on one cheek, to do GOOD to those who despitefully use us. Over and over the Apostles and disciples of our SAVIOR were tortured and killed. People imagine that somehow God or their supposed prophets will be proud of them for hurting the unbelievers and yet that's not how it is at all. Those people are bringing GREAT SHAME to those they believe in when they commit violence. So why do they continue to commit the violent acts?  Why do they do these acts in the name of their God, their prophets? There is NO love in that violence, none. 

When a person disciplines another to correct them in error it's NOT supposed to be done with violent intent. When we HAVE to discipline it should be with nothing but LOVE. The correction is for LOVE isn't it? It's supposed to be about LOVE nothing else!  If you can't discipline another out of love then DO NOT discipline them at all!

Satan is a destroyer and all those that destroy are of HIM, they can be of NO OTHER.

We can NEVER condemn a single person whether they believe or not, Muslim, Jew, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, etc.. we cannot CONDEMN those individuals!  We can comprehend there are FALSE religions - many of them- but we cannot know the heart of ANY individual- that is for GOD ALONE!

If a person does NOT believe on the NAME of the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON of GOD we KNOW they are condemned ULTIMATELY by GOD- not us! We must have the HOPE for them that they'll ultimately come to the LOVE of God in Jesus Christ, this must be OUR HOPE for all- even the worst of the worst.

Only when we have this hope for others, even those we are tempted to believe are completely and utterly lost because of their acts and beliefs- can we truly say we LOVE them!

It's so easy to NOT love those who hurt us.
It's so easy to NOT love those who do NOT believe in Jesus Christ.
It's so easy to NOT LOVE period. Satan has made it incredibly easy for us to not love.

We talked yesterday about our creation and how we were created BY LOVE, redeemed by LOVE, and we have to LIVE by love in spite of the hatred that is in our world. The hatred is growing and growing and it will continue to grow until it has consumed almost everyone in one form or another. 

We must pray that we are not consumed by the hate so prevalent in our world.
We must pray for the LOVE of God to be in US!

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Joh 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Even though we are living in a world where millions and millions do NOT believe upon the name of the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON of GOD, we must LOVE them and NOT condemn them- that is for GOD to ultimately do. We are warned, they are warned, and the choice will be theirs, not OURS..

Please God, help us to submit fully to YOU and YOUR love and to trust wholly in YOU all through YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST our LORD.

The world through Him might be saved

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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If God wanted to condemn the world He would have done it at the beginning- when sin first began.  To condemn the world would mean condemnation to all. Truly it would be evil to have a world without any hope, wouldn't it.

Imagine it, no hope of eternity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Imagine it, seriously.

When you have no hope you are truly left with nothing but despair.  It's ONLY because we do have hope that we don't despair.

Many, many people live their lives unconcerned with eternity. Many live just for the here and now. Many are content to live this way and their contentment is nothing but a great shroud of darkness that Satan has pulled over them, blinding them to the truth.  They don't realize that there is an eternity at stake at all, because they've made the choice not to care.  They don't care about hope for eternity and if they do, they usually have been incredibly deceived by Satan who has told everyone from Eve and Adam on down to the last living person, that they shall not SURELY die, that some part of them will live on and on and on and death in the body is really nothing to be concerned about because immediately their spirit is freed to live on forever.  This is the FALSE eternity Satan has made from those who choose to be deceived by Him. This is their false hope when they even allow themselves to think about eternity.

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God did NOT send HIS SON here to this WORLD in order to have HIS SON condemn the world. 

Could Jesus have condemned the world?

Could He have lived among us and come to the conclusion that there is NOTHING good in us, nothing worth saving us for, nothing worth dying for us for? 

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We have to REALIZE that JESUS was GOD with US. JESUS WAS GOD with GOD before HE ever became GOD's SON as IMMANUEL, GOD WITH US. JESUS knew the PLAN before man was created. HE knew that there existed a possibility of mankind's sinning, we were created with that possibility- by HIM. HE KNEW. And He agreed that SHOULD mankind sin, that HE would SAVE them! He knew that sin existed, He was there when sin first came into existence through Satan, an angel in heaven, an angel right beside Him who chose to embrace sin and let it reign.   Jesus KNEW the awfulness of sin as a first hand witness to it's beginning. Jesus knew that the angels would have access to the human beings, but there was hope that these new creatures would NOT choose to sin!

BUT knowing there was that chance, that the chance DID exist,  God with God decided there had to be a contingency plan should it happen. They knew that these new creatures could go either way, and the LOVE they put into their creation was incredible. We weren't just offhanded thoughts brought to life. We were PLANNED, we were by DESIGN. A LOT went into our creation, more than we realize, more than we truly allow ourselves to comprehend. We get so caught up in the fight over evolution vs. creationism and such that we fail to realize the true depths of our existence as created beings.

We are MIRACLES, every single one of us!

Anyone who has had a baby, or been responsible for creating a baby can comprehend to a tiny degree the miracle of new life.

Science has explained away the mechanics of it all right down to our tiniest cells, our genes, our dna making it all seem as if we were in fact created by a cold-hearted, matter of fact scientist of sorts. This scientist in His great lab engineered our dna, manufacturing it out of substances at his fingertips.  They want to take LOVE out of it all, but LOVE is the true DESIGN, without it we would NEVER have been created, never.

We were created BY LOVE. 

Remember this…

1Jn 4:16  And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

God created us, and God is love, love created us.

Taking LOVE out of our creation is something Satan loves to do.

The LOVE that created us could NOT condemn us.

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

The LOVE that created us would be the LOVE that SAVED us.

The LOVE that brought the world into existence would be the LOVE that would SAVE the world, not condemn it.

The plan of Salvation is intertwined with the plan of Creation, they were designed together. Had we been created without the plan of Salvation truly there would have been NO HOPE for us.  We would have had to have been placed in the scrap heap if there had been no plan to save us. We truly would have had to have been blotted out of existence, all of mankind, if there had been no plan to save us.

Love is the driving force behind everything that God has ever done.

LOVE.

We have to believe this, and trust in the LOVE of our God, our Creator, our Savior.

May GOD help us to comprehend all that we need to comprehend in HIM, in HIS LOVE.