Good Morning Peeps! How are you doing this Tuesday morning, good I hope? Are you having a good work week so far, I sure hope so? Have a good and very Blessed day today and rest of the week too! - May God Bless You and Yours In 2018 and Beyond!!! - “Are YOU 100% sure, that you are Saved and headed to Heaven when you die? Are you sure YOUR name IS written in the Heavenly “Book of Life?” Is there absolutely not a shadow of a doubt in your mind, that your Salvation is already secured and you’re just waiting on the good Lord to call you home to be with Him? If the answer is “No, Not Sure, I Think So, Maybe, or Probably, then you need to get busy right now working on fixing that. You need to be totally sure where your Soul will spend eternity!” And AMEN goes right here….
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The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “Try Focusing On The Godliness Coming Out of Me, NOT the HELL trying to get in!”
Holy Smokes! I have NO clue where this one came from or who it is intended for, but man! When I got this one I was a little nervous about where this one was supposed to go! But as always, I stepped back and took a deep breath and found me a quiet spot and just “Prayed On It.” I don’t always know who these Devotionals are meant for when I get them, until someone responds back to me saying “Man I feel you were speaking right at me on this one,” but I always know they are directly tailor made for someone. A lot of the times I feel they are directed at myself, yeah I know you are thinking, “that’s crazy because YOU WRITE THEM!” But again, all I do is type the words down, I never know where the words are going to come flowing from until I get my subject title and start typing. With that being said, it is with this train of thought, or line of thinking, that it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about, “Try Focusing On The Godliness Coming Out of Me, NOT The HELL Trying To Get In!” And AMEN goes right here! One of the main deterrents, when a person decides to give up worldly life and turn their lives over to Christ, is that I firmly believe Satan immediately dispatches one or multiple of his demons to appear to you and remind you of all the “Hell” you have been guilty of raising all your life! Usually in the form of one of your “Haters,” known or maybe even unknown to you until that very moment! “Ohhhhhh, so you trying to get all “Holy” now huh? I remember just not too long ago when you were kicking it at the club and drunker than “Cooter Brown” (no relation to me that I know of LOL!). And then remember that time you stole that whistle pop from that store when you were 10yrs old? And how about that time when you flipped your momma off behind her back after she “whupped your butt” for acting up? You remember back when you were hanging out on the block with the homies and you smoked that pot? (I can honestly say I’ve NEVER tried it!). And how about that time that you totally ignored Pastor “So in So” when you bumped into him at the grocery store because you knew he would ask you where you had been and why you hadn’t been to church lately??” Every bad thing you’ve ever done will be thrown up in your face once your haters find out you’ve decided it is time to start living for God, and stop living for the world! And AMEN goes right here!
Ironically, way too many people buy into this mentality and then begin to question whether they are “worthy” enough of being Saved. Now pause right there and let that statement marinate in your mind and on your heart! “Am I worthy of being Saved? Have all the dirty lowdown, evil, and unChristlike things that I’ve done in my past disqualified me from being “savable” by the Blood of Jesus Christ? Does that fact of me still committing sin daily remove me from the consideration of God’s Grace that would cover me IF I was Saved? I’m NOT perfect in anyway, don’t you have to be perfect to be a Christian to get into Heaven?” If you have to ask yourself these questions, then you really have bought into Satan’s BIG LIE! Afterall, that is the very reason Christ Jesus died on the Cross, so that every single person who desired to, could have the option to be “Born Again!” Dying on the Cross for ALL of our sins, past, present, and even future ones, was the whole point of Him dying on the Cross! And think about this, not only did Jesus Christ die on the Cross for OUR sins, but the sins of future generations that haven’t yet even been born! That is pretty deep if you really stop and think about that fact! How can you not feel like you are “Worthy of Salvation” when the opportunity to achieve it was given to you way before you were even born? Talk about falling for the “Okie Dope,” that is something we should NEVER question while trying to decide if we want to become Saved and Baptized, or even to Re-Dedicate our lives to Jesus Christ if our problem is that we have strayed away from Him! You are NEVER too far gone from Christ to find your way back to Him, or find Him for the very FIRST time! The Bible says that God will accept you just as you are, flaws and imperfections and all! How many of your friends, co-workers, acquaintances, or even some your FAMILY will do that???? That part is the easy part, the hard part, is the “walk” after doing so! Think about this, ALL of THE skeletons (poor decisions, sins, weak moments, etc..) that you have hid in your closet the whole time you were “living in, and of, the world” hoping no one would find out about them, God already knows about! And if HE can forgive you for them after you ask for it, why would you worry about anyone else? Here’s a tidbit of info you might call me crazy for saying, but I assure you it is so very true…….. “Satan has kept a very CLOSE eye on you while you were living in and “of” the world, He is keeping tabs on all the dirt you did in the spotlight as well as in the “dark” when you didn’t think anyone was around”! Why? For the very moment when you realize you aren’t truly happy anymore living a life full of sin and the absence of Jesus Christ in your heart and life, so you decided to do something about it! He dispatched his “peeps” to come and remind you of all the “low down dirty thangz” you did while you were still “of the world,” in an attempt to keep you there and to discourage you from leaving it! He isn’t concern about you all the while you are still living in SIN, He knows the longer you stay in that type of life the stronger the chance he has to gain your soul in the end. However, the very minute your emptiness and void that you feel in your heart starts longing for fulfillment that the worldly life can’t give you, Jesus Christ is the only answer and even Satan knows this! While you were still living in the world there was no reason to throw all these “Dirty Thangs” up in your face, because there wasn’t any threat that you my ask for forgiveness for them, but the minute you do decide to, there is a HUGE concern! Satan knows that the minute we sincerely ask for forgiveness, and then either be Baptized or we Re-Dedicate our lives to Christ if we have already been Baptized, that it is “Game Over!” Because at that very moment, it will be a done deal on him still having control over your Soul! His best chance is to catch you BEFORE you can make that decision and convince you that you aren’t worthy of being “Born Again when you ARE!!!” And AMEN goes right here too!
It is human nature for some people to be very quick to bring up your past when they see you trying to live right. What Christian folk as well as “potential” Christian Folk need to realize, is that when people bring up your past in an attempt to defame or “tarnish” your name and new Christian walk or attitude, that the problem is with them NOT you! They have a problem with you trying to be a better person and be a better Christian because what they see you trying to do they wish they were doing themselves. But for whatever reason, they just can’t seem to make the sincere effort to try to become a better Christian/Person themselves, so it is just easier to try and discourage you from trying to be. As the old saying goes, “misery loves company!” and that is so very true in many ways! They more than likely, will tell someone other than you about all the “Hell” you raised even as recent as last week, last month, or even as far back as LAST YEAR! But in some cases, will go back as far as five, ten, or even 20 years ago! Your secret haters have a memory as sharp as an elephant when it comes to YOUR SINS, but they seem to have amnesia when it comes to theirs when someone reminds them of theirs! Imagine how easily deterred a “Hater” would be to bring up a “born again” Christian’s past to someone, if the person being told would just simply say “Why you hating on that person so much for just trying to be a better person? Or, how about the time you got caught smoking pot, or that time you got so drunk that you passed out at a party and woke up naked, or, or, or, when you used to spread rumors about every person you didn’t like, or I could go on and on?” Instead of talking about them like a dog behind their backs, why don’t you encourage them on their new journey to Salvation?” But that don’t always happen does it? The person being told usually is too interested in hearing what the “hater” has to say about you, so that they can go and tell someone else! And that right there is one of the many things wrong with the human race in this day and age! Very little or total lack of a support group when someone leaves the “worldly life” to embark on the “Salvation” life! Instead of people coming out of the wood works to congratulate and encourage them, “haters” come out in flocks and start slinging mud at them out of envy! And yet we sit and wonder why the world is going to crap as far as human decency goes! Can I leave you with a question????
What category do YOU fit in when you hear of someone giving their life to Jesus Christ, the “Encouraging” Group or the “Hater” Group?
Can I get an Amen????? “Today, Choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ! Afterall, isn’t that EXACTLY what HE did for US on the Cross?”
"There's just "something" about the name "Jesus"
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