| Seek God ~ | | | | by whatever name we call Him, it is still God. |
| God dwells within us. If God reveals something to | | | | After thinking about it, I asked God if that were true. |
| us,according to scripture, that makes us a god (Jn. | | | | Heanswered, "Well, when they worship Jesus, aren't |
| 10:35). | | | | they reallyworshiping me?" (Ex. 34:14; Jn. 4:22; Ph. 3:3) |
| However, we are not God. If the Spirit speaks through | | | | Consider the following verses: |
| us, it istruth and it is God. It is God living through us. Yet, | | | | "Have we not all one father? hath not one God |
| becauseanother believes that makes them God, do | | | | created us? whydo we deal treacherously every man |
| we not consider the partof truth that brought them to | | | | against his brother, byprofaning the covenant of our |
| such a conclusion? | | | | fathers?," Ma. 2:10. "Seeing it isone God, which shall |
| In fact, we go such an opposite extreme that when | | | | justify the circumcision by faith, anduncircumcision |
| one isspeaking (in the Spirit) something we have not | | | | through faith," Ro. 3:30. |
| yet considered, wemay accuse them of heresy. We | | | | "But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom |
| limit the ways God can speak tous, do not recognize | | | | are allthings, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, |
| Him as God at all, deny Him, and therebymiss greater | | | | by whom are allthings, and we by him," I Co. 8:6. "One |
| blessings. | | | | God and Father of all,who is above all, and through all, |
| When people think emotionalism is spiritualism and it | | | | and in you all," Ep. 4:6. |
| issaid one has to pray through to get the Holy Ghost, it | | | | In all religions, can we not say they were at least |
| sounds asif one has to do something good enough or | | | | onceseeking truth? Jesus is truth, by whatever name |
| beg God long enough toget it. So, through omission, we | | | | we call Him. |
| teach that the Holy Spirit andthe Holy Ghost is the | | | | God is God, by whatever name we call Him. It is not |
| same thing; missing that when you seek Godwith your | | | | for us tosay who is saved and who is not; who |
| whole heart, once you want Him more than life itself, | | | | worships correctly or whodoes not. Correct |
| God will reveal Himself to you in such a supernatural | | | | terminology is not a prerequisite forsalvation. (God |
| way thatyou will never be the same again. For such a | | | | desires not yours but You. It is a matter ofthe heart.) |
| blessing as the | | | | But, what is up to each of us is to seek God, whowill |
| Holy Ghost, one does wrestle with God until God gets | | | | guide us into all truth. |
| all. | | | | "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what |
| When religions promote alcoholic beverages, we tend | | | | judgment yejudge, ye shall be judged: and with what |
| to runthe opposite direction ... yet, never consider those | | | | measure ye mete, itshall be measured to you again. |
| so drunkenin knowledge that they can not meet | | | | And why beholdest thou the motethat is in thy |
| people where they are. | | | | brother's eye, but considerest not the beam thatis in |
| There is nothing new under the sun; meaning history | | | | thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, |
| repeatsitself. Some believe in reincarnation. While we | | | | Let mepull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a |
| find no supportfor that belief; spiritually, we are | | | | beam is inthine own eye?" Mt. 7:1-4. |
| reincarnated each time Godcalls us into new spiritual | | | | "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, |
| seed. We still experience the samethings as people of | | | | andthat are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they |
| old, only in modern settings. Animals,insects, birds, etc. | | | | bethrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all |
| were symbolic names for types of people inscripture. | | | | thingswere created by him, and for him: And he is |
| Some teach worship requires a lifting of hands. | | | | before all things,and by him all things consist," Co. 1:16-17. |
| Spiritually, | | | | "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. |
| I lift my hands toward God's holiness whenever I write. | | | | And there are differences of administrations, but the |
| Do we not sacrifice to idols whenever we follow | | | | same Lord. |
| apreacher/religion/teaching instead of God? Do we not | | | | And there are diversities of operations, but it is the |
| sacrificeto devils whenever we settle for less than | | | | same Godwhich worketh all in all. But the manifestation |
| truth? | | | | of the Spirit isgiven to every man to profit withal. For to |
| Some walk in the flesh. Others walk in the Spirit. The | | | | one is given by the |
| lawis for God's children (not the lost) and is spiritual, | | | | Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of |
| asscripture can only be spiritually discerned. It is no | | | | knowledge bythe same Spirit; To another faith by the |
| wondersome were shocked when Jesus told them, | | | | same Spirit; to anotherthe gifts of healing by the same |
| "Ye must be born again." | | | | Spirit; To another the workingof miracles; to another |
| The Kingdom of God comes not with observation. | | | | prophecy; to another discerning ofspirits; to another |
| That includessalvation. It begins once you trade your | | | | divers kinds of tongues; to another theinterpretation of |
| thoughts for His andlet Him sit upon the throne of your | | | | tongues: But all these worketh that one and |
| heart; where God no longerjust visits but dwells. | | | | theselfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as |
| We claim the name 'Christian' as if that somehow | | | | he will. Foras the body is one, and hath many |
| makes usbetter. But, before people were given the | | | | members, and all the members ofthat one body, being |
| name 'Christian'; theyhad first become disciples. As it is | | | | many, are one body: so also is Christ. Forby one Spirit |
| written, they shall all betaught of God. | | | | are we all baptized into one body, whether we be |
| Just as there are lost people in churches today and | | | | Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and |
| those whohave remained in churches for the wrong | | | | have been allmade to drink into one Spirit. For the body |
| reasons, if we believe | | | | is not one member,but many." I Co. 12:4-14. |
| 'God's word will not return void' we must consider | | | | "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we |
| there arepeople who have found God among errors in | | | | ought notto think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or |
| religion; who may ormay not leave that faith. | | | | silver, or stone,graven by art and man's device," Ac. |
| We teach children that God is everywhere, except in | | | | 17:29. |
| faithsnot like ours. Instead of looking for God in the part | | | | There is only one all knowing God. "One God and |
| that istruth, we go the opposite extreme; teaching | | | | Father ofall, who is above all, and through all, and in you |
| children to believewhatever we tell them, instead of | | | | all," Ep. 4:6. |
| guiding them in the ability tothink and reason for | | | | But, before we can know what God believes, we |
| themselves (missing God's best). | | | | have to ask Him. |
| Once, I read where a lady was considering beliefs of | | | | (R) by Joyce C. Lock |
| the | | | | "For therefore we both labour and suffer |
| Indian. Though she did not practice their faith, she | | | | reproach,because we trust in the living God, who is the |
| began torealize that the god of corn, the god of rain, | | | | Saviour of allmen, specially of those that believe." I Ti. |
| etc. was all thesame God; that our God is the God | | | | 4:10 |
| who grows corn, the One whomakes rain! In her | | | | ................................................................. |
| conclusion, how we worship God may bedifferent. But, | | | | |