A Good Steward

A Good Steward

2/26/20

How would you define yourself in the stewardship category?  Let’s be honest with each other here and not try to pass off some half based truth about this practice that all of us should be attentive toward.  Do we even know how to be a good steward or what the entire definition of being a good steward is?  How much of the blessings that God gives us do we use for His Kingdom, taking not only in to account money but also heart issues and what we present to others on a daily basis.  See, God knows our hearts and He has given us a purpose in life and He expects us to use that purpose for the advancement of His Kingdom to those who are lost.  In that light, do you have to stop and reevaluate such a definition of stewardship?  God wants us to be complete stewards with our hearts in all areas of His Word and we cannot become such Kingdom seekers if we do not properly live-out those gifts that He has given us.

A long time ago, I heard a song from Keith Green that dealt with a one-word title “Go”.  One of the monologs of his during this song said that God can’t cash out of state checks in Heaven, He needs you to go.  Most of the time we think that this job of going someplace belongs to the missionaries that God sends across the globe and a ministry that we have not been “called” to do.  So, we do the next best thing, send a check, or cash, or some other financial transaction in order to appease our minds from the guilt that overrides us.  While sending money or other financial means is a good thing, we are not completely doing what God tells us to be, nor are we following what His Word teaches us about being and living as a complete steward.  I argue with some folks about how they feel all good about themselves for working at a local soup kitchen or homeless shelter, yet as they leave their time from those worthy and great causes hardly anyone of them witnesses once to the people they are around.  This means that you have a warm bellied sinner and sheltered sinner, period.

God is not saying that we should be maniacs towards other people when it comes to witnessing to them nor does He expect us to be fanatics about saving the earth and the so-called “planet” either.  God understands that not all times of our day provides an opportune moment to share the gospel, but when we stop and take a thought or two about all the times we have been in those ministerial positions most likely we have had plenty of opportunities to verbally witness to them.  There is no question that we who know Christ as our Savior has the fullness of His Love and Light within our lives and even if we do not have the immediate opportunity to witness to those around us our inner spirit should give off enough light to trigger their minds and hearts enough to initiate the question of our happiness.  People need to know about the fullness of God and how much He wants us to all know and have what Christ gives us but until we have the burden for the lost our fullness is selfishly hidden and shamefully withheld from those who need it most.  This, my friends is not a complete steward for God and we are not in line with His Word but only lined up with the world.  There are many passages that could be used to enhance what God wants us to hear today, but He has chosen a single verse to complete His message and it is Psalms 24:1.

Psalms 24:1

“The Earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”

Hebrew

“A Psalm of David. The earth [is] the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.”

While stewardship is not strictly limited to money or any other type of physical financial dealing, it does include many aspects of the physical and spiritual components of our lives.  We cannot deny that the first command of work given to us in the Garden of Eden was to dress and to keep the Garden of Eden up with its pure and true growth pattern.  God also does not mean for this article to be strictly an environmental issue either for God would rather have humans hug each other in unity than spend a great deal of time hugging trees, grass, rocks, or anything else that would take time away from increasing our relationship with Him.  Being good stewards with our own personal grooming is part of this topic as well and must be kept in order to provide a pure example of completeness in our presence.  Our responsibility with the world did not end with the Garden of Eden but was enhanced through our departure, a detail that Satan has used against the true calling and mission of our purpose.  Many of us believe or act like we believe, that when mankind sinned that God’s purpose for our lives left and died as well, it did not.  Nothing about God can die neither can the Laws of God everything God establishes lives for eternity.

David reiterates this truth about the earth right up front in this verse.  The earth does belong to God since the earth was created by God and God alone.  Ever since mankind was created, it has been our responsibility to keep it up and in proper order through a specific order established by God and not mankind.  This is where we fall into trouble many times is that we through our sinful pride decide to place our ambitions and ways into the mold so that we can define what is correct and what is necessary to make the world complete.  Over and over, God states in His Word that He is the author and eternal Creator of the earth and that everything about the earth is His from the beginning.  It is when we try to rearrange this order of God’s that we fail and as long as we have this rearrangement concern our offerings shall fail miserably and end up making things worse than before.  It actually has a compounding effect that adds to the pile of rubbish instead of making issues better.  This is not just true for the earth issues either if we try to place our own conditions and order first in anything, those projects shall fail.  Ever since the fall of humanity, we have had to work the ground in order to produce and to sustain the needs of humans; lest we forget that as we work up the land beneath our feet so do we need to properly work up the soil of our hearts in the same correct and pure methods.

Now let us take the word fullness that is used here in this small verse.  This word comes from the Hebrew word “umelowah” which means that which fills, handful, mass, multitude, entire contents, full length, full line.  How much more explanation can one need in order to form a truth about what and how we are to contend with the Word of God?  We have another perfect example of the completeness of God and how He expects us to live in return.  We need to understand that not only does the earth belong to God but the completeness of the entire world belongs to God as well; John 3:16 tells us this fact.  This means the weather patterns, growth patterns of the vegetation and animals, the ozone and atmospheric conditions, airflow and wind, birds and sea life, and everything else that makes up the world belongs to God.  God is a complete God on all areas of existence and until we admit to all nations that He alone is the eternal Creator of all things our belief and eyewitness accounts of life itself shall be skewed.  God does not intend nor has He ever contended on us understanding only a partial presence of our existence or His existence.  God shall continue to show us that He is a complete God and that His fullness Creates His fullness in the world, nothing more and nothing less.  Remember, being complete also means being continual.

The last portion of the fullness of God has to with humanity and everything that God wants from His prized Creations.  How do we present ourselves to God in the capacity of this verse is the question at hand?  A quite striking comparison can be looked at by our actions and words concerning God and His Ways versus how we conduct our daily lives according to how we actually complete our journey.  In order to maintain a godly pattern of completeness we must include all portion of our lives, this includes our bodies both inside and outside.  God is not telling us to continually try and mold our lives into a worldly pattern but to ensure that our actions speak just as loud as our words for this is the example of a good steward.  We must do all we can to make sure that while we are helping the people around us that we are preparing them for God’s Kingdom as well.  Remember, we were created from the earth and that means that we should respect the earth according to our order of Creation because if we do not then we fall into the death trap of sinful livelihood which has no place with God.

More importantly, we need to understand that everything that this verse previously mentioned falls into God’s Order according to its creation status and therefore obeys His commands each and every second.  It is also obvious that the most important Creation that God has made should convey this same eternal Order yet we choose to obey our own ambitions and wishes thus placing the entire versed objects into jeopardy because of this stubbornness.  Adam and Eve did serve God to their fullest for a while and their blessings were given to them on a daily basis, but when they entertained sin and finally gave into temptation, those free-flowing blessings became difficult to obtain.  Their order of Creation did not change, only the options of their state of being changed, God had created within them a connection to Him which still continues and connects today.  Satan used the fruit of a tree to trip up and allow sin into our lives, but it was our choice to say yes to sin, not anyone else’s.  Obedience is the only key in regards to living our lives as a good steward.

When we do not continue the set standard of stewardship that God has set before us, there can only be one result, destruction.  Adam and Eve were given the task to keep the entire Garden of Eden and Jesus gave us the task to go into all the world, Adam and Eve fell when they narrowed their keeping just to themselves and we are currently repeating the exact same pattern with the Word that Jesus gave us to do.  In the case of Adam and Eve, they lost their incredible stature due to narrow sightedness and as stated above, we are following in the same pattern as they.  We have an opportunity to change this status before our world that we know it is taken away from us due to our own narrow sightedness; do we really want this?  The time is at hand Church to change the way the world looks at us, we are not the friends of the world’s spirit but ones that should do our best to show it the eternal light of Salvation.  Adam and Eve set an example that we need to study over and over and do our best to change that pattern; we are closer than one wishes to think about losing our Eden.  God never leaves His children out of His picture, for if His children were not present then how could He prove to the darkness that His plan of life is the Way to live and to experience it?

So, what say you Church?  How is your record on witnessing to those who do not know God and telling them about how their lives would be made complete by honoring God and His Ways?  We know how good we have been about the environmental issues and all of the other social contact items that we have joined with the world in promoting, but what about the most single issue concerning God’s heart; the eternal position of human hearts and spirits?  What is our standing as being good stewards in this area?  As Keith Green sang so many years ago, God cannot cash out of state checks in Heaven, He needs us.  We are the only ones with the ability to witness t others and it is this keeping and dressing that God desires that we continually hold sacred.  God does not need the world, He needs humans, all humans.  If we decide to choose to talk about the environment, that is a good thing but it shall never save anyone from hell.  Church, let us start preaching the Truth to this dying world, and not only can we clean up the inner world of countless people, but we will be cleaning up the physical as well.  It is all of this verse placed together that contributes as being a good steward, and I pray that my house shall be this complete steward.

DLB

The Recipe To Be A Complete Being

The Recipe To Be A Complete Being

2/8/20

There can be no question that it would be everyone’s goal and desire to be a complete person in all aspects of our lives.  We hold the key to this mystery close to our lives, closer than many believe yet at the same time it seems like the answer is a million miles from our heartbeat.  The ingredients to this recipe are quite simple and when followed in the proper order form a masterpiece of completion that everyone will admire.  It does not take too much time to line up the ingredients and when we do it will quickly be noticed as we grow from nothing to a completed form.  God is the author of life; He formed our beginnings and gave us the breath of life so that we can become a complete being.  All we have to do is acknowledge this order and God guarantees us an answer to every problem the world throws at us and an eternity of growing and learning about Him without end.  God beckons us to follow Him and to live for Him and when we do He promises us that our lives shall know completion.

The past three articles that have been shared by God have all been directed from one simple and short verse in Genesis.  I continue to be amazed at how much information God has given to us through the first three chapters of this book, and I have a feeling that His Word on these three chapters is not even close to being finished, so we look forward to this article topic and further lessons about our existence and God’s eternal and perfect handiwork in them.  In a world that is filled with roads and crossroads that are presented to our hearts and eyes each day, it can seem overwhelming at times especially when these types of scenarios demand quick or even immediate results from us.  If we stand back and notice others around us and how they are reacting to such trials and competitive settings, we can get a general idea of who is in charge of their life, therefore, giving us an inroad about how to address them when the time becomes ripe.  What?  Why would we address them?  Well, we are commanded to because when you study the first three chapters of Genesis its content is all about advancing God’s Kingdom through the Ways of God, that is why.

It does not take too long each day to figure out that the world presents countless opportunities of division by the time we get out of the shower, and since this sect of dangerous presentations can cost us great numbers, don’t you think you should be on the up and up of how to overcome such obstacles?  Many ideas of how to combat and to win such encounters may run through our heads on a second by second basis but do these ideas come with complete results or do they come out of a confused and divided person?  See, if our lives are not lined up in the correct order first, there is no way possible that we can expect our ideas and presentations to life’s situations to work and to solve these issues completely.  Luckily, we have that solution to a complete being and a complete life at our fingertips and the source of this truth and completeness is the Bible.  And you know what, we do not have to turn very far into this wonderful book to find the answer of how to live a complete life and to be everything that we want to be.

Sham after sham shall only be produced by the world, it is our job to push back those shams and to end their presence before they hurt others.  How many of you like to put puzzles together?  I know that most of my family would rather sit down for a spell and work on a puzzle for a set amount of time each day just to clear their mind of the events that transpired.  However, with all of these events occurring on a constant basis, it is very seldom that we get the time to complete such a relaxing feat.  But, at the same time isn’t it a shame and a disappointment when we get to the end of the puzzle and find out that we have lost a single piece or a few pieces?  We have looked in many places but cannot seem to find a few pieces to make things complete.  The picture has not changed but without all of the pieces in place and in their correct order, the end cannot be reached.  Yes, this is a sham and a process of work that shall not be fulfilled and that is all that the world shall give you if you place your trust in it instead of your Creator.

In the job that I do, I have to give laboratory results to the nurses and doctors so that adequate treatment can be given to the patients who come into our infusion clinic.  On the chemistry side of things, my instrument takes a portion of the sample that has been placed in the instrument rack and then delivers it to the prepared slides that have been programmed for completion.  The serum must be placed on the slide first before any other process of identification can be done.  If the slide is placed inside the incubator before the patient’s serum arrives on it, no true result will be present, yes a result will come out but as soon as it appears the person operating the instrument will know that some step was out of order and deem the result invalid.  This delivery system on my instrument completes this simple task fifteen times during a routine and normal chemistry panel, following the exact same programmed pathway each time on each sample presented.  There are no exceptions to this rule, it is followed correctly each time to receive a completed chemistry panel.  If there are any issues with this pattern, the process stops and a loud beeping noise will proceed to grab my attention and I better find out what is going on before another specimen can be run.

God has given us three previous article topics on a single verse in Genesis, and now we come to the completion of these articles with the final touch in the plan that God has for each one of you.  As we have read previously, God has used this verse to tie together the question that so many people are begging to be answered and that is who is my father and where did I come from.  God is our Father, He always has been, He is now, and He shall be.  It is a simple answer that will clarify so much within your heart if we just believe this simple verse.  Genesis 2:7 will again be the single reference verse for this article and it reads as follows:

Genesis 2:7

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Hebrew

“Then the Lord God formed man [from] the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils and the man became a living being.”

As mentioned in the previous articles, this verse has a specific order that must be completed in order, this is especially true if we are going to understand and then live in the last portion of this verse.  There is no way possible that we can have the desired content of this verse if we do not believe in the first three portions of this verse.  Of course, it all starts with God and the belief that He is the Author of Life, then we cannot forget He was the one that formed us from the ground, breathed the breath of life into our nostrils and then and only then did we become a living being.  Since God operates in a specific order in all things and since He cannot break such order or form it in any other pattern we cannot be complete until we fully grasp this entire verse in the order that it was written, for once God wrote it, the pattern shall not change for completion.  In the above example, it is proven that if this continued process is not accurately done each time results will be affected and will not produce the desired content needed to perform specific tasks, so why do we believe that our lives – the ones who invented this instrumental pathway in the first place – believe that our lives should be run in another manner?

Yes, I could report out flawed answers to those who need them for drug release, but when the results would be seen on the computer screen I guarantee you that someone would open my door to my lab and start asking questions about those compromised results.  Those results might have been noticed by the computer as completed but they are not in the correct order by their created process and while there is a number there in the correct box, it is totally false.  Being complete and whole is everyone’s desire, but if our pattern of existence is not correctly proven our results to those around us will be just as skewed as the faulty results on my chemistry analyzer when the appropriate pattern is not fulfilled.  The end portion of this verse cannot be truly finished until the first three portions are intact on both the physical and spiritual aspects of our lives and if they are not, then the doors for our questioning will be opened wide.  Consequently, this verse also serves as a promise verse, in that God wants a specific order in our lives so that we may skip and miss the ugliness of the world.  The world can only bring destruction and death to our lives and we cannot forget that if we do not believe in this true order of our creation destruction and death will be the only things we see.  Also, since it is a promise verse, it is a guarantee that this concept of ours, in either manner, shall come to pass.

Sadly, when we continually live in a way that the world deems necessary, the results we produce will follow in the incorrect pathway.  At first, this way of result reporting will bother us and seem uncomfortable for a while but eventually if left alone these types of actions will become normal to us and allowed to continue unabated for as long as we use our results as a way of life.  This deviant lifestyle cannot function properly for an extended amount of time for the toll that it brings to our heart, whether considered normal or not, shall bring pain and devastation sooner than later.  The way God makes us complete starts with Him and if we do not follow this first part of Genesis 2:7 there is no way that the other three portions of this verse can line up correctly.  According to the definition of the word deviant, any variation from the original or usual mannered way is considered to be a deviant and since God set into motion the definition of life itself in this verse ANY alteration to this verse is considered to be a deviant.  I alone am not singled out in this presence of being deviant, there are many more like me across this globe, in fact, all of us are in this deviant category when we do not follow God’s Way and Order of life and it means that nation upon nation are not complete according to the Way of God and here lies the problem that faces us today.

Many may believe that a 90% belief system in God and in His Ways is adequate enough to make it as a Christian or would be able to strongly stand up against the enemy of our lives.  But what if that 10% non-belief is the portion that doubts we have an enemy in the first place, what then?  If this is the case then we cannot say that we are 100% complete in our Order of Creation for doubt has no place in God or His Ways and cannot be said it is from God.  When God placed His breath inside our nostrils it represents a huge meaning not only to our lives but to those around us.  This process was not a onetime deal; it is a continual deal that plays over and over with each breath you take.  With each breath cycle you take, your results are given to others and if we do not understand that we breathe God with every breath, our results are flawed and hated as a false completion.  Since God is love in all areas and created us in such a manner, this pure love of creation from Him must be in a specific order for it to be true.  This order is spoken to us in Genesis 2:7 and cannot change for God’s completeness finds a true solution that is alive and not ordained through division; this my friends, is the eternal and true hope we have in God, His Son, and in life itself.

The last word of this verse is used as “soul” in the King James Version and as “being” in the original Hebrew translation.  The word “being” here is beautifully defined here as soul, self, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, and passion.  All of these ingredients God formed as one body from dust and then breathed each one of those ingredients into life with His breath.  Up until this that moment, we were just a bunch of dust particles that still needed molding and shaping which did not mean much until the breath of God entered, then and only then were we a complete being a living being that served as the masterpiece of God’s Creation and creative heart.  What kind of recipe will you be handing out to others?  You might look completed in all sense of the word, but what lies within you is actually what others will feed on and then give to others as well.  It is my desire not to produce any deviant way to show to others and that every word and action that I present will come strictly from Genesis 2:7.  A small yet important detail here in this verse and one that needs to be known, God creates life here and mentions nothing about death which means as long as we line up with this verse’ truth we will produce no death whatsoever.  Do you also realize that the entire Word of God follows such pattern of God’s Order and what occurs to people who do and do not follow its meaning?

Where do you stand on this issue Church?  I know that this article’s topic is mainly addressed to those who question their presence on this earth and who have been dealt a nasty hand from the world concerning their origins.  But this verse alone gives every human being an eternal and true hope of knowing and experiencing the truth about their existence, from the moment of thinking about us, through the Divine creation of our lives and the life expectancy afterward.  But, God asks us again Church, where do we stand on this issue of life and its origins?  He knows that a good amount of His people do not believe this verse to be an ordained order from Him thus wavering in the sanctity of life.  It is this wavering that concerns God’s heart for He sees the darkened patterns of sin overcoming our hearts in a steady manner that at some point He must stand up for His own definition.  We can stop this standing up from God and not have to face His hand in action but only experience His heart.  What type of answer are we going to give God concerning this question?  Will we line up our lives under this eternal and pure pattern of Genesis 2:7 or will we continue to promote a deviant pattern of lies?  It is strictly up to us to make this decision and then tell it to the lost.

DLB

The Author Of Life

The Author Of Life

2/5/20

Sadly, in some cases, the lives of people become involved in the politics of reproduction, in that they do not know who their father is.  If a person does not know God and who He represents to them it becomes more difficult to explain the origin of their lives, both earthly and eternally.  If we understand that we have a single person responsible for our existence we can then accept that we have a purpose and a goal to reach from that purpose.  Make no mistake, our enemy wants to confuse us when it comes to our origin that we lose all faith in our existence enough to stop seeking the truth about our lives thus delaying or even ending the purpose our Father has given us.  God does not want confusion or anger residing within our hearts concerning this matter or any other matter and until we return to His fold and to His Ways our lives are going to continue to spiral out of control for that is what chaos thrives on and it is the way of the world.

The other day, I was scrolling through a social media site and I came across a post that said something to the effect that I always laugh when I see couples together that I know both have cheated on each other but still fake the idea that they are still in love.  While some may find this post funny others might find it repulsive and even more may find it the truth.  Whatever the case may be, it is a statement that many people harbor within their lives which carry over into the relationships that they deem secure and safe.  But what does this type of union produce?  It may produce a variety at times, it may produce a thrill or a scare at times but mainly it produces a rip into two peoples’ lives that should be joined together as one.  Not only this, but it could produce a child that will be haunted in the future for countless amounts of reasons.

As many of you know by now, I was adopted when I was a baby.  I have known only one set of parents my entire life, but biologically I have another set of parents that actually created me.  That creation was through a union of lies and deceit and after I was born some decisions had to be made in order for my mother to save face within her community.  So, this decision of hers had to be done in secret along with further sets of lies to not only to some of her friends but to my adoptive parents as well.  This may seem like a horror flick or mystery novel in real life but to me, I find it very informative because it explains many aspects of my life that I could not explain as my years on this earth added up.  My parents never kept any of this information from me and told me as much as they knew as I became older.  However, this was not the case with my biological family for I was kept a secret from them for over forty years.  I know this part of my life has been spoken about previously, but here we have a direct setting in a part of my family’s life that still burns bitter without seemingly any hope of reconciliation or restoration possible.  While my life has had its ups and downs throughout the decades the situations that my biological family has endured have grown by leaps and bounds and continues this course today. 

I am not going to go into detail here about many things but as the reunion of my biological family came to be, many unknown and unrecognized questions were answered through the putting together of points of knowledge from different conditions.  When my parents told my brother who my biological father was it sent shock waves through his body for it became known that both he and I shared the same father.  While the process of getting to know you have another family running around is tough enough, it was a complete revelation to my brother who had no clue about my existence.  It is this difference in understanding and knowledge that God wants to share with us today for there are numerous people around the world that have no idea who their biological father may be and they have no idea who their eternal Father is either.  It is this disastrous lack of truth in people’s lives that we see unfolding on every level in today’s societies.  God is still alive and it is possible that we can know Him and give back meaning to our lives that our enemy has stolen.

Genesis 2:7

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Hebrew

“Then the Lord God formed man [from] the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.”

Once again God gives us another familiar verse, or portion of a verse, to say a vital detail to our lives, one that needs to be placed within the forefront portions of our hearts and minds.  There can be no argument that many people will argue the point and fact that God is the Father of our existence, but at the same time and ironically those same people will contend for alternative solutions about who they believe is the first and creative source of humanity.  They shall spend countless hours trying their best to seek out answers from far outsources in order to substantiate their beliefs that someone else or something else began our existence.  They would rather believe that we evolved from ooze coming out of a miry swamp than believe that we had a Divine Creation with a specific purpose.  Their scientific claims of ooze coming out and spontaneously forming into a complete form somehow are more believable than a single Being making us from the ground. 

To some, it makes more sense to think that the origins of life must be so complex that it is impossible for us to understand the exact manner in which the ooze created us.  But when all is told, we understand why many do not consider God to be the Creator of our lives, for it would prove that the Bible and all of its content is correct and that someday all of us will stand in front of God and give account to Him for the way we lived and believed.  This is the ultimate concept that our enemy wants us to have, and as long as we ignore or do not totally believe in Genesis 2:7 we shall not have to encounter such a standing atmosphere, that our own ways of thinking are good enough to secure any type of afterlife, if there is any, to begin with.  Whether you believe in God’s Word and its authority or not, whether you believe in God or not, whether you believe that you will stand before God or not, each one of us shall be held accountable for our lives in front of God someday in our future.  It would be so much easier for us to believe this verse to be true and seek the Truth about our lives and everything about us through the words and wisdom of God than seek any fallacy from a limited and flawed source.

“And the Lord God” is the opening statement of the verse for this article and it gives a clear direction of who is going to be completing the action within this verse.  There is no other pointed to figure that can be associated with the verse, and there is no other being mentioned at this time – or any other time – that has the ability to create in such a manner from unformed particles.  As we have been shown in the two previous articles concerning this verse, God had a specific plan of action when He made us and through this unique formation put into motion the essence of life that we know as our lives today.  If God did not begin this process of life then there would be no way that any of us would be around to witness anything, for there is absolutely no cohesion that we could have been made without any supernatural guidance, ooze just does not form into humans with complete functioning categories within; the intricacies of the circulatory system alone would be too complicated to form in such short notice and would die before getting started if it took its time.

Furthermore, the original Hebrew words of this first portion of this verse states “Then the Lord God formed”.  Of course, the original Hebrew verbiage is supported completely by the Bible translation that is used here as well; but let us look at the Hebrew words for “Lord God” here.  First off, the Hebrew word for “Lord” is “Yahweh” which means the one true existing God.  The second word here “God” is “elohim” means divine one, one true God, rulers.  This description means that there is only one being that is present when mankind was made, but it also means that all of the Trinity was present at this time which explains why God uses the word “us” when referring to how to make mankind in Genesis 1:26.  A perfect beginning with holy and perfect intentions to be a representative for all life were we created to be.  This type of creation and future existence could only have come from such an eternal and Holy Being, one who is willing to call us His children.  What more of a definition and starting place can anyone ask for?

Plus, how would God be eligible to say that He is everlasting, holy, true, and our Father through these descriptions if He alone did not Create us in the first place?  The world would love to convince us that God is dead by saying He is a liar and that we do not have any need for Him in our lives.  Similarly, that is exactly what the world says to us by quoting objections for the need of physical fathers as well.  Satan did an excellent job of separating the family from God in the Garden of Eden and he is continuing that feat today when he exemplifies this plan through another divorce.  Satan does not care if you are German, Irish, Hungarian, Russian, Chinese, Sri Lankan or ANY other race, all he cares about is to divorce you and separate you from God and the Truth about our origins and who Created you.  It is easy for us to contemplate such sly activity from the world but how should we deal with it when this type of activity comes from the Church?  Do we even understand that this type of belief lies within the Church?  Both questions have been directed by Satan long enough that we must contend that this belief and teaching does exist within our hearts deep enough to make it a policy of life in those who consider themselves members of the Church.

Anytime someone says to themselves or to another that God is not the Father of the human race, doors are opened for Satan to rush in and take over the heart.  Our heart is a fertile soil and ripe for planting, the only problem is that many times we open our fields up to the wrong planter and the seeds that are sown into our hearts produce nothing but spiritual concrete.  When someone has such a lie as their standard, unity can never be in line for your inheritance or inhabitance.  It does not matter how hard one tries to unify yourself and others it shall not happen simply because of the source of your origin is divided from the Truth.  The Church is supposed to be the leader of such truth when it comes to God and who created us.  Unfortunately, we cannot say that this is 100% the case, for there are those ministers, leaders, and congregants who protest this fact and proclaim their own submission to their truth and not the Word of God.

It is a no brainer to think that the people of the world will challenge such wisdom and origins of humanity, but it is this aspect of our hearts that we must overcome well enough to minister to these wonderful people.  In no way should we ever degrade them or bring them down in any way, for the world has done a fabulous job at completing that task and if we continue to do this horrific act then all we are doing is helping Satan with his goal.  It is our job to listen to their complaints, their arguments, their anger, and their hurts so that we understand why they refuse to know God and His authorship of our lives.  Yes, it is frustrating to hear such lies being repeated but we can guarantee that they have heard those lies for a lot longer than you and I have been talking to them.  It is not the desire of God that anyone should perish and leave His presence, but if we are to stop this eternal death separation from God we must be out and about talking with those people that need Him.  I can also guarantee that if we open our hearts to the people who are willing to listen to our voices that we will see that their lives have been thoroughly ripped apart by the world and are naturally lashing out by the only way they know.

It often amazes me of how confusion and misdirection have become a “normal” part of our lives, so much that it seems like we cannot accept a short and straight path as one that represents the truth.  It is this verse that proclaims this truth about who holds our origins intact and in place, thus giving anyone who accepts this truth a solid foundation of who they are and what their mission and purpose in life is.  Ever since Adam and Eve were created God has had His representative present on this earth ones who are unique and separate from what the world offers, the true presentation of God and how we really should live.  Many leaders of the physical world have done their best to permanently silence God’s people but every one of them has failed, for God is eternal and He finds a way to provide the truth to all.  This is where the Church should be leading the charge in spreading this truth about the author of life to those who do not know Him.  Yet, for some reason, we have selfishly divided ourselves over worldly matters that we have faddishly accepted as our truth.  When we allowed such lies to penetrate our hearts it gave Satan the authority to split the truth about who is our origin and thus create an ineffective desire to speak the eternal Truth.  It was this same invasion of Adam and Eve’s hearts that won the day for sin and Satan and then made things more complicated for those who wish to follow in his pathways.  See, God is a clear, precise and simple God, One who likes to ensure that no misunderstanding is present at any time.  It was God who had one simple rule for mankind to obey, it was God who created mankind and it was God who put Adam in one place.

If humanity would stay focused on the Truth concerning our origins, our lives would be so much easier to live simply because God likes to keep things as easy as possible for His children.  When we begin to listen to our enemy it is at this time when our troubles begin to emerge.  Adam and Eve had no problems in their lives at all before they disobeyed God nor did they have to move out from their perfect living space because of such disobedience.  Their entertainment with the enemy led to the eventual downfall of their existence and placed them, and all of the future generations, into a category that is filled with lies and temptations.  Complications and adjustments were not in the plan of God when He made humanity, yet we tend to thrive on these terrorizing settings each day of our lives.  Why do we do such mannerisms, for they only bring us problems and issues that many of us steer toward to rid instead of fix?

Our origins are of a simple and complete nature formed by One eternal Being that continues to love us today.  He is not a father that will run away when times become difficult nor will He abandon us during times of joy and happiness either.  We do not have to deflect the truth about who Created us because our friends say it is foolish to believe in God nor do we have to completely admonish ourselves from what God has given us as well.  In all things, God began our existence and in all things God gives us freedom to glorify His name.  God is the author of our lives and of all life and when we live in this eternal Truth there can be no better way to take each breath.  We can cut out all of the ignorant and ridiculous mountains of options and follow the one True God as our foundation and mentor.  Church, let us return to this teaching of Truth and eternal Hope for those who need guidance in their lives.  The world shall always lead people astray and we need to be the messengers of eternal light to those who walk in the confusion of darkness because as long as we walk in this confusion there will be no True author of Life and no completeness either.

DLB

The Moment of Conception

The Moment of Conception

1/25/20

Many wish that the Bible says something concerning if conception means the beginning of life or not.  Well, the Bible does say such a thing and it needs to be understood so when questioned each person who stands for life may provide a solid answer and building foundation for this most important issue.  God never intended for us to live in a world of death, for life was His Covenant for all creation and even though His wish was for this continuation of all-knowing life, He made beautiful arrangements for restoration if we chose another path.  Remarkably, through this Creation process of His God placed a process of building that we have intact today and that involves an origin of conception.  If we allow this truth to live within our lives there is no telling how great our testimonies shall be to those who need eternal salvation.  God loves each and every one of us and it is our responsibility to tell as many people about this life experience as possible.

As stated in the previous article, this initial point of reference actually was given to me secondly, it was in this order that God spoke so it is in the order that it was written.  So many people around the world who have spoken up for the babies inside the womb who deserve to live have been lambasted by those advocates who support the killing of the unborn child.  Those advocates for death have continually demanded “solid” proof that life begins at conception to which not many defenders of life could provide.  I know countless scholars of the Bible and other numerous Christians have poured hours and hours over Scriptures seeking proof that humans and their origins begin at conception and not when they take their first breath outside the womb.  It is this fact from God in the reference verse that puts an end to any argument about when life begins but as with any other truth about life, one can use the ability to make a choice whether or not to believe such wisdom and eternal Truth.

Over my many years of life, I have been witness to many different types of ways ladies tell their husbands that they are pregnant.  I have found this practice exciting over the years and when I hear the different ways that some tell their news just reminds me that the human heart is individual and unique in such a manner that it represents the fascinating definition of God.  However, I wish that all of these announced moments were of good nature and guided with pure intentions but with the modern age of selfish pleasures I cannot say this to be correct for all announcements of new life.  It is a terrible day in anyone’s life when the subject of life becomes a political game and used for leverage against another life; sadly, this is where it has reached in modern societies and now selfish practices overrule the creation of what God began so long ago with our creation.  When a procedural death comes before a career and then acknowledges success because of that procedural death, woe to us for we deserve nothing more either.

Once again we will be dealing with an order that God put in place, through direct action from Him alone, a portion of this topic that we will discuss in the next article; however, for now, we are going to deal with another middle portion of this verse which when studied through the original Hebrew text givens definition to when life really begins.  I find it very fascinating that modern-day translations and translators of the Bible do not have the decency to write the exact words of what God said so long ago through the Hebrew language, but here it is folks and after this article is concluded Christians will have a definitive Truth defense when questioned or scorned by those who doubt.  This reference verse gives detail about when life is formed through a level of a Hebrew word and it is this foundation of what God has said that many choose to ignore and to talk about with others.  It is our responsibility to stand up for the truth about life and if we cannot do this from our own beginnings then we have no foundation to stand upon about anything the Bible says.  There is nothing more vital than believing about life and we should have not even thought that God would leave such a topic out of His Word, especially since He is the one that represents and defines life.  No wonder diseases and death rule over our lands these days, for we cannot even defend ourselves legitimately over life itself and it is difficult for me to understand why we as the Church have ignored such Truth within our grasps; maybe it is because we continue to harbor and thus share the lackadaisical belief that I had within my heart concerning the importance of God’s Word for many years of my life, kind of looks like it to God.

Genesis 2:7

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Hebrew

“Then the Lord God formed man [from] the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.”

In the last article topic, we learned about the specific process that God gave to man through His actions of establishing a Covenant with mankind by giving him the gift of life by breathing into man the necessary gift of breath.  In this article we are going to learn about another middle portion of this verse which is probably more controversial to those who wish to selfishly control what the truth is and how they hear it, but when one builds knowledge and wisdom through the Bible we should expect such resistance for the kingdom of this world despises the Truth and will do everything possible to keep the truth from being told and heard.  The topic concerning conception is probably the most important piece of life that matters to humans and from the way the world is defending its destruction this statement can never be wrong.  God does give us a perfect defensive Truth when it comes to conception and how it does not need to be a taboo topic at all, but one of dignity and truth that should be exalted at all times by all people.

The entire legacy of life begins with a single word and that word is conception.  The English definition of this word is as follows: “the action of conceiving a child or of a child being conceived”.  There is not much wavering on this definition so why is it such a burden on many people to accept that it is an action that produces such a precious product?  Why is it so difficult for humans to accept such truth?  It is because the rule of the world hates life so much that he has made it is passion and eternal goal to lie to us as much as possible so that we do not fulfill ANY purpose that God, the Creator of life, provides and seeks for His prized creations.  The word “formed” that is used in this verse should be a pure giveaway that God is performing a fantastic miracle by creating life from nothing and it is this single portion of Scripture within a single verse that proves such formation.  The Hebrew word formed here is “wayyiser” and has the following definition: to form, fashion, frame, of divine activity, of individuals at conception, to frame, pre-ordain, to be predetermined.  Every single specific break down of this word refers to the beginning of life and the process of which a person is being made.

Interestingly enough, God once again shows us that He has a specific pattern about Him and that once a pattern of His is completed it stays intact and cannot waver at all from that moment onward.  God tells us that He formed man from the dust of the earth, what does that tell us?  It says that before God began this process there was nothing, we did not exist and we had no part of life on earth.  But all of this changed when God began His process of making us and He began by gathering a whole bunch of dust particles, which He had created earlier, and molded into shape our bodies.  This process that God followed a thought process that produced a decision of commitment that is still enforced today, for our reproductive practices cannot be enforced without some type of choice make beforehand; some good and some bad.  More on that subject at a later date.

The beautiful thing about this portion of our lives is that God began this pattern of beginning and growth that continues today.  The Bible does not give us specific details concerning how long it took God to form man from the ground, but we do know it was a process and that it took a specific amount of time to finish.  As we know about life inside the womb, we cannot help but see the exact same process carried out from the moment the child was conceived the process of growth began and continues until it is time for the child to be birthed.  We also see that God did not stop in this process from the moment He began the formation from the ground until He breathed life into the man with His own breath.  At this point in our existence, we cannot breathe and when we take this verse and put it into action we find that Adam could not breathe either, he still had some refining to be done to him first.  Furthermore, we know from this verse that Adam depended upon God for his completion just as we rely on the mother carrying her child in the process we call pregnancy.

A few points of controversy or argument concerning potential defending points from those who you come into contact with and what views they hold concerning life.  First of all, some will say that we cannot believe in a book that was written so long ago that it does not coincide with modern-day thinking of the practices that we hold value to today.  But with all of us searching for answers to age-old questions that continue to pop up today, we cannot afford not to search the Bible for answers because the people in this wonderful truth book faced the exact same questions as we do today.  Secondly, we have physical proof that these patterns of our development continue in the same manner in which God established them when He created us.  At some point He decided to form us, this was our beginning point, just like when the human sperm and egg meet and form a being that needs time to grow enough to be viable on its own, hence the process of being formed from the dust but not yet complete enough at the time of formation and growth.  Remember, God had to pick a starting point from somewhere on the ground then begin forming man.  It is this process that God demonstrated in Genesis 2:7 that our conception and early growth patterns inside the mother that continues today.

A coincidence, you say?  I do not think so.  Simply because when the Bible was written the knowledge concerning the human body was not known.  This is a specific detail that no human could understand because no human was around at the time when this verse was played out, so God had to instruct such truth in Moses’ heart to fit the pattern by which all humans are formed, made, and birthed.  A brilliant message of life that explains exactly what occurred when we were first created and how this pattern continues with each creation that humans perform today.  It is this truth point that gives us foundations of why the world debates exactly when life begins for we know that through this verse in Genesis it clearly states that our physical life begins at conception and continues to advance from that point forward.  The world shall never agree with what God establishes or believes in for our enemy cannot stand the purpose of life and what it means to the Kingdom of God.  The point of life beginnings shall never be accepted as conception, but placed on a choice of one who was participating at the real point of contention when it comes to where life really begins; more on that at a later date as well.

Well, this detail in God’s Word puts a kink in some people who consider themselves Christians or followers of Christ's ideology.  For we know that countless people who do not know God consider the right to kill babies or to argue that the products inside the womb are just a clump of cells with no measure at all, but we also understand that some people who know God consider there to be nothing wrong with killing life before it has a chance of living independently.  With this verse in hand, along with the true meaning of the word “formed” at our grasp we should hold this accuracy within our hearts as a model and battle cry for the unborn.  I cannot see how anyone who believes in God, follows Christ and studies the Word of God can ever hold such death rituals holy as their foundation of God and of life.  Frankly, these death ritual beliefs directly conflict with what God states in Genesis 2:7 and certainly cannot be argued against for when God sets a pattern into place He cannot change it.  Simpler put, if you believe in the world and its ways you cannot honestly admit to believing the Bible or in the Ways of God.  Being soft with the Word of God is a sin, an eternally grave sin and it is time Christians stand up and study the Bible well enough to state Truth instead of lies.

The Bible never allows for any chance of fence-sitting and when it comes to life and our existence, it can never be in question.  The world shall always contend that it is a woman’s right to choose whether or not to end her baby’s life, God shall never take any position that promotes death.  God understands and respects the gift from Him called choice, but He shall never side with a choice of death for it goes totally against His own definition.  Are Christians uncomfortable in their own eternal and spiritual foundations that they will not stand up for them?  What does this lack of action tell others about you and your relationship with God?  God speaks of this type of relationship when He declares you to be lukewarm because if you cannot even begin to defend Him through life foundations then what can He use you for as you hold such a position?  How will you handle this found truth about conception along with the previous article concerning the Covenant of life?  It is obvious why this nation’s heart along with every other nation in the world has a blackened heart that cannot overcome its sicknesses. 

Is losing friends or even family members over such a Truth that big of an issue that you would rather lose your own life in order to keep another human?  I really do not care if every acquaintance, friend, or family member in my life leaves and labels me whatever they wish, I shall never disdain life or cheapen it in any way to keep up my appearance with others.  This is the position all people of God should take at all times of their lives.  Also, we have examples of what occurs to societies when they devalue life and place selfish conditions over life.  Again, study the Bible and it will give you example after example to what happens to those who repudiate what life truly is.  Life has to have a starting point and it cannot begin at a point after the growth process has begun, this goes totally against the Law of God and the physical laws of science.

Church, we need to be the light that shines into the darkness, not the productive sympathizers of death.  If we cannot contend that life starts with conception then we have no business saying we love God or that we love life.  Church, we cannot accept the ways of the world in any form for if we do then we accept something superficial and that which is destroyed by lies.  God created the world in perfect conditions and He created us in the same manner, it was through our own choices that brought evil into the world and this includes the point of conception belief.  God has clearly stated through an ancient language that no idea about what birthing processes would be like today and gave us the Truth about life and when it began physically.  God specifically states in Genesis 2:7 when life begins and like any other Law of God, we are either for Him or against Him.

DLB

Covenant of Life

Covenant of Life

1/23/20

Most of us know that God represents life eternal, perfect in every way imaginable and then more.  God’s definition tells us that He cannot represent anything but life itself which means that since He gave us life that His Covenant of life is within us for eternity.  It is, however, our choice to bring forth life in abundance, both individually and all other forms of life representation.  Ever since the fall of mankind into sin, we have abundantly found ways to end our lives and not keep them living and it is this aspect of our existence that God wants to remind us about today.  God loves life and shall always choose life over death and it is His desire for each one of us to live fully as well.  The only way that we can obtain this abundant life is to live for His Son and to share the Truth about Him and His Son to those who do not know about this escape from eternal death.

As I take walks around the small lake in our community, go to work every scheduled day, read a book or article, play with my animals, sleep at night, eat food, or do anything else that my life allows I follow a simple condition that gives me the opportunity to accomplish these wonderful things, breathing.  A year ago, I found myself lying on a table waiting to have a pretty major procedure on my heart and in order for them to do that procedure the physicians had to stop my heart for a considerable amount of time.  Even though I have been in the medical field for over thirty years now it still amazes me to the advances of such resources we have that extend life to those who are willing to fight for it.  Not only was I dead for a little over four hours, but I was also hooked up to instruments that kept my air flowing, blood pumping, and fluids in proper balance.  But this was not the most intriguing part about all of this, it was the fact that I walked out of that hospital one week later on my own power and stamina breathing once again and taking in the sights of a place that I had passed by countless times before.  I had been given a new opportunity to make the most of my breathing privileges and I did not want to mess things up again.

No, not all of my issues were my choice because many were through my genetic makeup that I inherited when I drew my first breath over fifty years before.  But the incredible point is that I was allowed to breathe once again and to once again demonstrate the body’s fight to live through the return of breathing when it has been taken away.  I have mentioned to you before that if a person takes a single heart muscle cell out and isolate it on a petri dish then watch it, it will begin to contract and release just as it does when it is together with other heart muscle cells.  Even down to a single cell our bodies are wired to survive and to function until all hope and energy are lost.  Many people question why this simple experiment can demonstrate such a vital portion of our existence but even if they deny God and the gift of life through breath He gives, no one can deny that our bodies are adapted to survive, from the moment of conception.  Yes, both conception and breath of life are addressed in the Bible, with both coming in this single verse.  We are going to begin with the Covenant of breath (life) for no other reason than it was the first of the ones given to me by God for this series.  Also, this verse addresses who made mankind right upfront and what he becomes afterlife has been given.

Genesis 2:7

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Hebrew

“Then the Lord God formed man [from] the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.”

It is clear from the middle portion of this verse God has chosen the breath of life as His symbol of Covenant with mankind.  It is this entire verse that He uses as His established authority over the creation of mankind by which all of us are created and born into this world.  Yes, the methods by which we reproduce ever since Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden are different from the one that God established, the order and principles remain the same and should be considered in all departments of life when studied.  God would not just make such a statement and not give us any proof that we exist in this continued manner, God is a genius when it comes in all areas but sometimes it is our doubt and dereliction that hinder God and His eternal Truth from reaching our hearts and thus to the ends of the world.  So, for this portion of His Word, we will be using the section “and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life”.

As stated above, this section of Scripture that we are using for this article does not start out the verse but is one that comes from the middle portion of the verse.  It is this portion of the verse that God has the obligation to mankind because the condition of the man before this portion of Scripture occurs is one of incompletion, so while it may seem like an “obligatory” step by God it actually is one that originates from eternal love and holiness and the one that lays the foundation for the total defeat and humiliation of Satan.  It is the breath of life that comes from the heart and life of God which is pure, righteous, holy, and eternal in status and nature.  There is nothing more sacred then this process of our creation and the one that signifies the Covenant of life to us.  Life is the Covenant that God gives us here, for every human being from this moment onward must draw breath in order to live, thus recreating such an episode of Covenant when each child is born.  The way that humans are born is unique in many ways and certain issues must be addressed as soon as the baby leaves the womb of the mother.  When the baby is born it is not breathing on its own, it must be stimulated to do such a gift for if the baby is not stimulated to breath it shall die within a few minutes after birth.

The original birthing process was done by God when He breathed into the nostrils of Adam and gave him life.  There is no possible way for us to understand how we were going to be created after God did such a method in Adam and Eve but unfortunately we shall never get to experience such a holy sign due to the fact that sin entered into our lives and we must continue to breathe life into our newborns by a humanistic manner.  According to each manner of birth, air must be introduced into the lungs in order for life to exist, or even to start.  The baby is now no longer dependent on its mother for incubation and initial growth just as we shall know when we come to the second portion of this verse talking about how God formed us from the ground.

When you bring into the picture the Hebrew text for the word “breathed” it places this process directly into the same category doctors do when a baby is born today.  The word Hebrew “breathed” that is used here is “wayyippah” which is translated to cause to breathe out, to breathe, blow, or to be blown.  We must recognize that God began this process of life in a specific manner and even though we failed God in the Garden of Eden this order of God’s has not changed one bit for if a doctor or midwife does not perform some kind of blowing or stimulating procedure after a baby is out of the womb, they will not breathe and will quickly die.  How can humans totally disregard such a detail that God established so long ago against the same practice that occurs with every birth today?  Have we lost that much continuity with God’s Word over and in our lives that we refuse to accept this truth?  Or do we play the hand of the eternal fool and listen to a liar when it comes to what God has ordained? 

Furthermore, the progression of such death rituals (abortions) lately has taken a more gruesome turn with laws being written and implemented that if a woman wants an abortion at any time right up to the time of birth, an abortion can be completed.  It means that a term pregnancy can end in abortion with a viable birth baby and the doctors refuse to breathe into the baby’s lungs, they will allow it to lie on some type of flat surface and die.  This is 100% Satan’s plan for not only your baby’s life but for you as well.  There is one huge difference however, that baby who is allowed to suffocate on a dark flat surface shall immediately go back into the presence of God and His eternal home, guaranteed! The person who has that abortion has an opportunity to see that child again sometime down the road, but will you stay with him or her or will you be eternally separated?  I find it supernaturally extraordinary that an exhale, which we no longer need in our lives, can startle our lungs right after birth enough to begin to produce oxygen the product we need.  Without looking it up, how many times a day do you inhale and exhale?  It is not a common thing to go around counting such a mechanism, this process is referred to as an involuntary mechanism, it means we do it without conscious, it is that vital.

This symbolized mechanism of breathing is a requirement for any human to live.  If breathing stops for any reason the blood flow and every organ within the confines of the human body will begin to deteriorate and if air is not restored in a timely manner will then begin to die.  Yes, each cell within each organ shall do its best to survive but at some point will cease to live due to the fact that the needed nutrients for survival shall be used up and nothing is left for replacement.  It is not the Will of God for this process to occur for God is the author and creator of life, life is the only thing He knows and understands and it is life eternally that He offers to those who choose to bypass the world and to live according to His Ways.  Each person walking around this planet, whatever condition they may be in or facing has the Covenant of life within them.  We demonstrate this by the property of breathing and then using this breathing process to reproduce ourselves, another great event that defines life.  The origin of the breath of God within us gives God the authority to pass His judgment over mankind, for He began it and thus is the ONLY One Holy to authorize its completion.  This breathing process cannot take effect unless the foundational living space is completely cut and we subscribe to this effect when medical personnel cut the umbilical cord that attaches the baby to the mother.

Lucifer did his best to disrupt this eternal Covenant by trying to rise above God and to play God, a state or thought that some humans have placed into their hearts in order to promote such a death sentence.  A few weeks ago, we saw this type of activity being told when one of the so-called “famous” people of this nation proclaimed that she had a wonderful time during her abortion procedure and how by following through with such a procedure made her feel like God.  We can never forget that what God ordained as Truth, Satan shall come along and twist it enough to grab his pleasure out of initiation of life and completion of life.  It does not matter which stage of life he picks to harbor he convinces so many people to do such life-ending procedures by many names and through many measures.  The opposite of truth is a lie which is the complete representative of disobedience, which in turn, is the definition of sin and sin is a condition that all of us inherit as soon as the Covenant of life from God is initiated; all due to the fact of sin being introduced a single time. 

See, our established method of reproduction is the highest form of communication and solidarity that man and woman can have for it is the ONLY way to produce another life.  All of these processes have an order that God approved and still approves today, it is Satan’s goal to pervert such a Covenant and continue to see God’s gift be ripped from our lives.  This is why sex is either the best form of worship to God with a single partner or it is the root of all division and mistrust between humans.  It is no coincidence that this topic is addressed right at the beginning of the Word of God because God is our beginning, present, and end.  However, we do not have to have an end per se we can have eternal life abundantly in such a manner that everyone strives for yet go about its presence very sinfully and limited.  God made this covenant of life before Adam understood what was occurring and ever since God “cut” his umbilical cord by breathing life into his nostrils, this process of life has not changed one bit according to God and His Holy Order.

What a perfect example God has given us to represent what Covenant means to Him and to us.  Nothing gives God more pleasure than to see a child take their first breath and He feels the exact same way when one of His children takes their first spiritual breath as well.  There is none more important than life and what it means to all of us, so why are we in a rush to end such a precious item?  God beginning this Covenant with mankind is the most direct line of communication of love that anyone being could display for it is a single step in the life of a new human being.  So, why are we fighting it so much Church?  It is feasible and understandable that the world wishes you to not be in existence but we are supposed to be promoting life and fighting for life at all times, so why the hypocritical stance? 

Through the second half of this single verse in the beginning stages of the Bible, God clearly states how much He views life and what it means to take a breath, so once again, why are we trampling on this Covenant?  We have no option but to better in this fight for life, Church.  We cannot afford to sit around and claim blindness and deafness on this issue because if God made it clear about this procedure in His Word then we better fight for it to continue for all not just for a few select because one day we shall be held accountable for life and if we defend death before life, how will that look for an eternal placement?  We need God to re-inflate our lungs with His spiritual breath again for we have allowed the dirt of the world to fill our lungs to the level that death is preferred instead of shunned.  Yes, we need our worldly umbilical cords cut and be the epitome of life and not a poster child for death.  Church, we have a lot of work to do and not much time to do it in, it is vital that we fight for children just as hard as we fight for our own lives.  This is a Covenant from God and that makes it a command from God as well. 

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