NCarolinian

God's love reaches side-by-side with His justice as He gives us the choice to live this life and the next with or without His presence in our lives. Because of the belief in a lie, humanity disobeyed God and ever since, our relationship with Father God has been torn asunder. Then Christ Jesus was sent and has restored ALL of humanity's relationship with Father God. No matter the degree - past, present and future sins have been forgiven through our faith in His sacrifice.  Yes, from birth we are the walking condemned . However, since Christ's sacrifice the same walking condemned are walking saved individuals. These people just have to accept His free gift of love. What will you activate and live out of - a disobedient, rebellious nature OR acceptance of a Christlike lifestyle. The degree of God's love is unfathomable, but I still set my mind, heart and imagination on it. The degree He gave up, the degree He suffered and the degree He will still go to love on ...

In 1 Kings 19:11-13 the voice of the Lord is described as "a still small voice" or "a whisper" . However, most of the encounters with God's voice leave the recipient and the reader of God's Word quite awestruck. When a thunderstorm arrives in my area, I will often step out on my front porch, not only to assess the severity, but to listen to the thunder and watch the lightening. I stop and imagine it as God's voice speaking to me. You might think I'm crazy or at least unsafe but observe what God said to David in Psalm 81:7   -  "In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Then in John 12:29 , Jesus speaks to God the Father and Father God audibly replies - "The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him." Other verses that speak to God's voice as thunderous are... Job 37:4 "...

When I think of the word Power , my mind goes to concepts such as might and creative resources . God has unlimited supply of each. He is The Source of all Power and should be recognized as such. The selfish "I will" command of Lucifer in the beginning (Isaiah 14:13-14) and continued attempt by Satan to mold humanity into this type of self-reliant creature is what takes Power out of our lives. People who claim to be self-made in anything are deluding themselves. Anyone who is a do-it-yourself type individual is relying on the knowledge of somebody else. They may do the research to propel themselves forward on their own, but they are still using others and their wisdom as stepping stones to their goal.  I believe it is important to recognize The Source of one's Power. Rarely do we think about the plug in the wall that provides power or electricity for whatever device, yet the plug is not The Source. Even less seldom do we think of switch boxes, the electric...