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Why Fear isn't a part of God's Plan.

Why Fear isn't a part of God's Plan.

Jesus told us in Matthew 16:25-27 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done. To have a natural fear to danger is a natural response, but to have an inordinate fear about anything is sin. Jesus in these verses is teaching that we shouldn't value our lives to the point that we love ourselves more than death, and more than going to Heaven. He taught that if we value saving our lives more than going to Heaven, then we prove that we are not willing to love God with our very lives, and even giving our lives for the sake of Jesus.

What does it profit man, if he gains the world, but forfeits his soul? What are you willing to give up, for the sake of Jesus and going to Heaven? If your answer is that you are not willing to give up anything for the sake of Heaven, then you are not ready now and may never be ready to go to Heaven, when the Lord calls you! The bible doesn't say this by accident, God knew his creation would be faced with many problems, but he also knew that people would reject God, therefore forfeiting Heaven and their souls! Yes, you say but we have no choice? Well God knows this, and he wouldn't put any trial into your life that you couldn't overcome by faith. If you are not living by faith now, you will not be living in faith when it comes time to meet your Maker! Yes, death is a certainty for every member of the human race, but life is a mystery and we must meet each mystery with faith and hope and love, to do anything less would be denying God!

No one can make you 'do' the right thing, we are all entrusted with the right to express faith, or not to express faith, it is our choice. When we choose not to express faith, it's nobody's fault but our own! We can't blame the church, we can't blame the government, and we can't blame our friends! We are accountable individually to God, and how we express that faith is very important to God! The bible says that the righteous will live by faith, it is ultimately our choice. Our fears shouldn't make us live in fear, the bible calls people out of the world and into the kingdom of God. We are precious in God's sight, and we are never out of his Presence, unless we choose to be! That is what hell is, it is eternal separation from God, and His presence. If we choose in this life to be separated from God, our choice will be ratified for all eternity. This is what it means to lose your soul. This is why Jesus said that if all we want is to save our lives, we will ultimately lose our souls. God knows that this life is our only chance to show God that we love him, and if we fail at doing that, he will have no choice but to keep us separated from Him for all eternity. Please choose wisely. This is Mike.

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