The Congruency of Time.

Time is congruent not in form but in fashion. Events change the substance of time, but they don't change the nature of time. Time will come to an end at the Second Coming of Jesus in time, but time will continue in it's same nature, nothing can change the nature of time. Why is this important you ask, because everything in time is constantly changing, but the one thing that doesn't change is time itself. If time doesn't change, then it remains linear, and although events change our place in time, the nature of our true Selves remains unchanged. We can change our appearance, or our physical features, but the essence of our souls remains the same, even when time ends.

There are things in our essence as souls that can change like our preferences and desires, and because our circumstances can change, naturally we adapt to them. However this cannot change our essence, God created our souls, and when we find God our souls begin a journey in uniting ourselves to God. This is the highest thing a person can experience, for in finding God and being united to Him, we have found the meaning of life. A person who doesn't want to be a saint, settles for tastes for God, but God calls us to make it our life's goal to seek Him and to be eventually found and united to Him in Heaven.

To a certain degree, we are already united to Jesus Christ through the holy spirit that lives in us, but the bible promises us that we will experience the fullness of God in Heaven, we should never settle for anything less. This is what the bible means when it says we are to be holy. We have a taste of it on earth, but in our sanctification here, we should be desiring more and more of holiness. This doesn't come into conflict with the doctrine of Justification, because we have to practise our standing with God if we are going to be comfortable seeing him in Heaven.

When we believe in this way, we are yielding to the holy spirit's work in our life, and participate or work out our own salvation. The reason isn't just so that we miss purgatory, this life is a form of purgatory when we suffer. However, sanctification is voluntary.

God will not force it upon us, so if we fail at that, we fail in living out our lives as holy people. Yes, Christians are sanctified, but we are called to be good after we are saved. To fail at this is to miss a truly happy and holy life, and ultimately to lose our rewards in Heaven. Imagine for all eternity being 100% happy, 100% all the time! God promises us the greatest joys, not in this life but in the eternal Heaven, but you won't be happy there if you are not trying to be holy now. This is Mike.

Comments

On Christian Marriage. (Short)

On Christian Marriage. (Short) The modern co-habitation crisis has produced a lot of single moms and dads, and has fractured "family units" allowing other family members and relatives to take a bigger role in these "Separated families." There isn't a "one cause" why families have separated or divorced, it is a complicated issue, sometimes resulting in very hard emotions for Society to process. Things like the "millennial sexual revolution" have contributed to the widespread "non-committal" attitude, which in turn has given the traditional marriage the "black eye" it currently has and has turned many Christian men away from seeking a life partner. The more society devalues "traditional marriage" the more co-habitation you will see in all the other generations as well as the Millennials. This is Mike.

Why Christians must show Mutual Concern for One another.

Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life. Psalm 142:4. Christians in the church should have mutual concern for one another, this is what it means to be part of the body of Christ, 1 Corinthians 12:25. It’s takes good pastoral leadership to foster this sense of concern, and where it is missing, individuals who are suffering in the church are overlooked and not supported. Every believer needs support and encouragement, but when this is missing, the church divides and loses it power and testimony. Christians live like the world, and become vulnerable to Satan’s attacks when nobody is supporting them outside the church. I used to belong to an evangelical church which had great leadership, and something called small groups. This church felt like a family and I had people who shared my Christian walk with me when I was not in the church building. I have been attending a different denomination that doesn’t hav...

Age of Brokenness.

We are living in an age of brokenness, no matter what age you are, you probably have been touched with relationships falling apart, which causes more and more people to live in isolation. In this generation there is less of an incentive to heal and reconcile relationships, but that doesn’t excuse the amount of people who are broken. Why people don’t seem to be motivated to heal relationships is because our beliefs about faith and God have changed, really giving us less of an incentive to do what our religion says. If I act from my personal beliefs, but the person that I am responding to has abandoned religious beliefs, than the response to my wanting things to be better can be misinterpreted and rejected then by someone else. Generally when a society has expectations about broken relationships, loneliness and isolation, and the beliefs are generally accepted, society becomes a more compassionate society, because all value the same things. When religious values are undermined and ...

The Super Blogosphere of a parallel word.

Search This Blog