(written by Ray Leonard) 4/14/22
In eternity, long before time began, God decided He would create man in His own image and likeness. Man and woman would be created out of a deep love for them, and He would put a deep love in mankind’s heart for their Creator.
God knew that when he determined to create mankind with a ‘WILL’ he was opening Himself up for great heartbreak. He wasn’t going to create a conscious being that had no choice or no will to make decisions. He didn’t want His creation, called mankind, to be robots, although if they were, God’s will would always be the result. There would never we hate, bitterness, violence, child or spousal abuse. There would never be war or racism and God would have a perfect world, and we would live always in peace, harmony, love, health, and this world would be utopia.
In many ways we may have preferred it that way. We wouldn’t have the stress of whether we made the many difficult decisions in life that we must make on a regular basis. Yes, God created mankind as ‘free moral agents’ with free wills, and as a result we must weigh the extreme cost of the consequences of our decisions.
(John 3:36) “He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who rejects the Son will not see life, but ‘THE WRATH OF GOD REMAINS ON HIM’.
God created man and woman in His image and likeness, which consists of having a will just like God to Decided and Choose what he wants. But in our case, he gave us a ‘FREE WILL’ so we on our own would choose to ‘LOVE AND SERVE AND OBEY GOD’ simply because we choose to, and wanted to. Those are the ‘Chosen Ones’, not only the called ones. Those chosen of the Lord, were first those who were called by God, but who ‘ANSWERED THE CALL, MAKING THEM THE CHOSEN OF THE LORD. Those that rejected the Call of God were then rejected by God, breaking His heart.
(Matt. 22:14) “Many are called, but few are chosen”.
God made another decision in eternity before time began to make ‘TWO MIGHTY POLES IN THE UNIVERSE, OPPOSITE TO EACH OTHER LIKE TWO POWERFUL MAGNETS, CALLED HEAVEN AND HELL. These two poles would accommodate all people at the end of their lives who made the decision to reject Jesus Christ and then all those who would believe, and receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Those are the Chosen Ones who would lovingly obey Him and His Holy Word until death or the catching away. Those who would reject Him would be drawn to hell like iron is drawn to a magnet, and all those who repented of their sins and received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior would be attracted to the place they had chosen by loving and obeying their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ like bungee chords that pulled them upward toward heaven with a mighty force.
One last, but very important point is this, getting saved and born-again isn’t the last and final word. Our choices to live and love the Lord continually are ‘THE STEERING WHEELS OF OUR SOUL’ If after we accept Christ as our Savior we choose to disobey God and His commandments we are steering our souls toward darkness and destruction. The only true spiritual safety and assurance we have of eternal life is if we continue in the faith, grounded and settled in the (Word of God) and be not moved away from the ‘HOPE OF THE GOSPEL’ of Jesus Christ”. When we choose to walk in the Spirit all our lives, trust God always, love God with all our heart, soul, strength and mind and our neighbor as ourselves, those determinations are ‘STEERING OUR SOULS’ toward heaven with an assurance that can’t be shaken. Like attracts like. An individual’s choice to come to Christ and walk in love, faith and obedience till the end puts into operation the law of holy attraction. That individual that has received Christ and lives a godly life has put into action ‘THE LAW OF HOLY ATTRACTION THAT DRAWS THAT SOUL TO HEAVEN WHERE LIKE ELEMENTS REIGN. And those who have rejected Christ and have filled their life with wickedness, such as adultery, bitterness, unforgiveness, jealousy, hatred, witchcraft will by the law of ‘EVIL DEADLY MAGNETISM BE DRAWN TO HELL LIKE IRON IS DRAWN TO A MAGNET AND WHERE LIKE ELEMENTS PREVAIL.
If you’d like to come to Christ and get saved, pray this prayer.
“Father, I come to you right now. Forgive me all my sins and come into my heart dear Jesus. Save my soul, and change my life. Jesus, I receive You now as my Lord and Savior to live for you and follow you all the days of my life. I will love and obey You. I will live in obedience to Your holy Word. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and teach me to walk in the Spirit instead of the flesh. Thank You Lord for saving my Soul, and giving me eternal life through Jesus Christ my Lord.
CONGRATULATIONS AS YOU LIVE FOR, AND WALK HAND AND HAND WITH JESUS EVERY DAY.
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