Return To The Lord With All Your Heart

There are people whose hearts are hardened by their experiences and starting to ignore God and denying His utmost participation in our daily lives. Some are due to sorrows, difficulties, and disabilities but others are due to their self-confessed successes in our lives. We tend to forget God when we are reaping fruits of our labour like bearing education, a well-paid job, a great career and promotion, a good business, and many more. Because we enjoy them most, we get rid the joy God has given and shared to us from the time we were borne.

In His ultimate plan for us to reconcile with Him, He called everyone to return to Him with true repentance. He allowed His own Son, Jesus, to die for our sins and be restored with Him in the same way Jesus has risen and ascended to heaven to join Him. But He wants with all of our heart and not of compulsion. Even before the time of Jesus ministry here in earth, God wants His people to return to Him as He is merciful, compassionate, slow to anger, and most of all His loyal love to all of us. He confirms this in Joel 2:12-13, 12 "Yet even now," the Lord says, "return to me with all your heart - with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!" 13 Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love - often relenting from calamitous punishment.

God, in the same way when Jesus arrives on earth to save the sinners, shows His abundant love to us (read John 3:16). Jesus is a reflection of God's mercy and compassion that He allowed Himself to submit selflessly to the will of God to save the humanity once and for all. Jesus teachings and words are all scattered like a seed in the field to grow. But the seed is now in the soil of our hearts to keep, to nurture, to grow, and to bear fruits. And no matter what external influences of the world to steal, kill and destroy it; we will remain steadfast and always returning to Him from this life and to the next life to come.
 

God bless everyone.

Christians - The Watchmen

Christians are known to be peace-loving people. We are expected to behave well both in private and most especially in public. As much as possible, we avoid getting involved in any trouble to anyone or caught having trouble to others but, of course, it's inevitable. 

There are times where we were witnessing others doing things which are against God's law and are evil in His eyes. Every believer is challenged when facing this kind of situation, especially if it involves our close families and friends. God drawn us to Jesus, therefore, we are saved by believing Him that He is the Lord, He is risen, and He is the Son of God. He has also given us His Lamp to be the Light of the world for those who are in darkness (Matthew 5:14-16) by doing righteous before the Lord.

God appoints us to be our brother's watchman. If we knew someone, whether we are in relationship with them or not, and they commit sins or wickedness; we MUST warn them! God spoke to His prophet in Ezekiel 33:8-9 that says "8 when I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you must certainly die,' and you do not warn the wicked about his behavior, the wicked man will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death. 9 But if you warn the wicked man to change his behavior, and he refuses to change, he will die for his iniquity, but you have saved your own life.

We value our relationship to everyone around us, but if it's about time to rebuke, to correct, or to warn them even at the point of breaking our connection with them, we need to do it. It is our obligation to comply to bring the lost souls back to God's feet and live a righteous lives. Whether they will change or not, we have at least done our part as primary accountable to their ignorance of God's righteousness. Moreover, we should be accepting others warning as well as submission to this same command of God especially if we are caught sinning against Him. 

God bless everyone!