Does where one choose’s to live have an influence upon their life? Both spiritual & fleshly?
~AND~ DO we choose where we live - or- are we put there, by chance, circumstance, condition?
What *IS* The Greater ~Influence~ In & On our earthly walk and our spiritual life?
(Ecclesiastes 9:11).. “Time & Chance happens to them all”…. BUTttt…
How ~ARE~ we to know *IF* IT IS, just chance that happens to us:
*OR*, IF IT IS ~our~ own doing, our own choice that put us where we are:
*OR* *IF* IT IS God’s Purpose for us that we are where we are?
WELL, as my mother used to say in jest, “A WELL, IS a deep subject for such a shallow mind”… AND I suppose for one to understand the jest of *IT*, one would have to have lived in the days when, wells were dug to draw water up out of, with an old wooden bucket…
That being said, and thinking about *IT*, really reflects a cold hard fact… BECAUSE… the thing IS that many people don’t ~Think~… Don’t use their ~spiritual~ mind or heart to lead them, but with the fleshly eye, they jump headlong into a world that looks good, seeking great riches, fortune and fame…. Take a scripturally accounted person for instance…
(Genesis 13: 10-11)..Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld ~ALL~ the plain of Jordan, that IT was well watered everywhere: even as the garden of the LORD .. And chose him all the plain of Jordan… (IT ~Looked~ good, righteous, like the Garden of The LORD, BUT IT WAS an Evil, place of disobedience….. Sound like a lot of religions today? They look good, seem righteous to the fleshly eye, but searching the Holy Scriptures, The Written Word of God, Will prove otherwise…because it Will show that they serve the fleshly man and not the spiritual heart.)
(II Peter 2:1-22)… Read the whole chapter, a good lesson.. (7-8) ..“Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: *FOR* that righteous man dwelling among them and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day ~With~ *Their* unlawful deeds….
*AND YES* the LORD, sent two angels to deliver Lot out of Sodom & Gomorrah before HE destroyed IT, BUT living there DID NOT Help LOT…. AND it was his choice to live there…
Just as IT IS our choice to: live in the cities of little or no morals, among those that seek the world… IT IS our choice to buy the harmful games and allow ourselves and our children to be brought into and under the influence of them, watch the movies that are made seemingly worse than anything that Sodom & Gomorrah could offer up, follow the styles of clothing, or lack of it, painted hair, tattoo’s, modern lifestyles of: “ALL About ME” attitudes….
There *IS* circumstance, over which we have NO control… Lot was born where God saw fit that he be placed… BUT, Lot chose to live in Sodom & Gomorrah, and God Allowed him to go where he chose…. SOOOoooo…. God IS THE Same Today as HE Was Yesterday…
WE, must ~First~: Learn to humble ourselves and accept that which God gives us, with thankful hearts. Then we must *Always* seek guidance by the Holy Spirit, before we make a move, before we follow a way, before we ~Take Part~ *IN* an event or action that can and defiantly will have an influence on our lives, our fleshly life here on this earth, and our eternal life beyond….. AND Yes there will be that tug that Satan places on our fleshly heart to pull us in the wrong direction, BUT there IS that Divine Guidance *IF* you earnestly seek *IT*. WITH: the ~humble Obedient Prayer~ to the Father IN Jesus Name….
IT IS Always GOOD TO search the Scriptures that God had penned down and preserved down through the ages for us to use as a guide, ~A Remembrance~ of the things that HE Expects of those who call themselves after HIS Son Jesus Christ….
(Deuteronomy 6: 1-25) Read IT ALL in the Bible: (v.7) .. “Thou shalt ~Teach~ them diligently unto thy children”… (v.8).. “~BIND~ them as a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes” … (v.12).. “Then *Beware*, lest thou forget the LORD”… What IS the Subject? “(v.2).. “That thou mightiest ~Fear~ THE LORD thy God, TO *KEEP* ~ALL~ HIS Statutes & HIS *Commandments*” …. AND there are more than *10* IF you read the whole Bible, BUT *IF* you ~Respectfully~ *OBEY* the First, you Will humbly follow all the rest…
We sometimes can’t help the circumstance that we are placed in, BUT how we react TO, and deal with that circumstance, has a great influence upon the outcome of our life….
Which IS Why we must be so careful not to be influenced by a Sodom like world of wild abandon, a lifestyle of the rich and famous, falling pray to the wiles of Satan in our quest to ~~BE~~ Somebody, BUT Rather accept the humble means that the LORD has given us and be content with serving HIM IN HIS Will and Way…
AS DID Job… (Job 1&2) Rich with everything he needed, but Satan challenging God, was allowed by God to take everything that Job had except his life… Through this Job proved faithful to God and was blessed with *More* than he had in the beginning…. (Job 42:10 & 12)… OR:
As the Israelites, Gods chosen people that HE had placed in the bondage of Egypt because of their ~~Disobedience~~ TO: Teach them to follow HIS Way… AND yet in HIS Love for them HE made a way of ~Deliverance~ for them, TO: bring them out of that bondage, the terrible life that the Egyptians was inflicting upon them, for they were used as slaves there… BUT what did the Israelites do the minute that Moses left their sight?… First they ~~Looked~~ to Moses as the ~One~ that was freeing them, Instead of God… so that when he was out of their vision, they returned to: The Influence that they had experienced in the place where they had lived… Making false gods, copies of what they had learned of the Egyptian gods, to themselves out of their earrings and items of gold… (Deuteronomy 32:1-11)… So the influence of the place that they had lived, had set in their hearts in a way that was an abomination to God, and they turned quickly aside from HIS Commanded Way, even after they had seen the miracles that HE had performed at the Red Sea…
BUT How ~ARE~ we to know *IF* IT IS, just chance that happens to us:
*OR*, IF IT IS ~our~ own doing, our own choice that put us where we are:
*OR* *IF* IT IS God’s Purpose for us that we are where we are?
We would best do as The Bible warns us that we should DO! … Understand first that GOD *IS* Almighty, IT IS HE that hath made us and not we ourselves…..(Psalm 100:3) In Fact we should read ALL this chapter and take heed, TO: come before HIS Presence with thanksgiving, humbly ~Obeying~ *ALL* HIS Commandments… and how can we KNOW HIS Commandments? READ Them as HE HAS HAD THEM Penned and Preserved for us to Follow….. AND Then we MUST *Follow* Them… Accepting God’s Power and Guidance of the Holy Spirit as our ~ALL~… not mans… Faithfully Believing, & Humbly Obeying, AS IT IS Written from Genesis to Revelation that we MUST DO!
God sent HIS Son as an ~ALL Time~ sacrifice for the sin of man… BUT IT Isn’t Written THAT He covers our ~Chosen~ sinful walk of Disobedience… Our flirtation with Satan in the world, governed by the ~adversary~ Satan the Devil…. THE Bible Does, However, Warn us that *IF* we choose that walk, we will reap of the same reward that IS Prepared for the Dragon and ~~ALL~~ his followers…. ALL that has had their eyes filled with the lust of the ways of this modern day: Sodom & Gomorrah…
(Revelation 20:15)… & Whosoever *WAS NOT* found written in the ~Book OF Life~ was cast into the lake of fire…
(Revelation 21:27)… (1) In the New Earth… (27)… there shall in no wise enter into *IT* anything that defileth *IT*, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: BUT They which ~ARE~ *IN* The Lamb’s Book OF Life…
SOOOoooo… IF we live a life here that IS Disobedient to God’s Will and Way, following the traditions of men, looking to the ways of the world, seeking vain glory, where do you think our names will be found? .. ARE we really supposed to ~Love~ this life here in the flesh so much that we can’t turn IT - A - loose? OR are we to look to and LOVE our Heavenly Father and HIS Son Jesus Christ MORE, so that we choose to follow them and not the ways of the world?
Read: (John 12:23-26)
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