102 THE POWER OF GOOD
102 THE POWER OF GOOD
God is good, His word is good and His son, Jesus, is good; God also says, in His word, that the earth is good, all that He created is good and mankind was made to be good. That’s God’s outlook on the situation and it hasn’t changed. It is going to be good because God is going to make it good. He is giving good and evil a chance to continue to be good and to change from evil to good.
In the end, God will keep all the good and remove, out of His presence, all that is evil.
God has described for us, in His word, what is good and what is evil; what He will keep, in His coming kingdom and what He will reject out of His kingdom and out of His sight.
That’s the way God said it will be and, now, He expects us to learn about Him and make this decision of good or evil for ourselves and be wherever we have decided to put ourselves in His future.
Now comes the hard part, we have a fuzzy idea about good and evil. Everyone has an idea about what is good and what is evil and they want themselves to be right without having to put a lot of effort and thought into it. People want a ritual ‘good’ that they can do so that they can get on with their busy lives and not have to pay attention to what or why they do the things that they do.
They find ‘experts’ to tell them what God expects and then they do it, thinking that, if it’s not right then, it’s the other persons fault, right? No! God made the responsibility for your decisions totally yours and will hold you accountable for them. He has put everything in your sight, area of hearing, area of logic and, basically, everything around you to help your mind make the right decisions. So, the wrong decisions come from within us; our lusts, desires and greed.
God’s word tells us what is good in the situations that are described there and why they are good. Many take the ‘what’ of the situation and think, practise and preach that that is God’s way, will and law; looking for that easy way so that they can feel secure that they are right and not have to worry about it again. Eve thought this way when she made her first mistake, too, and reinforced her ‘right’ wrong decision by giving it to Adam. He thought it must have been OK because the woman that God gave to him, to help him, had done it and nothing seemed to go wrong, so, it must be alright. [The old ‘monkey see, monkey do’ thing.]
Good, in God’s world, is not the ‘what’ that Jesus spoke about, but the ‘why’. If you love God, you will obey Him; asking His advice in every situation until you are familiar enough with His desire for you so that He can let you start making some of the decisions yourself.
Once you understand why He wants something done a certain way, then you can understand what He wants done. You then become a leader that does not need the rest of the crowd to agree or support you in your decisions because you know they are right from the one who is the master of right, God Himself.
This ‘power of right’ sets you free from all dependence on anyone or anything else; making you the power of yourself within yourself. This ‘power of right’ will stay with you as long as you stay connected to the source of this power and that is God, Himself.
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OK on the disagree part; we all have a right to our own opinions and generally have some reason why we think the way we do. Is there anything that we can discuss and enlighten each other about?