Chris here from God-Waves, wishing you a blessed weekend ahead.
I was awakeneed this morning with a song in my head, thinking about many of my friends who are trying their best to serve the community here on the Steem blockchain. That's good and admirable. But what foundation do we build our service on? It's an important question to ask, because the way to hell is paved even with good intentions.
Everyhing has it's origin in the spiritual. To deny this is to say, we only accept that which we can see. Yet, frequencies, for example we can only see, hear or otherwise perceive when they operate in a certain spectrum that we are designed to tuned into. Much like a old style radio or TV dial - now you see it - now you'e not.
Just because we can't see God, or angels, or spiritual manifestations, doesn't mean they're not there. We just cannot perceive them, because we are, in our currnent state, naturally limited to four dimensions, the 3-D environment we move in, and time, we move through.
Consider Mr. and Mrs. Flat. These two live on a piece of paper in two-dimensions. Let's suppose I having drawn/created these two, look at them. I can see happy Mr & Mrs Flat both at the same time. And regardless of their proxmity to one another, I am observing both at the same time and from he same distance.
Let's suppose I punch a hole through the paper of Mr. & Mrs Flat with a sharp pencil, careful not to impale either. They can't see me, nor the can they see the pencil approaching.
However, the moment I penetrate the paper with my pencil, Mr. and Mrs Flat will see a circle appearing, widening, and then, suddenly vanishing. And let's assume the paper was 'self healing'. Mr and Mrs Flat would see the hole close up, suddenly. They can't explain what happened if they even noticed it.
Here is an excellent short Carl Sagan movie demonstrates it perfectly:
I also highly suggest the full lenght movie Flatland, which really drives the concept home: Flatland The Movie
Now, let's turn the dial up a notch. Here we have God and His creation, us, and everything around us. Even angels, which are created beings of free will. Lucifer, fallen from God's grace and renamed Satan is an angel, too. He has legal authority to rule on earth, because of the Garden of Eden incident (Gen 3). Ever since. people have granted him the authority over them - unless thye serve God.
I take the bible seriously. Because
2 Tim 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Science has confirmed what the bible told us all along, there are as many as ten dimesions, only four of which we are normally be able to perceive. Ancient Hebrew Scholar Nachmonides in the 12th century conluded from stydying the book of Genesis that there ten dimensions.
Indeed, I take the bible very seriously!
But I digress... The bottom line is:
We cannot serve two masters. We can pretend to serve more than one, but we would deceive at least one, even ouselves.
Willie Nelson put it perfectly in his song Gonna Have to Serve Somebody
| But you're gonna have to serve somebody, serve somebody Serve somebody, serve somebody It might be the devil or it might be the Lord But you're gonna have to serve somebody |
The Book of Jude is below in it's entirety below is worth the read. It was written to the believers. It could also be named: Apostasy Warning.
If you read through it, how much of it do you recognize in your life? How much to you see happening around you?
Who are you serving?
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25 to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Jude (KJV 1900)
JUDE, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: 2 mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them, in like manner giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Prayer: Heavenly Father. Your word reminds us in 1 Cor 10:13 that you won't put on us more than we can bear. You also tell us that we ought to be not off this world, even though we're in this world in Romans 12:2. Thank you for your word, and for the authority you have given us over the enemy, for your sacrifice is an accomplishment, not a defeat. Let us do good in Jesus' name only - and help us to be true to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! In Yeshua's name - Amen.
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