Psalm 73:24 Thou shalt guide me with thy council, and afterward receive me to glory.
Well hello there my truly beautiful, heaven bound Friends! Now please don’t make me a liar. (smile) Another God-given day is in the offing, either filled with brilliant sunshine, showers of blessing, or some combination thereof. But however it turns out, says loud and clear that our God is still on His throne running things, and as long as that’s the case, then all we humans have hope for salvation and eternal life. And we achieve that by simply believing and trusting in the Holy Name of Jesus. But that sounds so easy. Yes, that’s the easy part. The hard part is living and walking that belief and trust afterwards. Note, hanging out with Jesus is no joyride, it can be very rough, but it’s always interesting. He’s also promised to invest His Holy Spirit in us as His assistant. The Spirit’s steadfast and faithful nature will guide and protect us as we walk in His Name. The psalmist, Asaph said it so beautifully: ‘Thou shalt guide me with thy council, and afterwards receive me to glory.’ What more can we ask of our God eh? Nothing really. He’s promised to guide us with fatherly advice as we walk the evil pathways of this world, then, when our days here are over, gloriously receive our spirits to live with Him through eternity. And it’s most wonderful that the Lord has promised to guide us, but all guidance and advice require certain things: One must either ask for it, or have it granted, and right now advice sure is plentiful, both the cheap and expensive kind. There’s also the matter of where or from whom the advice comes. But the most important aspect is what we do with said advice. We can get all the advice in the world, both good and bad, but in the end, we have to make the final decision. No one else can make it for us. Remember, as children, our parents were always giving us advice, much of which we ignored, because it seemed too onerous, or it didn’t fit in with our plans to have a good time. But then we often paid a hefty negative price for not listening. Some of us learned from our mistakes, while others didn’t, and so kept on making the same ones over and over. I constantly told my children that all of us have been allotted a certain amount of mistakes. Those we can’t get away from, we just have to band our bellies and accept them. However, there are many mistakes we can avoid by learning from the faulty judgement of others, thereby suffering less misfortune in this sometimes very unfortunate life. An excellent example of what we’re talking about is found in 1 Kings 12. Sol’s son, Rehoboam became king after him, and the people came pleading for him to ease their burden. Sol had taxed them to death to satisfy his lifestyle. Rehoboam told them to come back in three days for an answer, then he consulted with both his father’s old advisors and the young men of his generation. The old folks told him to ease up on the people, while the young uns advocated a harsher yoke, and foolishly, Rehoboam listened to the young generation. ‘My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’ (1 Kin.12:14) It wasn’t real scorpions, but scourges that had points, and so mutilated the flesh more than whips. That advice only led to a revolt by the people, and a break up of Israel, with Rehoboam only ruling over Judah, while the remaining tribes crowned Jeroboam king. Oh my people, nothing much has changed. We still get lots of bad advice that we still follow. If anything, bad advice is more rampant now than then. It’s bad advice, interspersed with greed that has the world currently on its knees; too many consultants, too many experts, too many financial gurus who were supposed to know. But either they didn’t really know, or were driven by greed to build towers of wealth on poor foundations. And too many people listened to them, since they were adjudged experts, and fell into step with their unholy push for more. Oh Friends, in every meltdown, the real culprit is bad advice, and with every setback we turn to another expert with a different philosophy. But it’s only a matter of time before the same results are forthcoming. Why? Because the fundamental structure, the foundation of our society is not strong, it’s built on sinking sand, so whatever you put on it will eventually crumble. This begs the question of what solid foundation we must build on to survive. Oh Friends, we all know there’s only one solid, firm, indestructible, immovable, foundation: Jesus Christ! Man’s advice led us astray, now it’s time to give Christ a chance; listen to Him, build our lives on His teachings, His Word and His way of life. Bruh David realized this way back when. ‘I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.’ (Ps.32:8) Oh Friends, by following Lucifer’s cronies in their unending quest for earthly wealth, power and lusts of the flesh, we’ve made a terrible mess of the world. Let’s start following the God who created this world and us. I guarantee that we won’t be sorry if we live the way He desires. He will NEVER, and I repeat, NEVER let us down. Friends, we’ve been given a second chance, I implore us, let’s use it to rebuild our lives successfully on Jesus. That means listen to Him, tell others about Him, and live a life that will honour Him. Mankind is kin to stupid sheep, ever quick to run to their slaughter, so it’s up to us believers to guide them to the Good Shepherd, who’ll lead them safely with His kind, gentle ways. ‘For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.’ (Ps.48:14) That’s the gospel truth my people! So before we make any serious decisions, let’s confer with our God, seek His advice, His wisdom, and LISTEN to Him. This way we’ll surely minimize our mistakes, giving us more time to enjoy our lives, to worship, praise and glorify Him. Much LOVE!…it’s trite but true…if yuh doh hear…yuh going to feel…
Well hello there my truly beautiful, heaven bound Friends! Now please don’t make me a liar. (smile) Another God-given day is in the offing, either filled with brilliant sunshine, showers of blessing, or some combination thereof. But however it turns out, says loud and clear that our God is still on His throne running things, and as long as that’s the case, then all we humans have hope for salvation and eternal life. And we achieve that by simply believing and trusting in the Holy Name of Jesus. But that sounds so easy. Yes, that’s the easy part. The hard part is living and walking that belief and trust afterwards. Note, hanging out with Jesus is no joyride, it can be very rough, but it’s always interesting. He’s also promised to invest His Holy Spirit in us as His assistant. The Spirit’s steadfast and faithful nature will guide and protect us as we walk in His Name. The psalmist, Asaph said it so beautifully: ‘Thou shalt guide me with thy council, and afterwards receive me to glory.’ What more can we ask of our God eh? Nothing really. He’s promised to guide us with fatherly advice as we walk the evil pathways of this world, then, when our days here are over, gloriously receive our spirits to live with Him through eternity. And it’s most wonderful that the Lord has promised to guide us, but all guidance and advice require certain things: One must either ask for it, or have it granted, and right now advice sure is plentiful, both the cheap and expensive kind. There’s also the matter of where or from whom the advice comes. But the most important aspect is what we do with said advice. We can get all the advice in the world, both good and bad, but in the end, we have to make the final decision. No one else can make it for us. Remember, as children, our parents were always giving us advice, much of which we ignored, because it seemed too onerous, or it didn’t fit in with our plans to have a good time. But then we often paid a hefty negative price for not listening. Some of us learned from our mistakes, while others didn’t, and so kept on making the same ones over and over. I constantly told my children that all of us have been allotted a certain amount of mistakes. Those we can’t get away from, we just have to band our bellies and accept them. However, there are many mistakes we can avoid by learning from the faulty judgement of others, thereby suffering less misfortune in this sometimes very unfortunate life. An excellent example of what we’re talking about is found in 1 Kings 12. Sol’s son, Rehoboam became king after him, and the people came pleading for him to ease their burden. Sol had taxed them to death to satisfy his lifestyle. Rehoboam told them to come back in three days for an answer, then he consulted with both his father’s old advisors and the young men of his generation. The old folks told him to ease up on the people, while the young uns advocated a harsher yoke, and foolishly, Rehoboam listened to the young generation. ‘My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’ (1 Kin.12:14) It wasn’t real scorpions, but scourges that had points, and so mutilated the flesh more than whips. That advice only led to a revolt by the people, and a break up of Israel, with Rehoboam only ruling over Judah, while the remaining tribes crowned Jeroboam king. Oh my people, nothing much has changed. We still get lots of bad advice that we still follow. If anything, bad advice is more rampant now than then. It’s bad advice, interspersed with greed that has the world currently on its knees; too many consultants, too many experts, too many financial gurus who were supposed to know. But either they didn’t really know, or were driven by greed to build towers of wealth on poor foundations. And too many people listened to them, since they were adjudged experts, and fell into step with their unholy push for more. Oh Friends, in every meltdown, the real culprit is bad advice, and with every setback we turn to another expert with a different philosophy. But it’s only a matter of time before the same results are forthcoming. Why? Because the fundamental structure, the foundation of our society is not strong, it’s built on sinking sand, so whatever you put on it will eventually crumble. This begs the question of what solid foundation we must build on to survive. Oh Friends, we all know there’s only one solid, firm, indestructible, immovable, foundation: Jesus Christ! Man’s advice led us astray, now it’s time to give Christ a chance; listen to Him, build our lives on His teachings, His Word and His way of life. Bruh David realized this way back when. ‘I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.’ (Ps.32:8) Oh Friends, by following Lucifer’s cronies in their unending quest for earthly wealth, power and lusts of the flesh, we’ve made a terrible mess of the world. Let’s start following the God who created this world and us. I guarantee that we won’t be sorry if we live the way He desires. He will NEVER, and I repeat, NEVER let us down. Friends, we’ve been given a second chance, I implore us, let’s use it to rebuild our lives successfully on Jesus. That means listen to Him, tell others about Him, and live a life that will honour Him. Mankind is kin to stupid sheep, ever quick to run to their slaughter, so it’s up to us believers to guide them to the Good Shepherd, who’ll lead them safely with His kind, gentle ways. ‘For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.’ (Ps.48:14) That’s the gospel truth my people! So before we make any serious decisions, let’s confer with our God, seek His advice, His wisdom, and LISTEN to Him. This way we’ll surely minimize our mistakes, giving us more time to enjoy our lives, to worship, praise and glorify Him. Much LOVE!…it’s trite but true…if yuh doh hear…yuh going to feel…
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