Righteousness and Justice!
The Lord was showing me in a deeper way what he showed me a few days ago with the post on Bread of Life. And adding to it about wisdom, and lack of wisdom and understanding. The wisdom is all written in the bible, the Lord spoke on it when he was on earth, and the Father also gave it to many men over the years before Yeshua. But we do not listen.
This point came up as my wife and I were visiting, and we were talking about some of her friends, one in particular whose son was kicked at school and fell back and hit his head. The mother was all worried and took him to the doctor and made a big deal about it. But the son started it as he threw some water on the other boy and the other boy reacted. I am not saying he had the right to, especially at that level. Also our kids saw her son playing like a crazy one at school as if there was no problem. So the point my wife made was how do people live without God in their lives, always over reacting and bringing drama to themselves. I reminded her she does the same, maybe not at that level, but like most mothers she is also a mother bear protecting her cubs, making it OK to cry over nothing.
But our real conversation was about how do people live apart from the truth in God? And my answer was if you live mostly in the truth, following righteousness, do you really need God to live a decent life? You just need to live by his laws, which is not completely doable without him, but can be at different levels. The other thing I have found over the years is that most atheists live a much better life in righteousness than “christians.” The Christians tend to live more by grace, thinking they have a license to sin. They will argue with me, but it is true. Atheist just live and try to live a good life. This is a general statement and does not apply to 100% on each side, but is mostly true.
The point is the closer you live the truth, the easier life is. Many people live a life they pretend to be something they are not. Now I want to bring this back to the writing of the “bread of life.” And the point Yeshua made to me, which is that no one will hunger or thirst if they know him, never. And it is true. Even when I first started following him, and was dead broke and had to live with my parents for about 2 years. I had a roof over my head, a nice one actually. And always ate well. God left me in a state of poverty for sometime, which taught me a lot. And then the opposite, he took me out of poverty and into some wealth, enough so I can retire at 60 (even though I am not really ready to stop completely, the real estate business stopped for me. This is something that has happened to me before).
Then our conversation turned a bit to what God’s real purpose is with us, which is to build us up, not make us weak or keep us weak. Most religious people are weak. They never learn the truth in Yeshua. Yeshua does not sit up in heaven crying for us when things go wrong, like he never saw it coming. He does not want us running to counselors or church friends to cry with who keep us weak. He wants to build us up and make us strong. He expects us to turn 4 talents into 8, and equips us to overcome everything, if we listen and obey him.
I see the church system doing the opposite of what God wants, it is a religious system built to keep you weak and depending on the “church” instead of being in the church which is in Yeshua. Religion keeps you from entering into the true church, it keeps you weak. They say they are the way the truth and the light, representing God but they are not. You either know and obey the Yeshua and Spirit or you do not. Only God can build you up into who you should be completely, no one else can. The only wisdom worth knowing comes from him, and reading a book called a bible won’t cut it, nor will listening to a preacher or even myself who has a lot of wisdom, not because of me. But because of listening to and obeying Yeshua. He builds you up to overcome, makes you stronger than you can even imagine. You get to a point where nothing in this world touches you, and you understand how the wisdom works, and how the evil one, satan, does everything possible to keep you out of the truth and from knowing Yeshua. The evil one is the leader of religion, making it seem like it is of God when it is not. The evil one is the father of all lies and murderer from the beginning.
In this lifetime, we must come to know the truth in Yeshua and stay away from the lies of satan. The more I listen to Yeshua and see his righteousness and ways, and hear his truth. The more I see how corrupt and deep in lies this world is. The world has seriously exchanged righteousness for unrighteousness in so many ways. The governments of this world are out of control, giving thieves the rights and the righteous no rights at all. They are making the sexually deranged people the right ones, and the ones who stay right with God in a righteous relationship of man and woman as being wrong, they make many homophobes and or judgmental. This is exactly what the bible tells us about the end of times, it will be like the days of sodom and gomorrah and Noah. satan has a way to make people believe these things, and make the righteous wrong and worthy of even death. While pushing the unrighteous as heros, just look at black lives matters and the guy who died in Minneapolis. He was a drug addict and thief, but they made him a hero. I am not saying he deserved to die like he did, but to make him a hero???
And the funny thing is the religions preach about things Paul wrote about obeying the political laws, no matter what they say. So accordingly we should all participate in gay activities and get the mark of the beast? And if not, then where do we draw the line?
The funny thing is my family bears very good fruit over all. Yet we get made fun of and even laughed at for how we live. Seems according to them we do nothing correct, yet how do you look at our results of having money when they do not, and having excellent health when they do not? Having a great family life when they do not. But mostly hearing and obeying God when they do not, and laugh because we believe we do?
Because we seeked the kingdom of God first, and its righteousness. We got everything else. Not without serious tests at times. But we do live a great life. Not one to envy, because anyone can have it. But one to strive for in Yeshua.