Because they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of the Lord…But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil.” Proverbs 1:29 y 33
The Lord keeps putting on my mind the song higher love, and the main verse, bring me a higher love. Then he shows me things which seem nothing to do with love at all. Many times the Lord has shown me what true love is in his eyes, and this one thing is the stepping stone the men keep tripping on over and over. How man sees love and how God sees it are two very different things, and is the reason why most people cannot get through and hear God.
As an example read the first chapter of Proverbs, which two of those verses are above on one hand it speaks of hating the Lord and his instructions, which is one and the same with God. You cannot say you love him but hate what he stands for and instructs you to do. Real faith, real belief in him is based on this simple point. Do you hear him and obey him or do you ignore his light or wisdom and knowledge and continue down the same old path to hell? Or did you at some point in life start to seek him and then hear his voice, and then obey what he tells you to do, even when it goes against your religion? Because there is no religion which is of God.
The Lord also speaks of loving other people more than him, God keeps showing me this with the Mexican culture and somewhat the US culture. There is a real spirit of enabling here in Mexico. Where the people my age are in-between enabling the parents and siblings to not have to work and they take care of them. And also taking care of the kids who should be self-supportive. I watch capable older people who can work, choosing to not work and let the kids take care of them. And in many of these cases the parents were alcoholics, smoking, abusive physically and sexually. They are capable of working but don’t and the kids have to support them or they would die of starvation (or have to go work no matter if they like it or not). And because of their religious beliefs, they say it is of God. But is it? I can tell you when you read the 1st chapter of Proverbs it speaks clearly about not heading the wisdom of God and staying in the really bad sins in your life. And with God, “When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. “Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.” Verses 27 y 28
Now, on the other hand, at one time in my life I also did not seek him, I had my religion catholic and did my confession to forgive my sins, so it was believed. Because I believed in the catholic church theology and did not know God. So this morning God was showing me so many things about my past life at that time, and the sins I did. He also showed me how he ignored me when I cried out because of the serious pain from my follies (the pain I deserved). And yet God still did not answer. But I keep crying out over and over, and as Yashua said about the old woman begging the judge for justice and the judge giving in finally. So it was with me, eventually the Lord said OK and started to speak to me.
Now based on what was said a day or so back, the Lord has his way and he starts to show it to you, and you must obey and follow him in every aspect of what he shows you. With each step he takes away another sin, another dysfunction until he cannot find anything else to convict you of. No matter how bad of a man you are he will eventually run out of sin to convict you of, it is simply up to us to hear and obey him.
That is Love, the highest Love. When you obey him, his ways are righteousness and justice for all, you, your family and friends and even enemies.
We enable the people to stay in their lazy sinful ways, instead of letting them get to the point of real suffering, like starving to death like the prodigal son, before they decide you know I really need to repent and seek forgiveness of my father for the things I did, and maybe he will at least let me come on as a hired hand in his Kingdom. Instead we allow them to keep their pride, a pride which goes against the very foundation and principals of the Kingdom of God, which keeps the man in his sin and out of the Kingdom. And because we are following our religious beliefs instead of God, we also do not enter into the Kingdom and the perfect will of God, and do so while thinking we are doing the will of God, again because our religious beliefs, instead of knowing and obeying the Lord. This is one of many examples of why religion and listening to men teachers will never save you, nor your family. As Yashua said to the Jews, you yourselves do not enter in and you keep those under you from entering also, making them more hell raisers than you are.
This is a perfect example of how we do not follow the higher Love of God but instead follow our own idea of love. And how we do not even understand what real Love is (another song the Lord puts on my mind often). We have our belief in what God should be like, and then we act out according to this idea. All of us with a different idea depending on how we were brought up, what religion we followed if any. Who are friends are, what school we went to, what country or culture we are a part of… Everything in life shapes our mind and tells us who we are supposed to be. And no matter what that is, it is NEVER anything of God. He has his own ways and if we do not come to know him and then adhere to the truth he shows us and obey, then we are not a part of his Kingdom.
Much of this teaching comes because of Mother’s day yesterday and watching people as usual. As well as the Lo0rd waking me up and showing me all kinds of things I did when I walked in my follies as a catholic, knowing much of what I was doing was sinful, other things not yet still were not right with God. And at the same time not worrying about it because I was catholic and was saved and OK in the eyes of God because my catholic faith told me I was. It gave me a licenses to sin and be OK with it, instead of letting the light convict me.
Speaking of which he reminded me of one event, when I was barely able to I went to a strip bar with a coworker. I had a strong felling over me to not go in. At the time I did not know the Spirit of God because once again I was catholic. But instead of letting that sensation rule over me and stop and not enter, I went in. This is quenching the Holy Spirit. And a start down the wrong path, because he never did that to me again when going to strip clubs. But again, my mind was not on the things of God it was on myself and my religious views and convictions. And the catholic faith NEVER spoke of felling convictions and then obeying the Spirit. Their teaching was you receive the spirit by confirmation. You learn many things the religion wants to teach you and then you do a ceremony. No talk of hearing and obeying and letting the Spirit convict you.
No wonder we miss it, and no wonder we keep ignoring the Spirit of Truth? I look back on those days and know how dangerous of a slope that religion is, keeping us in our sin, giving us that license to sin. And no wonder we have real grace, because as for me, I really thought I was in good hands following the catholic religion and was good with God. But when he showed me otherwise, because of suffering from my follies and seeking him. God showed me how ignorant and or stupid I was. BUT when I started to listen and obey and come to understand him and his ways, the true grace of God covered me, because God knows your heart, and he will see you did not disobey because you choose to ignore the Spirit. You ignored because of what you believed. And this is why doctrine is important, the doctrine can and does keep you from coming to the understanding of God and what he wants. You will never understand why Yashua is the “way, truth and light. And the only way to the Father!” Not until you come to know him and let him have his way with you and you obey. Then you will say as Job did, “now I see God!”
Nothing is worse to me than to see men following Christianity and a god who never existed in name nor Spirit named Jesus Christ. Thinking their religious doctrine is the right one, and the thousands of others are all wrong, and they never ask themselves why is mine right and theirs wrong? Because we have one run at this, no redoes when we meet the Lord and find out he expected something different than what we believed.
Personally I am glad for my suffering, even as difficult as it was, because it brought me to really seek God and come to know him. Knowing in Yashua I have freedom and salvation. But also fearing God so I remain in him as he is in me. Because I know what he can do to me if I ever choose to not obey and keep on the narrow path with him.
