When we are born again, changed by God,
we are very different from the way we had been before. Often we no
longer enjoy the people or things we once enjoyed. Usually we want to
read the Bible and go to church to hear about God.
Now we seek God and His righteousness, what is right in the sight of God.
And this is our interest as long as God chooses to leave us on this present earth.
Here is a promise from God:
Psalm 84:11 For
the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory:
no good thing will HE withhold from them that walk uprightly.
We
go forward renewing our mind to the Bible, seeing the way God chooses
for us to live, and we do those scriptures, growing in the image of
Christ the Word.
God
is our "sun" by HIS Spirit who brings to our mind the way to go. God
is also a shield, keeping us from things that would harm us.
And we find, in time, God has placed around us those good things which we can enjoy.
All we do is keep following various scriptures as they are given to us by the Holy Spirit thus staying on God's highway.
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One of the things I enjoy most in this life is my sound system. I
love the sound effects of hearing a door open on the right of the TV.
Or hearing the clang of the old time elevator doors when they are
closed. I seem to hear all the sound effects in movies. I like the sound of musical instruments to duplicate the clarity of the real instrument.
Along
the way, some very good quality sound equipment came into my life. God
just enabled me to meet people who could help me develop a system.
But I very much wanted to marry. But
to marry would not fit in with that which God planned for me to do on
this earth. Eventually I saw "that" and agreed with God.
Recently I saw an old 1948 movie, "The egg and I". I
thought it was a terrible movie but I was also helped immensely by
seeing that movie. I saw how terrible it would have been if I had
actually married Buddy. He is a farm and ranch person. Also he and his father were Church of Christ "leaders". I don't see how I could have done the work God assigned to me in a Church of Christ setting.
God
is a shield for us. Sometimes God keeps us from getting that which we
want and like a little child we have temper tantrums because God, The
Father, did not let us have that. Later we rejoice that we didn't get
what we wanted. And we thank God for keeping us from getting that.
But when it is good for us to have that thing, God will see that it comes to us.
We just continue in HIS Word.
It
is not that we are trying to get things by doing God's commandments.
We do God's word because we have a respect for God and know HIS way is
right and best for us.
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