Saturday, January 2, 2010

By Nature

God’s will is awesome! If you want to walk in it you will first need to know what it is and then apply yourself daily to doing it. It’s not that complicated, it comes naturally if you don’t try too hard because it’s what you were made for. Just like animals know what to do, they don’t go to universities to learn how to live they just know. So Christians are created with the instincts to follow God and do what’s right. It’s so simple a child can do it and most of them do. It only gets messed up when someone comes along and tries to teach you how to “live right.” It’s like telling a dog how to be a dog and that they better keep the dogma if they want to be great in dogdom. But the dog knows its doctrine because it’s taught by instinct and not by law. A dog is a dog and a Christian is like Christ by nature. Will you do what’s right and fulfill the law? You can do it, if you just follow your God given instincts it comes naturally. Forget about all the legal eagles teaching beagles to be beagles and just follow your heart. You know what’s right so just walk with God and be His loyal and faithful companion. You were created to be ‘God’s best friend’ and so much more even one with Him.

…for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts….
Rom 2:14-15 NKJV

…I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them… Heb 8:10-11 NKJV

Eph 2:3-10 AMP(Caps. added0
3 Among these we as well as you once lived and conducted ourselves in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by our corrupt and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind [our cravings dictated by our senses and our dark imaginings]. We WERE then by NATURE children of [God's] wrath and heirs of [His] indignation, like the rest of mankind.

4 BUT GOD — so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,

5 Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved ( delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation).

6 And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

7 He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in [His] kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus.

8 For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that YOU ARE saved ( delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;

9 Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law's demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]

10 For WE ARE God's [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].
AMP

2 Peter 1:2-4(Caps. added)
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine NATURE, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
NKJV