2015-08-06

God says once or twice, people would not listen




Read verses:

Job 33:14-18,29-30


For God does speak—one way or another—though man may not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride, to preserve his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword. God does all these things to a person—twice, even three times—to turn them back from the pit that the light of life may shine on them.

We know God through dreams and visions, but also through suffering. He even sends angels to speak to people. David, a person pleasing to God, wrote in Psalm 62:11-12 saying, "One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done." David knew that God "desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.” (Psalm 51:6). So he respected the authority of God, not only willing to open  his mind to God but readily setting  his life to walk in God's will, willing to praise the Lord that enlightens his ways, to live life in the house of God and enjoy God's presence forever.  He knows God will show him the path of life. In Him is fullness of joy; there are eternal pleasures at the right hand of God.

The apostle Paul is the same: after he was enlightened (had the vision from heaven) he regarded all things as dirt, that he may gain Christ and his reward when He comes again. Today the gospel is preached again and again around us. May God bless us, to not harden our hearts, refusing God's saving grace. We all know, "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9). If a person cannot get rid of pride and greed , it is difficult for him to allow the light of truth shine. When people see themselves as superior to others, and when people outwardly look humble but inwardly have a stubborn heart, they will become pitifully selfish without realizing it.

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." (Romans 1:20). God so loved the world, he revealed himself not only through what has been made, but the Word became flesh and he himself came into the world, looking for the lost, in order to show the way that people and God can reconnect, hoping that people will have the way, the truth, and the life, and have a real peace!

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