1Co 2:9 But as it is written, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him.
So if you think you've seen it, or think you've heard it, or even imagined the things God has prepared for we who love God. You can be sure that isn't what it will be like.
Look at this fallen and corrupted world and all of its beauty, and realize what God is, in His perfection, is preparing for us who believe.
Matthew 24:42 Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. #Bible
Be alert, pay attention to the times we live in. Don't fall asleep, so to speak, to what's happening around us, but be alert.
Nobody knows the day Jesus will return for those who believe in Him, but we can, by the season see that it's close.
Even if it were to be the wrong season we still stay alert. Not slumbering in inaction in our service to the Lord, but doing as the Lord directs us. Pray, serve, and live for Jesus the Christ as He even gave His Life for us.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. #Bible
As human beings we have a God given characteristic of fear. Interestingly we in my opinion, have abused it to the point that fear has turned into something entirely different, anxiety, depression, paranoia, doubt, discouragement, and so on. Fear has been exaggerated way out of proportion.
Fear for the Christian simply put, is a trigger, or an alert to talk to God. Christians aren't slaves to fear any more, we have been freed by our Savior Jesus the Christ.
Jesus has not only freed us from a spirit of fear, but He has given us miraculous power, a miracle in itself from God.
We now have the ability to do the wonderful works of God. We are now, as Christians able to do the will of God. We have been given the ability of self control to Love as God Loves. Not only fellow Christians, but the world also.
We Christians being filled with our comforter the Holly Spirit, the power of God to endure, even when fear grips us with all it brings, we cry out to our Abba, (Daddy), Father God, who has all the solutions, and answers to our human dilemma.
Romans 8:15
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, Abba! Father!
Ephesians 3:12 In Whom, because of our faith in Him, we dare to have the boldness (courage and confidence) of free access (an unreserved approach to God with freedom and without fear). (Amplified Bible)
1 Corinthians 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. #Bible
Through faith we see clearly the Love of God, by Jesus He declares life Eternal, in hope we discover to love like God on our journey in life.
Ephesians 4:1-3 () 4:1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. #Bible
Being born again changes us, we have a awesome attitude change, or adjustment being filled with the Spirit of God.
Humility, Gentleness, and Patience are the characteristics Christians display when being Sheppard by Jesus. These characteristics are what allows us to bear with one another and the world in Love. This is the sign that we are maintaining the unity of the Spirit which keeps us on the right path close to God.
The Bond of peace is what allows Christians to except all who follow Jesus our Great Sheppard, the One and only Son of God, the Christ, the Messiah.
Being born again allows us Christians to love all people in the world who are not Believers of God, with the Love of God which is perfect Love.
In the recent news on gay marriage in the U.S. is just another opportunity for Christians to Love the gay community, and to be honest speaking the truth, the Word of God, and after to continue loving them as Christ Jesus Loved us while we were still sinner's.
