Your Neighbor

Exodus 20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. #Bible

This is one of the ten commandments of Jehovah God. These commandments are given by God, not to apply any burden, but to free us from the consequences resulting from doing the wrong thing, or succumbing to temptation.
To bear false witness is to give incorrect information, when you know the truth. This can be about someone, or to someone giving false information directly.
Your neighbor is one you see, who lives close, or you work with, you work for, or they work for you.
Not bearing false witness, and being honest is to love God by your obedience to God who is Loving you by giving you His commandments.
No commandments, statutes, laws, ordinances, or dictates given by our Lord is intended, or designed to cause a negative outcome, but only good.
The Word of God never tells you to do something wrong, it is perfect in accomplishing God's Will, and best intentions for those who Love Him.
Think about Jesus who is the fulfillment of the Law of God.
Jesus is worth Believing.

Choice

Zephaniah 3:17 The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. #Bible

Zep 3:7-8 I have said, 'If only you would fear me, if only you would take my instructions to heart.' Then their houses would not have been torn down. I have chastened them, but they were eager to corrupt everything they were doing." 8 "Just you wait!" declares the LORD. "The day will come when I stand up as a prosecutor, for I am determined to assemble the nations and to gather the kingdoms, in order to pour out my indignation upon them-- all of my fierce anger. All the earth will be consumed by the fire of my jealousy.

As always we have a choice before us. We see here earlier in the chapter, Jehovah God the existing One is dealing harshly with these people. Making cities and even their streets desolate, the people are gone because of God's judgement and wrath.
We cannot take God for granted, treating Him like He's up there in Heaven far far away.
As Christians, God is with us all the time, and thinking He doesn't know what we're up to is just foolishness. God our Eternal Father is Just and as we see here He Disciplines.
God leaves the choice up to us, we can be where He Blesses us, or we can be where He Disciplines us, its entirely our choice.
What our Father God prefers is a reason to save us, to rejoice with gladness and loud singing over us, loving us in silence, not remembering our sins.
Why is God jealous? Because we place our faith and trust everywhere but in Him, and to Jehovah, everywhere is just sticks, metal, stone, and flesh like our own, with no life of their own or ability in them.
Seek God while there is still time.

Happy Feet

Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns. #Bible

Good news is what we all love to hear, after hearing, everything is wonderfully better. You look at the sun rising over the hills, or mountains and you are excited with what the day will bring. At evening as the sunsets in the cool breeze of summer, taking a long deep breath knowing tomorrow will be a good day, and sleep will be peaceful.
Isaiah is speaking here of a twofold idea, on one hand he is speaking of the deliverance of Israel from captivity. On the other hand he is speaking of the day when the Messiah comes.
Jesus the Messiah came preaching the Good News that would set all the captives of sin free. That their sins would be forgiven, no longer just covered or set aside, but removed as far as the east is from the west, into the sea of forgetfulness.
The Good News is still being announced even today, it is being preached all over the world informing everyone that freedom from sin is at hand, it is now.
All you have to do to be at peace with God, no longer at odds with Him, a child of His wrath, is to believe in Jesus His One and Only Unique Son, the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.
The time is short and a dark day is coming when Jesus will return to this world, this time to pronounce judgement on all who choose not to believe.
Believe and be saved!

Luk 4:18-19 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me (Jesus), because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Come Lord Jesus

Revelation 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, Surely I am coming soon. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! #Bible

We live our lives trying to walk with God only to be caught up in the sins that entangle us. We suffer with the daily realization that as the Apostle Paul states in Romans 7, sin resides within our mortal flesh and constantly stumbles us in its temptations. "Oh wretched people that we are". Only we know who will save us from this body of sin, and that is our Wonderful Bridegroom and Saviour, Lord Jesus Christ.
We endure, continuing on in our struggles, striving to walk the narrow path, falling occasionally, but we continue on towards that eternal prize, Eternal Life with our Father in Heaven.
Jesus is almost finished with preparing our place where we will reside with Him in eternity, and like a Bridegroom He will return to capture us away and wisk us off to the Great Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Where we will celebrate our last phase of union with our Bridegroom Jesus the Christ. Why wouldn't we long for this? History shows us that God hears our prayers and our groanings, and our cries for salvation, and He responded then and God will respond in these last days also.

" Come, Lord Jesus, put an end to this state of sin, sorrow, and temptation; gather thy people out of this present evil world, and take them up to heaven, that state of perfect purity, peace, and joy, and so finish thy great design, and fulfil all that word in which thou hast caused thy people to hope." (Matthew Henry)