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Ti voglio bene? Part 101
** An Italian saying - "I want good for you!" This is what we all should strive for in our earthly existence! ... **
Date: 1/31/2014 12:30:55 PM ( 10 y ) ... viewed 11705 times ** One thing you can be sure of when you stand before the Judgment Bar of Christ; which is only one relevant question:
" How did you Love your neighbor{fellow humans}? "
This is key to our existence and is a major part of our earthly life!
Once at the Bar - " Your life will pass before you in an instance " {which will literally flash before you} so there will not be any question of neither Innocence or Guilt - just the exact truth of whatever as it happened!
No debate, just like a video of your life -
as to whatever happened in your earthly existence!
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Some of the following is from a book by Richard Paul Evans
** A must read to help improve your life!
- The Four Doors is Richard Paul Evans' message to those who seek inspiration in their lives. It began as a talk he gave on the spur of the moment, and over the course of ten years, it has evolved into a message he has shared with successful business people, students, and even addicts and prisoners.
- It includes stories his readers have told him, stories about great achievers who overcame hardships, and stories about his own struggle growing up in a large family with financial difficulties and a suicidal mother, and about his diagnosis of Tourette's Syndrome later in life.
These inspiring stories are woven through his identification and careful explanation of the four doors to a more fulfilling life:
During your lifetime here are at least (4) Four Doors which you should pass through...
- 1) Believe there is a reason you were born
- 2) Free yourself from limitation
- 3) Magnify your life
- 4) Develop a love-centered map
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These are part of an important factor as to how a controlled life of service to others is possible...
Not only does it give direction but will help guide a person's pathway toward the Will of God !!
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Definitions of God's Will:
- Divine law - is any law that, according to religious belief, comes directly from the will of God, in contrast to man-made law.
- Divine will - will of God, in contrast to human will.
Divine providence - is God's intervention in the world.
- Salvation - the concept that claims it is God's will that human beings be saved from death.
- Plan of salvation, in general Christian concept.
- Providential-ism is a belief that God's will is evident in all occurrences. It can further be described as a belief that the power of God (or Providence) is so complete that humans cannot equal his abilities, or fully understand his plan.
- Eschatology - the future that has been planned by God
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** Will - the faculty by which a person decides to conceive them-self as deciding upon and initiating action; the power of determining one's choice of action independently of causation doing the will of God!
Matthew 7:21
New King James Version (NKJV)
I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
- " Anyone who resolves to do the Will of God will know whether the teaching is from God, or whether I am speaking on my own. "
-About the middle of the festival Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach. The Jews were astonished at it, saying, ‘How does this man have such learning, when he has never been taught?’
Then Jesus answered them, ‘My teaching is not mine but his who sent me. Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. Those who speak on their own seek their own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing false in him.
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2000 + Year Old Idea
Actually, the idea is not new. It’s been around for a couple of…thousand years. Two sisters first experienced this principle in their home while serving dinner to guests. At least one of them did.
One day Mary and Martha were entertaining Jesus and His disciples in their home. While Mary sat at the feet of Jesus listening to His teaching, Martha fumed in the kitchen while she prepared dinner–alone. Her emotions finally erupted, and she confronted Jesus with the unfairness of her situation: “Lord, doesn't it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me.”
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The One Thing Principle:
But Jesus gently chided her and challenged her with the “one thing” principle–which Mary had apparently already discovered: “My dear Martha, you are so upset over all these details! There is really only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it–and I won’t take it away from her” { known as service or homage to God - Jesus}(See Luke 10:38-42, NLT).
Jesus doesn't explain the “one thing.” He doesn't have to. We get His meaning. Hopefully, Martha did, too.
Did Martha’s work not matter? Of course it did. But Mary chose the best part. Her priority–her focus–was on Jesus Himself.
Her joy–and need–in that relationship drove her to Jesus’ feet. If Martha’s focus had truly been on Jesus, would not the joy of serving Him with her gifts equal Mary’s desire to hear His teaching and the way Mary chose to honor Jesus?
If anything drives us other than our relationship with Jesus, we’re still probably in the process of learning. If anything matters to us more than Jesus, something needs rearranging. So it is about what is the purpose of the activity or action? Is it personal or service to or toward others who are placed in your pathway?
Personally, I’m so grateful for God’s patience!
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Once you understand what your position is in the Will of God; - then the Will of God can not be simply read off from some facts or events but must be discerned, must be found through insight, through the kindling of the heart and the illumining of the mind that occur on the spiritual adventure. John S. Dunne - The reasons of the Heart!
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Therefore:
Matthew 25:40
New International Version (NIV)
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
This tells the whole story! Have you gotten it yet??
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