Holding On

 What do you think of this statement, ‘I’m not holding onto God, He’s holding onto me?’  Now think of this, ‘Unless the Lord build the house, you labor in vain that build it.’  I believe unless the Lord is in whatever people try to accomplish, it will never be as successful as it would have been with Him.  As far as I’m concerned, it takes three to make a good strong marriage or a relationship, it takes the Lord and the couple working together, along with true love for one another that the good Lord helps us with.  God ordained marriage in the beginning, and He explained what it should look like, and true love should be in the center of it.

Think about prayer, if only one is involved, or many, without the Lord everyone would be wasting their time, unless the Lord is involved, and He is answering that prayer.  Think about holding onto God and Him holding onto us, many unbelieving people may think by doing good things they have some kind of hold on God, not so.  Every nonbeliever has to realize it is not by our good works that makes us right with the good Lord.  It is only because of his unconditional grace and love that makes us right with the Lord.  How we get right with the Lord is by repentance, believing in Him by turning away from our sins and turning to the Lord, having a change of heart and mind.  Then we need to be very careful we don’t do our good works just for people to see, thinking we are making an impression on the good Lord.  I believe the good Lord is pleased when we do good works, because He calls us to do exactly that.  The thing is, we have to be very careful of what our attitude is while we are doing what we do.  Are we just trying to appease the Lord, or do we do what we do because we love our neighbors as we are called to, and also love ourselves?

Having the good Lord holding onto us is very important, plus us having a close relationship with Him, and our dependency on Him, is of the utmost importance; you might say that you are doing your best to hold onto Him.  The good Lord carries his people, those who love Him.  Please read Isaiah 63:9, “In all their affliction He was afflicted. So the angel of His presence saved them. In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, then He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.” Now please read, Deuteronomy 1:31, “and in the wilderness, where you saw how Adonai your God carried you as a man carries his son, everywhere you went until you came to this place.’”  The good Lord truly loves His people and not in just words, but also in deeds, praise the good Lord, He is worthy!!

So, let’s be sincere, let’s try our best to hang onto the good Lord, please read Joshua 23:8-10, “But cling to Adonai your God, as you have done to this day. For Adonai has driven out from before you great and mighty nations. As for you, no one remained standing before you to this day. One of you can put a thousand to flight, for Adonai your God, He Himself is fighting for you, just as He said to you.”  

God does for one as He does for another Jews and Gentiles alike Greek and Barbarians, He gave His Son for all because of His unconditional love and grace. 

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life, He did not send his Son into the world to condemn the word but through him but in order that the world might be saved through Him!! John 3 :16-17 and it goes on to say this in that same chapter in verses 18-21, “The one who believes in Him is not condemned; but whoever does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not put his trust in the name of the one and only Ben-Elohim. Now this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and men loved the darkness instead of the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed. But whoever practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be made known that his deeds have been accomplished in God.”

 

Praise the good Lord, I hope this has been an encouragement, a help and a blessing to all who read it.  May you all have a super day and may the good Lord bless each of you with His perfect peace, love, joy, health and happiness!!