John 15:18-20 “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.”

How odd is it? Once again I am taking this same sentence or maybe question and asking you, the readers, to answer it. Do you see where this statement from God’s Holy Word is leading you and I? For lack of a better answer, I am bringing a question to you, in that we are truly a messed up species or do you not see this?

We are so arrogant as to think we know what all is going on and never would we concern ourselves with the fact that we are so fallen. We do not take the statement, “It’s all about ME” as being so close to home in our own hearts, in our every waking moment, of every day. In fact we are fully consumed in that statement. And that is arrogance to the Lord God Almighty.

We have gotten to the point, that simply because we take the next breath of air we think we will always be able to do so. And yet, in spite of this, people everywhere are taking one final breath of air and then never again; they die. How many are born and grow to think that everything in the world is for them? My friends, it boggles the mind.

Every single individual believes this; stop for a moment and consider it. And again, there are so many that “think” they are in control of their lives. So much so that they make all their decisions and anything that happens to them is rightfully taking place because of their choices. Surely my friends, you see the arrogance of all this. And it is arrogance to the Lord God Almighty. I know, I am repeating myself but are you able to consider this aspect of our lives?

Look at the Scripture above once again and then consider this: If you are of the world, then the world will love you, make sense? Then again, the entire world is against and is an enemy of the Lord God. So now, if you choose to give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, and walk with HIM then you are NOT a part of the world; thus the world will hate you.

You want to have salvation through the blood that Jesus shed on the Cross, you want to live forever in heaven, after this life ends here on earth. Yet if you do so, the world will persecute you, and possibly kill you. Simply because they hate you for loving and following Jesus Christ.

Somewhere along the way you have come to the point in your life where you recognize that you have a “spirit” in your body, that is the REAL YOU. So then you wonder why that is so, what does it all mean? Then comes the question that everybody at some point in time asks: Why am I here, what does this life mean, what am I suppose to be doing?

Maybe the Word of God has the answer! Let’s take a look:

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are NOT your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

There’s your answer my friends. In pure black and white straight from the lips of our Lord God Almighty. We are here to follow the Lord God Almighty every second of every day, in our bodies and spirits. You were created in the “image” of God, you nor I are a god of any kind, we are the created…NOT the Creator!

Thus it is our responsibility to know who God is and to Worship HIM and HIM only. Please remember, Adam was the first man. Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden and we have him in our lives, thus we are a fallen species because of his sin. So if you reason this out, you will understand…that sin…separates us from God.

That is why Jesus Christ, who IS God came here to earth and died on that Cross for us. That is the only way to heaven and to the Father, through our sins being covered by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Atonement! Sanctification!

If this rings true in your heart and mind, then you will understand…it is NOT all about YOU. It is all about Jesus Christ and HIS Sacrifice on the Cross. Let’s step back and look at the world. Thousands and thousands of babies are born every day and by the same token, thousands of people die every day.

This simple fact proves, more is going on in this world, than what happens to just YOU. This saying “It’s all about ME” is hog-wash. Evidence is all around you every day; life and death take place every day and in all things in this physical world. God proves this to you and me…all the time. People are born and die, trees grow and then die, the sun rises and the sun sets every day.

Thus we are always able to see these things for ourselves. The problem usually is that no one wants to think—much less discuss these facts. It tends to make you truly see just how significant you really are, how humble it makes you feel. Since there is the CREATOR God, then you ain’t diddly-squat. You are just a part of the creation. Now that is humbling. Suddenly we are stepping on someone’s toes here, thus says the Word of God.

Somewhere along the way, we have gotten it into our heads that we have choices we can make; things we can do, places we can go. The Word of God says otherwise:

John 15:1-5 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”

This truly means, that we are not able to have a single thought without the Lord God allowing it. Thus the ONLY choice we can make freely on our own is whether or not we will follow Jesus Christ. Everyone already knows there is good and bad; there is a GOD and we choose to follow HIM or we die for eternity.

This is NOT rocket science, it is the plain truth. You will either accept it as God has laid it out or you won’t. Thus we know there is a heaven and hell and every single one of us will choose where we wish to go, after this life is over here on earth.

I am going to say this, someone is going to be angry with me. If you are not able to see the Truth of God’s Holy Word to you and me, if you are not able to see the proof in every single living thing here on earth, if you are not able to discern the Truth of God’s Word…then you my friend, are very lost.

One day, very soon you will be required to give an accounting of your actions here on earth. The question then is, how will you respond? You will stand before Jesus Christ and KNOW that HE already knows what you will say. And the real truth is this: Is YOUR SIN covered by HIS blood from the Cross at Calvary? THAT my friends is the real question and it will determine where YOU spend eternity.

How odd is it? Again I am going to go and say this…yet, is it really odd? For those that are born-again to Jesus Christ and following HIM in every way, it is not odd at all. Yet not everyone is in this situation with the Lord; they still do not know enough about Jesus Christ. Let’s take this in a rather basic manner and look at it, then check these things for yourself;

Jesus Christ is part of the Trinity, which we know is God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit. That being the case Jesus Christ…IS God. Just as the Father IS God and the Holy Spirit IS God. Even though the word “Trinity” is not in the Bible, the three parts of our God show HIMSELF to be GOD. With this definitely in its proper place in our hearts and minds (spirit) we can then see that Jesus Christ was there before the creation of the universe.

I wonder many times, how often people read this in their Bibles and realize exactly who Jesus Christ truly is. Did those who physically crucified Jesus Christ at Calvary, know they were in the presence of the One and Only God? Did they realize whom they were nailing to that Cross? Probably not! By the exact same token, do we realize that our sin, is the reason that Jesus Christ went to the Cross to begin with? HE came and was born…to later DIE for us!

How many realize that Jesus Christ performed many miracles during HIS short life, in many cases to prove who HE truly is. How odd is it that many of the miracles were in healing those that were afflicted with many diseases? Yet all these same people continued to live and then one day died? Sort of puts in perspective, just how temporary this life here on earth truly is. Yet at the same time, it makes the point of what we are really here for, to accept the gift of eternal life through the blood of Jesus Christ!

Jesus Christ, as God, was able to show the effects of sin in our lives, that our disobedience to HIM is the reason for every single problem we have while here on earth. We often complain about physical difficulties or we see others with even worse conditions than ours. Of course our biggest problem is that we are so self-serving, which is the opposite of what God’s Holy Word tells us to be.

Obviously, the pain and suffering of others, should be our first concern…IF we truly follow Jesus Christ. Understanding that, if we look around ourselves at the world today, you will see this is NOT the case at all. It has become, “Everything for ME…it’s all about ME!”

How odd is it that there are so many different religions in this world? And yet, if you look at each and every one of them, ask yourself how many are about love and harmony, about helping and doing for others—to the point of being willing to lay down your life for a friend?” With the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ as the perfect example.

Having said that, how many religions have a God so loving that HE is willing to come here to earth and sacrifice HIS own life…for us? Now how many of these religions are for here and now, for the people to be happy in themselves, rather than others? And how many are referring to a God that hates some and only loves a few? Are you beginning to get the idea!

I have had people say, “Your God is a God of war and hatred.” Yet if you read the Bible, the people that were destroyed were given the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and they chose otherwise. As in Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot lived among the people that chose to harm and degrade others for their own pleasure. The life that Lot and his family lived was a Life of following God. And yet the people chose to live however they wished. Thus God Almighty chose to destroy them.

Again we see with Noah, that God had made a decision to destroy all life on earth, because of their Life of violence and Disobedience. How many years do you think it took to build the Ark? And yet all the people would come to see what was going on and then they laughed at Noah, a Man of God. Why was it that, no one was willing to believe what Noah was telling them, that God had told Noah?

Does that remind you how people are today, living only for themselves? And what is going to be the result of such disobedience to God? Do you really think we are any better than those people back then, or that we can somehow change the end result?

How odd is it; we look at all that is so beautiful in this world, at all the plants and trees, the mountains, lakes and oceans…and then think there is no God? What do you think the odds are of everything coming to this point, by happenchance? Yep, your absolutely right, Trillions to one! So great is that chance that it is absolutely impossible.

For those that think otherwise, they would like to believe that somehow, some way, they did all of this. How flippant to God is that? Not only did God create absolutely everything, including you and me but HE destroyed all here on earth and then brought it back to life again after the Flood. But who considers that perspective? Those that follow Jesus Christ, already know that it was Jesus Christ, part of the Trinity of God, that came here to earth, lived 33 years and then willingly Sacrificed HIS life…for us and our sins.

Jesus Christ never owned a home and yet HIS life was without sin; that meant that HIS death on the Cross was the only special sacrifice available. God Almighty would accept NO other gift, no other way to salvation, than through the blood of Jesus Christ on that Cross. In other words, it is Jesus Christ’s way…or the highway…to hell and the lake of fire.

Our God, who is made up of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, was the voice in the Burning Bush, that spoke to Moses and it was the exact same God that spoke to Abraham. It is the same God that speaks to each of us in our hearts. (There is no “small voice” speaking to each of us), it is the voice of God Almighty! That means that it is you and me that have a varying problem with our hearing…

And of course it is always you and me that have a problem with our own sin and that is a problem that only Jesus Christ—who IS God, is able to fix and do away with. There is a big, dark line that separates us from God Almighty, that can only be crossed through prayer and  asking for HIS forgiveness of our sins.

My friends, life is precious to each of us and one day our bodies, the “bag of fluid and bones” will cease to operate. At that very second, each of us will rise to heaven to be with the Lord God, or drop to hell and eventually the lake of fire. That is, it my friends, there is NO other way.

We walk through this life on earth, one step after the other and one decision after the other. That being the case, do you see or do you not see, this action points to Jesus Christ every time? Each of us, will either walk and make every step and every decision WITH Jesus Christ or we will walk and make every step and decision with the world, which belongs to Satan and his ilk!

The very fact that you are inside and reading this article, means you are inside, in front of your computer and you are NOT outside in the yard. As you are able to see, you are one place or the other, but never both places at the same time, life spells this out every day and every minute and we need to take notice of this. Why do you think Life is the way it is and yet how many think on this, how many research this in the Word of God?

It has always been, you and me, the humans of this earth that have failed God, never the other way around. With that firmly set in our minds and hearts, we then see how we have brought about our own extinction and our own misery…it is our own SINS. WE…are responsible for our own problems…it is again our own SINS…that have brought all our problems on each of us. How is that when we have big problems, like wars and death, we shake our fist at God, when it is our own fault?

Every morning of every day, I thank the Lord God for my life; to be able to live and make mistakes, even ones that hurt me to my core. I was chosen to live this life here on earth, to have trials and tribulations and to suffer, for no other reason than to seek out God Almighty. There are horrible issues in this life here on earth, and then the beauty and harmony brings us close to realizing are to show us what we really want.

As they like to say in the beauty pageants “Everyone wants world peace.” Yet, this world will never see any peace, simply because of sin and Satan and his ilk. Happiness, peace and harmony are things of love and love is of GOD!

NO God…NO happiness peace or harmony! This is the reason that I always say, “There is NO bliss in ignorance.” Ignorance is of Satan and his ilk and our own self-serving stupidity.