What If God Was Quick-Tempered!!!!

I hope I don't step on any toes or make anyone mad but I was just sitting here thinking about what a wonderful God we serve. How patient and loving He is towards us. His mercy towards us is renewed every morning, because He loves us that much and He is so slow to anger{Psalms103:8}

BUT

I would not want to think what our life here on earth would be like if our God, creator of everything, was a quick-tempered God, instead of being slow to anger as it says in Psalms 103:8. Can you actually imagine what a chance we would take when we just slipped and said or did something very small that was not in line with what His Word said. It would be like walking on the proverbial eggs each and every day. Not many people would make it past noon each day when zap.........they'd be gone. Just a small slip or a sharp answer or reply and zap.....another one gone.

It would be so hard to please Him because we would know that if we did not get it right, He would be totally unhappy and we would know exactly what that meant. Life would not have any happy moments. People would concentrate too heavily on not discouraging our Lord God. This would make for a tense, unhappy and uniform life.

It would even be taking a chance just to say a prayer. For that matter, prayer could actually bring death if God didn't like how you prayed or what you prayed for. If you just thought you did something wrong and wanted to ask for forgiveness, that would be another antsy situation. Everything would have to be thoroughly thought out. Even our thinking would have to be carefully controlled.

I really don't think many people would make it a day much less a lifetime if our God was quick-tempered. But praise the Lord, He is slow to anger. He is patient, kind, gentle, forgiving, protective, extremely loving, peaceful and giving. All this was just a bit of thinking that hit me one morning when I was just wasting time. I thought it may be of interest so I grabbed a pen and wrote it down.

I hope no feeling were hurt but I hope that some thinking may have taken place or maybe some thinking may have changed. It's so good to be loved by God Almighty. He, that is creator of everything in the world and He still has time to love me and you as if we were the only people on earth. Just think this everyday........GOD LOVES ME!!!!!! It will make your days happier and easier to face.

Do You Know Who You Are????

Do you know who you are?

Well, I'll tell you exactly who I am because I really know and believe this with all my heart.

I'll just list a few things that I know that will show who I am.

{1} I Am a Child of God.

[according to John chapter 1 verse 17]

Just think about how awesome that is, being a child of the Almighty God,creator of heaven and earth and everything therein.

{2} I Am Joint Heirs with Jesus Christ.

[according to Romans chapter 8 verse 17]

Just think everything that belongs to Jesus Christ belongs to me. Could anything be better than that?

{3}I Am the Righteousness of God

[according to 2 Corinthians chapter5 verse21]

That means that I am in right standing with the God of all creation, who sees me through the blood of His son, Jesus Christ.

{4}I Am an Overcomer

[according to First John chapter 5 verse4]

Anything that this world throws at me, I am able to overcome it.

{5} I Am More Than a Conqueror

[according to Romans chapter8 verse 37]

This means that nothing can separate me from the love of Christ. Not death, life, angels, powers, present things or things to come, shall separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus.

{6} I Am a King and a Priest

[according to Revelation chapter verse 6]

Jesus Christ who is the first to come back from the dead and is Ruler of the kings of the earth.

To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;

and has made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him, let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.

That is only a few of the things that I know myself to be, through Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

Have you made Him lord of your life?

The time for doing so is now, the time is always now.

There may not be a later or tomorrow.

Jesus is waiting for you to answer that little tug on your heartstrings.

That feeling of longing for something else.

All you got to do is answer His call.

Roman's 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

JUST DO IT !!!!

This is the way I feel about the things that are important, don't beat around the bush about doing them, just do it. That's why things never get done, there's just too much of putting things off. I know there are some people who say they'll do this and that but still to this day, this and that is still undone. I see absolutely no sense in this sort of behavior at all. If you say you'll do something, just do it.

Where would we have been if Jesus put off going to Jerusalem. Or what if He had put off going to the Garden to pray on the night of His betrayel? What if instead He had went in another direction to avoid what He was sent to do? We'd all still be living in the most sinful of situations. That is, if the world would still be standing. But no, Jesus was true to what He was supposed to do, even though He asked to be relieved from it, He went ahead and went through the harshest, cruelest, punishment that anybody could go through. Why.........................because of love.

So, next time you say you'll do something, just do it out of love you have for Jesus and for the love you have for whomever you said you'd do this thing for. For just as Jesus did what was expected of Him out of His love for all of us and His obedience to the Father, so we should follow His example. The next time you're asked to do something for someone, stop a moment, take a long breath and be truthful. If I say yes, am I really going to do it? Do I really want to do it? Or am I just saying yes to get them to be quiet about this thing they've asked? Or do I just say, I'd rather not, or just plain no. Whatever the answer is, be truthful. But if by chance, you say yes, don't put off doing it, just smile and get to whatever has been asked of you. Just set your face like flint and just do it.