"My thoughts about God and His Magnificence!"In other words what I write is not about me! It's my thoughts on how magnificent God is! I believe that when readership goes down, it's not me that is being rejected, but people find it boring to read about God. Of course they may not want to know the other goal: TRUTH. My stated objective is to write truth. I could write "feel good" stuff, ala Joel Osteen, or biased messages, ala the Church of Christ, but it's God's word which is holy and truthful which I want to expound upon. Perhaps would-be readers don't want to know "The Mystery of God" because to those who are not discerning, his word is a mystery!
Colossians 2:2 "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."What is the mystery? That "all treasures of wisdom and knowledge" are hidden and scripture is where it can be found, yet people don't even read holy scripture, let alone commentary to reveal God's mysteries!
In all honesty, how can a writer expect people to read what is written about Holy Scripture when people won't even read what the Creator himself wrote?
Throughout church history a jealous Roman Catholic Church used the dead Latin language for scripture so only the truth (sic) which they chose to share was knowledge. People clamored for written scripture to read and it was written. After the Gutenberg moveable type printing press was invented written word was available in the language of the readership. Christianity as well as secular truth began to be revealed. The Gutenberg Bible was written and people finally realized that they had been scammed and God's mystery concealed. The church had hidden the truth for the sake of false doctrine! Now truth came out of the closet so to speak and people longed for more truth.
On the other hand, today truth is boring. People would rather get their doctrine from their own creative and self-serving minds, thinking that myths will get them to heaven. When people rebel against God's decrees all they have to do is to ignore God's will and their Religion of Reason is validated. It's what the Self invents so as to appease it with pleasure! The religion of the self is not boring. It's fun and exciting "doing what you want to do"! On the other hand "doing what God wills that you do" is boring. Why read about things which make your god uncomfortable or feel guilty? People don't want to go there!
For instance many Christians defend, and I'll take an easy one, piercings and tattoos which are now in vogue again. True if you already have them before you are saved, those tattoos are spiritually erased. God no longer "sees" them because of his grace! But for Christians to do such things after they know better is eating of the forbidden tree:
Leviticus 19:28 "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord."Even after reading this, Christians will still get tattoos. They ignore God's will. What he asked Christians to do is silly and God is boring (to them). Their own religion of the self thinks "This is not wrong. It's not sinful!" They put their own reason over God's will. I suppose that they believe God's word was just a page filler to make scripture boring!
Let's look at why God says these words. What I say is commentary because of the mystery of God. Only those who read and study scripture are guided by it. In other words, those who bore easily will never find the truth!
"You" are one of "the other gods besides God". God is jealous of "You" because he knows how much you love You. God wants to be praised and adored. Rather than praising and adoring God by following his commands, you praise and adore You. One of those things You do is decorate the forbidden tree. You hang ornaments all over your tree. Some of those ornaments are piercings and markings. You don't hang praise and adoration on The Tree of Life, (Jesus), but you do hang it on the other tree, You. God is a jealous God and is offended when people praise themselves over him!
God says that Leviticus 19:28 is one of his statutes: "Ye shall keep my statutes." (Leviticus 19:19), yet people ignore God. Satan tells them these things are silly and by grace Christians are free to disobey God at their own whim. That's not what God wills. Jesus came to fulfill the Law, not to replace it! This is still God's statute, but the serpent says to you "You surely won't die!" You may not die, but you WILL disappoint God because obedience is how love is reflected by Christians to God!
Today I have surely accomplished two things: 1) I've made those with piercings and tattoos angry with me, and 2) I've bored quite a few people with the words of God and my own commentary.
You see, if we actually read God's statutes we have two choices: 1) accept and change or 2) reject and go on. Most people choose to reject God's word and having to change for the better is boring. Rather than change or feel guilty for not changing, it's easier to not read the Bible nor commentary about scripture. The serpent is the source of this bored attitude because he does not want you to know God's will because sinful people would change if they read it!
Don't be bored by God's word. Rejoice in his truth! Read a little of it. Read much of it. Read it all!
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