One of the things universal to mankind is our proclivity to sin. In our daily lives, temptation is all around us. We can do certain things that makes us less likely to sin, but Satan is always at work. Even for those that do not have a belief in God, they too have an innate sense of right and wrong. Sin is all around us and the world’s messages are ‘just go for it’ and do whatever feels good. But these are not God’s messages. His message is to be like Jesus.
One of the things that is offered universally by God is grace. His mercy and the grace offered is available to all. His prevenient grace rests upon each and every person. His mercy is a free gift that cannot be earned. It is a birthrite to be claimed by all through faith in Jesus Christ. Once a child of God, His mercies, grace, and forgiveness flow freely. Once a child, His grace works to sanctify us, to make us daily more like His son Jesus.
God’s grace is one of the great mysteries of faith. God’s grace is present with us from the beginning. Once we enter into relationship with Him, we are changed, born anew. Although we are still bent towards sin, we are bought with Jesus’ blood and begin the daily battle to ‘sin no more’. This is a battle that we sometimes ‘lose’ but, thanks be to God, His mercies are new every morning. Each and every time we seek His forgiveness, His grace pours down like rain. We are washed clean and made new. Thank you Lord for this great mystery of faith!
Scripture reference: Romans 11: 29-32
pastorjohnb 
August 17, 2014 at 12:39 am
One statement is enough for a mature and evolved spirit to understand the immortal importance of a sentence, of a written line, due to its indestructible invaluable content that teaches how the spirit should act to develop the inner God, or to turn into Spirit and Truth, or to realise in it the teachings of the Bible – YOU ARE GODS.
There are people who devour books, searching for religions, sects and banners, listening to the incarnate and the discarnate, but they do not change inwardly and do not really blossom… They are like mediocrity that goes around the PERFECTION, without ever reaching it…
The Exemplary Word warned these people, by saying: “The Kingdom of God is inside each one, it does not come with external signs.”
Therefore, those who do not know how to LOOK FOR THEMSELVES, and have not FOUND THEMSELVES yet, will have to search high and low, hovering unhappily, in the kingdom of emptiness and painful doubts.
An old initiatic saying teaches: “The good disciple awaits doing good.”
The Exemplary Word also taught: “Upon your patience you shall build your souls.”
These abstracts say to the immature, to those empty spirits: “Learn how to run to your inner self, because it is there that God has placed His Divine Virtues, which, when blossomed, will make you a TOTAL ONE, GOD IN GOD, BECAUSE NO ONE WILL BE CHILD OF GOD ETERNALLY.”
However, let us remember these wise words: “One word to those who understand it is worth a whole speech to those who do not understand it.”
All the best. With love, Neil.
August 17, 2014 at 1:13 am
Good thoughts and some things worth pondering. Especially like the old saying – ‘the good disciple awaits doing good’. The key is understanding! Peace to you! – John
August 17, 2014 at 1:43 pm
Hi.
When the so-called Initiatic Wisdom, or Science of the Mysteries, or Science of the Oracles instructs men to know themselves, so that then they may get to know the Universe and the Gods, it instructs nothing but to acknowledge that everything emanates from the ONE ORIGIN, that IN HIM everything moves and everything achieves the purpose..
Thousands of years later, when Jesus reaffirmed the ‘YOU ARE GODS’, He said nothing but the same truth. However, with the corruption of the Sublime Doctrine of the Path, these and other FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS have been forgotten, buried under the debris of all sorts of simulations and machinations, seriously harmful to people’s spiritual progress.
To say that all religions are good is the same as to purposefully insult the TRUTH. No DIVINE OR FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH depends on human opinion in order to be. The TRUTH is good and the mistakes of religion fabricators will have to burst against it.
Morals, Love, Revelation, Wisdom and Virtue are the positive factors that will make the Inner Christ of the spirit blossom. Pocket, Stomach, Sex, Pride and Selfishness are the factors that, used negatively, shall lead the spirit to weeping and grinding of teeth.
A new cyclical-evolutionary time is coming to Humanity; but the Law of God and the Divine Model Christ will see those who did wrong, grieving their guilt, because they will not go through any changes.
All the best. With love, Neil.
August 18, 2014 at 12:38 pm
True words. There is only one God and only one way to Him – His Son. Faith is a journey, one that should lead us ever closer to Christ. May your jounrey be fruitful and true! – John