Graciousness grows better as we grow older!

I believe kind loving people become more gracious in their old age not worse. I believe this because those who are kind and gracious all their lives are not trying, it is as natural as breathing.

Those who get worse have been pretending all their years until it became a burden to them to work at being friendly but were not naturally inclined to be that way.

Pretense ruins relationships and is strong evidence that someone was never changed into a new creation by Christ.

Here is what God does in us when we become born again.

2 Corinthians 5:17

"17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!"

He then comes to live in us and brings with Him all the fruit of His Spirit.

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

We have no need of rules about how to act when the Holy Spirit comes to live in us because He gives us what we should be and maintains it through the rest of our lives.

Matthew 7:17-20 "17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them."

Those who are cut down are those who were pretenders never having been changed by Christ because they wanted His blessings but didn't want Him.

Those who didn't want Him will hear some very frightening words on judgment day unless they repent and confess their sin to become born again.

Matthew 7:21-23

I Never Knew You

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’"

These are vitally important principles in these last days because some people, even many, who think they are going up in the rapture have never been born again and will be left behind.

It is not too late yet to repent and trust in Christ. I speak now to those who are pretenders playing church without a love for Christ. Unless you confess that you were playing the church game and need to be born again, you will not go up in the rapture and you are not saved from hell.