Christ is with Us through Everything

When we are born again Christ goes through everything with us, even through the difficulties that make us cry, He saves our tears in a bottle.

Psalm 56:8, "You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?"

We are living in an age when empathy is in short supply and people are willing to walk over others on the sidewalk when they are having a heart attack to avoid the trouble of helping, heaven forbid that they would be inconvenienced by others ailments.

Those who walk over others to avoid helping often are those who expect help from others when they are in trouble.

Our world is becoming more cold-hearted and ruthless every day that passes. God said this would happen in the end times, the very reason I am convinced we are at the end of the end times. These heartless people will even display a religious bent but have no love for God, only for themselves and how they appear to others.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Difficult Times Will Come

3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

The modern church attendee never misses a gathering but shows little regard for God's Word even though they claim to be "Bible-believers." They violate more of God's word than they obey and rage at anyone who corrects them with scripture.

Those who love Christ seek Him in all things, not the things of this world but the wisdom that comes from the Father.

James 1:5-8

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering."

The more we ask for wisdom willing to give up all that we were taught to follow Christ, the wider our eyes become open to the foolishness of the end times church gatherings. The false leadership system, the rituals that make people feel spiritual and special but have no power to change hearts. They try to change themselves according to their own idea of goodness but they do not submit to God while claiming they do.

The claims of the modern Christian are not reality, they are only in their own heads as they seek to appear special to others, the superficial Christianity of our world is full of pride that mocks and demeans what it does not know but thinks it does.

Satan loves "religion" based on human rituals, it is the biggest deterrent to aun authentically submitted life that seeks Christ.

Proverbs 21:1

"Only God has the power to change the heart of men"

Matthew 15:18

"For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander"

Psalm 51:10

"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me!"

Ezekiel 36:26-27

"And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart"

The only solution to the problem of religious pride is the confession of the sin of arrogance and a desire for Christ to change the heart.

Matthew 6:19-21 "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also"

We know the treasures of a persons heart by the things they say and do as a lifestyle.

Persecution for Christ

So often we hear people boasting of their blessing of a new house or a trip or some other material possession, even the healing from an illness. Yes, these things are blessings and we are grateful to God for them. However, if our focus about blessings in continually on what we can get from God then it is a selfish focus and fleshly.

We are blessed but if the focus is on our blessing of physical and material things more than Christ we are no better than an unbeliever.

Our focus ought to be on Jesus Christ and what He did for us, even if we don't receive any other blessing than salvation through the Son of God our Savior.

Many people have been martyred down through the centuries for their faith, would we say they are not blessed? The greatest blessing anyone has is our salvation through faith in Christ. That should be our focus all the time. And, it is an amazing blessing to be martyred for our faith because God says it comes with it a great reward.

Matthew 5:10-12

"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".

Matthew 5:11-12

11 "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

We are grateful to God for all His blessings, but the physical blessings should not overtake our gratefulness to the exclusion of the gratefulness for our Salvation and His companionship within us.

We can endure anything when Christ goes through with us. He is our strength and purpose, not the "things" or the "activities that we enjoy."

Acts 16:25-26

"25 Now about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; 26 and suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains were unfastened."

Our modern Christianity would focus entirely on the miracle of the quake and miss the joy and peace of Paul and Silus through their prison experience. They did not sit in that prison alone, Christ was with them.

We don't see Paul and Silas asking for the great earthquake but we saw them praising God in the midst of their trials ready to endure whatever Christ had for them. They were blessed by what God did in that quake, but they were ready to die for Him in prison.

When the physical and material become the focus of life then we miss the wonderful lessons and Spiritual strengthening God has for us and possible rewards that were prepared for us in heaven.

Revelation 6:11

"11 Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been."

When we take our eyes off of this world and place them on our mission here we can endure anything while Christ goes through with us.

Someone expressed to me they didn't know if they had the strength to be killed for Christ. I told them they did not, because God will give us what we need when we need it. Planning for persecution in our human strength is nothing but trusting in Christ to go through with us is everything.

We can even have joy in the midst of our tears as our body suffers but our Spirit soars.

Job 32:8

"But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand"

1 Peter and 2 Peter: were written to believers during persecution, they encourage us to seek the strength of the Holy Spirit as we endure until Christ comes for us.

There are Three Persons in One God, each working in perfect unity with One Another.

There are those who are lying against God with their false doctrine against the teaching of the three persons of the Godhead. Let's see what the Bible really says:

John 14:26 "But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you".

1 Timothy 2:5

"5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"

Jesus Christ is the mediator between God the Father and man. If there were only one personality who pretends to be all three, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ and God the Father then 1 Timothy 2:5 would not make sense.

The Son does not dwell on earth right now because He sits at the right hand of the Father in heaven while His Holy Spirit dwells in born again believers on earth right now.

2 Corinthians 13:14

"14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."

If there was only one person, God the Father, there would be no reason to mention all three in 2 Corinthians.

Isaiah 48:16

"16 Draw near to me, hear this:from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,from the time it came to be I have been there."And now the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit."

Genesis 1:1 (ESV)

"1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

"the Hebrew plural noun "Elohim" is used. In Genesis 1:26, 3:22, 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8, the plural pronoun for “us” is used. The word "Elohim" and the pronoun “us” are plural forms, definitely referring in the Hebrew language to more than two." Got Questions

2 Corinthians 13:14

"14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."

Here is a prayer to the Father:

Psalms 51:10-12

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit."

There are many more scriptures that prove there are three persons in One God, each distinct with their own particular purposes. Just because we are not able to fully grasp how this works does not mean it isn't true. God said it and I believe Him.