In addition to counterfeit currency, there are many counterfeit, to branded products in the market.
Counterfeit products are cheaper but not of good quality and do not last long.
There are also counterfeit love, joy and peace this world offers that compete with a life of true and lasting love, joy and peace that God offers each one of us.
Like all counterfeits, these come easy and cheap and many people go for them. Not only are they short-lived but they also lead us in the path to destruction.
True love, joy and peace come from God through Jesus Christ, Whose birth is the reason of our Christ- mas celebration.
Obtaining this life of love, joy and peace costs us everything of our 'self' that is sinful and which keeps us out of a close relationship with God through The Lord Jesus. It doesn't come easy either, unlike the counterfeit product. We need to diligently seek it, sorrowfully repent of our sins and determine to walk in the path of obedience to God. The reward is great and well worth the cost. You get :-
immeasurable love that passes knowledge
joy unspeakable and full of glory
peace that passes understanding, besides
eternal life of bliss with God in heaven!!
Matthew 7:13-14 (NKJV)
"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.
Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
PAY THE COST!
GO FOR THE BEST!!
YOU WILL BE BLESSED!!!
John 3:16 (NKJV)
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Luke 2:10-11 (NKJV)
Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.
For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:13-14 (NKJV)
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:
"Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"
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May you experience, this CHRISTMAS,
as never before, the true, Love, Joy and
Peace of JESUS the Saviour! Be Blessed!!
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Monday, December 20, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Trick or Treat!
Tricks can be fun when played on others. Most people at the receiving end also enjoy the fun.
Tricks involve secrets, hidden things and actions and lies.
It is not fun when we fall victim to tricks of people who play us out on money, purchases, precious time, health or relationships.
There are serious tricks the enemy of our souls plays on us that affect our course of life on earth and our eternal destiny. He is called 'The father of lies.' His goal is to deceive us by making us believe a lie. He desires to keep us from knowing the truth because the truth makes us free. Through trickery he keeps us from Jesus because Jesus is the Truth. He keeps us walking in darkness to make us stumble and fall. He hates the light because it exposes the evil works of darkness. Jesus Christ lived on the earth as 'The Light Of The World.' Now, those who believe in Jesus reflect His light in this world of darkness.
A careful observation would unravel most tricks. Diligent study of the word of God through the revelation of God's Holy Spirit would expose the dirty tricks of the devil.
Let us beware of the tricks of the trickster and overcome them with God's wisdom!
Ephesians 4:17-24 (NKJV)
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But you have not so learned Christ,
if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 5:8-14 (NKJV)
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
Therefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light."
Tricks involve secrets, hidden things and actions and lies.
It is not fun when we fall victim to tricks of people who play us out on money, purchases, precious time, health or relationships.
There are serious tricks the enemy of our souls plays on us that affect our course of life on earth and our eternal destiny. He is called 'The father of lies.' His goal is to deceive us by making us believe a lie. He desires to keep us from knowing the truth because the truth makes us free. Through trickery he keeps us from Jesus because Jesus is the Truth. He keeps us walking in darkness to make us stumble and fall. He hates the light because it exposes the evil works of darkness. Jesus Christ lived on the earth as 'The Light Of The World.' Now, those who believe in Jesus reflect His light in this world of darkness.
A careful observation would unravel most tricks. Diligent study of the word of God through the revelation of God's Holy Spirit would expose the dirty tricks of the devil.
Let us beware of the tricks of the trickster and overcome them with God's wisdom!
Ephesians 4:17-24 (NKJV)
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But you have not so learned Christ,
if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 5:8-14 (NKJV)
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
Therefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light."
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