Deuteronomy 29:29 (NIV)
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of the law.
Why does God reveal Himself and His plan for man?
So that we can follow Him and His plan.
Why do we need to follow God?
So that we do not fall into sin and death physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, financial, and eternal.
Genesis 1:26-28
...And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be frutiful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
God gave man the ability to do all of these things.
Genesis 2:15
...And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
From the beginning God has made His will known, it's not a secret.
I'm not going to get into the many theories of what the tree represents.
I am looking at how God did not place that man in that garden and leave him clueless.
Just as He has not left us without direction.
God the Father gave clear instructions because it is His Will that we know the truth because the truth keeps us from being bound.
The truth of God's Word makes a man free.
God told man that he had already provided everything that he would ever need and that the man not look to any other source.
That is a lesson right there.
Why?
Because all other sources lead to death.
That is simple.
Oh but man, we either make God out to be a big mystery or we straight refuse to receive His wisdom.
God is not a mystery.
I watched a lot of television yesterday as I laid in my bed taking on a healing. I watched a young chef from England come to America to help reorganize and reconstruct the eating habits of a town.
His motive above everything else may be his career, I don't know but I do know that whatever it is God can use him to help people choose to live healthy.
He was not received well by the adults in the town.
I looked at it as God sending a messenger and God will use anybody to save His people.
It's clear that this young man has little knowledge of God, as he referred to God as the man upstairs.
When we know that God is not a man but The Father made man and He speaks to men by his Spirit.
The Father not only brought this young man to a hostile welcome but he also brought him to a pastor who has befriended him.
I know that regardless of this chef's motives he can be used by God to help save a city and help change their health habits and the pastor can be used to minister God's grace to this chef.
The local church pastor had been praying to God because of the huge amount of towns people who were dying at an early age due to complications secondary to obesity.
The town it self was picked for this experiment based on a government survey.
The survey showed that the morbidity rate was the highest in the nation due to the high percentage of obese people who lived their.
Instead of embracing this young man and seeing what they could learn from him in order to help their children and them selves to live a better life, they were offended.
He was rejected like the gospel is by so many.
Yet he was telling the gospel truth as far as disease and lifespan are connected to what we eat.
Heart Disease, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Stroke, Cancer, ADD, Chronic Pain, all of these diseases have been directly linked to our health habits and not our hereditary disposition.
We can stop the occurrence of these things by changing our habits.
We can stop the occurrence of so many things just by changing our habits but instead of changing our habits most of us would rather just be offended and die.
This young man could have gone anywhere in the world and he has.
He could easily choose a city that would be welcoming him in and willing to try and change.
But who would watch that?
The offense makes for better television ratings for the network.
Since I don't give a hoot about whether I am watched, cheered or have a fan base I am going to keep speaking about why God would not have us ignorant.
The Holy Scriptures are written proof that God has not withheld anything from us but has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness.
So when people say that they are wondering why good people die young or bad things happen to them and tyrants are still walking around?
Look to the Bible.
We have a world where people refuse to be corrected period.
Let alone receive correction and instruction from God.
First, even Jesus said that no man is good but God.
Innocent people can get swept up in the midst of wicked and or poor decisions.
All based in ignorance.
This is how babies are aborted and children are murdered.
"Saved" people can make poor decisions which lead to poor habits, poor choices and the end result is physical death.
You can be saved and die early.
It may not mean that you are going to hell depending on the choice, it just means that you will not fulfill the time that God has for you in this earth.
There are choices that lead to hell and then their are choices that just lead to you not living a full life.
The blessing is there but we refuse to go and get it.
People don't like this.
People don't want to hear that we have more of a hand in what happens in our life than God does because He has given us the power of choice.
So when a woman smokes for 25 years and develops lung cancer she doesn't want to hear that smoking is the reason 99% link to this cause.
She would rather ask God, why?
You may not like what I am saying but God will move on whatever we move on.
I don't have to be a Diabetic because my grandma and one of her sisters were checking their blood sugar and my uncle and aunt on my grandfathers side were suffering from amputations and the need for oxygen before they died.
I can take the information that God has so graciously provided and act on it.
My question today for you to meditate on is this.
Has God really left us out here without a clue?
Meditate the Word in the Bible and look at how the LORD warned His people over and over in the Bible.
Love Y'all
Deuteronomy chapter 30
Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather than to be chosen than silver!
Do you know why?
Because God's wisdom is the ability to get everything else without sorrow and in two realms.
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