WHAT LENS DO YOU SEE THROUGH??

We are all walking this earth on a path to eternity.

“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." Matthew 7:13-14

Where we spend eternity is a choice every single one of us will make by how we live our life here. AND FEW WILL EVEN FIND IT. Does this alarm anyone?

“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:14-15

Eternity is real and will be spent forever with God, or separated from him with Satan in the Lake of Fire. There is no other option.

"Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie." Revelation 22:14-15

Are we looking at this life through the lens of the natural man? One that satisfies the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life (1 John 2;15-16)? Are we viewing life through the lens that sees "what's in it for me"?, or "what about me"?, or "i can do it myself"?

The natural man lives in his flesh, with the sin nature he was born with, and he will die in it unless he comes to Jesus (Romans 6:23). This man is a man of his father, Satan. He will always please himself first. He puts himself before God, before the welfare of others, he is first in his own life and world. Always desiring and never satisfied. He can sometimes hide it well on the outside, masquerading as an angel of light (2 Cor 11:14). Giving money to charity perhaps, letting other people ahead of him in line, in the giving of gifts, even with kind words. But he does it to please himself and allows himself to think more highly of himself than he ought. He thinks to himself, "Hey, i am a good person." And God is made low in his life, mostly not even a second thought, or maybe a thought in times of trouble only. When Jesus returns this man will have his just reward, as Jesus will have never known him. (Matthew 7:23). Until we live and move and have our being in Christ (Acts 17:28), we are lost and headed for hell.

"But we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness are as filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away." Isaiah 64:6

The only thing that can cleanse us is the blood of the Lamb.

"We that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. For even Christ pleased not himself but as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." Romans 15:1-3

"For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself." Galatians 6:3

The man of God walks after the Spirit who lives and dwells in him. He is light and salt to a dark and dying world. He treads this world in love, his feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace (Ephesians 6:15). All he does comes from God living at the center of his life, in his heart. When God says go he goes, when God says speak he speaks, when God says pray he prays. Whatever God says, he hears and obeys. He sees like Jesus saw, he does what Jesus did (Matthew 9:36), he has a God perspective on everything, he walks in power of the Holy Spirit of God, all the time.

The man of God has a routine of sorts. He prays, reads his Bible, he fasts and does the will of God every day, in every way. There is never a time when God is not with him, guiding him, leading him, showing him the way. Life in the Lord is never really routine.

The man of God is living his life right now like eternity is here, like the kingdom has come to him and lives inside him, because frankly, it does.

"And when he was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation, neither shall they say lo here or lo there for behold the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17:20-21