God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit
Pastor J. R. Wilhite, author
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Imagine you are God and see all that is awesome, beautiful and great. But you see your creation not realizing what you do, dieing to sin, hurting, and never understanding.
God Bless You as you hear His words and follow His leading.
As God, He had to come to see what it was like from our perspective, as well as take all of our sin on Him to save us. When He was here He was (and is and always will be) God. God came in the flesh as Jesus, the word made flesh. The Holy Spirit and woman brought the Godly flesh into the world.
John 1
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. The same was in the beginning with God.
3. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Just as dark could not comprehend the light, I really think God had a hard time comprehending why we were not living a life unto Him. Don't get me wrong, I know He understood the dark, and that due to the dark man was cut off from the light, but what I mean is why some did not try leaving the dark for the light. There are those spoken of in John 3, and I Thess 5 who are of the dark and enjoy the dark, but God, seeing what He saw, made it hard to understand why anyone would want the dark over the light.
1John 1:
6. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
So as flesh He saw what it was like for us, and He saw He could live a life without sin. So why could we not? He told many to "Go and sin no more." So supposedly we can, so why don't we?
From what I have seen of the next life (when I died in 1985) and now as a more mature (still have a long way to go) Christian, it must be hard on God. Hard knowing that all we need and want is here for us. He did it all 2,000 years ago at the cross. and all that stops us is our unbelief.
I Peter 2
24. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
It states that by his stripes we were healed, meaning our healing is just waiting for us! I, for one, have counted on it, and gone from being a diabetic with 400+ sugar to not diabetic, with 85 sugar normal is 65-115. I have gone from pulmonary hypertension to normal and that by itself is a miracle. Both happened in less than a year each. I had PMarkinson's and now it is hardly noticeable, where before I shook so bad I could scramble an egg sitting still. My family would say "How do you know if we are having an earthquake? Dad walks straight." My back, which has been told to me to have at least 3 more herniated disks, now hardly hurts.
In less than two years I have had every attack possible. I went into the hospital on April 14, 2000 for back surgery; by 9 am I was suppose to be in recovery. I did not get to recovery until noon, only to find out that they cut a major artery that fed blood to my left leg. By the time they got back in and fixed it, it took 9 hours. I woke up in ICU after 9PM. That day Wallstreet took one of its biggest drops. No, I am not special, but my Father is, and when the world messes with us, His children, He will not sit back. OK, it may be just a coincidence, but the point is that everyone (All 6 doctors) was concerned that I would not walk, and I would be in bed at least a week and in the hospital 2 – 3 weeks. The normal time for just a normal bypass is 10 days. I was up in 36 hours, walking in 48 hours and praying with all I could find in the hospital (about 100) the first day, including two families, one who had a mother going through a bypass, that could not believe I had one just 3 days before; and another whose father was not supposed to live the day out. The next day, the father was fine and talking about discharging the next day and the mother was not up, but was doing great expecting to walk in a few days. I was discharged on Tuesday, April 18, 2000.
I am not bragging on me, but on what God has already done for me.
In Sept of 1997 I told my wife by June 10th (our anniversary) we would be moved out of our house into a new home. Our house was too small, old, needing too much work. She laughed because for the past 5 years we lived paycheck to paycheck and sometimes not even then.
Well, in January 1998 our landlord told us to move by May so he could sell the house. We asked if we could stay till the end of the school year (about May 26) so our kids could finish the year. He told us that we had to be out no later than June 10, 1998.
The closing on our new house was at 5 PM June 9th and my wife, even then, thought it would be later due to all the paper work and finishing work to the house, but we moved in and were blessed. At that point we no longer lived paycheck to paycheck. Don't get me wrong, we still had ups and downs, but they were fewer and fewer. So here we were moved into a new home, new furniture throughout (thanks to help of my best friend) and we were living better. In June of 2000 I settled a law suit due to a fall in a movie theater based on bad design of the floors. All I wanted at first was my medical and them to fix the problem. We found out that in the previous 6 months this theater was open they had many falls, 5 of which were employees, but it took a law suit for them to buy $200 worth of wood and place a 4 inch by 8 inch board in each gap.
When we settled I was told it was the largest in town this year, and the largest ever for what was considered a slip and fall. No, we did not go to court, we settled out of court. When I settled I had to pay back the insurance company, expenses for the lawsuit, 40% to the lawyers, and about $23,000 in loans for bills to different doctors and treatment facilities I had run up. So by the time all was said and done I did not get what we thought, but it was enough to pay off all of our bills. I had to make a choice, another surgery (with only 50/50 that I would walk afterward) or a swiming pool to work out in. I took the pool and am doing much better. I have also gotten some of the money from the insurance company back and am getting some of the expense money back.
I am now suing the doctors for only one reason. They lied to me, my wife, and others. First they told her when they cut my stomach and went into work on the back and moved my insides over it clogged an artery. Wrong, you do not lose blood on a clogged artery and not as much as I lost. Second they would not tell my family doctor what happened so he would know in case of complications later. They put on all reports that I did fine and nothing went wrong, but when they billed me over $28,000 for the second surgery for their time, operating room, and so forth, I said that was it and gave them a chance to make it all right. They still lied, so I am suing to get my $28,000 back. I do not think it is right that I should pay for their mistake. The point is that I am believing the Lord gets involved and at the very least, to the Muslim doctors I had I may get to show the love of God and let them off the hook depending on how they handle things, and of course if they come to know Christ.
The entire point of all of this is that we are blessed and all we have to do is believe.
Hebrews 11
1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
6. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
I will share a few more.
In 1993 we closed our business and went in debt for over half a million dollars, with no income. My wife applied for two jobs one told her no, it was only a clerk job at $20,000 a year, the second hired her. It was actually the first time she applied for anything like this and really thought she was not qualified, but she was hired as a manager instead of clerk and at $40,000+ a year. She is still there making almost double that. She needed clothes and a car to start and with no income that was hard. A next door neighbor (Jehovah's Witness) 70 years old 5 foot tall and about 90 lbs went out and bought 30 outfits that not a one fit her, but all fit my 5'8 tall, 140 lb wife perfectly. She gave them to her, and to this day still has no idea why she ever bought them.
y wife, the day before she started prayed, afterwards told me God said by sunset she would be driving home in the spirit. At 5PM she got a call from a dealership we never had been to that her car was ready. She went and was told the deposit was $300 exactly what she had, and that the rest of the down payment had been paid by the salesman, a man we never even had met. She drove out in her brand new Dodge Spirit and noticed the sun was setting and noticed she was driving home in a Spirit.
There are so many more that it would take a book to put them all down on paper. The idea is to show you that a relationship with God will help develop your faith and the rest will happen.
What about persecutions?
Mark 10
29. And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
30. But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Yes we have had our share of persecutions, and at first we noticed them all, but as time went on we noticed them less and less. Have you seen the picture of two sets of foot prints then it becomes one and two again. Well, that is how we feel when persecutions come, that He lifts us and takes us through them. Remember we are to roll all our cares over on to Him. If you roll all of your cares onto Him how can you have any problems?
1 Peter 5
7. Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
He loves us. It is all about relationship and His love for us. He did not come condemning or judging, but forgiving and loving. So we should see why we would want to be in the light and come out of the dark.
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