Grace over All Nations

Using money with a heart-full of love is the best way of spending money. Money flows in and out though people.

The law of God’s love guarantees that you will have rewards when you give according to God’s love. God manages and controls all the parameters of our life stage so that we would never lose, but get returns 30, 60 or 100 times of initial investment which has been made into the accounts of the Bank of Love or the Bank of Universe, according to His promise. This is the reason why we should carefully use material resources in love when we interact with other people around us.

We will never be lacking if we use material resources in love when we deal with our neighbors. We will face losses when we calculate how much we have and how much we gain without considering people around us. God has programmed before His creation that anything in the world will eventually turn to vanity if love of God is not in it.

God gave us the power of His children so that we may have all things as our own. Only love of God is perfect, practiced over and over, and growing bigger. The kingdom of heaven is run only by love of God.

The only way we may live our lives in abundance without any lacking is living by the love of God.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)

Freedom is a fundamental need of a man. Loving needs freedom. Love gets rid of all burdens. Married couple usually loves more before their marriage because they have less burdens each other. One way to keep love longer is to give freedom each other (Gal 5:13).

Creative works may bear out from love. Some marry with empty hands and live a successful married life. It is because of the freedom from the Lord. A marriage started with full of resources may wreck eventually, if they do not have freedom in their marriage. Good parents, good teachers, good pastors, or good presidents are people who have given freedom to the other side.

Spirit of God is omnipresent. Therefore the devil and angels who are spirit bodies are burdened by God. We people however are not burdened at all because we are of earth. We are so free that we sometimes say “God doesn’t exist.” God made us free because He loves us.

We have to give thanks to God for He made us of earth. Love God all we can who gave us freedom. Heaven and earth, rich and poor, health and sickness, even sorrows and joy, are God’s providence for us to have freedom. Let’s live free life and give thanks to Him for every phenomenon which is happening on this earth.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. (2 Corinthians 3:17)

Earth is a shadow of heaven. Shadow is useless. Our lives turn into useless shadows as we live longer. The Lord came to earth in order to fill our shadow lives. Our lives became useful because of the Lord Jesus.

The Lord gave the living hope to us. The Lord fills all things with His fullness. All things mean every moment we lived through. It is the resurrected Lord who fills and heals all things including sorrows, despairs, disputes, pains, agonies, etc. (Isa 53:5).

Man never is content by adorning self. There is no one whom we can blame on because our lives have passed in vain, or that no one recognizes us at all. We are the very people who are responsible for our own lives.

Anything on this earth can not fill your inner emptiness because they all are mere shadows. Fill yourself with the substance, the Lord. Keep your faith that only the Lord Jesus will fill you. Only the Lord can sublimate your life and make you holy.

He that came down is the same who also went up above all the heavens, that He might fill all things. (Ephesians 4:10)

People in the world consider that the most important thing is being blessed. If you believe in Jesus just for going to heaven or being peaceful or solving lifelong problems, you are expecting to receive one of the worldly blessings. True blessing is to receive the kingdom of heaven.

God does not satisfy by Himself because He does not have self-consciousness, but content only by loving us. God gave us the kingdom of heaven because He loves us. Every believer is a heavenly port through which the heavenly blessings are delivered. He gave us the kingdom of heaven in order to bless us. We become kings of the kingdom of heaven when we receive all the blessings of heaven (Revelation 22:5).

God dwells in His fullness and we are partial beings. Although He tries to give us His fullness at once, we partial beings cannot receive all but partial blessings which are delivered by angels. Devils, on the other hand, take unnecessary things away from us. God however did not call us to work like angels or demons, but called us to be kings. A king has powers to make choices.

There are angel like, devil like, animal like, and plant like people in this world. All these people are there to support kings like us. A kingdom needs all things. We kings have to manage all resources through angels and devils. We should not give up such kingship in any situations including persecutions.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: (1 Peter 2:9)

Practicing develops habits, habits form a character, and a character builds life. One’s life thus heavily depends on what is practiced through the life. A successful life is resulted from habits that would give success. So is true for a failed life which sometimes is a simple product of bad habits. If you want to enjoy a blessed life, you need to develop blessed habits. And if you want to build blessed habits, you should know God who blesses you.

God fills earth with His words and we fill the heaven with our prayers. Parents’ hearts can not be fulfilled by themselves but only by their children. The same is true for God. God’s heart can be content only by us, His children (Ephesians 1:6). We should fill God’s empty, waiting, and desiring heart with our praises and thanksgiving.

We have to fulfill God’s heart first even though we may have to momentarily suffer poverty, lose things, or be mocked by others. We may rise and rise upward to the third heaven and enjoy every blessing of the heaven, when we give thanks and praise and serve His body in order to fulfill God’s heart first. We ought to build our blessed life only by habitually offering prayers and praise and worship Him.

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:10)

There are two types of people among church goers: One having hard time because of Jesus and the other not. The one, who is experiencing hard time because of Jesus, lives in heavenly realm, and the other believes Jesus under the devil’s influence. Most of job places are under the devil. This includes religious business and activities in church buildings.

We must escape from the snares of devil by being awake in praying. We should cross the boundaries of the devil’s territory by dealing invisible things not visible things. This overcoming power comes only by praying. Praying is to forsake own things and interests. Your prayers are best answered when things are NOT done according to your thoughts and plans, when you cannot use your own possessions as you like to, or you can not associate with your favorite friends. Accept persecutions for your Lord’s sake.

The Lord said that My Father’s house is a house of prayer. It is not a building under the devil’s control so that people use it for religious business or religious politics. Church is a house of prayer which overcomes the world. We should find our own haven of rest in our church. “Lord, let my church be my peaceful spiritual home.  I will invest my life there.”

Saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” (Luke 19:46)

Men have common divisors with insects: They are breathing, eating, digesting, and sexual reproduction. Emotionally exciting is similar with high animals. Deep pondering is a common ability with the devil. We who are living in this Last Days should not live lives like that of insects, animals and/or the devil.

We have to have common factors with God. It is because man is the image of God, as well as a child of God (John 1:12). God is love. Love is patience. The Lord put up with Judas Iscariot for three years although He knew that he would sell Himself for money.

God had perfect faith in us. He foresaw and believed us even before He created us, before the foundation of the world. He accepted us as His children even though He knew that we would commit sins.

Hence we shouldn’t be overly excited or depressed by deep ponderings or agonies according to our own sights and thoughts. We have to accept and bear with someone who makes mistakes, as God has faith in that someone. When we endure and put faith, we may become children of God and live a life as His believers.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)

The most wanted of all people is happiness. It is peace in Christian language. Happiness (peace) is the most common value which humanity ultimately seeks.

People pay their own endeavors to gain happiness. Some study hard, others exercise hard for their health or work hard to be rich. But happiness does not come from such ways. If you hold on to money, you will eventually be held by your own money, and the money will leave your grip. Some wise, therefore, try to put their trust on self or someone close, they will soon realize that they should not have trusted any human. People only get hurt by others. Thus neither riches nor man can give you happiness.

Apostle Paul said “Our sufficiency is from God” (2 Cor 3:5). Remember the people who built Babel Tower? They fought each other and scattered away because God was not in them. Whether you are making or spending money, you should do with a mind which desires to receive or give away in the love of God. The ultimate thing we should seek is the peace that the Lord is giving. Hope and seek the peace in the Lord who is with you when you trust Him and obey His teachings.

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, (2 Corinthians 3:5)

There is no one who is not burdened by his/her superior(s) because people do not like their superiors. People often pull those above them down as low as their own level. For example, when some of church members do not like their pastor, they deface their pastor by fabricating some reasons why they do not like, and self-justify their claim through their self-consciousness.

God however never said that you should be obedient to good pastor, good father, good husband, good parents, or good bosses ONLY. He said you should obey to all of your superiors. God, furthermore, said that you should not correct your husband, father, etc, BUT you should correct yourself first. The existence of your superiors means that your life can be corrected. If you say your pastor is not good enough, it is based on your own thought. Do not waste your precious life by the deception of your own self-consciousness.

Although you go to your church, listen to the preaching, serve the church, and receive grace of God, when you go back home, you have to obey to your superiors whom God designated over you, in order to perfect your salvation. You can not correct your life without your superiors who can deny and coach your ways. We should give thanks that we have superiors. We may enjoy the blessing of God that comes through our superiors when we obey them.

Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. (Colossians 3:22)

Darkness can not overcome light. Light simply overcomes any darkness however dark it is. God overcame darkness because He is light (John 8:12). We also have the power to overcome darkness because we are children of light. We, therefore, have the joy of overcoming darkness, too.

The earth was formless, empty, and dark over the deep (Gen 1:2). God however filled the emptiness with His fullness, the formless with truth, and the darkness with light. God demonstrated this to us so we can have the joy of giving, joy of overcoming, and joy of filling. Rejoice and praise God who has overcome, God who has filled, and God who is full. God’s joys are overcoming joy, filling joy, and giving joy.

God continuously blesses us from heaven. He enjoys this joy of giving forever. The heaven is a kingdom which is full joy where people eternally serve and give each other. We thus ought to live with the joy of sharing with and filling others with thing the Lord has given. We should not live a life of fulfilling own lives. This joy of giving is the most precious joy which we have to live with.

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12)