"Put forth thine hand" - The Relationship with God

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The Relationship with God

Christ Jesus never smiled.

Christ Jesus never ate beef.

Christ Jesus never drank whisky.

Christ Jesus never bought anything by money.

So, your smiling, eating beef, drinking whisky, and spending money cannot save you.

Christ Jesus said something about a relationship between mankind and God.  And, He meant that between mankind and God there should be love.  As God loves mankind, He gives life to each member of mankind.  Accordingly, every man has to love God.  This is what Christ Jesus said.

So, why could He smile at anybody that didn't love God?  Why could He east beef cooked by someone that didn't love God.  Why could He drink whisky in a bar surrounded by those who didn't love God.  Of course, he never needed anything that could be purchased by money, the enemy of God.

When a man dies, no assets, no money, and no social status can save him.  He has only one thing when he dies: his relationship with God.

But you may think that you can die while being loved by your family or friends.  But the relationships with other people are vague and relative.  It can be often unilateral.  Or it may be cursed by some of your enemies.  The relationships with others cannot save you ultimately.

The most important thing for a man is his relationship with God.  It is because God gave you life when you were born.

Of course you may deny such a relationship, insisting that you were born by chance and this universe is structured and configured so orderly but by chance.

Conversely, if you admit that you were born as God so wished, you might respect the relationship with God.  And, it is not a matter of fun, eating, drinking, or enjoying luxuries.  You have to be serious.

In this context we have to review what God says to mankind if we cannot know what He says to us individually.  And, to believe in Christ Jesus means that He told the words of God.  God sent His words through Christ Jesus.  This is the key.

"Love your enemies.  Forgive them.  And then God will forgive you," is the most impressive words of God, since it implies that we are in a position and a state where we need forgiveness from God.

But why have we provoked God?

Is it because we smile, eat beef, drink whisky, and buy luxuries?  Probably so.




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Exo 4:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
Exo 4:5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.