The Way of the People, or the Way of “The Way”?

It is very disturbing to see the grade of so called “christianity” from people who have positions in religious groups.  I see people who are in leading positions hate their estranged daughter-in-laws,  those refusing to forgive and restore relationships,  those helping people to blatantly lie.  Others hear one side of a story for their itching ears and hate and judge,  yet never finding out the other side of the story.  The bible calls that a wicked thing by the way.  Others amazingly preach divorce over enduring love and in so doing go against God’s commands.

Amazingly enough,  we think that the more people that agree with us the more leverage we will have in this life.  Oh what deception!  “That it is appointed for man once to die and then the judgement.”  God will tell those workers of sin and iniquity to get away from Him for he never knew them.

It is better to obey the instruction of the Holy One and be hated and spat on,  than to have a whole town stand by me while I lie, cheat, steal, slander and treat treacherously. 🙂  Oh wretched man that I am,  who can deliver me from this body of death.

My heart is broken for them,  that Satan has so deceived them in their hearts.  Have they not heard that “the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom”?  My heart breaks still further that the Holy One, his name is being marked as an unjust God.   It will be a terrible thing to be in the hands of the Mighty One on the day of judgement.  When great and small, rich and poor will all stand before Him and give an account of every thought, word and deed.

In the words of John the Baptist  in John 3.

“You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 
8 Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
9 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
 
Oh my friends!!! Read these scripture verses I have posted and hear that these are not my words but come by His authority to all humanity.  For God so loved the world……  Jesus can forgive and make us clean by the blood he shed for us.
 
Hebrews 3
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ 
11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 
13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 
14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 
15 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” 
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 
17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 
18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 
19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
 

 

4 thoughts on “The Way of the People, or the Way of “The Way”?

  1. It is so easy for us to be deceived.

    Jeremiah 17:9

    The heart is deceitful above all things
        and beyond cure.
        Who can understand it?

    It is one of the reasons why it is so important for us to be in fellowship with other believers. They can be the ones who can speak truth to us, even when it is not what we want to hear, but is what we need to hear.

    • I agree Shelly. We are all easily deceived. That is why it is important for all of us individually to have a shepherd’s heart towards our neighbour. I pray that eyes will be open and that we will see. Oh my God., our hearts so run to wickedness we have to and must bring under God’s inspection our full life.

      Only God can change our hearts. 🙂

  2. disbelief (not unbelief) – if there is an English word of the appropriate meaning, please use it – it has more weight and meaning when not cloaked in unfamiliar expression… otherwise – very good, well said – but likewise – a little preachy in wording… you want to reach those who don’t yet agree with you right? unless you are just preaching to those who do not need to hear it as if they do – but that would be pointless… anyway – you ARE on the right track, beware you don’t turn to pride now

    • Thank you Seth for your comments. I am a spontaneous writer, writing “off the cuff”. This can be an unfortunate thing sometimes for me and can get me into some trouble. 🙂 I wish to amend my ways so that my messages communicate my heart. 🙂 Communication is an area that God is actually working on me with at this present time and I pray that His heart will be the Ruler of my writing. 🙂 I seek in my blog to encourage, uplift and inspire the readers to a deeper faith walk with Jesus. I pray that Jesus would keep me from bruising even one reed. 🙂

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