Prepare Resolutions

Kindred,

Before jumping ahead into the future, resolve the conflicts of the past.

No matter what that past is, take each future step with a thankful and loving heart with the Lord in the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

If hindsight is 20/20, then what insights have you discovered?

What tests of character have you endured?  Did you pass (each test)?

Who have you become?

Will it be and is it acceptable to the Lord?

As you prepare your New Year resolutions, keep in mind what you have learned.

The expectation of salvation or forgiveness is meaningless and often times dangerous, because you might not or have not achieved the expectations of the Lord (which is what matters) in order to attain salvation and receive forgiveness.

Despite of what you might have taught, whether you are saved is not determined solely by your beliefs or deeds, but by your good character and the Lord's Judgement.

If you have sinned, confess, repent and atone.  Do not expect to be saved or forgiven, but work toward it.  

Try being the best person you can be and do the best good you can.

Examine Who You Are

Kindred,

Your body is, as they say a temple.

What that temple looks like does not matter as much as what it is on the inside.

Do you fill your temple with love, kindness, regard,  honor and the Holy Spirit?

Do you defend it against sins and corruption?

Do you arm it against unholy invaders (Satan, abusers and sinners)?

If you have made mistakes in sin,  do you even bother to clean yourself up, repent and atone?

Do know what will matter to the Lord on Judgement Day?

Again, what can you take with you when you die?  Your skin? Your gender? Your looks? Your money? Your power or prestige? 

As this year close, take the time to examine who you are and who you need to be in order to satisfy the Lord.

Experience Life With the Lord

Kindred,

Do you control or experience life? 

You cannot experience life the way the Lord meant for you to experience it if you seek to control it.

Control thru power or selfish desires are in constant, continuous ignorant conflicts and often altercations with the gentle wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

At this year's end, reflect on your experiences in life. 

Are you the person the Lord meant for you to be?

And do you let people be the Lord they were meant to be?

Experience life with the Lord, Live in the Holy Spirit and Be.

The Lord's Prayer

Kindred,

Are you familiar with the Lord's Prayer? 

Let's begin with the last sentence, "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (the unholy)." 

Clearly when you follow the Lord's Prayer, the expectation and desire is to be led away from sin and have  deliverance from the unholy unto heaven.

What happens when the shepards tasked to lead sheeps away from temptation and evil do nothing but lead sheeps unto wolves, sin and damnation?  

Then have them preach the expectation of forgiveness from these sins, debts or trespasses (without confession of sin or wrong doing)?   When there is not even an ask for forgiveness, but expectation of forgiveness?

Pray tell what happens when the daily bread that is given is not received in thanksgiving or taken in gratitude?  

Who's kingdom are you ushering forth?

Who's will are you doing or serving?

What happens when you act like the laws, the law of the prophets and Christ's Commandments, that govern heaven somehow do not apply on earth?

What happens (to you, to your family, to your neighbors and to the earth)?

Are you even following the Lord's Prayer?

What Is the Purpose of Baptism?

Kindred,

What is the purpose of baptism?

And have you been baptized?

If you have truly received the Lord, renounced sin and given death to sin by the renewal of life in Jesus Christ, why then act like you are a sinner or preach that we are all sinners as if Jesus never died on the cross for our sins?

The act of baptism is a sacrament, a holy process.  Do not make a taint it by continuing to sin.

It is sacriledgious to act or preach like you have never been baptized.