Pure Faith

Good evening friends, here's me again and the occasional post. It's been seven years last month (June) that Pure Faith is online and by God's leading still here. Seven years and we feel nearer to the changing of our bodies...I think I can speak for both christians and non-christians that we all notice how times have changed drastically in the last decade. It's not a nice world we're living in anymore and the evidence is all around. The devil has shaped the world to it's own image and we can actually see how humanity will slide down to the basest most degrading level ever imagined in the future. Near future. And like the Bible said-

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. Rev.22:11

It is nearer than we think and it will come like a thief in the night, again based on the scripture. I sigh a big sigh, friend, and I believe those who are genuine christians do too, for the lost of the world, especially those who are close to our hearts and yet are unsaved. Sometimes, even for the people in our church. The sum of it all is this- that we have to meet and get to know Jesus Christ ourselves and we have to be certain as certain can be that we really do know Him.

It is easy to say we belong to this church, we believe in this, that and the other, it is easy to act the part and dress the part but ultimately who are we really deceiving. God knows and if you keep still enough and hold your tongue long enough- you will realize too that being christian is more than professing it. It is more than being a member of a church, it is more than being a believer in the literal sense.

The essence of our walk is His presence in our life, Christ at the helm, being led by the Spirit of God and in obeying that Voice. Recognizing His voice amidst the noise, recognizing Him in a person, or in a move. Otherwise we would be lost and can easily be led astray. We have to know Him. That is the only way to follow Christ, if we recognize Him.

I really think it is of utmost relevance that we recognize the Lord, because only then can we hear Him and see Him through others, beyond the flesh and our errors. You will know the voice of the Sheperd, the sheep always know.

As per perfection, we will always make mistakes, not deliberate mistakes but ignorant mistakes. And it is through these mistakes that we learn His ways, that we are humbled, that we are molded. See, we have to come to a point where we have to just trust God completely- in everything. In good things and bad things, through good times and bad times. You know, friend, all I know is this- that He will become you're everything and He is faithful to keep you until the end, He promised that He will preserve His own. So chin up, fellow warrior, look unto Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith. If you feel downtrodden, if you feel downcast, if you are backslidden- God is here right now for you. Believe it, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this post. God loves even the most vilest of sinners and it is not yet too late if you come now my friend, it is not yet too late. The gentile dispensation is slowly nearing its end but while there is this little time come back to Jesus Christ. Get away from the crowd, get into a place where there is only you and God, raise those feeble hands in prayer and surrender, He'll be right there beside you Jesus Christ our only help.

Psalm 146

Praise the Lord, O my soul!
While I live I will praise the Lord;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

Do not put your trust in princes,
Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
His spirit departs, he returns to his earth;
In that very day his plans perish.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,

Who made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that is in them;
Who keeps truth forever,
Who executes justice for the oppressed,
Who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners.

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind;
The Lord raises those who are bowed down;
The Lord loves the righteous.
The Lord watches over the strangers;
He relieves the fatherless and widow;
But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.