deafcanada Posted March 27, 2014 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 201 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/30/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/24/1970 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I would like to share with you guys to encourage you and build one other to grow stronger in Lord more than ever before. Are we madly fall in love with Jesus or the world? Jeremiah 50:38 The sword will even strike her water supply, causing it to dry up. And why? Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them. Last night, I was playing game on face book that I always do that everyday, and I felt that I am supposed to read His words and I couldn’t go sleep. Something has been pressed hard on my heart. After I cleaned up the kitchen and made lunch for my husband, and I was planning to go bed after that but I felt something that I need to read His words. So I opened the bible and read in Jeremiah 48 till I reached to Jeremiah 50:38 and the words was popped to me and strike me and made me realize about that verse and I was shocked and surprised what Lord has spoke to me. It makes me realize about this verse and I cannot stop dwelling on this verse since I woke up and been thinking about this. My question is about Am I madly love with those idols (the world) more than Jesus? I realize that I am not supposed to do that and I realized that my spiritual is getting dry because of that. So I had to repented and asked God forgive me for that and I was so determined to stop doing this like omit the apps games in the face book. When I was thinking about that last night and I realized that My house has been madly love with those stuff like watching tv, having cell phone and been on it all the times, playing games on computer or dwelling on money etc like that and we haven’t put God first in our lives. Things around me that can distract me away from God. So the bible says, Romans 12: 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will his good, pleasing and perfect will. If we do that, we are adultery to this world, the verse says, You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. Do you want to be enemy of God or want to be His servant? We have to make that choice to make. So that s why God didn’t want us to conform things in the world as he wants us to renewing our minds and be able to please God and doing His will. As we are not supposed to be madly falling love in the world. Revelation 2:5 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. If we had put things in our lives first before God, we need to repent this. And come back to Lord and be madly falling in love with Jesus. James 4: 8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. That s what God wants us to come to God and God will come close to us and repent. 1 John 2:15 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. It is very strong message, He said Do not love the world or things that means, any idols that you love like money, computers, cell phone, many things that you can think of. 1 John 2: 16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. That things from the world, only give us physical pleasures and craving for everything we see that will lead us away from God and it is not from God at all. 1 John 2:17 And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever. In the world, nothing can benefit us and nothing can give us any hope. As everything in the world is fading away. It is really sad that people are after those in the world and putting God aside. So that is very important for us to put God first and seek Him more and please Him more that where we will live forever and that is the best hope that we have in God. As nothing in the world can give any hope for us. So if you realize that you have been stepped away from God’s path and realized that you are focusing on things in the world and realize that your spiritual is getting dry and realized that you had been ignoring what you are supposed to do. If that is for you, then Repent and ask for God forgive you. And give our heart to God completely and put God first in our lives. 1 John 1:9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. Matthew 6:33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. So are we madly fall in love with Jesus or the world?? We cannot serve two masters, we must choose one master, either God or World. Matthew 22: 37 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ Jesus said we must love the Lord Your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. That means, all of it not half of it. Meaning full time not part time. So we have to see that we are supposed to put God First in our lives, and commit our lives fully in Lord no matter what. Also we have to stand firm for Jesus Christ no matter what the world offers us. And Hold on to this promises that God will bring us through this. It is ok to have those things but we must put God first in our lives before them. For example, if we get up in the morning, we shouldn’t go to computer first thing to look at face book news, or watching tv news or read news paper, we should stop doing that and start read His Words and Where God can work in our lives daily. And we are supposed to mediate His words day and night and also God can use us for His glory to witness people and bring people to Know Jesus Christ. So right now in the world, you see it is getting worse, and people are dying without Jesus Christ and we are too busy with other things in the world. Like being madly love with the world, and forgetting God and His words. Jesus Christ is coming back very soon and we must be ready for Him and He didn’t want anyone to perish and He wants people to be saved. I believe that God’s time is running out than we think. Every second, every minutes, people are dead without Jesus and is too late for them to have Jesus Christ. It has to stop because People are so precious to God’s eyes. We needed to spread His words to people where people needed to hear. We have to think about this. AM I MADLY FALL IN LOVE WITH JESUS OR THE WORLD??? Think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted March 28, 2014 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.81 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted March 28, 2014 I am madly in love with Jesus.Which means you have to leave the world behind.All of it.That is a big sacrifice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmbld Posted March 28, 2014 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,491 Content Per Day: 0.55 Reputation: 1,457 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/23/2011 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/02/1971 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Sacrifice? Or blessing in disguise? Both I guess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shiloh357 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Love Jesus as my Lord and Savior, Creator, Redeemer and Judge. But I am not madly "in love" with Jesus. That is a human concept, not a biblical concept. Being "in love" is an emotional thing. We confuse love with affection. Biblical love is something you do, not something you are "in." Being "in love" is a romantic notion. I don't see Jesus in romantic overtones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clark thompson Posted March 28, 2014 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 154 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 31 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/13/2013 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/12/1986 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Yes we either love Christ or the world we can not love both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted March 29, 2014 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.81 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted March 29, 2014 Love Jesus as my Lord and Savior, Creator, Redeemer and Judge. But I am not madly "in love" with Jesus. That is a human concept, not a biblical concept. Being "in love" is an emotional thing. We confuse love with affection. Biblical love is something you do, not something you are "in." Being "in love" is a romantic notion. I don't see Jesus in romantic overtones. shiloh,Madly in love is an "earthly" term meaning we love that person very much.Not necessarily a earthly intimate sexual term.We are only human.We relate alot of our "earthly" feelings and terms to Jesus.He understands this.Jesus is extremely understanding.You are over analyzing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwikphilly Posted March 29, 2014 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 96 Topic Count: 307 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 18,136 Content Per Day: 4.63 Reputation: 27,816 Days Won: 327 Joined: 08/03/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted March 29, 2014 Blessings Everyone!! A while back I was taken through the "Songs of Songs" & also Ecclesiastes by Messianic Rabbi...........I imagined myself as the fellows walking down the road when Jesus(risen from the dead)walked with them & took them on a journey through the Scriptures,showing them that all the Scriptures were about Himself,,,,,,,,it was the first time my eyes opened & I saw how Jesus loves His radiant bride,his church ,,,,,that he is intimately,"madly in love" with us and I learned another sense of the word ....right then & there I was determined & prayed earnestly to love Him as He loves me.......it is still & remains my prayer. With love in Christ,Kwik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shiloh357 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Blessings Everyone!! A while back I was taken through the "Songs of Songs" & also Ecclesiastes by Messianic Rabbi...........I imagined myself as the fellows walking down the road when Jesus(risen from the dead)walked with them & took them on a journey through the Scriptures,showing them that all the Scriptures were about Himself,,,,,,,,it was the first time my eyes opened & I saw how Jesus loves His radiant bride,his church ,,,,,that he is intimately,"madly in love" with us and I learned another sense of the word ....right then & there I was determined & prayed earnestly to love Him as He loves me.......it is still & remains my prayer. With love in Christ,Kwik Song of Solomon is about marriage, but it is not about Jesus and the Church. The sexually expicit language makes it very difficult to accept that this is about the Jesus and His relationship to us. Song of Solomon is better understood as teaching about marriage and should be applied to literal marriage. Solomon and Shulamite are married and people make connections theologically that the Bible never makes between this book of the Bible and Jesus and the Church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shiloh357 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Love Jesus as my Lord and Savior, Creator, Redeemer and Judge. But I am not madly "in love" with Jesus. That is a human concept, not a biblical concept. Being "in love" is an emotional thing. We confuse love with affection. Biblical love is something you do, not something you are "in." Being "in love" is a romantic notion. I don't see Jesus in romantic overtones. shiloh,Madly in love is an "earthly" term meaning we love that person very much.Not necessarily a earthly intimate sexual term.We are only human.We relate alot of our "earthly" feelings and terms to Jesus.He understands this.Jesus is extremely understanding.You are over analyzing this. I love my mother very much, but I am not "in love" with my mother. "In love" is an earthly term and you never hear it used outside of a romantic context. No one says they are "in love" with their brothers, sisters, or any other relative or friend. The only people we are ever "in love" with is a person to whom we are attracted to physically/sexually. It is a not a general term of affection but is very specific to a particular kind of relationship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwikphilly Posted March 29, 2014 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 96 Topic Count: 307 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 18,136 Content Per Day: 4.63 Reputation: 27,816 Days Won: 327 Joined: 08/03/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted March 29, 2014 Blessings Shiloh! Thank you for your post & I do see the black & white of it in regards to the beautiful love story of the Shulamite woman and Solomon(one would really have to be blind not to--lol),and yes it is clearly about "marriage "and I have only saw it that one way for most of my life until ,like I said,,,,,,my eyes were opened to see also ,another side ......so I guess I am "people making the connection between Jesus & His Bride"......and I honestly no longer see it as a sexually explicit language but a beautiful story about intimate love,Glory to God! With love,in Christ,Kwik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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