Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Thursday, February 3, 2011

Kenneth Copeland Ministries Reminds Us to Abide by God's Will and Adhere to Jesus's Example

By Kenneth Taylor


Many suppose that God is a faraway God. He does not appear to respond to their prayers. And he seems unfriendly since he does not show himself in person. They cannot feel his authority, therefore, since it seems that there is no direct contact. What they do not know is that God wants to be closer to us. As Kenneth Copeland Ministries would put it, God wants to begin a private and intimate connection with his people. But he cannot force us to respect his will. Only when we are ready and willing to admit him in our lives will he become a private God in our private lives.

God, from the very beginning, has been a present and warmhearted God. His hands have always been outspread afar to welcome folks who want to take refuge in him. He has been waiting for us to notice his call and abide by his way. But it seems that his call falls on deaf ears. It is essentially us who distance from him. But he is not one to relent and permit us to go astray and be gone. That is why he sent his only son, Jesus, to show us his miracle and stateliness.

Jesus came to the world to fulfill God's promise to save us from sin and bring us back to his heavenly fold. But Jesus did not come in a godly form. Instead, he became human. As Kenneth Copeland Ministries would phrase it, he took upon himself flesh, and he became one of us, an ordinary human being. He was delivered to us through Mary, with the power of the Holy Spirit, and was born in a lowly place, not in a grand palace. But unlike us, he was exempt from the original sin since he is the begotten son of God.

Although he was the son of God, Jesus did not live an easy life. He was not born to a royal family; rather he became a child in a humble family with pure hearts. Mary and Joseph gave him the parental guidance every child needs so that he would become ready to minister to God's people when he matured. As a human being, he was subject to earthly desires, pain, and temptations. But he resisted them all and showed us the glory of God. And as an ultimate sacrifice, he followed God's will, took his cross, and died in order to redeem us from sin and give us salvation.

As the son of God, Jesus did not have to do all those sacrifices. He did not have to follow God's will. He did not have to die on the cross. He could have lived a life out of his own will. But he chose not to, Kenneth Copeland Ministries reminds us, because he loves us so much that he laid down his life so that we may live. And as the obedient child of God, he followed God's will. He gave us a perfect example of how much faith we should have in God.




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