Today, a reply is shared on requirements for continuing satisfying relationships with divinity. For regular communication, exchange, and interaction with immortal, incorruptible divinity, created beings and living creatures must contain measures of the same inseparable spirit content that resides within the GODhead. Included are faith, holiness, unselfish love, presence, purpose, righteousness, truth, and sovereign will replacing self-will. Close relationships and intimacy with those in the home (parents, siblings, spouse, etc.) involve mutual acceptance and respect that, on the surface, may look to be equality or parity, yet, only occur through discipline and the lawful exercise of authority (e.g., allowances, concessions, forbearance, permission, restraint). Family relationships are very different from those of couples sharing courtship, development, and exploration leading to marriage as well as different from relationships that are merely for sexual exploitation. It is by the sovereign authority of GOD that the living receive divine forgiveness that expresses lovingkindness, and that also proclaims there is mercy in judgment. Adoption of the Spirit, covenant, rebirth, redemption, and salvation are a few of the lawful mechanisms provided by GOD to establish created beings and living creatures as eternal companions with divinity. One of the fighters at “Yahoo! 7 Answers (Australia)” (no profile information shared) posted the following:
If having a relationship with God is a choice, just like having a boyfriend or girlfriend is, what makes it so different with God?
THE GOLDEN ARROW: The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee. (Psalms 145: 8-10, King James Version, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: A Different Spirit Content? (11/29/2016); Choice, Duty, and Obligation? (11/17/2016); Eternal Life From GOD (10/24/2016); His Children Are Sanctified (10/12/2016); The GOD Who Loves? (10/02/2016); Spirit Content From GOD? (09/26/2016); The Seed of the Wicked (10/27/2015)
“Anonymous”, you seem to be lacking sacred knowledge and some very important basic ideas about divinity. GOD is a spirit who has put forth material existence, diverse created beings and living creatures, multiple life processes (e.g., birth, aging, learning, maturity, death) as well as the sacred law and divine order that continues as our universe. The Creator is the origin, owner, and sole sovereign authority over the makeup, purpose, and substance of all that exists. Just as being connected in relationship with their own parents is not a matter of the child’s choice, or by the allowance and permission of the child as their seed, being in relationship with GOD is not on the basis of desires, likes and dislikes, or personal preferences. Being in a full and satisfying relationship with Deity requires “adjustments” in how we behave, think about divinity, think about ourselves, think about others, think about time and space, understand what it is that establishes “quality” in a person’s life, etc., etc., etc. Believers will contain and display spirit substance from the makeup of GOD such as faith, holiness, longsuffering, wisdom, and wrath against sin. There will be regular communication (e.g., confession, praise, prayer, thanksgiving, worship), exchange, and interaction that focuses consciousness of GOD, and directs self-will to conformity with the revealed will of GOD. Many young people today express disrespect and rejection of parental authority while still living in the home of their parents. Even so, the law continues to acknowledge a clear relationship, and requires accountability and restraint from both the adults and the child. Similarly, many deny GOD, yet, continue under the provisions of divine law, forbearance, forgiveness, redemption and salvation. There is far more to be said, correctly applied, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, those who deny GOD gradually lose everything that makes them acceptable and pleasing to GOD. Eventually, those rejecting divine love become abominations and rubbish that are to be utterly destroyed in the second death.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
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