Living to Please God...

Yes, even in this fallen world, we can begin to live in His Kingdom, We can love our neighbor because God first loved us (enough to send His Son into this fallen world to save us from sin and death) and when we understand that ...we love God even more and we love our neighbor because they love God even more too.

What is the truth, "God so Loved the World, He sent His Son" ~ John 3:16.  In John 18:38, Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" Jesus told Pilate that he was born to bring the truth. To testify to the truth which is that this is a fallen world and the only way to the Father is through Jesus Christ for He is the way the truth and the life.

 

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6.

In that realization we can live a quiet life, a life pleasing to God. Though we may yet sin, we confess our sin and repent of it. We are not loud like the pagans who cry out for their 'right' to live in sin, or live as a sinner.

 

We don't demand the right to be a sinner claiming that God made us that/this way as a 'kind of' sinner. Yes, God loves us in spite of our sin, He forgives us our sin and in that revelation we go and sin no more. 

Yes, we can do what we hate and not what we want, yes we can struggle with sin as we are in a fallen world; and yet, knowing that Christ gave His life for us, conquering sin and death for us, we can live quietly in this fallen world thanking Him for taking our sin upon Himself. 

We come humbly to the cross seeking forgiveness, repenting and loving God all the more for His Mercy and Grace. Yes, we may yet struggle to overcome but knowing that He who is in us is greater than He who is in the world, is our hope.  

We don't pray as the pagans do, LOUDLY, to get attention, and or in a certain way in order to bring about certain personal rewards or gains in this fallen world. We don't attend rituals or do things in a ritualistic way as if in a pattern of sacred to save ourselves from sin and death.

Jesus did all the work once and for all. So, now We live a quiet life in the Word of God. We believe in the truth, we trust in the truth Jesus Christ for He is the way, the truth and the life!

 

Jesus made it very simple for us to live a quiet life and yet able to do battle against the evil one and dark forces and principalities.  We use His Word! We stand on His Word. 

 

Being in the Word of God, We love God, we love our neighbor... yes even in a fallen world knowing that Christ gave His life for us though we may back slide...seek forgiveness, repent, and strive to overcome in this fallen world for He overcame before us.

The Lord Jesus Christ is our authority and as Christians we can exercise His authority for greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world. In this knowledge, we can live a quiet life.  

But, are people living a quiet life? Not too many as we can hear people loudly demanding their way, crying about how they feel what is right for them and that they should get what they think they deserve. NO, they are not living the quiet life in the Word and nor are they living to please God, but to please themselves.

That is why, they think it foolish to acknowledge God. Don't be surprised that He has abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.. Romans 1:28.
 

Is there any hope? There is always hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, put your hope in the LORD. For there is faithful love with the LORD, and with him is redemption in abundance ~ Psalm 130:7.