Showing posts with label deceased people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deceased people. Show all posts
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Monday, January 26, 2015
The Legacy of the Lost
We live in an American society of sin, mayhem, and destruction. Countless people die unexpectedly daily as a result of sins committed with no concept of what a healthy spiritual relationship with one's Creator looked and felt like. The lost falsely assumed they were okay within while spreading their poison to others. Lies, deceit, anger, bitterness, hatred, resentment, and jealousy, are just some of the many issues ungodly people have that they refuse to let go of.
These dead people didn't feel they needed to believe in anyone or anything, but themselves while living amongst the children of light. Sold out on personal beliefs of being one's own God, they failed miserably at being joyful and peaceful while they walked this earth. There was never enough money, love, attention, material goods, and more to suffice the depressed, sad, wild, crazy kind of people--both young and old.
Much of their legacy left behind (from those who could afford to leave something for generations following them) had no God approval stamp, so to speak. In other words, they held on to worthless treasures, cursed media, and demonic tokens, the kind of things that meant nothing to a righteous God who reigns over all the people. What good is a religious relic, a shiny brand name piece of jewelry, a designer car, or a large home decorated with biblically inspired messages when the owners weren't living according to God's will?
Despite all of the beautiful things that men and women buy, invests in or creates, God is not interested in people's objects and systems and neither are those who honestly wanted nothing more than a parent, child, or relative to simply love them!
The legacy of the lost is not filled with love, hope, or truth despite engraved or painted words on objects. Instead, Satan uses the spoils from life and death's war to divide, conquer, and create havoc for those left behind. Siblings argue about who should keep what. Employees fight over position. The church steps in to claim what is their's and so on. So much confusion over what the dead wanted!
Lost people are never completely honest with themselves or others about their innermost thoughts, how they come to inherit wealth, who they know, or what exactly moved them to make their creative works. They might have talked about how good, nice and wonderful they are and others while alive, but deep down inside felt nothing more than a void. Like a deceased person, a walking dead body is unable to give and receive love.
Lost people, no matter the personality disorder, are incapable of loving. They are incomplete spiritually, mentally and physically. They decorate themselves beautifully to create an illusion that they are indeed "fearfully and wonderfully made" as the Bible suggests, rather than taking God at his word. "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Psalm 139:14 Notice there is a belief in a Holy God and an appreciation for what the Creator has done. Yet, while alive the lost couldn't appreciate this concept and in death it is too late.
So rather than God be glorified even after the death of a loved one, a lost generation glorifies stuff.
The Messiah reminds us, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:20.
Nicholl McGuire
These dead people didn't feel they needed to believe in anyone or anything, but themselves while living amongst the children of light. Sold out on personal beliefs of being one's own God, they failed miserably at being joyful and peaceful while they walked this earth. There was never enough money, love, attention, material goods, and more to suffice the depressed, sad, wild, crazy kind of people--both young and old.
Much of their legacy left behind (from those who could afford to leave something for generations following them) had no God approval stamp, so to speak. In other words, they held on to worthless treasures, cursed media, and demonic tokens, the kind of things that meant nothing to a righteous God who reigns over all the people. What good is a religious relic, a shiny brand name piece of jewelry, a designer car, or a large home decorated with biblically inspired messages when the owners weren't living according to God's will?
Despite all of the beautiful things that men and women buy, invests in or creates, God is not interested in people's objects and systems and neither are those who honestly wanted nothing more than a parent, child, or relative to simply love them!
The legacy of the lost is not filled with love, hope, or truth despite engraved or painted words on objects. Instead, Satan uses the spoils from life and death's war to divide, conquer, and create havoc for those left behind. Siblings argue about who should keep what. Employees fight over position. The church steps in to claim what is their's and so on. So much confusion over what the dead wanted!
Lost people are never completely honest with themselves or others about their innermost thoughts, how they come to inherit wealth, who they know, or what exactly moved them to make their creative works. They might have talked about how good, nice and wonderful they are and others while alive, but deep down inside felt nothing more than a void. Like a deceased person, a walking dead body is unable to give and receive love.
Lost people, no matter the personality disorder, are incapable of loving. They are incomplete spiritually, mentally and physically. They decorate themselves beautifully to create an illusion that they are indeed "fearfully and wonderfully made" as the Bible suggests, rather than taking God at his word. "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Psalm 139:14 Notice there is a belief in a Holy God and an appreciation for what the Creator has done. Yet, while alive the lost couldn't appreciate this concept and in death it is too late.
So rather than God be glorified even after the death of a loved one, a lost generation glorifies stuff.
The Messiah reminds us, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:20.
Nicholl McGuire
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