I am made from the dust of the Earth and the Breath of the Almighty.
My life is a gift from God I did not make myself.
When this life is over, my body will go back to the Earth, and my spirit will go to God. When he re-creates the new earth, I will get a brand new body and my spirit will be reunited and I will live forever. Do I want to live with God or without him? One is heaven the other is utter hell. Because only God is true love. I want to choose to live with God because he is love. I do not want to live without him forever, That is hell.
I was made for a purpose, and my purpose is to know him, love him and do his will for me so I can be happy with him now and forever in heaven.
I cannot understand my purpose, unless I am listening and doing what he made me for.
God has a good plan for me and wants to direct me in the way in which he wants me to be fulfilled. Like any good parent he knows better than I and like any spoiled child I sometimes fight him and want my own way. I must grow up and let him decide what’s best for me because he sees and knows all.
If I try to take on God‘s role, I will be frustrated because I do not know everything or see everything as he does. His Commandments are to build up life not to stifle it.
The devil is on the Earth to try to destroy God’s children by making them think his Commandments are burdensome and stifling when in reality, they are freeing to make us who we are meant to be. When we follow the devil‘s ways of thinking we are not free we are enslaved to sin that destroys us.
Discipline is actually the freedom. When we are organized and doing what we are supposed to do, we feel free and empowered. When we are doing what we think we want to do - not doing God‘s laws, we start to become enslaved to the very things that we thought would fulfill us.
God loves us very much, but gives us a choice on how we want to build our own lives. We are choosing our own destiny. Because he is love he does not coerce or force. The devil is the bully that tries to coerce, manipulate, and force. God does not work that way. He wants us to choose love for love out of love.
Every day, I have a choice on the way I build my life. If I choose death, it makes it easier to keep choosing that and I start going down the wrong road. I must choose his ways so I can be free to keep choosing the right way. I must consciously choose to live in union with him at all times so that I can hear the way he is leading me and do it so I am happy and fulfilled in him. God wants to give me himself to Live together now and forever. I Choose you my God and give myself to you too! Make me who I was made for!
You are deeply loved and profoundly special to God, and your value to Him is entirely personal, secure, and irreplaceable.
It is completely natural to look at the vast, radical nature of God’s grace—and how He can extend it even to the worst of humanity—and suddenly wonder, "But am I actually special to Him? Or am I just a face in a massive crowd of forgiven people?"
To God, you are never just a statistic or a generic "member" of a family. His love for you is unique, intimate, and tailored specifically to who you are. Here is what makes you uniquely special to Him:
1. You Were Individually Chosen and Known
Your relationship with God is not an accident or a mass enrollment. Scripture explicitly states that God knew you, thought of you, and chose you by name before the creation of the world (Ephesians 1:4). He didn't just choose a generic group of people and hope you would show up; He chose you.
2. He Made You a Unique Masterpiece
You are not a mass-produced product. Psalm 139 describes God intricately weaving you together in your mother's womb. Every detail of your personality, your capacity to love, your mind, and your story was intentionally designed. Ephesians 2:10 calls you His workmanship (the Greek word is poiema, meaning a unique work of art or poem). There is an expression of God's glory and a purpose for your life that belongs to you and no one else.
3. Your Security is His Personal Commitment
When you are wrestling with whether you are truly loved, remember that God’s love is not a shifting emotion; it is a permanent covenant.
• He doesn't love a future, perfect version of you:
He loves you right now, in the midst of your questions, your doubts, and your human frailty.
• You cannot exhaust His grace: Because your security rests on Christ's perfect work and not your daily performance, you never have to perform or achieve to keep His affection. You are already entirely safe in His hands.
You are uniquely special to God because He has chosen to invest His personal love, His creative design, and His eternal purpose specifically into you. You are intimately known, entirely wanted, and profoundly secure.
Sin
1. Equal Standing in Grace
If someone is genuinely a child of God and commits a horrific crime, their legal status before God does not change. Just as a human parent does not stop being the biological or legal parent of a child who commits a crime, God does not revoke His adoption. In God's eyes, the penalty for that person's sins—past, present, and future—was entirely paid for by Jesus on the cross. Therefore, their eternal security remains fully intact.
2. The Heavy Reality of God's Discipline
True adoption does not mean a believer gets a "free pass" to sin without consequences. If a genuine child of God falls into such catastrophic, unrepentant wickedness, Scripture states that God will actively and severely discipline them:
• Earthly and Eternal Consequences: While they are secure from eternal damnation, they will face the full weight of earthly justice (imprisonment, loss of freedom) and a profound loss of eternal rewards.
• The Break in Fellowship: Their daily fellowship, peace, and experience of God's presence would be completely broken, replaced by intense spiritual misery and conviction.
3. The Theological Question of True Faith
When a professed believer commits an act of extreme malice, theologians and churches generally look at the situation through the lens of 1 John 2:19: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.”
There are two primary ways to interpret this:
• A False Profession: In many cases, it is assessed that the person was never truly regenerated or adopted to begin with. They may have had a religious appearance, but their heart was never transformed by God.
• A Grievous Fall: In rare biblical examples (like King David orchestrating a murder), a genuine believer can fall into shocking, terrible sin. When this happens to a true child of God, the Holy Spirit will inevitably bring them to a place of deep, broken, and agonizing repentance.
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