PLEASING GOD

Does the thought of pleasing God even enter your mind?

If it does, most likely you have the concept of a list, a long 

list, of things to do.  And an even longer list of things

to not do, to please God.

Now I am a simple old man.  Any list is hard to remember.

And even harder to keep.  In fact over the years I have come

to like things in three's.  Much more than that is complicated.

You know,

for an engine to run it has to have,

1. fuel.  

2. fire. 

3. compression.

Then there is God,

1. God the Father.

2. God the Son.

3. God the Holy Spirit.

Three in one.

And to survive you need,

1. water.

2. food.

3. shelter.

Imagine my delight to find that God only

requires three things of us.

"No, the LORD has told us what is good.

What he requires of us is this;

to do what is just,

to show constant love,

and to live in humble fellowship with our God."

(Micah 6:8 TEV)

Three thoughts.

1.  Most of us have some concept of what is just.

You know, fair, honest, etc.  In other words,

"Do unto others as you would have them do

unto you."

2. "...constant love,"  Even this we have some

concept of.  It makes sense, even if it is hard

to do.  Like as in, "Love your neighbor as

your self.".

3. But "fellowship with our God."

Hay!  That's a whole lot more that to

believe in God.  The Bible tells us that 

even the demons believe - but they "tremble"

because they know what's coming for them.

Fellowship is "companionship".  Look it up.

Fellowship, companionship, that's relationship.

Are you living in relationship, companionship,

fellowship with God.  Or, only 

believing in God? 

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NO WAY

Image no. 1

Some where a  team of engineers designed these 

vehicles.  It is obvious a lot of thought and design 

effort was put into them.  They are very complex.  

But that is what designers are for.  The best I know, 

the owners are completely happy with them, for 

what they want.

Image no. 2

Not as complex as image no. 1.  But I know two

 ladies who put a lot of thought into how this house

was to be built.  Then a designer (architect) went to 

work putting their thoughts into the design and building

of it.

Image no. 3

Image no. 3 is an old house built back in the 50's.

I personally know the man that designed and built

it.  Herman told me that after he "precut" everything -

they put it up in one day.  That was back when they 

still had "barn raisings" around here.

Image no. 4

Image no. three.  Less complex that the others, 

but it still required some thought.  That is what 

is left of an old "pole barn" that Carl built.

Image no. 5

Image no. 5.  Yep, less complex yet.  I am the one

 guilty here.  A bench was needed to hold a 

motorcycle engine while we worked on it.  So I

gave it some thought and put it together out

of "stuff" laying around.  It has been real handy.

Image no. 6

Image no. 6.  Yes it is just a pile of wood.  But even

then I had to decide where it would be out of the way

and how to stack it so it would not scatter.

Not much "designer" here.  But it still took some intelligence.

Image no. 7

Image no. 8

Image no. 9

Images 7, 8 and 9.

NOW WAY.

Far too complex to have a designer.  Anything 

this intricate could not have a designer behind

it.  It would have to be a pure accident or chance.

Or perhaps enough "nothing" got together and 

moulded into something over millions and 

billions of years to become something.

Then "something" got smart enough to put

itself together into another form.