Remember Our Golden Calves

Remember Our Golden Calves

(Deut. 9:7–10:11)

I really don’t like to remember my sins. That flush of shame, that awareness of failure, aren’t at all pleasant. Besides, as forgiven people, aren’t our sins forgiven and the past forgotten?
While there’s nothing spiritual about wallowing in guilt, every now and then we need to revisit sites where we have erected golden calves.

The golden calf that Israel made on the plains of Sinai was the ultimate affront to God. God had delivered His people from slavery; Israel ignored Him and chose to worship an idol. God had fed and protected Israel; they decided to praise a creation of their own hands. In the most basic way the golden calf was a total rejection of God.

And at that time, God also said, “Go… and lead My people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers” (vv. 10–11).
Moses reminded Israel of the golden calf not to shame them, but to help them realize how great and how gracious God is.

This is why we need to revisit our golden calves now and then. To remember how forgiving, how loving, how gracious God has been to us. “At that time” in our lives, the time of our greatest failure, God came to us in Jesus. He lifted us up, took us in His arms, forgave us, and set us on our way again.
Revisiting our golden calves reminds us that not even our sins can cut us off from the love of God. Whenever we fail, God is able to pick us up and set us on the path of righteousness once again.

God Bless You

Elizabeth

The Heart Of God

Recently i happen to read the 'Book OF Jeremiah'. It is so true that as we read the Bible again and again there will be more depth and inspiration coming up. No wonder the Bible says The Word of God is living and active.

As I was going through this book i learnt that, God was sharing His pains and complains to Jeremiah His prophet. I would like to quote 2 verses as an example

Jehovah also said to me(Jeremiah) in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has fornicated there. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn to Me! But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. (Jer:3:6,7)

HE has chosen Israel as His own, but Israel has gone after other gods,. so we can see that He is calling them back, asking them to repent and return to him. If they do not repent God could not protect them (Because he works in a just way) so they are going to fall in trouble. Ususally our disobedience paves way for trouble. We should not blame God for certain situation, we should check ourselves and be teachable so that we could correct the mistakes and come back to our forgiving God. The truth is he is ready to receive us at any time and help us out of the evil trap.

It grabed my attention when God shared his pains and complains to a man . Doesnt it look like us sharing our pain and joy to our loved ones. Just like men, God needs people to share his love and pain. God needs people to be His vessel to do His will in this world. We should be available for Him by all means to listen to His cry so that we would work on His behalf. When we study God's nature, it is similar to human nature. It is because we are made in His own image making us as his own children.

Can you hear the cry of the world? In the cry of his people there is God's vioce of pain. Many are suffering in this world....It can be due to their own mistakes out of ignorance. But God's people should understand thier cry and help them out in prayers and deeds. The best solution you can give to them is to introduce Jesus in their life. Jesus says, "come all you are heavy laden, I will give yo rest". But since it is available free men do not bother to pay attention. But those who perceive the truth, they are liken to a person who finds a treasure in a ground. Then he goes and sells all his possessions to buy the land which have the treasure in it. They are wise and they know where to dig and get the springs of their life.

Know Him more, he is gentle and humble, he is compassionate and merciful, abundance in love and peace, He has patience to wait for the sinners to make them saints, His sacrificial love is uncomparable, unconditional love, forgiving, wise enough to understand the limits of human race..........there is more about Him and there is more in Him. When the world says Sky is the limit, i say sky is not the limit for us, infinity is our portion in Him.

Love
Elizabeth

Blessings in a nutshell

Hi friends,

I know this is going to be a blessing for the readers. I remember for a long time we didn’t have a particular channel we desired to have. We thought it was not available for us, but when we visited our neighbours house we found the channel over there. Later we found out that, it is available in our place but we didnt tune the frequency. This is how most of us live. Most of the things are available but we live in ignorance.

We are not aware of the Abundant blessings available for us when we believe Lord Jesus. It is said that there are more than 32000 promises in the Bible. God doesn't want any of his creation to live in ignorance and lack blessings. He wants us to have a fruitful and prosperous life. Just get into the word and Know Him and explore the treasure.

I found a treasure in Genesis 1:28, when God blessed his first human creation. It says God blessed them and said to them, " Be Fruitful, Multiply and fill the earth, and Subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the bird of the air, and over every living creature that moves on the ground". The promises from Genesis to Revelation falls under these three categories. Three important Blessings to mankind- Be Fruitful; Multiply; and Subdue it.

Be Fruitful: Our God wants us to be fruitful spiritually, physically and materially. Why? Because he sees us as His children, children of a fruitful Father. As the bible says, He wants us to be fruitful in the places we stay, fruitful wife, husband and children, fruitful in every work, fruitful in increasing knowledge of God, fruitful in faith and life…..

Multiply: He is the God of increase. He does not want us to stay where we are but to move on and double what we have. I must say he has good strategies for multiplication. Increasing day by day in His glory, In prosperity, multiplication of your talents....and more. Whatever He has given us should be multiplied and give God the glory. Whatever you sow you will reap in 30,in 60 or 100 fold.

Subdue it: When God created every other creations He blessed them with fruitfulness and multiplication but not to subdue. This was given only to His children. He commanded to conquer the world in truth. He has given the authority to rule the earth as his children. His scepter is given to us. He has given us the authority over all our enemies, all the evil spirits, over all sickness....Subdue healing, subdue peace, subdue wealth and joy, subdue the will of God in this world. Subdue it... in the Name of Jesus.

There are more but then I would like to stop here and allow you to search for this treasure of promises and successful principles and strategies from the WORD OF GOD (Bible). The key is to Obey God. Let your standards be according to the Word of God.

The next topic I would like to share is " how to inherit the blessings of God".
I would appreciate your comments both positive and negative.

God Bless You
Elizabeth

Affection

Hi friends,

Today is my daughter Aaliyah's Birthday. She felt herself special today. Early morning she beautified herself and waited for the loving greetings and blessings from her loved ones with expectation. She said a prayer of thanks to her heavenly father, who knew her before she was born. She was excited to hear from me all her babyhood stories.

Even i was pondering about her childhood. How she cried, how she smiled, learning to walk, the numerous falls,how she played...... how fast time goes by. I cherished the sweet memories that engraved in my heart and this elevated my affection towards her. Yes, she is beautifully and wonderfully made by God. I thanked God for her. Children are an heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

I realise that the affection i have for my child is the same for God towards us because he is the creator of our being. We are His offspring. He watches just as a parent watches their children. We have a loving father who takes care of us.

Do you have a relationship with this father who is the creator of the universe? He is the Father who longs for a relationship with his children. We have a forgiving father who waits for us to repent our pasts and restores us and receives us as sons and daughters. Just imagine the richess of being His children. Whatever he has we inherit if we have a father-child relation. In natural as we inherit our earthly fathers' inheritance, we receive our heavenly fathers blessings if we love him.

Let me leave you with this thought: suppose your son or daughter has got stuck in some heights. He is afraid to climb down. When his father says, son just jump i will catch you, do not be afraid. What would your son or daughter do? This child completely believes and has full confidence in his father that he would not miss him but will catch him. He knows his father's potential and allows himself to jump believing that his father would catch him safe. But just imagine when a stranger asks him to jump? Will he jump? He would think a bit.


This is how you will be when you know your heavenly Father. You will have full confidence in Him because you know who he is and how strong he is. From there you will learn to put confidence in Him and rely on Him in every way. Just give all your worries, struggles, all your decisions, your future, share your joy, happiness to the greater power;to the maker of mind, and you relax hoping that the father will protect and provide for you. If you are a stranger to Him then you would not know to whom to confide other than you who is weaker than a grass that blooms one day and dies the next day.

Let me end this session by quoting from the bible, Hebrew 13:5 says
" Never will I leave you, Never will I forsake You" says the Lord

This is the Almighty Gods' Promise to us, What more do we want.

Bye
Liz

Seasons

Hi Friends

This is Elizabeth with you to share some of the thought provoking life lessons which I learnt through experience and focus on life. Through the councelling of many people the valuable wisdom that I learnt and still learning is being fruitful in my life and in the life of many. so why not to expand to this world and touch lives near and far.

I Just admire the creation and its majesticity. So do i give the whole honor and glory to the creator. He is simply beautiful. The nature itself takes a normal process of change in its own time and its own seasons. Have a look at the four seasons of nature; spring, summer, Autumn, Winter. Each has its own beauty and elegancy. This is the same principle in human life also, i believe. There are seasons in our lives which bring changes physically, emotionally, mentally and materially. Childhood, youth, adult and old age has its own changes and pecularity. As time passes the circumstances change, places change and even our thought life change. To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.

But the thing i learnt most is that the choices we make in our lives destines our future. We are where we are due to the choices we made. We need to learn to make wise choices that makes our life a blessing. For this reason you need to know who you are, the great potential the Almighty has placed in you. We should know that each one of us are created for a purpose. No one can replace that purpose in you. You are unique and prescious. As the Bible says,"I am wonderfully and beautifully made".

Let me leave you with this thought: The destiny of a seed is a tree. By faith you can see the tree within the seed. You have a vision of it in your mind's eye because you know the potential in the seed. The same thing is true for you and me. God has placed within us the potential for fulfilling the purpose. So let us use our full potential while we are in this world itself, so that we can be fruitful like a strong tree that gives its unfailing fruit and shade to the mankind, animals and birds. Such a tree withstands the buffeting of the wind and storms and flourishes. Remember each one of us are unique and there is a reason you are here that only you can fulfill. No one can replace your purpose in life. So go for it....we are able to cope with each seasons of life.


I gladly accept your comments both positive and negative and contribution of your thoughts regarding the topic. Thank you. See you next time with more inputs and incidents...

Bye
Elizabeth