God bless!
Many people these days get so hung up on doing the religious thing that they don't invest the time into doing the right thing. I know that may sound a bit weird but it is very important that we understand that God seeks us to have a knowledge of right based on His terms rather than us to do what's right based on our terms. In other words, too many of us today are manipulating and justifying what is right and what is wrong, to accommodate our flesh (there I said it!). I know many may be nodding their head in disbelief at what I just said assuming "I would never do that" but we all do. It's like when we know we are doing something border line wrong but we are so good at convincing ourselves that we actually walk away feeling good about doing bad. Makes sense? As I write today I'm being convicted, it's tough at times to try to do right but the beauty of the verse of today is that Jesus evaluates this man's proximity to the Kingdom of God by his knowledge rather than his current actions. In other words Jesus knew that as long as this man recognized what was right he would be able to walk in it. The problem for us today is we don't want to recognize His right but instead want to recognize our own. (SELAH)
With all of this said today there is one fundamental thing that we must all understand: God is patient and loving and He wants us to return to Him today. Let's all begin today to put down our tools of justification and begin to man up and woman up to what has to be done in our lives to get right and get happy. Is it easy? You know it's not, but as long as we recognize the true right then all the other issues and requirements will fall into place. Let's walk away happy from this email today knowing that there still is hope if we believe. How close are you to the Kingdom?
Evaluating my positioning,
Pastor Joell A. Perez
Mark 12:34 "When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions."
