The LORD is my strength and LORD of my life

Praise be to God Almighty, Creator of the Universe!!!

Before I go any further, I do wish everyone reading this blog, a Haouli Maka Hiki Hou! (Happy New Year)

In my morning time with the LORD, I was blessed to read Psalm 1 and Proverbs 1. They encourage me that when I trust in the LORD, He is my strength. Proverbs 1 says that those who do not know Him, He will mock them.

Wait a minute...

God says that He'll mock people who do not have fear of Him?

But I thought that God is a God of LOVE??

That doesn't sound like LOVE to me!

YEP.

Proverbs 1:26 says - "I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes,"

But that can't be. I thought that God was at OUR beck and call, to play the role of "Genie In a Bottle for us?"

NO.

NADA.

NYET.

God is the most High God. There is NO ONE like Him.

He demands that people be in fear of Him. The fear He refers to is "Reverence" to who He is.

And when we do not have a "fear" of the LORD, He will laugh at our calamity and mock when our dread comes.

I don't know about you, but I'm thankful that I know God through the atonement of Jesus Christ and that I do have a reverence for Him.

He is my MIZPAH (Strong Tower).
He is my STRENGTH.
He is EVERYTHING to me.

I pray that those of you who know the LORD JESUS, have a reverent fear of HIM and that you live your life for HIM. He bought all of us with the perfect sacrifice of HIS life and blood shed at Calvary's Cross.

I pray that those of you who do not know my LORD JESUS, would talk to HIM. Repent of your sins and receive HIM into your heart and life.

Don't be the person who is laughed at when their calamity comes upon them. Don't be the person who is mocked when their dread comes.

I pity the fool who doesn't know JESUS CHRIST as SAVIOR and LORD of their lives.

Starting off the first day of 2007, my only resolution, is to know JESUS more and more.

Everything else will fall into place.

God's plan for my life is perfect, warts and all.

He planned for me to go through a divorce.
He planned for me to be angry at Him for 17 years.
He planned for me to endure the agony of the sins of my unsaved wife.
He planned for me to endure my children not being close to me at this time in my life.
He planned for me to endure financial hardship.
He planned for me to receive ridicule from brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ.
He planned for me to trust in him 100%.

I know that all of this is perfect because all of the things that were meant for evil, the LORD will turn to good for those who know HIM and LOVE HIM.

May God Almighty REIGN SUPREME in your life.

AGAPE,
Alex