We all have the freedom to make our own choices. But some choices can take our freedom. We can choose to build our treasures in heaven where moth nor rust can corrupt it. Or we can choose to build our treasure here on earth where nothing is permanent. Sometimes we want to build our treasures in people and family or things because we feel like they complete us and make us whole or happy. Nothing is permanent except God and your eternal life. People will hurt you, break your heart, and take away all your treasure here on earth just to control and manipulate you because they are selfish, broken or both. They need God. You can't be God to them and love them enough to change them. Only God can do that. Never do anything that is wrong to make someone 'love' you or want to be with you. That is the first sign that the relationship will be a disaster for you. Circumstances change. Your needs will change throughout your life. What's important to you may change. But God never changes. He is the same today, yesterday and tomorrow. He is not a man that he can lie. He is always the same. Have you ever met a person that was always the same every time you saw him; always loved you the same, always treated you the same, always was interested in you the same. How he felt about you never changed. The Bible says we should put God first. God, then your spouse, then your children; in that order. Putting God first gives you a solid foundation on which to live. People can mature in the LORD and become stable in their mind and emotions but they got that way by putting God first. God, his unconditional love, his ability and willingness to make us complete, his ability and willingness to make our lives complete, never changes. He won't force you to change, to do his will, or to be and do what he wants you to. He gives us freedom of choice. Everything that is done whether good or evil was done from freedom of choice. As you get older what you think is important, will change. The Bible says when you put your trust in God you will change from glory to glory as you get closer and closer to the Lord and learn more and more about him and his will and choose to do his will. His will is his word, the Bible. The Holy Bible is God breathed, written by holy men of God. God gave them the words to write down to bring us wisdom, guidance and knowledge in written form. So many people blame God for the terrible things that go on in this world and yet they continue to make poor choices. They don't take time to get to know God or find out what his will is by reading the Holy Bible. Read the Bible. The New Testament is written for us. In the Old Testament you'll find prophecies about Jesus the Christ, his birth, life, death, and eternal life. He was with God from the beginning, before the world began and sits at God's right hand. God's will is for our good. If you read or have read the old covenant, those things written were to protect the people from human tendencies, from their poor choices and from the poor choices that people around them made. We want a shroud of protection around us and our loved ones yet look to the world for it. This life is temporary. Teach your children about God. Teach your children his will. Teach your children God's ways; how to handle heartache, abuse, trauma and loss in his loving, capable arms. Also, teach them that when they make poor choices that separate them from God, he is waiting with open arms to welcome them back into a relationship with him; forgiving them, washing them clean, healing them from the affects poor choices or trauma has had on them and their life. Your children will have eternal life with God. They will live forever with God who is love. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. I miss my daughter Mazie Clewis so much. Towards the end of her life she realized how loving, forgiving and healing God is. She felt that perfect, unconditional love, a love with no strings attached that only comes from God. Like many of us do she had lost her way and felt like she wasn't good enough for God, like she couldn't or shouldn't be forgiven because of the mistakes she had made. But she finally realized that no human being is good enough on his own nor can be perfect and that God completes us and makes us whole. He fills in all those gaps of imperfection. He makes us whole again. She found that through the blood of Jesus who loves us with a perfect, unselfish love we can be forgiven and his arms are always open. He is our advocate. He gave his life for us so that through him we have forgiveness. God loves us unconditionally as his children. He doesn't want any of us to be lost, to be separated from him. But he's a gentleman. He won't force you to come to him. He waits patiently for you to choose him. Mazie found so much peace and joy in God before she died. She had planned to go away to a rehab and get well. But from what I understand she used one more time which was her last. I can't say that's what killed her. I haven't gotten her autopsy report yet. I know several people wanted her dead because she knew too much about the things they did and they were afraid she would talk if she got out. But her mind was already out. She put her treasure in God. She found the wonderful peace and joy that only comes from him. She was afraid to live with family because our lives had been threatened. From what I understand someone was angry with her, very ugly to her, controlling her, not allowing her to leave because she chose to get clean and live right, she was leaving the next day to start over, and she used again. I don't know for certain but that is what it sounded like on the phone with the person. But then I think I know where the drugs came from. Those people could have intentionally killed her, or just made another bad batch of drugs that killed her. Using drugs is like playing Russian roulette. You don't know what you're putting in your body. Drugs steal, kill, and destroy people , their relationships and their lives. Broken people make and sell drugs. Broken people are runners. Broken people give people drugs to ensure a viable income when they get addicted. Broken people give people drugs to ensure they'll stay with them and do what they tell them to. Broken people abuse people and manipulate people. Broken people expect the worst out of everyone. Broken people push others away and don't trust anyone. Broken people feel like they're not lovable and that nothing good happens to them. But through God they all can be healed from the inside out and live a life filled with peace and joy. They will have a perfect eternal life. If you have an addiction please realize that anything you put above God, anything you use as a go to for everything, anything worldly you have put your trust in to make you happy and peaceful or help you forget besides God will eventually destroy you or come to an end. This doesn't happen because of God or because it's his fault. This happens because everything in this world comes to an end. The thief, Satan, comes to kill, steal and destroy. Jesus came to bring life and for us to have an abundant life. Put your treasure in heaven where moth nor rust can corrupt, where eternal life begins. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, forever. And he wants to have a close, intimate relationship with you and give you the fruit of the spirit. 📜22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 📜For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
2 Chronicles 16:9 KJV
