What went wrong

Well as our economy is going down the drain and there is a lot of blame being thrown around everywhere, no one is really coming up with the real root problem of our downfall. Have you figured it out yet?

The root cause of all of our problems is that we have left God and His Word, righteousness, morals, purity, and love for God and others in the dust. Our world has made its intentions known very clearly that they don’t want God involved in their lives. God has become a hindrance to what they want and believe the world should be. They want a world where there are no consequences for sin. In fact they don’t want to even recognize that there is any sin at all. They want to believe there is no wrong or right – that there is no good and evil. They want to believe that there is no God, even though down deep in their soul they can’t deny it.

From the very beginning, in the Garden of Eden, the knowledge of good and evil was placed in all man kind. God made sure to place the knowledge of good and evil in every man when Adam performed the original sin, so that every man/women would have the knowledge that there was good and evil. By having this knowledge of good and evil, we all then have the knowledge to make the choice to strive toward good or strive toward evil. If we choose to strive toward good, we will strive to find the good and eventually we find that all good things and blessings are in God alone – which then brings us into a loving relationship with our Father in Heaven. But If we strive toward evil because our selfishness, we will reject God and all His ways so we can fulfill our evil desires within our own heart.

By choosing evil we can enjoy the temporary evils of our own hearts right away because this world and the devil will always freely supply the evil needed with very little searching for that evil. But for anyone that searches out good, it is only found in God’s blessings. God blessings of this goodness are only released to the ones that will repent of their evil ways. When we die to our sinful (evil) nature, then God will fill us with His goodness. God’s goodness and righteousness cannot co-exit with evil. So for anyone that is unwilling to die to their sinful man – then there is no way for them to experience true goodness.

What has happened in our world is that most men/women have decided to follow their evil hearts and in turn this automatically results in rejecting God and His goodness. They don’t want to give up anything to receive true goodness and happiness. They have decided to choose the counterfeit happiness that the devil has provided. The only problem with this thinking is that all sin and evil has to pay up with consequences which are a lot nastier than any temporary happiness they might have received from the sin they have grown to love.

This is the root cause of our worldly problems. It is not the devil’s fault – it is our choosing to follow the devil and his evil ways in stead of searching for God and His goodness. As a world, we are receiving was is due us because of our sins.

Now that man kind has permeated this world with evil instead of God’s goodness, what can be done? The only way to make any one person or the world right with God again is to do the opposite of what we have been doing, which has been rejecting God. We must repent of our sins and turn to God, and then stay with God and His ways alone.

Until we put God at the center of our society, our government, and our world, we will not recover and be healed, but only continue to suffer in God’s wrath to our end.

Are you hearing from any of our leaders that we must return to God’s ways, morals, and righteousness? Until we do – we cannot have any hope for our country or this world we live in. So what are you personally going to do? Are you going to repent and fight for God’s righteousness? These choices we make don’t only affect our world we live in now. This choice we make also determines our eternal destiny. If we have chosen to keep evil in our hearts – then we will receive evil and damnation for our eternity. If we have chosen to die to all our sinful ways and received the goodness of God into our hearts – then we will be found worthy to have eternal life with God. It is not any of our goodness in us that finds us worthy for heaven – we cannot have goodness without God living in us. It is only the goodness of God living in us that makes us valuable for God’s eternal heaven.

God’s servant and yours,
Michael Reid

Your choice and God's choice

I have recently been given some words from God that might help some understand the difference between “being saved” and “being born again”.

The words are - that we are saved from our sins when we choose Jesus Christ as our savior and we are born again when Jesus Christ chooses us after we have made Him our Lord. Whether we are saved from the bondage of our sin nature is our choice, but whether we are born again of God’s Holy Spirit is a choice God makes - not us.

Jesus can save us from a life in bondage to sin – so we no longer have to sin, and then it is our choice to sin or not sin. If we believe in Jesus’ blood being spent on the cross for our sins, we are then freed from the bondage of sin (this is the free gift), but getting rid of this sin that has had control over us for so long requires a retraining of our minds and believing we can die to all our sins in the power of God’s grace. This is the sanctification process that we must go through in order for us to be brought to the point where God will choose us as His sons and daughters.

When we are born again (born of His Holy Spirit), we have been chosen by God to receive His Holy Spirit. God chooses us by looking into our hearts and if He sees that we love Him above ourselves, all people, things and everything else and we show this by our obedience to His commandments – God then sends the Holy Spirit (Spirit of Truth, the Comforter, and His pure Love) into our hearts. After we are born of His Holy Spirit – we are then His Sons and Daughters and we then become a part of His Kingdom and we are no longer part of the devil’s kingdom of this world.

So becoming a true son of God is a process. Becoming a son of God is not of our choice – but God’s choice.

Salvation from our sinful nature is our choice and will lead us to becoming a son of God if we become obedient to His love and commandments.

Salvation from our sinful nature doesn’t mean we have been born of God – salvation from our sinful nature is only the start of the process (start of sanctification) and we need to keep repenting of all our sins to the point where we become obedient to all God’s commandments out of the love we have for our Father in heaven.

We do not become a part of God’s eternal kingdom by being saved from our sins – it is only the first step we need to take to start our sanctification process. The sanctification process and our love for God is what will bring us into His everlasting kingdom.


God’s servant and yours,
Michael Reid