Years ago I had a house (shack) in the worst part of the area. I had heard that the children of the neighborhood were prone to wander through other property than their own and even come into unlocked houses and consider what was inside their own. Before I had bought the house, it had been used as a meetinghouse by a group of neighborhood kids.

I busied myself hand painting a large “No Trespassing” sign and nailed it to the porch entrance. A young girl came by and asked me what I was doing. I told her I was putting up a sign. She asked me what the sign said and I let out a long deep sigh as it hit me that if no one could read the sign, there was really no reason to be putting it up.

Years later it smacked me like a ton of bricks that all my life I had been trespassing in someone else’s creation. All my life I had tried so hard to please everyone with out breaks of self-pity. I could never understand why nothing ever seemed to work out for me. Even what I thought was my original ideas turned out to be used by those I thought I could trust with them taking the credit.

I had always thought of myself as a “believer”. I believed that Jesus Christ died for my sins. But, I also studied other beliefs and thought that was all that was needed was to believe that there is good and evil. Eventually good will defeat evil and everything will be all right. But what if it didn’t? If it didn’t, then, was evil really that bad? Why, we joke about it all the time. We set up evil heroes like Dracula. In a book just recently I read, he was really the evil side of Jesus Christ. How twisted we have become! Evil is now believed to just be the other side of good.  Ying and Yang. The whole containing dark and light one cannot exist without the other.

Is the Bible the truth? Even that has been scoffed off, as it is a book of morals told by stories. The stories are the same as ancestral stories passed on from generation to generation. They may not be true, but told to prove a moral point. That God is nothing but man’s immaturity needing a parent figure. Prayer works for everyone. Through prayer and meditation, one can make anything happen, as it is good for health. If you want something, you can meditate or pray it into existence. Everything was once an idea. Therefore, if you think it, it exists.

There has been historical and archeological proof  more and more of the stories of the Bible. Things left behind from the sites where the story happened. The Bible has been proven to not just be a moral Book, but a Spiritual Book. It is the History of the Spiritual progress of man and of the Creator of the universe. It is the story of the Creator and His intentions for man.

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over

the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over

all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in

the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:26-27

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the

seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day

from all His work which He had done. Genesis 2:1-2

The word “rule” here means to “care for”, or “have responsibility for”. In other words, God’s original plan was for man to be morally and spiritually responsible for His planet Earth. Did you see the words “His planet Earth”? I didn’t say “my planet Earth”. Or, even “our planet Earth.”

That was the shock that hit me that night I was sitting on that back pew in that little church gathering. God gave man the responsibility for everything He had created on this earth.

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator

of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Isaiah 40:28

So, that meant that He was depending on man to use everything He gave us to do our job for Him responsibly. This was why He wants to explain the proper use of our responsibility before he opened our eyes to the fact there was a right knowledge to use with this responsibility and there was a wrong knowledge that would never be a lot more tempting and appealing to us if we received the proper training before being introduced to it.

But we as the human race did not wait. We were not loyal to the One that was willing to allow us to live with it all if we would only take care of it.

Genesis

And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:

3 But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.

4 And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:

5 For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

7 And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.

God was so good that He had given us free will. He wanted us to do His will out of gratitude for all that He was willing to provide for us. All he asked for are the same things that we desire from those we do good things for. Praise for the fact that no one can do anything as He can. We praise each other for things that are so small compared to creation, but we cannot find the time to praise Him for the awesome and amazing things that He continues to do on daily basis.

And He desires he same thing we do when we so something for someone else, thanks. In America we actually have a national day of Thanksgiving. Even that has become a day of mockery because it was founded to Thank God for a bountiful harvest. Today, since we have forgotten we were created, we continue to get off work, watch football, and eat turkey, in some cases totally oblivious of why.

He did not just create and walk away. Instead, He has been loyal to His creation. Even after corruption entered and destroyed His intentions for His partners in creation, God continued to take a group aside and instruct them to His laws and rules continuing to hope that they will come to the understanding of whom He is and what our role is in His Creation.

Unfortunately, the corruption of sin grew on itself to the point where man was unable to even recognize God or Him as Creator. Corruption showed man that man was able to create his own gods and replace the Creator with those things that were created by man’s own hand. A lot of times the creatures created by man’s hand were representations of nature or distorted representations of nature. Man was sorely misled to believe that the creatures of nature and nature itself had marvelous powers within themselves. It was less and less attributed to the fact that nature and creatures of nature were indeed created. They did not create themselves, no matter what Darwin says.

Today there is a swift movement to replace God with science. Children are being taught that science is the religion of the modern man. Not God. When do we realize that without God’s Creation, there would be no science?

Science says that man reacts. He does not act. God realizes that man has a will and exercises it either for or against Him. Science says that man can be programmed to act acceptable to society. God says He can heal your attitude and behavior to be acceptable to Him and to each other. All along being free to do so. Reprogramming being as far as you are willing for it to go. Not forced.

Lu 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Whoa! So how does this happen? Well, because of the corruption in the creation, man became horribly separated from his own Creator. He is so deceived that man has decided almost that he owns creation. Somehow man has come to believe that life is his. That he can buy possessions that are his. That his responsibilities are only surrounded by what is his. And, today, some youth do not even believe that they have any responsibility, even for the life of another.

Is there any way we can be reconciled to the Creator and learn from Him our purpose today?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He

was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him

nothing was made that was made. In Him was light, and the life was the light of men.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1:1-3

More and more today there is a belief that what separates man from the “lower” animals is his ability to speak words. Many other belief systems recognize words as something divine or holy.

Man had blocked the words of God from their hearts. Even those chosen by lineage to discern the Word of God had become stale. They did not listen to God’s Word, instead, they just passed down what the last leader said or interpreted.

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came by the prophet’s own

interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from

God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21

Prophets became unpopular and were considered to be odd. They had to be sanctioned by the synagogue to be recognized and the synagogue was now influenced by politics. Man seemed to not be able to have faith in something larger than him. Instead, he continued to humble himself before those in authority for protection and grates. Still not realizing that the only power that any man has is the power that another gives him.

This was when God allowed a way for man to hear Him. Above all the clatter of one man trying to out do another, God quietly entered the world through His Son, Jesus Christ.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in

Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Now, wait a minute, am I saying that God loved this world that just turned its back on Him and ignores Him and does all matter of evil against Him? Yes. How much does God love us? Enough that He devised a plan to actually open the door back to Him and promise that anyone who understands and finds the way can come back to Him, share in the future of His New Creation and live eternally.

Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had

passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New

Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her

husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is

with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, God Himself will

be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes;

there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the

former things have passed away.’ Revelation 21:1-4

So, How can I get on board? …that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God

has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto

righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:9-11

How can you confess something you do not know? By faith. And now can you have that faith? By reading the Word of God. And, where is this Word of God? It is the Bible.

Can I really believe that the Bible is the Word of God? Yes. God has from the beginning used those who would listen to Him to speak through them through their mouths as well as writing down the Word. All translations throughout time have all come back to the primary message of God. Disputes are very minor and do not go beyond a word or two.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the New Testament are witnesses to the life of Jesus Christ. There are free downloadable Bibles on line. There are many translations available on line as well.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father

except through Me. John 14:6

Jesus had a three-year ministry on earth before He was crucified. Many do not know the significance to why, when so many were being crucified during this time period, that one crucifixion should stand out. There was a difference.

Remember when I told you I realized I was trespassing on God’s earth? Corruption, or sin, going against the laws of the Creator, had blinded me to the fact that I was so loved as a creature that the very Creator that created me had come and lowered Himself to a human such as I. He had never been corrupted or sinned. Yet, He humbled Himself to, instead of destroying me, destroying His Creation, paying for my sin and corruption by death on the cross.

But, we still die…? Yes. Physically. Remember, I told you this is a spiritual reunion. That is why it is so hard for some to accept. We all know in the back of our minds that there is a spiritual realm. Most of us “see” the evil part of it. It influences everything in our lives. We have been lead to just scoff it off, like it is a part of our imagination. Then, today religion is being classified as also imagination.

Strangely enough, if we ever reach the point of understanding what it means to surrender to the Will of God, there is such a dramatic change that one cannot express it enough. Suddenly there is a feeling of belonging. Many mental confusions vanish. The feeling of being lost and like a ship without a rudder vanishes. In the stead a feeling of belonging and family with those who have reached the same conclusion. A balance that comes with knowing that you have finally come home.

Finally, there is the feeling of purpose. Today the purpose is to relate to others that feeling you have just inherited.

In every religion there is always a leader between the followers and the entity of worship. In the Old Testament, God appointed priests to serve as a liaison between the nation and God. God was too Pure and too Holy to be seen by all the people because of their corruption. Today His Own Son serves as the only High Priest.

Hebrews 4:15

For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.

16 Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

Because He gave the ultimate sacrifice for all of our corruption, through Him we are again made whole.

Matthew 10:29-31

Are not sparrows two a farthing? and not one of them comes to an end without your Father:

30 But the hairs of your head are all numbered.

31 Then have no fear; you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.

32 To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.

33 But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before my Father in heaven.

Jesus is our intercessor with God, now. There are no others. Through Him we are adopted back into the Kingdom of God.

Mt 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

First study the above and get to know Jesus. You will be totally surprised at how way away from what was first intended we are now. But, God gave us free will. We no longer have to be slaves of our passions deceived into thinking that “if it feels good, do it”. We were never made to drown in our own passions. Never feeling satisfied. Instead we were created with great responsibility. It will take a while for us to get back to what we were intended for. But we have a very loving, and merciful Creator that we can now call Father because His Son rose from death. He conquered the death of corruption and sin and even though we must die physically because of that corruption, we will rise again into a new existence that will last forever through Jesus Christ!

But just knowing that Jesus died for my sins is going to get me to Heaven? 

…"Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the

remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38

If you truly believe that Jesus died for your sins, you will feel a since of guilt about those sins. You will want to confess them to the Lord and repent from them. Now, for the first time in your life, you have a true friend that will help you turn away from your sins. Jesus said that He would send the Holy Spirit to you as a gift. This Holy Spirit will help you turn away from your sins and will guide you to the peace that surpasses understanding with the Lord. It will also help guide you through your purpose for the rest of your life.

 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in

whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the

guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the

praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:13-14

Prayer is not something you use so that Santa Claus will give you that special gift that you have been wanting. Nor is it something where you concentrate something into existence. Prayer is a form of communication. Talking to and receiving from another. If you want to see a miracle happen in your own life, no matter how you feel about God right now, start praying The Lord’s Prayer morning right after you wake and night right before you go to sleep.

Mt 6:9 ¶ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Mt 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Mt 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.

Mt 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors

Mt 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Do this for a week. Give it a try. Do it without expecting anything. At the end of the week, look back and see if there are any changes in your outlook on life, life around you, your circumstances, and your attitude. You may be surprised.

I have given you all sorts of helpful links in this site. If you wish, you may get in touch with me by email or landline, or mail. There are so many out there that are so much more experienced than I at guiding you. But, get a mentor as quickly as possible. Be forewarned; do not get mixed up with doctrine differences. If possible, chose a non-denominational, strictly scriptural group or church. Do not listen to all the “codes” and prophesies of doom.Do not allow such, "off the wall" tales like Jesus was married or had children divert you from scriptural truth. Once you understand the importance of your own salvation, anything that lessons Jesus or His Purpose on earth will be recognized as the lie it is. After you have matured with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, then, you may compare the lies with truth. For now, the truth is enough. God bless you.