No Fear in the Storm

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"And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, 'The tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.'" (Revelation 21:3).

Our Lord is everywhere and yet when He wants to announce Himself to us; He sends His angels and His saints to let us know that He is among us. Our God is an amazing God and His life on earth was a witness of that and because of His love and mercy He let us become his children. Although we do not deserve to be and we are His servant, He still calls us my beloved children and He still tries to bring us back to Him.

God desire to be our God and call on His children to come back home but He will never force us to love Him unless He sees that our hearts are in need of His love and that means we have to take some steps toward Him first before He takes a million step towards us.

In the following passage God is telling us I am here and I am among you all and who ever invites Me in I will be willing to come and have supper with and be his friend, his God, and his master but I have one condition that he may give me the best of what he have no matter how precious to him and I will promise him that I will give him all what I have in My kingdom that his heart will desire.

It is so easy to be God's friend yet not everyone asks or wants because we as human been desire so many other things without becoming acquainted with our feelings and needs. We becoming eager to do everything on our own because we are full of ego and self-centeredness and if we did not achieve our desire we become angry, depressed, and life becomes with no meaning to us.

God wants to remind us that in order to be His people the first thing we have to give Him is ourself because this is the most precious thing to us and then we can invite Him in and also we have to realize that in order to do that God has to be the one who does it not us for He will take what we have and give us a new heart and that we cannot do it ourselves. That is why many people try every day to get closer to God and fail because they cannot realize that we are hopeless human been without God's help.

We need to realize that once we let ourselves go and God has the control over it, our life will never be the same. That is why many people leave home and run out to the desert because they cannot cope with life. It becomes a distraction to them, they realize that God is the only one who can save them from their becoming dust again and go to Hades.

Now the question is does everyone who loves God have to run to the monastery? Or does God want everyone to be saved?

So many people have the idea that in order to be holy you have to be priest, bishop, pope, or monk because these are the people who can endure triumph and can be stand in the face of the devils.

God does not define in His love between His children and time after time He told us through His Holy Bible that we must come to Him first no matter who we are and He will give us abundant and abundant of the heaven treasures. It is up to us to let Him know what is our desire and He will know without us speaking a word and He will come and open the gate for us and lead us in the middle of the storms, the scorpion, the wolves, the waves, the blazers, and the darkest cloud and with everything He got according to our desire and willingness to endure.

God will never force us to endure but the more desire He will see in our heart the more task we have to achieve but through this He is above us like the pillar of cloud to lead the way, around us like the ark of Noah, and in the mist of them like the tabernacle.

God will not leave His children to fight their own battle as He did with Joshua, David, Daniel, Hannah. He will be always there for His people no matter how they are because He can see their heart and desire. Do not let the devil fool you that He is your master, that you cannot escape, that this is your will because this what the devil only knows to scare, to frighten, to sheet, to distract, to play with our minds and our thoughts and to give us what we desire from earthly pleasure.

Now the question is are you aware of the presence of God in your life? Are you willing to give yourself to him? Or are you waiting to be dead and impaired for eternity?

God's love for us has been revealed and He is ready and willing to help His children anywhere and in any manner. All we need to do is to call on Him and He will fight with all His might and all the world will see that He is the God and the only God that you should desire.

"I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation" (1 Samuel 2:1).