"Our Relationship"

"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my Redeemer." (Psalms 19:14) This is not about religion, or about keeping a law that was etched into stone; but about a heart that yearns to be united with the God that created us, and to do all that we can to be pleasing in His sight. He has given us the principles of what He expects of us, now we must seek to adhere to those basic principles. And the amazing thing is, that He knows our frame and our real intentions; for those that truly seek to adhere to those basic principles, He gives assistance and power to be over comers; and to those that are only fooling themselves with lip-service and half-hearted intentions, He allows to continue until that time when they will truly surrender; hopefully they will before that day when they no longer have a chance to. This relationship that we have with our God is about us responding to His amazing and unconditional love for our eternal souls; the soul that was created by His very breath, and has been given eternal existence by His Spirit. Whether you like it or not, you have have an eternal soul; we just are so attached to this world and all of it's amazing tangible goodness, that we cannot detect that which is hidden within us; but it's there, sometimes groaning, sometimes rejoicing, but always longing to make the connection with the One who breathed it into existence. What Jesus did on that cross, was to give us the blessed assurance of making that connection; not based upon our ability to keep those basic principles, but based upon His obedience in fulfilling them, and then taking our place in paying the price for our inabilities. Therefore; we have been given something that we could not only never have paid for on our own, but we have been given something that we never deserved from the first place! It is in that frame of mind and heart that we must come to God; always! The word "Strength" that David is speaking about is a place of refuge and protection, and is consisting of three basic components; with one being that of beauty, one being that of a rock, and the other being that of an edge of a sword; all of which make our abiding in Him all that we need to be satisfied and content. It's all about relationship; making Him the Master of our soul, and then walking in the blessed assurance that He will bring us through and into His eternal kingdom. With that, we have the basic principle of our eternal existence with Him: FORGIVENESS... "And He said to His disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; and to beg I am ashamed. I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." (Luke 16:1-13)