"The Walk In The Park"

Before I go any further, I felt I needed to straighten out what this "walk in the park" is all about; because, although things may appear to be getting heated, as in God's anger and such, it's really about a Father and son relationship at it's purest form. Quite honestly, I never had the chance to have a "walk in the park" experience with my earthly father, so maybe I am confused on the whole concept all together; but this whole idea of speaking openly and freely with God is based upon His desire for us to be conformed into His image and our desire to be conformed; and it's all about listening to His instruction! Those horrible sounding verses that end in exile and destruction are only warnings from a loving Father's heart, as odd as some of that might appear as so, they describe the workings of sin, and what results from a life that embraces evil over good. For example, the verses I ended with yesterday from Jeremiah 17:1-4, there is mention of God's anger, as in, "for thou hast kindled a fire in Mine anger, which shall burn for ever", which speaks more of sorrow then of the anger associated with madness; because God is love, yet when He is angry, His anger is a righteous anger that is against sin and all that results from the wake of sinful living; especially in the lives of His children!!! And why do you think that is the case? As if God should hold us to a higher standard than He does to the ones that are not His children; after all, aren't we all just the same broken vessels? Yes He does; and no, we are not the same! We are a child of THE KING; we are a chosen people that are just as sons and daughters of any king would be: Royalty; given an inheritance of status, power and riches beyond anything we could have ever afforded or purchased on our own, and far beyond our wildest imaginations! And yes, God does get angry; His anger is just and righteously towards the destruction which is cause by sin; our sins that we so selfishly hold onto, and which cause us to neglect the high calling upon our lives; suffering countless souls to be eternally lost by our neglect, and the fire which has been kindled will surely burn for ever! Now do you see? He is instructing us in things that are far reaching and involve a legacy of honor and praise; praise that is based upon "Confession and Forgiveness"; all of which is reasoned out between Him and us, as we consider our great need of forgiveness, and His great desire to forgive us..."Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be a tree planted by the waters, and that speadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when her heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:5-9)