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I Will versus God's Will

        The Fall of Satan (I Will)                                               The Ascension of Jesus Christ (God's Will)


Anything short of God's Will is my will. My will is the same as Satan's Will and thus is rebellion to God. That in nutshell is the message we all need to hear. Any good idea that is not from God is not a good idea. Too often as Christians we think our will and God's is the same. But if we look to Scripture we shall see that is not true. "The hear is wicked above all else." (Jeremiah 17:9). In the Garden of Eden, Satan tempted Adam and Eve with the same thing he did, that was "I Will..." (Isaiah 14:12-15). He told the First Man and Woman that if they tasted of the Forbidden Fruit they would be like God. He was right, they learned the Knowledge of Good and Evil. But what Satan left out was the cost package or consequences. As a result of mankind's mutiny and desire to replace God, we get death. Sure we can precieve right and wrong and even crudely choose between good and evil, but the cost is that we shall perish. Now God had an answer, his ultimate Grace who was Jesus Christ. Jesus came and died on the cross so that the curse could be reversed and we could be in communion with God once again and be free from eternal death.

To put it more simply, in Eden we choose to be God and got death. In Jesus we believe He is God and have eternal life.

We can either partake of the covenant with Satan made in Eden with the Forbidden Fruit and continue to seek and do our will; and thus try to be play God and invitably die. Or we can choose the alternative and let God be God and trust in His Will and surrender our own will and live forever through faith in Christ.

Think about it like this, we can daily take a bite of that Forbbiden Fruit and do our Will but die spiriutally, physically, and eventually die a second time in hell. Or we can take a bite of God's Body, which is the Bread of Life and drink His Blood which is the Wine and live spiriutally, physically, and again in Heaven and the New Earth!

The choice is simple, the excution not so much. Our self will is strong and the seditious seeds in our heart from Adam take plowing up with the Presence of God. We must surrender, we must "die daily," and let Jesus Christ become our only focus. It is time to actually live the Our Father Prayer and "let his kingdom come and His Will be done on earth as it is in heaven." (Matthew 6:10). Jesus even said in Gethesanme, "Not my will, but Your Will be Done Father." (Luke 22:42). The battle of wills is at hand and each of us must decide which we will follow. For many it will be duo-alligance, but in time one Will will triumph over the other (Matthew 6). In the end you can only "serve one of two masters,  You can serve God or Mammon (The System of Money and Man)." (Matthew 6:24). Now following God's Will is not going to be easy. Look at Abraham and the Apostles, they had to defy the reasoning and counsel of their times. It takes courage to follow Christ. But the Lord will never lead you wrong. You may not get what you want, but it will be better than what you could have ever chosen. (Isaiah 55:9).

So who's Will will you serve? Yours/Satan's, which is in defiance to God and is the path to death or will it be God's/Jesus' Will which will bring you into harmony with Him and give you life abundantly.

Blog Post by Jeffrey Gassler, 09/24/2014, 3:51pm

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