Sermon 30: An Examined Life

You are on a clear-cut path to Heaven. A Heaven where you will have complete trust in God to provide for you, a Heaven where you never forget to treat others as God’s precious creations, and a Heaven where you treat yourself the same way. Heaven is a gift horse where you have absolutely no need to look in its mouth.

Knowing this allows you to examine your life in the correct manner necessary to make your future choices less painful ones. God rewards heavenly traits. God teaches the traits you are lacking. God’s desire is that we follow our path to Heaven, learning our lessons in the most pleasurable way possible. That is why He sends us help, like the Bible authors, like Moses, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Jr. and countless other people who, throughout the ages, have asked for, and received, His divine guidance to help many others. God has practically spoonfed us with His Will, and, yet, still we wonder.

It is time to stop wondering. God wants you to revere Him and His creations. This attitude is what makes Heaven the glorious future it is. This is the attitude to practice. Now.
So, with that in mind, examine your life and seeif it proves the theories of Solomonism. I guarantee that it does. God, not man, is in charge of things. We know this because money does not buy happiness. We know this because, while your career is succeeding, your marriage could be failing. We know this because the good die young, and get to Heaven quickly. We know this because science has not evolved to eliminate the unique and sustain successful uniformity. We know this because bad things happen even to people we think are doing everything right.

Here is an example related to everyday life and you can easily translate it into something from your own experience. Man treats jaywalking and petty theft in the same category, misdemeanor crimes. God does not. Say you’re out one day and need to cross the street. There is no traffic coming, and you cross safely even though it wasn’t at a crosswalk. You probably won’t feel an iota of misgivings about this event. On the other hand, you deliberately pick up a small trinket off a co-worker’s desk and keep it for yourself. No one saw you and the coworker hasn’t even noticed that it is missing. But, you will not be free to enjoy the trinket. There will be guilt, there will be misgivings. You have broken one of the Ten Commandments, treated someone else poorly (even though they don’t know it) and this becomes something that God needs to address with a lesson.

As soon as something goes wrong for you, you can either beat your head against the wall wondering “Why, me?” or you can do the following for immediate results. Have you thanked God enough for the amazing world He’s given us? Have you been patient, tolerant and kind when dealing with others? Have you been treating your body and mind in a balanced manner? Because pursuing any other reasons or solutions for what ails you is just taking another step in the wrong direction.



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