MY FRIENDS, ITS ALL IN THE CLOUD SO IT MUST BE OK IN GOD’S SIGHT?

Aug. 16, 2016

MY FRIENDS, ITS ALL IN THE CLOUD SO IT MUST BE OK IN GOD’S SIGHT?

I was talking to someone yesterday about my devotional two days ago, Aug. 14, 2016. The title was; can we distinguish between the black, white and grey areas of our lives. I spoke of our socially acceptable sins which are those hidden sins beneath the surface that we are not ready to accept or not willing to accept they are sins and one of them were the illegal pirating of movies and other Prime time videos.

There response was it’s all in the cloud. To most of us this cloud is an unknown or a figure of space and time unless you worked in Silicon Valley where the high-tech establishment resides. But my friends, it’s bigger then the cloud. We must understand it is not flesh and blood that has allowed that cloud to establish those grey areas within our lives that tells us it’s OK because everyone is doing it. “But it is principalities, and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this age….” Eph. 6:12 (NKJV)

And it is these forces that have allowed every situation and circumstances of our lives to become blurred. But we must remember there is a continuous movement in our lives, and that movement are two forces, both operating simultaneously with each other, but both moving in opposite directions with different agendas and different outcomes.

One force representing everything changeable, unpredictable, and whats distressing in our lives where all hope will be lost one day in a state of final spiritual ruin. The other force, a much more powerful one representing the sure movement of God’s wise and sovereign purposes forever transcending a deep flow of His unchanging love within us, along with the power of his Spirit transforming our lives.

And that same Spirit is also preparing our character to live in that place “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which He hath prepared for [each of us] that love him.” 1 Cor. 2:9 (KJV) My friends, the cloud must become personal to each of God’s children because it represents that thin line between destruction and life eternal.

In addition, that is why we must maintain an attitude of passion, passion and more passion that keeps us on our knees seeking God’s Spirit to guide us in all truth and understanding. We are now at the threshold of the promise land, changeable and unpredictable cannot be an option. James tells us “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” James 1:17 (ESV)

My friends, the “physical sources of light vary in intensity from sunrise to sunset and from season to season.” The grass withers, the flowers fades. Of old [God] laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of [His] hands. They will perish, but [God] will remain; they will all wear out like a garment, God will [even]change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but [Jehovah remains] the same. [His] years have no end, [and His word stands forever]” Is. 40:8 (ESV) Psalm 102:25-27(ESV)

“His word stands forever,” and will never change. As Paul went before the emperor Nero he tells us “no man stood with me, but all men forsook me” “The greatest want of the world is the want of men [and women] who will not be bought or sold, who in their inmost souls are true and honest, who do not fear to call sin by its right name [even if it is in the cloud, because God’s word never changes]” (E.G. White, Education p 57)