What Commitments Are Required for a Promising Future?

God’s kindness and mercy permit us to make significant changes in our lifestyle to help us escape negative entrapments. Assessing the past helps us address what needs to change to create peace within ourselves and with others. What do you need to change to be more acceptable to others and the Lord Jesus Christ?

This is designed not to question your personal salvation, but character flaws that create trouble and heartache in relationships with God and others. The Prodigal Son was too self-centered and immature to realize he was headed for troubles. He imagined himself to be above reality.

Fortunately, this wayward son was able to conceptualize a new way of living that motivated him to walk away from the hog pen and the attitude that had created his downfall. So wherever you are, why not permit God to give you a clear vision for a future filled with his purpose to which you can commit for the rest of your life?  

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 I ask that your minds be opened to see his light, so that you will know the hope to which he has called you, how rich are the wonderful blessings he promises his people, and how very great is his power at work in us who believe.  

~Ephesians 1:18-19 Good News Bible

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Relationships: Build Them Up or Tear Them Down

A marriage relationship is one of God's most precious gifts designed to provide love and affection, sexual fulfillment, a sense of commitment and belonging as well as an opportunity to explore the deeper complexities of our humanity. Our passions play an interesting role in either establishing and maintaining a relationship or causing the disintegration and unraveling of the very fiber that holds it together.

We observe this pattern in Samson’s life when he found a young woman to marry. His parents arranged their marriage, but his impulsivity and bent for mischievousness created a fiasco that doomed the marriage before it began.

Samson's personality lent itself to blaming others for his failures. He justified his enraged behavior by believing others were responsible for his pain and suffering. Sampson's passion prevented him from seeking the Lord God for wisdom and guidance. No matter how desperate your situation appears, nothing is impossible for God Almighty nor beyond his willingness to help.  

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The Lord hates people who do evil, but he takes righteous people into his confidence.

The Lord puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but he blesses the homes of the righteous.

~Proverbs 3:32-33 Good News Bible