LIFE WAS MEANT TO BE EASY
THUS SAITH THE LORD:
“COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART: AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS. FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT.” MATH. 11/28-30.
“A SCORNER SEEKETH WISDOM, AND FINDETH IT NOT: BUT KNOWLEDGE IS EASY UNTO HIM THAT UNDERSTANDETH.” PRO. 14/6
“I AM COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.” JOHN 10/10.
For Loving Father`s elect, Life is meant to be easy:
“THEREFORE I SAY
UNTO YOU, TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE,
WHAT YE SHALL EAT, OR WHAT YE SHALL DRINK; NOR YET FOR YOUR BODY, WHAT YE
SHALL PUT ON. IS NOT THE LIFE MORE THAN MEAT, AND THE BODY THAN RAIMENT? BEHOLD
THE FOWLS OF THE AIR: FOR THEY SOW NOT, NEITHER DO THEY REAP, NOR GATHER INTO
BARNS; YET YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER FEEDETH THEM. ARE YE NOT MUCH BETTER THAN THEY?
WHICH OF YOU BY TAKING THOUGHT CAN ADD ONE CUBIT UNTO HIS STATURE? AND WHY TAKE
YE THOUGHT FOR RAIMENT? CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD, HOW THEY GROW; THEY
TOIL NOT, NEITHER DO THEY SPIN: AND YET I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT EVEN SOLOMON IN
ALL HIS GLORY WAS NOT ARRAYED LIKE ONE OF THESE. WHEREFORE, IF GOD SO CLOTHE
THE GRASS OF THE FIELD, WHICH TO-DAY IS, AND TO-MORROW IS CAST INTO THE OVEN,
SHALL HE NOT MUCH MORE CLOTHE YOU, O YE OF LITTLE FAITH? THEREFORE TAKE NO THOUGHT, SAYING, WHAT SHALL WE EAT? OR, WHAT SHALL WE
DRINK? OR, WHEREWITHAL SHALL WE BE CLOTHED? (For after all these things do
the Gentiles seek:) FOR YOUR HEAVENLY
FATHER KNOWETH THAT YE HAVE NEED OF ALL THESE THINGS. BUT SEEK YE FIRST
THE
“CHARGE THEM THAT ARE RICH IN THIS WORLD, THAT THEY BE NOT HIGHMINDED; NOR TRUST IN UNCERTAIN RICHES, BUT IN THE LIVING GOD, WHO GIVETH US RICHLY ALL THINGS TO ENJOY:” 1 TIM. 6/17.
“BUT MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL YOUR NEED ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS.” PHIL. 4/19.
“BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL: AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME, BLESS HIS HOLY NAME. BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL, AND FORGET NOT ALL HIS BENEFITS: WHO FORGIVETH ALL THINE INIQUITIES; WHO HEALETH ALL THY DISEASES: WHO REDEEMETH THY LIFE FROM DESTRUCTION; WHO CROWNETH THEE WITH LOVINGKINDNESS AND TENDER MERCIES; WHO SATISFIETH THY MOUTH WITH GOOD THINGS; SO THAT THY YOUTH IS RENEWED LIKE THE EAGLE`S. PS. 103/1-5.
“BELOVED, I WISH ABOVE ALL THINGS THAT THOU MAYEST PROSPER AND BE IN HEALTH, EVEN AS THY SOUL PROSPERETH.” 2 JOHN 2.
“FOR WE BROUGHT
NOTHING INTO THIS WORLD, AND IT IS CERTAIN WE CAN CARRY NOTHING OUT. AND HAVING
FOOD AND RAIMENT LET US BE THEREWITH
CONTENT.” 1 TIM. 6/7-8.
“FOR THE LORD
GOD IS A SUN AND SHIELD: THE LORD WILL GIVE GRACE AND GLORY: NO GOOD THING WILL HE WITHHOLD FROM THEM
THAT WALK UPRIGHTLY.” PS 84/11.
“FEAR NOT, LITTLE FLOCK; FOR IT IS YOUR FATHER`S GOOD
PLEASURE TO GIVE YOU THE KINGDOM.” LUKE12/32.
“BE CAREFUL FOR NOTHING, BUT IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER
AND SUPPLICATION WITH THANKSGIVING LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN UNTO GOD.
AND THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING, SHALL KEEP YOUR HEARTS
AND MINDS THROUGH CHRIST JESUS.” GAL. 4/6-7.
Like is meant to be easy for Loving Father`s children, as long as we remain obedient to His commandments, walking by faith, having entered His rest, doing “faith works,” His works, His will, not ours, not chasing things, just like the unbelievers of this world, working by the sweat of our brow, under the curse, planning, trying to work out their lives, as long as we “seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness;” There should be no evidence of worry, (fear doubt, mistrust, unbelief,) in a true believers life, only child like trust, dependence and faith and obedience: There should be no worry about food, money, clothes, refuge, health, bills, life etc. True believers live and walk in the Shadow of the Almighty where all need is met by Him, subject to His perfect will for our lives as individuals: (it could be His perfect will for you to be a beggar in this life, Luke 16/19-31, or be delivered up before councils, governments, scourged etc., FOR A WITNESS AGAINST THEM: MATH. 10/17-18:)
So,….. if you are “sowing to the Spirit and not the flesh,” Gal. 6/8,
If you believe “you live in the Spirit, walking in the Spirit,” Gal. 6/25,
If you “walk in the Spirit so you don`t fulfill the lusts of the flesh,” Gal. 5/16,
If you believe
“your life is hid with Christ in God,”
If you are
“mortifying the deeds of the body by the Spirit,” Ro. 8/13,
If you are “denying self daily,” Math. 16/24, Mk. 8/34, Luke 9/23,
If you “love not the things of this world,” 1 John 2/15-16,
If you “groan within yourself waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body,” Ro. 8/23,
If you “yield your members as instruments of righteousness,” Ro. 6/13,
If you believe “the body is dead because of sin,” Ro. 8/10,
If you believe “you have been baptized into His death,” Ro. 6/3,4,
If you believe “the old man is crucified with Him,” Ro. 6/6,
If you “love not your own life unto death,” Rev. 12/11,
If you “abide in His love, abide in the vine,” John 15/4,9,
IF YOU BELIEVE “WE ARE KEPT BY HIS POWER THROUGH
FAITH:” 1 PET. 1/5.
Apart from persecution, tribulation, temptations and fiery trials,……..(all of which we are told to,……… “rejoice and be exceeding glad,” “think it not strange,” “ be exceeding joyful,” “count it all joy,” Math. 5/11-12,…..1 Pet. 4/12-14,……2 Cor. 7/4,……Ja 1/2,)………………FOR THE TRUE BELIEVER,……
LIFE IS MEANT TO BE EASY:
“BE GLAD IN THE LORD, AND REJOICE, YE RIGHTEOUS: AND
SHOUT FOR JOY ALL YE THAT ARE UPRIGHT IN HEART.” PS. 32/11.
“NOW THANKS BE UNTO GOD, WHICH ALWAYS CAUSETH US TO
TRIUMPH IN CHRIST, AND MAKETH MANIFEST THE SAVOUR OF HIS KNOWLEDGE BY US IN
EVERY PLACE.” 2 COR. 2/14.
Bevan Kluver,
Straight Talk Ministries,
Ph/Fax 07 55452874,
Website www.straighttalkmin.org bevan.kluver@bigpond.com
“speaking the truth in love, in the spirit of meekness, earnestly contending for the faith;”
HELPING HIM PREPARE A BRIDE WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE:
HATING EVEN THE GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH:
THUS SAITH THE LORD:
THE
“FOR ONE IS YOUR MASTER, EVEN CHRIST; AND ALL YE ARE
BRETHREN.” MATH. 23/8.
THE
THE END DOESN`T JUSTIFY THE MEANS:
“NO MAN THAT WARRETH ENTANGLETH HIMSELF WITH THE
AFFAIRS, (PRAGMATEIA, TO TRANSACT BUSINESS. AN
AFFAIR, BUSINESS, NEGOTIATION,) OF THIS
LIFE; THAT HE MAY PLEASE HIM WHO HATH CHOSEN HIM TO BE A SOLDIER. AND IF A MAN
ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES, YET IS HE NOT CROWNED EXCEPT HE STRIVE LAWFULLY.”
2 TIM. 2/4-5.
THE END DOESN`T JUSTIFY THE MEANS: