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To: stuartcr
Today you will face the choice to eat or not to eat. Without food your body will die. Will you sit still waiting for God Himself to serve you a meal because He is the One Who Made You to need food?

Today you will face the choice to have faith or not have faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him (Hebrews 11:6). Will you sit still waiting for God to bring you faith because He is the One Who Made You to need faith?

If you work for food to fill your belly you do well (Ecc. 2:24), for "if a man will not work he shall not eat (2 Thes. 3:10)." If you work for faith you do better, for "he who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened (Matt. 7:7-8)."

Are you willing to work for food to sustain this life and not willing to work for the food of the next? You say there is a God. Not a bad place to start, but I tell you plainly, even demons know there is One God, and they shudder! They know they will have to give an account to the Judge of All. Now you also know: "And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account (Hebrews 4:13)."

In John 6 Jesus says, "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.” Then you may rightly ask Him, “What shall I do, that I may work the works God requires?” Jesus answers and says to you, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” Therefore will you say to Him, “What sign will You perform then, that I may see it and believe You? What work will You do?"

He is already at His work; now get to yours. He set this world in its place and set you on it and sustains both you and it. He made you with a stomach for food and food for your stomach. He made you a vessel for faith and faith for the vessel. Take hold of that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of you. "Work out your own faith with fear and trembling, for God is already at His work in you for His own purposes (Phil 2:12-13)," else you and I would never have had this discussion.

Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
James 4:17

I will say again what Scripture affirms, "If a man will not work, he shall not eat." This truth applies to faith as well as to food, and it is more important to faith, "For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come (1 Tim. 6:8)." There are few exceptions to this truth, and you appear to qualify for none; these exceptions are children and the disabled. God will not hold them accountable for what they are not able to perform. In fact He will more gladly perform on their behalf what He knows better than all they are unable to do...and He knows full well what thou art capable of.

The work God requires of you is that you believe on His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for your sins and arose for your justification. This is eternal life: to know Him, the Only True God, and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent (John 17:3).

34 posted on 02/14/2006 6:09:47 AM PST by .30Carbine (The Lord add His Blessing to His Word)
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To: .30Carbine

I will eat, because I have the biological need. The way God designed me.

I have the faith that is unique to me, as God designed me.


35 posted on 02/14/2006 6:24:06 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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