***giving you the desire to obey him ***
do you have this desire?
***just a s a surgeon whould not use a dirty instrument***
or a peron would not use a filthy drinking glass
***God looks at intentions. "Man looks on the outward appearance, bu God looks on the heart." So yes, intentions are very important in your relatioship with God***
So are your intentions good this very minute? Are you in the source of intentions or are you drawing near to the provider of intentions? Can you be spirtually reborn if you just change your intentions to what the "One" wants from us? Should I just make some utternace to change on a set of beads or perhaps maybe I will get it right on the next life? Who is correct?
\***do you have this desire? ***
Yes - and even more so when I do those things listed out in my last post.
***or a peron would not use a filthy drinking glass***
Exactly.
***So are your intentions good this very minute?***
I would say that our intentions are never entirely good. We are sinners and are often motivated by selfishness and pride - though we fail to see it. Jeremiah said: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" - Jeremiah 17:9
***Are you in the source of intentions or are you drawing near to the provider of intentions?***
This is not about God rewarding me for being good - it is about Him making me good.
***Can you be spirtually reborn if you just change your intentions to what the "One" wants from us?****
No, not entirely, but that is an important part. To "change your intentions to what the "One" wants from us" we must first know what He wants from us. That we discover by reading the Bible (primarily the New Testament to begin with).
To read what Jesus requires of us in the New Testament and to respond in our hearts with a "Yes" - and to follow that "Yes" up with a desire to obey is the first step.
But an honest person will have a hard time saying yes because they know themselves and know that they are incapable of truly following all that Christ taught. But that is where faith comes in.
Jesus in the New Testament is often asking people to do impossible things. He asked Peter to walk on the sea. He asked the disciples to feed a multitude with a few loaves, He asks lame people to rise and walk amd asks people to go and sin no more.
That is because Jesus has the power to enable us to do that which we can't possibly do without him. If we respond to his teachings (as set out in the New Testament) with a "Yes" and with the faith that, thought we know we can't live up to them, he can empower us to do so - he will do so. That "power" he gives in the Holy Spirit. He give the Holy Spirit to those who are willing to obey him from the heart.
Not only does he provide the power of the Holy Spirit to live a life pleasing to God, he also provides the means whereby we are forgiven for the times we fail and for forgiveness for the whole sinful life lived apart for God before we came to Christ. Jesus shed his blood that we might be forgiven for all the filthy, vile, selfish and prideful things we have done in out lives.
Guilt can destroy your life. It can rob you of the desire to know God or do what it right. Jesus death, when we accept it as his death in our behalf, destroys the power of the guilt we all have for the things we have done. We can know that our sins have been forgiven 100% because Jesus died to pay for them. This forgiveness is a free gift. Again, it is accepted by faith.
As Paul says in Rom 4:
"He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised from the dead to make us right with God."
***Should I just make some utternace to change on a set of beads or perhaps maybe I will get it right on the next life? ***
The best idea is to talk to God in private. Speak from your heart to Him and tell Him what you want Him to do for you and be to you. If there are sins that weigh heavily on your heart, confess them to Him and tell Him you accept the forgiveness He offers by virtue of Christ's death in you behalf.
He wants to be a Father to you. You may or may not have had a good father, but God wants the be to you like a dear and loving father. In the end, He has provided all this because He love you and wants you to have a close relationship with Him.