GOD'S MERCY Who is it extended to? LBGT's ?

GOD'S MERCY Who is it extended to? LBGT's ?

 Part I.

If God's Mercy were carte blanche Justice would have no effect, thus it is extended to all those who will take upon them the name of Jesus Christ in their actions. Thus the Lord will justify many who keep his old and new and everlasting covenant.

Ref:
Isaiah 56:4-5
Isaiah 57:3-14

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Part II.

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GO AWAY JESUS, YOUR JUST TOO CLOSE

GO AWAY JESUS, YOUR JUST TOO CLOSE

This morning as I was waking up contemplating some of the experiences of my own life over the long term and of late, I was struck with a thought that made my heart leap that one could call the ‘trickle down economics of love’ in the heart of a domestic crisis.

How many of us leave home mad at someone in our family? How many of us have been offended by a close friend and chose to simply break off the connection rather than deal with it employing the tools of forgiveness, mercy, and love?

How much easier is it to deal with people that live farther away who are also trying to employ what we call ‘unconditional love’? It’s a lofty term without any real roots. How realistic is it to say that you love Jesus and treat everyone outside the 100 mile boundary of your proximity with ‘unconditional love’, but as for those family members who have treated you ill and friends that have offended you, they can kiss your sweet behind?

In summarizing, how can you claim to love Jesus and hate your closest family or friend? Would Jesus love you and never say anything when it comes to you abusing money, sex, or substances without moderation? Jesus Christ had plenty to say about domestic abuse to yourself, to your family, and to your friends. How can you place higher in your circle of value foreigners than those friends and family who love you enough to say something?

Truth be told, the foreigner if he came into close proximity to you from his foreign position really doesn’t care about you, and would use you as an object of not very much affection, especially if he knows nothing of what your reality truly is.

The profound thought occurred that it truly is our families and friends in close proximity who provide us the greatest opportunities to improve, employ, and utilize all of the characteristics of forgiveness, mercy, and love which is what Jesus Christ taught. They in a sense are knocking at our door and are challenges we must open up for in order to use what Jesus has taught.

You can almost count on the fact that the challenges in your life won’t arise from some disturbed friend offending you on facebook 3,000 miles away. They do not see the crazy things you do at home. Oh, what do you mean? Well, like abusing substances to the point where your bodily functions are either malfunctioning or refusing to function or employing a silent sex trade with anyone that knocks on your door, or simply living in a pig sty. I always like to point here with a wink; Jesus lived in a “Garden” not a pig sty. (smile)

To your social media friends who you receive and give this ‘unconditional love’ from and to respectively, there is no concern for you in these matters. My heavens, you could drop over dead the next day or two and they’d protest and feign their sadness and move on to someone else who post pretty pictures, but your family and friends in close proximity would be attending your funeral and burying you. That’s real.

Recently a friend of mine, here in America, was bragging a little to me that most of (his/her) friends on social media were foreign in such a way that I got the distinct feeling (she/he) didn’t like Americans because of the way they acted or thought and much preferred foreigners. Well, my heart got a little sorrowful ache to it as I thought about the treatment to this person by those in close proximity, perhaps by family, perhaps close proximity friends, that had given them the idea that foreign friends were ideal and domestic friends were out to lunch. Indeed, maybe both perspectives could use some help.

Maybe the ones offended could try and employ a greater understanding that was said or done came from a loving foundation meant to stabilize. Maybe those dishing out the constructive criticism could temper or flower it a little so it wasn’t so harsh? In both circumstances, the words “I’m sorry” can be skillfully and truthfully employed as strength without embarrassment or a sign of weakness.

The inner or domestic circle was the uncomfortable one, and the outer or foreign circle was much more comfy. I thought about my own challenges with the exact same thing. It wasn’t that it was difficult to employ what Jesus Christ taught; it’s that you were called upon to employ it so often. (smile)

So it kind of dawned on me as something to recognize as I recall the picture of Jesus Christ knocking on your door with no door knob on the outside. We must invite him in and employ his teachings to those who are actually at our door; for what kind of reward do we have to get along with someone half way round the world we are holding in high esteem the value of their “unconditional love for us” while we spite, and under employ love to those in close proximity?

Jesus taught that we should pray for our enemies and love those who despitefully mistreat us so that our example would wreck their unhappy world. So that through our example our own domestic arena could be purified as we cleaned the inner vessel (inside) first and then tended to the outer vessel (outside) of our world.

Jesus certainly was experienced with strife within his own family, and his own friends teaching Mark 6:4; Luke 4:24; John 4:44 [Jesus himself testified] a prophet is not without honor save in his own country. How many many examples are there in scripture that tell a story of family strife and discord? So it is we must exert and exercise the muscles of ‘forgiveness’, ‘mercy’, and ‘love’ with those who are closest to us, as if we were facing the stair master, weight bar, or a distance to run, with no energy, slumped down looking at it as if it was a dragon to slay with our choice to either get on, or go home and forget about working out.

It seems that those who actually get on the exercise machine, grab hold of the bar, or finally just leap forward in taking that first stride of a 5K are the ones who return from their work out with a smile on their face. How much bigger of a smile will you have when you have employed that determination with those whom are closest to you that may have offended you in some way in what was a prod of love, or an encouragement they failed to understand was coming across as a ‘judgmental accusation’?

Of course we all make judgments we have to and that is not bad. Without them we might not ever feed ourselves. When we ‘judge righteously’ employing love in the greatest degree we can possibly think of our example is left behind as a teaspoon of sugar and that certainly helps the medicine go down. ‘Sparing the rod and spoiling the child’ certainly has applications of avoiding ‘domestic abuse’ if we consider our communications of love to be corrections that don’t necessarily sit well with us and judgment of others as an action. What we often forget is that corrections can be made, understood, and thus employed much better as we sprinkle it with ‘mercy’ of which we all need a big dose of.

Truly this has enormous implications world wide as we ask the question: How can we tend to foreign affairs and let our own domestic affairs crumble? The United States is not built by Governments it’s built by individuals. The world is not run by Governments but by individuals and it is right at Home that you can find the single best place to really improve the whole world.

God Bless you Americans to employ forgiveness, mercy, and love, so that you can bless the whole world!

Sincerely,
Cody Robert Judy
www.codyjudy.us
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Little God Moments In Your Life- You can be the Angel God has Sent

Little God Moments In Your Life- You can be the Angel God has Sent.

One of the best things in life is showing up at just the right time for someone. Finding yourself prompted to move at just the right time. I find so much joy in this, as I’ve seen people show up at just the right time in my life and in turn done the same for others. My Mom always reminded us as kids, “God is the source and people his channels”.

It happens in the most innocent of ways and sometimes from the most unusual circumstances. Yesterday I woke up with a dream of my running on a pretty flat road or track; it dipped down a little in some places. I was thinking in my dream how nice it was to be able to take off in a sprint and really feel like you were flying through the gears as you reached a maximum speed.

I was having a hard time with that and couldn’t do it like I’d been able to so easily when I was younger and I kind of made a little dream-goal if you will to work on that in my dream. So yesterday I find myself resting a bit more then normal and eating Mac n Cheese for lunch. That’s a little unusual for me on the carbohydrate level.

My ex picked up our child in the hand-off and I thought you know I should go on a good run. I had looked at my dream through all the prisms of symbolism in the big general picture throughout the day, but I hadn’t actually gone out and hit the pavement for a couple of weeks. I think my last run was 4 miles a few weeks ago.

Determined to go out I got dressed in my jogging gear and decide to go by this house I’d seen on a real estate add as a fixer upper project I was entertaining. It took me on a different course than was my normal running course. I did my first full marathon run last year around July but after it was done and checked off the bucket list I had kind of waned a bit in training. The point is I did have some normal training runs that I was abandoning for reasons I didn’t understand fully.

I ran by and checked the house out a little and then continued on my way having for the first time a little reflection on my dream in which I saw “the track was a little flat”. Indeed it was I thought as the ups and down associated in my normal training course were not present in this run which was relatively flat.

I started thinking as I was running about where I should go or which track I should make and thought about the few times I’d missed seeing my ex at her house and the request of my son to stop by and see his bedroom. We have a very nice and amicable relationship now and my appearing wouldn’t be troubling.

I thought if I ran to my ex’s house that’s a little over seven miles away and back that would be a half marathon on the check list. No medal, but I lose 4,000 calories and it wouldn’t cost me $80 dollars like a marathon race would. I thought about the rock my son had recently given me at his pre-school graduation that said, “My Dad Rocks” and thought that’s the best medal I could ever have hope to have.

Haven’t run that long for awhile so I knew it would challenge me. I had done that route one other time about 2 years ago and had showed up to knock on the door only to find no one home. As I ran I thought that would be funny to see that happen again as I rounded the last block and saw her in the yard.

She was bent over in a hole at least an arm deep in the grass surrounded in mud with my son looking on. The expression on kids faces is so funny as you watch them looking and watching their parents do something they have no idea about. It’s like, what the heck is she doing digging holes? I don’t know but it looks pretty cool maybe I should have a go at this?

The root of the problem was a main line leak in the sprinkler system. Nothing she couldn’t handle but I teased her as I grabbed the shovel and said, “I don’t want to take the dream away you had of playing in the mud while replacing a main-line leak in your sprinkler system, but if you want I can help you?” She laughed and said “I appreciated that, and you’re right it wasn’t my dream”. I teased and said that my hands didn’t have a $25 dollar paint job on them.

Anyway, I reflected on pulling up from my jog at just the right time to help out. Lots of different routes to choose from but only one track had been run. You may have had the same type of experience. I know I sure have.

Real quickly one time I found myself spinning in circles on the freeway and flying off an embankment landing my front end in about 4 foot of cold icy water in a snowstorm in the dead of night. I had no sooner got out of the car in waste deep water when a guy had stopped to see if he could help. I had a rope I fumbled for in the pitch black darkness, and actually had to go under the water to attach it to the rear axle of my car. He pulled me out on the side of the freeway; I’d unhooked the rope, said thanks and watched him drive off and I don’t think even 15 minutes had passed.

Thank God he’d stopped. It had all but almost seemed practiced or orchestrated I thought. That couldn’t have gone off any better if a scene for a movie was being performed and we all knew what to do, but it hadn’t been practiced at all. It was impromptu.

Before I could put my blinker on a cop pulled up behind me and put his lights on with no idea what had happened. He did notice I was drenched in the driver’s seat and while it wasn’t alcohol he smelt things must have smelled a little swampy.

He cussed me out for driving too fast for the weather condition and I just sat there thinking to myself this it’s kind of funny to be cussed out for driving 35 mph on a freeway. I agreed with him and was cleared to go and thanked him for my lecture which although hard I did notice the truth of. I thought about the man who had stopped and saved me from a $500 towing bill and maybe a ticket or a fine for littering the highway if the cop had got there 5 minutes earlier.

I was so grateful. While these are dramatic, there are thousands of times I’ve recognized I was at the right place at the right time, and others were to. Gratefulness to the people showing up at just the right time is certainly one way to look at it with appreciation and gratitude. Realizing the Spirit of God that influences people in directions to help you at just the right time is another reason to get down on your knees every night and thank the Lord for all your many blessings.

If you can’t imagine my receiving that kind of help from that man pulling over and pulling my vehicle out of the icy mud, snow and water in the black of night without my thanking him, you also will understand there was a Spirit which influenced him to make that choice at that exact flashing second of time in the hellish circumstances. I’m sure he could have been on his way to wherever he was going with a lot less trouble than stopping.

My gratitude would be sorely and painfully missed without a full recognition of that appreciation and recognition to God in a prayer of gratitude for the Spirit which called to that man to be my angel and stop.

I find a great deal of treasure in joy and happiness lending a hand where I can and when you find yourself in those circumstances where God has chosen you to help someone isn’t it amazing?! It doesn’t really matter how rich you are, or how big of house you live in, what position you have in the world ladder, or how pretty or talented you are God can choose you to be an instrument in his hands to help someone where ever you are.

Being an instrument or angel in God’s hands will bring you great happiness and joy in this life. When you stop what you’re doing, and give your life or time to someone, a great joy comes to you. That joy is God’s love to you in his employment as an angel of mercy.

Keep your eyes open and trust in that spirit which teaches truth or prompts you to do good works in perilous times and amazing joy and happiness can come to you wherever you are. There are many of God’s children needing a hand and you can be the angel that God has sent. I know God is always on time and shows up in the time of need. No doubt about it God has real angels that fly and are not of this world, but what is equally astounding is the great joy that we can have in his employment here on Earth simply recognizing the prompting of the Spirit or Angels of God unseen; being an angel is just as nice as receiving one.

In John 14:16 Jesus says in verse 14, “ And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; v17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. V18 I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.”

John 15:10 “As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. Vs10 If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. Vs11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. Vs.12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.”

Sincerely,
Cody Robert Judy
P.S. Happy Birthday yesterday Mom.