I Am THe Lord Your God (part 8)

But only God gives us this strength through His grace. (1 Thes 1:1) Only God, through His son Jesus, makes us whole. Only God gives us peace. I do not love peace, I want to fight every living creature in my wake that stands in my way in the name of being righteous. God tells me in His Name stop and think about what I am doing. He cries out for peace through David (Ps 133:1) How can there be peace without unity among people that call themselves Christians? As long as there are so many differences how can there be unity? I hear preachers that want unity, and it makes me wonder. Do these preachers realize that what disunites churches are not the little peripheral things, although these have indeed split up churches? No, what really splits a church are fundamental acceptances or non-acceptances of the ideals that God considers important, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, why worship on Sunday as opposed to another day. Christians think of the bible as static, as one-dimensional like a map. The Bible on the other hand is God’s Word. It is not just a map, but it is alive and living. (Heb 4:12,13) And it only becomes real and not paper when I live or my Christian neighbor lives in accordance with Jesus’ principles and God’s Spirit which is alive in His Word. God is the God Almighty. I am instructed by God through Paul not to go beyond what is written. In 1 Cor 4:6 Paul warns not to put man’s ideas above God’s. Why? Because God is the authority. There is no confusion in Him, in man there is, as I change each minute, God doesn’t. He is the Great I AM.