“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.” John 14:1.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Why would you want to control your thoughts, words, and actions? What would be your reason and motivation for doing so? It is a narrow road to curb your imaginations and your tongue. It is a narrow road not to vent on people, complain, panic, express fear, share evil things you hear, and let your mind and tongue go wild. Why not just express your emotions every moment?
There is only one reason that makes it a joy to do this and that gives you eternal reward: It is knowing Me and in knowing Me you then know who you are and what you have in Me and where you are going.
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2.
It is to lay hold even now of the joy that lays before you. Your hope does not rest on this life only but on a Kingdom that cannot be shaken where love is King and righteousness, peace, and joy are the atmosphere that you can begin to experience even now if you “do not let your heart be troubled” with worldly ways, vacillating emotions, and the deceitfulness of temporal things.
The one who desires life, to love and see good days, must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. He must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, and His ears attend to their prayer, but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil. Psalm 34:12-14; 1 Peter 3:10-12.
If you do not believe in Me and that I reward those who seek Me, what would be the point of anything? If you are limited to this life as you experience it in the world as it is now, what reason would you have to control your lusts and emotions? And you see this in the ungodly that do not know Me or turn their hearts to Me. Adam’s life became a life of toil and heartache but in his pride he never returned to Me for fellowship.
Many feel they are wandering in the dark today, but that is not the case. Since the beginning I have been with you and I have never left you or forsaken you and I will never do so if you want to be with Me, for I want you with Me to enjoy all the good I have planned for you here and forever. I want to daily load you with benefits. You are headed home from the moment you are born to the day you depart from this world as it is now.
I want you to know the joy of a life controlled, fueled and driven by love. There is great joy and peace in abiding in Me by remaining in, keeping, and cherishing My Word and letting it set the boundaries for your life. Great peace (double shalom) have those who have set their minds on Me, their everlasting rock. I will keep you on the righteous path of the Highway of Holiness, the only way to soar with eagle’s wings, if you will follow My Word as the light to your path and the lamp for your feet.
Faith in My Word is the passageway open to you even now to Heaven and it is a narrow way. I have it open to you through the open door of Jesus but the window of opportunity is now and once I shut that door, as I did the door on the ark of Noah, no one else can enter when the wrath falls on those who have destroyed My earth and My people.
And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” Revelation 11:18
The passageways of death and life are before you and the path you reach out to and choose is in the hand of your tongue.
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.” Matthew 7:13-14.
If you live destroying yourself and others you will reap destruction. It all starts with thoughts, then words, and your actions follow.
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. Galatians 6:8.
Why look elsewhere when you have everything forever in Me? When you know you have the best you are at rest—spirit, soul, and body.
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24.
The only way to know Me since Adam separated himself and all his descendants from Me is by faith. And faith in a person only comes by an intimate knowledge of that person and by developing trust in their words by their actions in your life. Faith in an object or law comes by understanding how it works and experiencing that it works the same way every time you use it correctly for its proper purpose.
But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. James 1:25.
My Word is the perfect law of liberty because it sets you free from all fear, doubt, and the encumbrances of sin.
So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You will become free’?” Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever. So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:31-36.
And there is a good reason to monitor your thoughts, words, and actions and thus keep yourself free from sin for sin enslaves you but My Word frees you and gives you a place in My house forever. Sin leads on a downward spiral, a passageway to darkness, isolation, and death. But obedience to My Word leads you on an upward passage of ascent to the Light, fellowship, and life eternal.
O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret place of the steep pathway, let Me see your face, let Me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. Song of Songs 2:14.
Many people today, with the increase in evil in the world, though I told you on this beforehand, are losing heart. You must not allow that in you.
Therefore do not lose heart, though your outer man is decaying due to the law of sin and death, your inner man is being renewed day by day by the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. For momentary, light affliction is producing for you an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while you look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18.
Take control and build yourself up in your most holy faith.
But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. And have mercy on some who are doubting; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh. Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:17-25.
If you want to know Me, it is not hard to do so. Just walk with Me. That is what Enoch did. That is what Noah did. That is what Abraham did. That is what Isaac and Jacob did. And that is what Joseph did. And I could go on. And none of them even had My written Word or the Holy Spirit in them, only on them. And yet each one who decided to walk with and follow Me by listening to My voice became greatly blessed and had fruitful and satisfying lives filled with provision and good things. But best of all, we had wonderful times of fellowship. I taught them to pray, to say, and how to walk by faith. And I can do the same with you.
I love you. Never lose heart. I have given you My heart. If you will just come to Me that is when all the glorious adventures begin.