July 9, 2016

Greetings My Friend, I did not see it when I copied the text that spoke to me after I read my morning's Bible study. I remembered that it spoke to me so I asked God if this was the topic to write on and when my eyes read the passage again I saw another statement about being pro life. The passage comes when Moses is giving final instructions before he is to die. "If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today by loving the Lord your God, by walking in His ways, and by keeping His commandments and His statutes and His rule, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless in the land you are entering to take possession of it." The part that hit me was ""then you shall live and multiply". God is a God of the living, not the dead. In the Garden He instructed Adam and Eve to go forth and multiply. After the flood He instructed Noah to go for and multiply. He did not teach go forth and reproduce to your own desires. God knew how many people would be born and how much the earth can handle so when He taught "Go forth and multiply," He meant that. I remember thinking I did not want to contribute to over population and besides I was not emotionally up to having a large family which was so expensive. You name it I thought it. I even felt I would rather a child not be born if it was going to be unwanted. All of this is of course before I began reading the Bible and attempting to live God's way. At the end of the day I find God truly knows what I can deal with and chances are I would not have had more than I could deal with. God did not set up the world to stay stagnant but to grow, to utilize all that He created. After man's fall we have done nothing but rearrange God's master plan to fit our own selfish desires. The more I am growing in my faith the more I desire to live the way we were created. God has given us an abundance of food choices which amazes me. The animal kingdom does not have the desire to eat all the foods we do. I think of cattle grazing on a hillside. Each day of their lives they eat fairly much the same food, grass in the summer and hay in the winter. Birds like worms and insects but humans eat all kinds of fruits, vegetables and meats. We harvest food and cook it, put it up for the winter months and we eat well if we will work for our food. God designed a female's body to bear children and the child is the result of a man and woman's interaction. Same sex couples can not conceive in the same as opposite sex couples. As I read the Bible I discover that God wants us to have children for Him, children to grow up knowing Him and choosing Him. My understanding is at the right time God will end this world and all that have chosen His Son will live eternally with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, 3 in 1. God commands the Israelites to teach their children His ways. The purpose is God is building a Kingdom of believers and the believers accept Jesus, believe God and allow the Holy Spirit to teach and to change believers to be more like Jesus. Somehow I think all this growing and changing is how eternity will look, loving our God and our neighbor as ourselves. We are to bring this hope to all we can and open the door for a personal relationship. God will convict the people He knows who have a genuine heart for Him. We don't know "who" will accept so we live our lives reaching, loving and giving a reason for our love and belief. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet