Heart-to-Heart

Heart-to-Heart

How real is he
do you feel

his words

as sweet honey
a healing to weary bones?

Did eyes, heavy hearts rise
heaven-high

as warring body torn
immerged

reborn
to live life selfless;

as really free

liberated to eternity

whether heavenly or earthly
it should prove to be?

Or would you rather be left alone
to agonize through horrific storms

dark, angry

too cold?

Everyone's tragedy
food for soul?

Black or blue or red meat
pummeled

you watch or initiate
bold.

Wicked rivalry do you prefer

to consort, distort, report propaganda
to divide

hiding cruelty,
slickness

snide inside

crawling
slithering

ungodliness
to abide?

A sparkling mirror
miraculously leaned

in one's midst
reflects an image

either tainted or clean.

Reveals motives
proper and pure
or satanically mean.

Yes, makes a distinction
in between: the righteous or the wicked.

"Draw close to God,
and he will draw close to you.

Cleanse your hands,
you sinners,

and purify your hearts,
you indecisive ones."

Is this admonition gratifying?

How real is he
do you feel

his words

a sweet healing to weary bones?

Or rather we be left alone to our vices?

We must develop an appetite
for healthy phrases

plus
nature's arts

our loving Creator
does magnificently

impart.

From this day forward
make a start:

A relationship with God.

Heart-to-Heart.

If you please.

And you will again see the distinction between a righteous person and a wicked person, between one serving God and one not serving him.” Malachi 3:18; James 4:8; © 11 minutes ago, Lucretia Mccloud   friendship • hope • love • spiritual • teen   

[ Indeed, ]

Indeed,
asked: How can this be?
Both saintliness and terrorism fed

daily mankind feeds

upon a book read
promoting divine qualities
producing a glorious hope

or causing our earth
in violence to profusely bleed
through extreme cruelty

spearheaded
by diverse cultures
or crippling creeds?

Darwin himself grieved
over his daughter deceased

along with his
“visceral distaste”
for the doctrine of hellfire
by pagandom conceived

through which Christendom
also, members further deceived

although, Biblically stated:

"The soul who sins
is the one who will die." Ezekiel 18:4.

"That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned". Romans 5:12.

"For the one who has died has been acquitted from his sin." Romans 6:7. "For the wages sin pays is death,

but the gift God gives is everlasting life
by Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23.

So just where does it say our bad ones will fry?

"For the living know that they will die,
but the dead know nothing at all," Eccl. 9:5
does certify.

And Revelation 21:8 does specify:

"But as for the cowards and those without faith and those who are disgusting in their filth and murderers and the sexually immoral and those practicing spiritism and idolaters and all the liars,

their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire* and sulfur. This means the second death.” Never again to arise as Jeremiah 51:57 also clarifies:

"I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,
Her governors and her deputy rulers and her warriors,

And they will sleep a lasting sleep,
From which they will not wake up,”

declares the King,
whose name is Jehovah of armies."
Who himself is called a "God of Love"

whose heart and mind cannot abide
demonic practices inspired by devotion to idols

promoted above
his righteous desires:

"They have built the high places of Toʹpheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinʹnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, something that I had not commanded and that had never even come into my heart.’" Jeremiah 7:31.

Shouldn't we upon His Words build faith and upon rely?
Upon Job's word be further edified?

"So listen to me, you men of understanding:
It is unthinkable for the true God to act wickedly,

For the Almighty to do wrong!

For he will reward a man according to what he does
And bring upon him the consequences of his ways.

For a certainty, God does not act wickedly;

The Almighty does not pervert justice." Job 34:10-12.

"When the wicked sprout like weeds
And all the wrongdoers flourish,
It is that they may be annihilated forever." Psalm 92:7.

So are we better off without the Creator of all humanity?

“Faith adds an insistent moral demand, a responsibility to care for the world that God has created.” Author Keith Ward did concede.

Many are disillusioned by mankind's horrible deeds,
while evolutionists promote survival of the fittest as fact, though unproven this theory over the years

although, generosity and love, which endears,
taught by Christ setting a perfect model to imitate
for all obedient servants of God's Kingdom to adhere

which will eliminate all causes for future fear

is viewed skeptically
by worldly-wise intelligent minds

honest-hearted ones will thankfully hear
these words prophesied also of our day
and of a destruction of wickedness near:

“‘For I well know the thoughts that I am thinking toward you,’ declares Jehovah, ‘thoughts of peace, and not of calamity, to give you a future and a hope.

And you will call me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.’

“‘You will seek me and find me,
for you will search for me with all your heart.

And I will let you find me,’ declares Jehovah."

Let all lovers of truth and justice
search for the 'God of Peace' and His Son

while the door of opportunity is still open.

Into His Word
take this time
to gratefully
and diligently
peer.

"For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints from the marrow, and is able to discern thoughts and intentions of the heart." Hebrews 4:12.

WHAT IS “THE LAKE OF FIRE”?

Revelation 20:10 says that the Devil will be cast into “the lake of fire” and “tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (King James Version) If the Devil were to be tortured for all eternity, God would have to preserve him alive, but the Bible says that Jesus will “destroy him.” (Hebrews 2:14, KJ) The symbolic fiery lake represents “the second death.” (Revelation 21:8) This is not the death first mentioned in the Bible—death because of Adam’s sin—death from which one may be released by a resurrection. (1 Corinthians 15:21, 22) Because the Bible does not say that “the lake of fire” would release those in it, “the second death” must mean another kind of death, an irreversible one.

In what sense are those in “the lake of fire” tormented eternally? At times, “to torment” can mean “to restrain” someone. Once when Jesus confronted the demons, they cried out: “Art thou come hither to torment us [restrain us in the abyss] before the time?” (Matthew 8:29; Luke 8:30, 31; KJ) So all of those in “the lake” will suffer the “torment” of everlasting restraint, or “the second death.”
Does God Punish People in Hellfire?
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2012726?q=hellfire&p=par © an hour ago, Lucretia Mccloud    teen • family • friendship • hope • love