Tuesday, May 17, 2011

100%

I thought of so many people who do not have a religion that leads them to live 100% for God. I observed this today as I was on the freeway going through Sacramento, California. Tens of thousands of people on the move.

What good is religion if it does not make us 100% for God in our lives?

What does 100% mean?

It means we totally live the holiness God life he wants us to live.
This means separation from worldly life-styles, anything that is sinful, and subjection to all the Commandments of God given to the Apostles by Jesus.
The 100% life includes our fellowship with other believers and attending Church regular where we worship and are led in the Truth of God.
Being devoted to the 100% life, we will financially support the Church and its work with our tithes and offerings.
We will participate in loving and caring for our Brothers and Sisters in other nations.
As we live out this great life of faith and grace, we receive and carry the burden for lost souls. We want them to live the 100% life.

Jesus lived the 100% life. The Apostles lived the 100% life. The first Christians lived the 100% life. They gave up all to follow Jesus. They valued their salvation more than they valued their family connections. When family rejected Jesus or the 100% life, they did not allow family to turn them back to going to hell.

Yes, those who choose the 100% life will face many struggles. There will be times of sorrow, times when it seems they cannot continue, and times when the attacks by the devil are almost impossible to overcome. But, we know, day by day and hour by hour we are made overcomers.

Living the 100% life we can overcome the impossible. We can endure persecution and tribulations. We can count our blessings one by one and give God the praise.

There are many earthly benefits to living the 100% life. And at last, we get to go to heaven.

Those who reject this 100% life, who do their own thing, go their own way, provide for the flesh and the sins thereof, who compromise with all manner of ungodliness, will be shocked to learn they are not going to heaven. This requires the 100% life and nothing less.

Have you forsaken all to follow Jesus? Or are you like the tens of thousands I observed all on the move, but they have not made any moves to live a Godly life and be 100% for God?

I know what it means to say: "As for me and my house, we will served the Lord."

And it will be the 100% life of God.

Bishop Reckart

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