Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Eph.1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

Today many pine away for a time when they can have greater personal association with other spiritual brothers and sister lamenting their condition compared to others having closer association with the those in top position of their faith.

Psalms 34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

Romans 3:3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

All of us need good association with brothers and sisters, but sometimes are discontentment can cause us a lack of the best association, and that is Paul point here. Established religion is powerful and impressive and that is the reason the Devil can uses it so effectively to mislead the human race. Humans want and desire association for approval of other human in position having the power give it! But God's deals with truth, the true condition of human hearts not what we will act like in front of other humans.

Luke 4:4 Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"{Deuteronomy 8:3}

John 16:32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

In other words, what if a person had no adulation from others? Would they love God, or is proving to others we love God our entire life course, a competition we must prove we are right in; that we are spiritual? Here than is the truth, Christ our leader did not seek any approval of men, he was in contact with the greatest encouragement of all, his Father Jehovah God. He unlike so many, lack nothing good from his Fathers association, he unliked Eve did not think God was holding something good back from him? Christ did not complain that he should be seated with the elders of his faith, or set at the feet of the great teachers of Israel.

1Cor.2:1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

1Cor.3:4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly? 3:5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? 3:6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
3:7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 3:8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Christ was never alone, this is Paul point, many brothers and sisters back then pined away for the worship at temple, its is very impressive, thousand's of years of Jewish history where the greatest of God's prophets and kings all worshiped. However, if they were indeed son's of God, anointed with the anointing of their head they were raised and seated with Christ in heavenly place, not mundane temporary worship by sight upon earth in Jerusalem.

But among the ancient of days with myriads of Holy angels, how had they become so nonspiritual? Because they were seeking the glory of men more than the glory of God. One cannot lack in Christ, such is impossible, it like being given the greatest privilege to feast with a king and than complaining their not enough good association and real food for you at his table!

Heb.12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, 12:23 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 12:24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,{Jeremiah 31:31} and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel. 12:25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven.

Ephesians 2:6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Matt.22:2 "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, 22:3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come. 22:4 Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"' 22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, 22:6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. 22:7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. 22:8 "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy. 22:9 Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.' 22:10 Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.

Let us speak truth, if we lack, it is our flesh which lying too us, if we pine away for more association we lack faith and love for what God has given us in Christ. Let us live in the present knowing we have all things needed for this world and the next (Christ life). However, knowing we must be armed with the mind of Christ for we are in tribulation within our flesh, the good and the bad, but we are not lacking in Christ we are being tempted and tried just as he was. Our Father will give us the exact amount of spiritual food we need, for the moment. Let us trust with our entire mind, life, and soul in the Father of our spiritual lives knowing that not even the lilies of the field toil which are here to day and gone tomorrow!

Exodus.16:15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat." 16:16 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent." 16:17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. 16:18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
16:19 Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning." 16:20 Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.

John 6:35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.

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