God is not impressed....

God is not impressed by the positions you hold before man. Have you lost
your fear of God? Have you let Him become a jolly old St. Nick in your
life? Do you find that you can justify what you do in your life and never
give a thought to how God might look at what you are doing? Do you twist
things to suit your own purposes? Do you lie about what other's say and do
to persuade others to take up your agenda? Do you manipulate others with a
silky tongue, knowing that you are only appeasing them to get them over to
your way of thinking or to have them do what you want them to do? Do you do
things like this to find favor with someone above you? Do you allow them to
use you? Do you think that all you do, regardless of how God will look on
it, is making you look good and important to them? Are they so important
that you will risk the wrath of God to please them? Have you made a god out
of them? Is that how cheaply you would sell your soul?

All that I have mentioned above takes place all over the world in every
business and sadly in every home. Kids have watched their parents and
listened to them and now they too have accomplished the art of manipulation
and lies and deceit. Actually, the Bible calls it Witchcraft. So if you do
these things, you not only will provoke God's wrath for what you do, but for
what you teach others, especially your children. All of this is even more
despicable in God's eye if you are a Christian. And for you there is no
excuse. You know, and God knows that, you know better! It is hard to
believe that Christians would do this, but they do. It breaks my heart to
see the hypocrisy in some Christians. Our children listen and watch and
they learn from us. Are you teaching them by your actions that being
important in some person's eye, or attaining a position, is more important
than serving God, as long as you get the position you want to hold? Is your
ego that important to you? In 2 Kings 17: 35-41 NKJV says, "with whom the
Lord had made a covenant and charged them, saying: 'You shall not fear other
gods, nor bow down to them nor SERVE THEM nor sacrifice to them,' but the
Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an
outstretched arm, HIM you shall fear, HIM you shall worship, and to HIM you
shall offer sacrifice. And the statutes, the ordinances, the law and the
commandment which He wrote for you, you shall be careful to observe forever;
you shall not FEAR OTHER GODS. But the Lord your God you shall fear; and He
will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies. However they did not
obey, but they followed their former rituals. So these nations feared the
Lord, yet served their carved images; also their children and their
children's children have continued doing as their FATHERS did, EVEN TO THIS
DAY.

Be very careful of how casually you sell your soul. Be even more fearful of
how you sell your children's! If you are in this place today, get on your
face before God and repent. Because if you are outside His laws, no matter
what you do to SERVE OTHER GODS, your God is not impressed....Patti