Life vs. Death; Prosperity vs. Calamity

Inspired by Deuteronomy 30: 15 – 20

I have the choice between life/prosperity and death/calamity. God’s word commands me to love Jehovah, my God. To walk in His ways, to behave as He behaves, and to regard His precepts, His manners, and His stance, that I may live in abundance so that Jehovah my God shall bless me in whatever place he sends me to occupy and to possess.   

But if I disobey and discard His precepts and worship anything besides Him to serve them. I will perish and will not survive for long wherever I go. All of Creation bears witness that I have the choice between life and death and blessing and cursing. I choose life that my descendants and I may live by loving Jehovah, my God, to obey his call, and to cling to Him. For God is my life for as long as I live that I may prosper in the promises He made from generations ago.

Excerpts from – GOD&I: Longing After God by Dwane Fritz Gerald:

God is! God is complete; God is perfection.

Inspired by Psalm 18: 30 & 2 Samuel 22: 31 

God’s way is perfect and without blemish. The word of the LORD is refined and pure; He is a shield and protector to all who take refuge in him and put their trust and confidence in Him.

That which is eternal stands flawless and complete. That which did not exist came forth as an expression of that which is. Its appearance being material and temporal and is yet incomplete without that which first expressed it into existence.

Perfection and completeness reside at the source. The created realm without the cause is incomplete; Elohim is complete, self-contained, self-sustained, and perfect without creation. He is the cause, without an origin, the reason without a motive.

Inspired by Deuteronomy 32: 3 – 4 

I will proclaim the name of Jehovah, the self-Existent One; Ascribe greatness to our God; He is The Rock and a refuge, His actions are perfect, without blemish and complete; For all His ways are right and just; A God of faithfulness without iniquity or perverseness, righteous and upright is He.

Inspired by Matthew 5: 48

Be perfect and complete, as your heavenly Father is perfect and complete.

Perfect is God Almighty, the source of all there is. I look to Him so that I may be complete.

Excerpts from – GOD&I: Longing After God by Dwane Fritz Gerald: