Psalms 33:11 The Plans of the Lord stand Firm Forever Sin almost always needs to be defined as it is an ancient religious term,many today do not know its significance. Sin is lovelessness either in behaviour or in thought. It can be doubt of God's love, it can be judging self or others but it is always negative thinking. When people ignore that their thoughts are negative, they do not know there is a consequence to which our mental or and physical health will be affected. We can become more nervous,more irritable and more stressed. God is with all people on earth,for that is God's eternal promise to always be with each person. When we sin, we cannot face God because we have judged ourselves. We ignore the fact that God loves us  because we are focussing instead on our own self hatred. By admitting we said, thought or did something loveless, we are taking responsibility for ourselves. We are then opening the door to God's presence and God can forgive us. Forgiveness does not mean being passive,blind,deaf, rather it means healing from the wound a loveless act caused. Dr.Stanley states: At one time we all were spiritually dead. Sin's presence was corrupting our human nature from the inside out, blinding us to spiritual truth. Being Spiritually dead means many things, it means living a life of no energy, joylessness,meaninglessness ususally because all our life from the time we were born we were exposed to lovelessness in some way and it then became incorporated into our way of thinking and then it became an unconcious habit. Which in turn blinds us to Spiritual Truth. Jesus said, he is the way, the truth and the Light, those who follow him will not walk in darkness but will have the Light of Life. Jesus is with you and when you experience His presence you know He is the Truth. By trusting, God only made you for one purpose only, to love you. You are forever part of God it is just you are a drop of water and God is the ocean of all there is. When we think loveless or negative, it blinds us so that we cannot see the Lord's presence in our life. We cannot feel His immense true love for us.Which often leads to doubting he is with us or that he even exists. For thousands of years, the world over, people already thought they were separated from God because again of negative,loveless thinking. When we know the Lord is with us through His Holy Spirit to love us and to cleanse our wounds, thereby restoring us back to Oneness with God which is Paradise, He will be blunt and He will be honest and all we have to do is try our best to be honest. Being Honest to God is one of the most important things we could ever do because God already knows the truth. Jesus is both the Father and the Holy Spirit Matthew 28-18. He came into humanform to remind us that He is with us to love and to guide us. The moment we put our trust in His unconditional love for us and that He is with us to guide us always in all things, that is the moment our lives will change. There are 2 Billion Christians, from those who only believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny to those who experience the presence of the Lord. Dr. Charles Stanley is one of them;however, he belongs to one branch of the Christian tree, evident by this passage which reveals Dr. Stanley belongs to the British, American version of Christianity," He sent His Son to be our substitute--to bear our sin and guilt and to die in our place. Not only did Jesus pay our sin-debt in full". This is extremely difficult to understand. Translated into modern useage means: From Luke 22:19 Bread= this is my body given for you ,do this in remembrance of me. Wine cup= this is my blood which is poured out for you. When we understand God is not blaming us, nor judging us for how we are or how we have become, instead God is accepting us as we are, with all our faults, mistakes, weaknesses because He made us only to love us and He is with us to love and to guide us always regardless of what we believe. He never desired for us to suffer and sin leads to the belief in separation from God which leads to much suffering. Then we understand that difficult passage to mean: God came Himself into Humanform knowing He would die on the Cross. There is no greater way for God to prove He knows us and He loves us then for Him to have Gone to the Cross, in order To rise from the dead to say, I am with  you always to love you and to guide you. For He forgave those who put Him on the Cross, then He can forgive us of the many wrongs we have done. The way out of human sorrow and suffering into the truth and light of the presence of God is by understanding He has always been with each person on earth and the world knew it not, but He told us and He invited us to experience His loving presence (by requesting the Holy Spirit) beginning with the fact that God knows us already and loves us as we are. God has always been with us and always knew how to talk to us. Through your awareness of this fact then a relationship with the Lord  can be formed and this relationship  which is between God and YOU, you  will transform us back to oneness with Him and thus we will return back to paradise. Even if you cannot sense him or see him now, that is due to sin or negative,loveless thinking but your trust and faith in Him will open the door to His loving Presence who has always been with you only to love and to guide you away from all forms of sufferings. So now you know, the Lord listens to you, no one knows you more and no one loves you more than Him, your own Heavenly Father,Jesus Christ. His plans are to restore you back to Oneness with Him through His undying Love for you, and you will see this means His plans are to restore you back to paradise. Thank YOU for letting me say all this. May you Always experience God's true Love for you! snaggable   A Bee bg