Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: cucstud!cuc1!khaddad@uunet.uu.net (Kayed Haddad) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Taking God Seriously Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 89 08:57:50 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 19 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Dear friend in Christ, Yes, we need to take God seriously. Though we can not follow His law preciously, still we must listen to His voice. Let us read in Gensis chapter 3 verse 4. God said to Adam and Eve that once they eat from the tree of good and evil they will die. And because they did not listen to His voice, they failed from the glory of God and therefore died. The Psalmist says that the path of the Lord is straight, yet the ungodly stumbel . We have to be careful of how to respond to God and follow His divin rules. It is hard somtimes to follow the divin rules, yet Christ promises us that the Helper will always be with us and guide us to the right direction. But we have to rely completely on God and have faith in Him. lying as you mentiond is the worse thing to use. Recently, I have gone through an experience which taught me a good lesson about how to trust God and rely heavily on Him. I have learned that when I lie I completely become dependent on myself and thus thinking that I am my on god. To lie means to rely on what you think or believe is right and others are wrong.By doing this you become preoccupied with your self then resist all other opin- ion. Put it in another way, lying is actually the separation between us and God. When we lie , we basically separate ourseleves from God and believe on what we think is right. So, let us always be honest with ourselevs and with God as well. He wants you and me to listen to His voice constantly .