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We Are Built For Love! Why We Exist

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  Made to Create in Sync with God What if the human race wasn't designed to just punch clocks, manage bills, and survive a lifetime of moral damage control? By God's original design, we were meant to be something far greater:  a whole new race of creators, operating in sync with God, creating right along with Him. But we didn’t want to do that. Instead, we stepped out of His rhythm. We still create today, but we don’t do it the way God intended. Instead of relying on His all-knowing perspective from above, we took on an exhausting burden we were never meant to carry. The Traps of "Food for Wisdom" and Flattery In Genesis, God gave humanity a clear blueprint: be fruitful, multiply, and rule using  His perspective as the rulebook. He explicitly warned us not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In Hebrew and Greek, "discernment" literally means to sort, separate, and judge between good and bad. God was telling us:  Don't bother with the ...
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Eighteen Months Kindle Edition by Leslie Jones McCloud (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

Wicked Stumbling Blocks in the Physical 🌎and Hidden ❤️Idols

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We live in the  Physical  realm but the Kingdom of Heaven is within us. I am entangled in the Thorns and Thistles of worldly living. And I woke up like this. I never realized until now the errors in my thoughts and that I was turning my back to Jesus. Watch this Sunday School Live! Podcast segment for context:  This Sunday School lesson hit home for me.  Think of   Ezekiel 8:16 .   While it does not take place in an upper room, it describes a highly sacred area of the Temple—the inner court, right between the holy porch and the sacrificial altar. In this vision, Ezekiel sees the religious leaders of Israel (specifically a group of priests or elders) committing the ultimate act of betrayal:  "He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men.  With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were...
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