Keeping it Real Volume 1, Issue 1

"Keeping it Real", has become a very known cliche' in our society today. This statement is used right before or after someone has shared what they believe is truth, which may have offended the recipient. This cliche' is also used by someone to justify their actions when they know what they have done is of a lower standard than what is required. Sadly, the majority of the people waking the face of this earth know very little about reality. Reality has to be based on truth. There is only one book which truly lists out the truths of mankind. When buying a product, our expectation is to learn everything we need to know about the functionality and how to operate the product through reading and applying what we have learned from the instruction manual included. The creator of that product is truest source of how that product "ought to" operate and function. The Bible serves as the instruction manual to mankind because the author is the creator of mankind.

The reality of mankind, is that man was created to serve a purpose just like everything else that has been created in the universe. The purpose is not to fulfill our own Will, but the Will of God the creator of the universe. There are clear and precise instructions in how mankind is to relate to God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the rest of mankind. We have instructions on how to govern ourselves in this life and why we were created. We have understanding in the tools (Gifts) we have been given in order to execute the purpose of our creation. Living by any other guidelines driven by self and the world is living by a false reality. Today, examine the scriptures to see if you are living in and by the reality of God!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of keeping it real on purpose!!!!!

James 1

Listening and Doing

19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.