The Reality of Life in God's Perspectives - Apostle Peterson O. Abu

I believe that God has given to us so that we can take precaution and so that we can be mindful of the things that are eternal. Every time we come together in the word of God, the Lord always has in mind to expose to us all things that we need to know and the most important thing that we must do is to pay attention to God's word. The devil may not stop you from coming to church, but it will stop you from listening to God's word because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. The only sign that we are hearing the word of God is when we become doer of the word. As long as we have not become doer of the word, we are not hearing well. Hallelujah. I will be discussing with you on the topic I titled here as the reality of life in God's perspective. The reality of what? In God's perspectives. One thing you must understand is how does God view life? There are different definitions of life in different perspectives. If you go and meet an old man and ask the man what is life, it would define life from the numbers of years that he missed and he didn't use to achieve goals in life. So the old man would define life from the past. When you meet a young man and ask the man what is life, the young man would define life from the future. So young men often define life from what? The future. Old men define life from what? The past. An old man that wants to counsel you will first look into the past and examine the meaning of life. A very young man that wants to counsel you will most times talk about things he has not become and the possible ways that he thought or he is thinking that you can become such. Life is not life until you come to the original microscope of God to view it at which God is seeing it. It is not how you see it that matters, it is how God sees it and if we don't come to understand what is the reality of life, we will keep penetrating our hearts with pain and sorrow. Many of us will become unhappy with life. Many of us will become unhappy with ourselves. Many of us will become unhappy with the people around us because we have not yet entered into the reality of life. Because what you think life is, by the time you start living such life, you discover that within you a vacuum that is testing for God, that nothing within you can satisfy that thing. There are many times that you feel happy, there is money, there is food, but within you, you are crying for something and you are crying for God. You discover that even though you try to pretend, you have not been praying for souls for several weeks, you have not been reading your Bible, even though you try to pretend to be happy, from within you, there is something that is lacking, something that is panting for God. You know you are far away from God and you try to be happy, but when you are alone, you always feel lonely. You know that there is a disconnection that God is about. You know that there is a disconnection that only you are aware of, a disconnection that has given you a life of total depression, frustration, confusion, that you start channeling your anger towards everybody around you. We must come to understand that there is a reality of life in God's perspective. The reality of life in God's perspective. 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