As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

No post yesterday because I spent most of the day in the hospital with a friend. I left off with Paul saying they should not judge one another because of what they ate. He goes on to say, “For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God,” (Romans 14:ll) That is so powerful. It does not matter who you are, what you believe, or what you think. There will come a time for all of us when we will come face to face with God and in that moment we will remember who we are, why we are here, and we shall give an accounting of ourselves.  

Paul goes on talking about not being a stumbling block and at the end he says, “Hast thou faith? Have it to thy self before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.” (Romans 14:22)

I absolutely do not think that we can just go off and do our own thing and still please God. God organized the earth for us, created it and placed upon it every needful thing. While I have a horrible fear of snakes I know they were put here to control the population of rodents, but why the rodents are here I have not figured out. Squirrels and rabbits are good for food, but mice I fail to see the purpose.  Nevertheless, I leave that to God. When he put Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden it was not without instructions and laws and organization. You eat the fruit of this tree and this will happen. You eat of that tree and this will happen. And God talked with Adam, he talked with Noah and Abraham and Moses and others. When Christ came to the earth to atone for our sins he came to the Jews who had the laws and were the organized church. Yes, there came a falling away as Paul told the Thessalonians there would. (2 Thessalonians 2:3) But there has also come a renewing, a restoration of the laws and covenants, and organized church.