//Hoodwinked

Here's a quick back drop for my point.(Read all the way through!)

Before the lord returns, there will be seven years of Tribulation. Despite popular western belief...the church will be on the earth during the tribulation. It's our privilege not our punishment. Any who, long story short the ant-christ will bring false peace for 3 and a half years to win the heart of the world, become the world political leader, then turn on everyone and make everyone get a mark in order to buy food. He will declare him self as God, and many will believe him, even the elect in Christ(better get grounded in the knowledge of God) will get swept a wave in deception. Then that's when all the bad judgments are released and then at the 7 year mark, at the 7th trumpet, the King will shout and split the skies with passion in his eyes.

Whew...that was a mouth full.

Paul said that the dead in Christ will rise first to meet him in the sky and get there resurrected body, then those who are still alive will get there's in a twinkling of an eye. Our resurrected bodies will be shinning like the sun(hint we will be like him when we see him :] ). The degree of our brightness will be determined by our faithfulness to God in this age. Jesus' sermon on the mount tells us that it's what's done in secret that matters. Faithfulness is measured by our life in secret, not in public.

Our relationship with God in this age will be put on display for all to see in the age to come. He will openly reward those who were faithful in secret. We're going to be surprised by who actually knew God.

I said ALL of that just to say this. Don't get hoodwinked by peoples external expressions of greatness. It's whats done in secret that will transfer into greatness in the age to come. Some of the greatest well known men of God will be just as bright as some of the laymen house mom who know one knew about. The street sweeper is eligible to have a greater reward that the healing evangelist with the world-wide ministry. It's all about the heart. Get wise. Tuck your self into the bosom of his presence and pursue more of HIM and not a bigger whatever. Don't worry your self about who see's you, be determined to be seen by God. Oh, Beloved when you value his opinion over every other set of eyes...freedom is yours. Ok enough bunny trails.

Give your self to the knowledge of God. To know God requires relationship. Relationship demands intimacy. Knowledge is intimacy. You can know as much of Him as you want. He's unsearchable. You cannot exhaust the knowledge of God. Let the pursuit to know God more intimately rule your life(over pursuit for temporary pleasures and greatness). That's holiness. That's your reward. God himself. In all of His Glory. Don't get hoodwinked by what you see ;)

//trancedence

This is an excerpt from A.W. Tozer's book called. The Knowledge of the Holy[which a highly recommend everyone read. often.]

We must not think of God as highest in an ascending order of beings, starting with the single cell and going on up from the fish to the bird to the animals to man to angel to cherub to God. This would be to grant God eminence, even pre-eminence, but that is NOT ENOUGH. we must grant Him transcendence in the fullest meaning of the word. Forever God stands apart, in light unapproachable. He is as high above an archangel as above a caterpillar, for the gulf that separates the archangel from the caterpillar is but finite, while the gulf between God and the archangel is infinite. The caterpillar and the archangel, though far removed from each other in the scale of created things, are nevertheless one in that they are alive created.