Gino, thank you for your reply. This part of the article with the questions is more of rhetorical nature, to analyze ourselves where we are before Heavenly Father. To ask ourselves questions to make sure that we are not went astray from His Love. These questions are like looking in a mirror and seeing ourselves in His light. There are lots of people who are deceived by strange theologies and teachings. They think that they have a free ticket to heaven, because of different reasons. But at the end He will tell them: I never knew You.

Mat 7:21  Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.

Mat 7:22  Many will say to Me in that day, Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in Your name, and through Your name throw out demons, and through Your name do many wonderful works?

Mat 7:23  And then I will say to them I never knew you! Depart from Me, those working lawlessness!

 

I am asking these questions not in doubts, but in self discipline.

I never intended to question His Grace and His Love for His People. I am sorry if some of the sentences sound like I talk about myself. It is not about me but is about His people who should judge or examine themselves, so they would not be judge before Him.

 

1Co 11:28  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.

1Co 11:29  For he who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

1Co 11:30  For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and many sleep.

1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

 

Now is the time to awake from our sleep and examine our hearts before His coming.

 

In Love in Messiah, Heavenly Grace.

 

Heavenly Grace, You did a phenomenal job of presenting the bride's maids argument, better than I've ever seen it.

There was a conclusion to your letter that kind of confused me, though. You had written:

"The question is, am I His Bride? Do I strive for a closer relationship with Him or settle down for a distant relationship? Do I want to know about Him, about what He wants, or am I looking only for my needs and wants? Do I really want to pray to Him, speak with Him, listen to Him?

Am I a foolish virgin, who even won’t make into the wedding? Am I one of the bridesmaids that entered into His Kingdom but did not look enough for Him? Or am I a Bride who prepared herself for Him, and in the close relationship with Him?"

That's all about you, not about Jesus. That was not about his free grace and mercy given to an unworthy sinner, but it sounded like it was all about what whether or not you are worthy for eternity with him. He loved us and sought us while we were yet ungodly and unworthy sinners - it all depends upon him, it is his unmerited love for us. Would a Savior like that then turn and give us back to the devil when we don't maintain worthiness? Gino