When I Look Up

Ron Gallo

Description

Most Christian books have a problem. For they speak from an “adult perspective”, and not a child’s. They leave out, the most important aspect of the foundation when walking with God, and that is the child. They say. do ABCDE, to get a better walk with God. That’s fine, but we forget about the growth of the child and there characteristics, is the Christian life template for an adult to look at and learn from.
This is the reason why children come before adults; it’s so we can see who God sees. God doesn’t see us as we see each other as adults, in arrogance. God doesn’t care about your social status, or you can have more degrees than a thermometer, you are his child. God sees adults as tall children. So now let’s look deeper into a child’s life, and how it relates to Gods foundation... the family. Understanding the child, then you will understand yourself, and what God wants from us as adults.
Looking at the genesis of a child we can see many attributes and characteristics of a child that God wants to see in us. We can shadow, and be a reflection of “childlike”, not childish as Jesus said in the book of Mathew. Jesus clearly states ‘unless you’re like a child, you shall not enter….’ Right off the bat, Jesus is drawing the line in the sand.
Children have many characteristics that we miss as adults, and forget that we went through these same characteristics ourselves. From looking up, having child like faith, being able to be led, humility, believability, no pride or self righteousness etc. This fascinating book being different, will enhance any reader/parent to take a stronger look at their own Christian life, and check off the boxes to see if there in alignment with Gods standards. There a chapter on being blind when your awake, yet we trust him in sleep, and other great gems of wisdom.

Sujets

• Religion
• Spirituality
• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 21 novembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664197145
• Langue: English

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WHEN I LOOK UP
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ron Gallo
 
Copyright © 2021 by Ron Gallo.
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Rev. date: 04/07/2022
 
 
 
 
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Thought for the day:
The spider teaches us patience as well as perseverance. We need to be patient and wait on God for all our matters.
“I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand” (Charles M. Schulz).
“As your days are, so shall your strength be” (Deut. 33:25). God knows the amount of weight. He planned it that you can handle for each situation and will give you the right amount of strength (like a chair/pew) to hold you for the weight you are dealing with.
“What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth ” ( J. Vernon McGee ).

PREFACE
Out of the four books I authored, this might be my favorite. God put something in my heart and conscience to write a book about children. We read so much about adult Christian living, which is fine, but we rarely speak about the child first. Understanding the child (no coincidence God made them first) will make us adults understand ourselves and God, but we must first go through the eyes of a child. Like King David, Joseph, Moses, Paul, and even Jesus, God the Father doesn’t expect us to understand the mysteries of our world as a child, but to be obedient. Well, even though the above prophets were adults at the time, God always looks at us as childlike, not childish. I’m sure God wasn’t too concerned about Adam and Eve in the garden, having them do push-ups and running laps. God advised them not to eat from the tree, and they did—disobedience. As an adult, we should be mature, obtain wisdom, and get understanding. But when it comes to the mysteries of this world (which is God’s divine purposes), then we need to be humble and childlike. This starts as a child, so an adult can see who God sees and what he expects. My hope is that this book will give you a different perspective of life through the lens of a child, which will give you a better understanding and direction of God in your life as you move your piece on the gameboard, not needing the dice this time.
My chapter 7, “Trusting in Darkness,” will really make you think about God more and about yourself. How can we trust him in darkness when we’re asleep, yet when we’re awake, we can see, but yet still in darkness. Where is our faith then?
For Today
When a child is in need, do they run to another child or their parent? Then why do we run to another child?
Who defines that child, another child, or their parent? Who defines you? Now you know the rest of the story.
No parent wants their child to fight their own battles; then why do we? We’re his child. No good parent wants their child to “act” in a manner in which they do; then why do we? Now who is setting the example, us as adults or the child?
God looks at the heart, not the head. Today, we hire people by their head, then we have to live with their heart. Instead of hiring them by their heart, and you can fix /teach the head. God can work with the head, but he needs the heart first. Many people “look good” by others who made them look that way (T. D. Jakes’s sermon “The Comeback Kid”).
Just about everyone has gotten a photo developed of themselves. You’re proud of that picture.
In Isaiah 41:13, God says he holds my hand, just like a parent with their child. Isn’t that wonderful? God holds our hand because he is our father.
We all look in the bathroom mirror and look for the “dirt spots.” We want to look nice before we go out. How about God’s eternal mirror (the Bible)? When was the last time you looked at the dirt spots there? The bathroom mirror is temporary, the Bible eternal. Don’t settle for short-term sweets to forego the long-term destiny. Sweets are in minutes; destiny has no time—endless.
People say, “I’m not religious.” God doesn’t want you to be religious. People say, “I talk to God every day,” but I ask them, “Does he talk to you?” I can know. I’m married for over thirty years and see a ring and a piece of paper, but if I’m twenty feet away from my wife and children, is that a marriage or an agreement? Like two guys go into business, Joe handles sales, John handles service, and if one doesn’t keep his part of the bargain, then a relationship is communication, spending time with that person. Spending time with God in church with other believers, reading his word, being in prayer. Think of all the people you spoke to today, in a week, a month, and now how much of that 86,400 seconds he gave you in that day. Did you speak to him?
People make people their gods, like in sports, the pope, a priest, biblical characters like the Catholics do. They are all idols. God uses people in certain ways for his plan, but you don’t pray/worship them, only in God. At work, do you get your direction from your supervisor or another employee mainly? There is one God, not many. It’s not what you do for God; it’s what he did for you two thousand years ago or else the cross would have been in vain.
What voice does a parent want a child to hear, their friend or them? Is your heart not beating and you’re not breathing when you’re asleep? Think about these two points, and now you know who you need to look to in all aspects of your life.
Children look up to parents, and parents look up to children. Why? We’re all God’s children, so why are you looking at other children and not looking up—like a child does to our heavenly father for guidance and direction?
Would you agree that an adult knows more than a child? Would you agree that a child cannot intellectualize an adult? Would you agree that you are his child? Would you agree that good parents don’t expect a child to “understand” the mysteries of their world, but just be obedient, correct? Would you agree that you don’t control your own heartbeat, breath of oxygen, brain or organ function, or destiny? Would you agree that you weren’t with God when he made the world, the universe? God advised Job of that. Now that we agree, can you “really see beyond your breath?
Ninety-nine percent of the things we fuss, worry, or complain about is really nothing; and time and oxygen are wasted on it, depleting your lifetime (tanks). Be a creator, not a complainer. You only have so much time while you’re on “vacation.” Eventually, like any vacation, you have to return home.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1:       The Beginnings

Thoughts for Today:
“See the loaf of bread, not the slices.” God looks at the “big picture” while we’re looking at the slices. Have you ever heard of anyone buying a loaf of a slice? Take life one slice or step at a time.
“If you really want to experience new and wonderful things through creation in your mind, look through the wrong end of a telescope” (Ron Gallo).
The Foundation: The Family
This is the foundation unit that God has planted on this planet. God uses the illustration of the garden to show the growth and nature of the family and the growth of the Christian. The seed is planted; and to grow it, it needs fertilizer, good soil, watering, sun (son), and good caring just like the child growing up. No wonder why in the book of Proverbs King Solomon said, “Train up a child in the way they shall go, and when they are old, they shall never depart from it.” There is no guarantee for anything, but overall children brought up in a caring home structured with a mother and father, and good extended family, the child will flourish and be more stronger and ready for higher demands as they grow. Children born in poverty (i.e., urban homes) these children fare less (not impossible) and wind up getting more into trouble growing up from dysfunctional families. Just look at the statistics/prison records. Both boys and girls need both parents, and especially their father for support, discipline, guidance, encouragement. It winds up the mother has to take on this role as the father because he is either “too busy working all the time or running around” or in jail. The Far Left radicals like BLM (hate lives matter), Demoncrats, and other leftist America-hating groups want to disguise this and bring down the family even further and blame it on cops and the conservatives, especially the white people. If you’re black and conservative and stand up for real issues, many times their own race will go against them. Remember, it’s not the cops; it’s the culture.
The radicals, Satanists want to destroy this country from “within” and destroy the family as we know it. For if you destroy the family, you get rid of its moral, ethical, godly values from which this country was founded on. That’s one reason they want to take away our history by removing the statues, etc. Well, I have a bulletin for them. God is still in control, and it’s his universe, not ours. Just as he put Presid