Love, Praise, and Affection - Good Boy!

Love, praise, and affection.  Hearing their master say "Good boy!" is what motivates many dogs.  Dogs can therefore make great assistants to men, because they will work very hard for very little reward.  Often dogs will work for the reward of knowing that their master is pleased with them.  Hearing their master say "Good Boy!" is what they are after.

Dogs are not people, although many people consider their pet dog to be a part of their family.  Dogs are very simple in that they are generally motivated by rather simple desires, such as for a bowl of dog food.  Dog trainers use these desires to help train dogs to obey, to do what they want the dogs to do.  The love, praise and affection that dogs crave is combined with discipline and training -- hopefully producing a well-trained and obedient dog for its owner.

Dogs are not people, though.  Dogs are animals and people are not.  People are therefore not to be treated as animals or property by other people.  People are to treated with respect.  Nevertheless, people also desire love, praise, and affection, just like dogs do.

And what motivates you?  Do you work to be praised?  Do you work for that "good boy" of appreciation from someone?  Do you work for money?  Do you work to gain the pleasures of this world?  What is it that really motivates you?

The Bible says that the world passes away, and its pleasures.  When you die, you will stand before a Righteous and Holy God.  You will answer for your sins in that Judgment Day.

Perhaps you will say that you are a Christian, that you "prayed a prayer", that you did good works, or that you were a good person.  Jesus will tell you in that day to depart from Him, that you were not a true Christian.  You will go to Hell instead of Heaven because you were never truly converted.

If you have done Christian work to please people, even to please a pastor, then you did not do work because you loved Jesus.  If you have not Christ, then you are still lost.  You must go to Hell.  Even if you were a deacon or other church leader, you will go to Hell instead of Heaven, if you have never been truly converted.

It is true, however, that a Christian does work to please someone.  It is Jesus whom he or she seeks to please.  It is, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant" that a Christian longs to hear one day from the mouth of our Savior, Jesus.  It is pleasing Jesus that we seek, not pleasing our friends, not pleasing our pastor, not pleasing our family.  It is Jesus we seek to please, before all other desires of life.

If you are not a Christian, if you have tried to fake being a Christian, (even if you are a deacon, Sunday school teacher, or some other "Church Leader"), then you need to get truly converted.  Your position in the church will not save you.  The "good boy" of appreciation by your pastor or other church leaders will not get you into Heaven one day.

Perhaps you have not tried to fake being a Christian, but you, too, have deceived yourself and are not truly converted.  Unless you are converted, you will never see the Kingdom of God. You will not be ready when Jesus comes back to Earth.  You need Jesus.

Trust Jesus to pay for your sins.  He is up in Heaven right now.  He will forgive your sins if you will trust Him to do so.  No matter what your sins are, even if you have lied, attempted burglary, committed homosexuality, were jealous, were proud, were cruel to others, or supported the Great Roman Catholic Whore, Jesus can cleanse you of any sin that you have committed, no matter how wicked the sin.  The blood of Jesus cleanses sin.

Trust Jesus today.  Then get into a good Fundamentalist Baptist Church, (a real one, not a fake one), and live for Jesus.  Life might get rough if you put Jesus and the Bible first.  You might lose your friends, you might be evicted or suffer other worldly loss.  You might even have your name cast out as evil for Christ's sake if you put Jesus and the Bible first.  Therefore, consider the cost of being a good Christian in today's apostasy.

Nevertheless, you will find that the gain of Jesus is well worth any personal loss in this life that you might suffer for Him.  Whatever might happen to you is nothing compared to the riches of the gain of Christ and of the glories of Heaven for all Eternity.  Paul said that he counted all things as dung compared to his gaining Christ.  You will too, if you get truly converted.  Trust Jesus today!

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