5.30-Living a great life versus a life in torment

5.30-

When you can't rest. Meditate on what you know to be true.  There is a beautiful designed universe to see.  Remember the lives of the people who have been helpers.  Reflect on their lives.  Meditate on some Psalms.  Read starting at Psalm 1 up to Psalm 19 and watch for a writer in the Bible having some of the same emotions that you have right now.

When rested.
Determine to use your resources of energy, thought, prayer, time, money and any other resource to be used to build up people.

Be wise. Use your brain.  Think before you act. Don't act impulsively.

Make up you mind to be  trustworthy person.  Never lie and deceive.  When you have go back to those who deceived and straighten it out.  Nothing is more important in a relationship than trust.

Remember that love for God cannot be done at the same time you are loving money.

Be careful if you are a person who thinks you are better than others.  You must remember that you are close to God if you are because of His mercy and grace toward you.

Do not try to justify yourself.  Ask God for forgiveness, grace and mercy and receive it and pass it on to others.

If you are a forceful person be careful to not think you can force things on God or other people.  He is God and you are not.

Honor and respect God and His word.  Honor your mother and father.

Do not break your oaths and commitments to those you love.

Care for the poor and sick and the weak.  Do not use your strength to take advantage of the weak and powerless.  This is real life.  To use your strength or education or position to avoid caring for the weak and sick and powerless is not life.  It is torment.  Life here on earth affects what happens to us in the judgment and eternity after our death.

Luke 16.
¹⁹ “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. ²⁰ At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores ²¹ and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
²² “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. ²⁴ So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’
²⁵ “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. ²⁶ And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’
²⁷ “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, ²⁸ for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’
²⁹ “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’
³⁰ “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
³¹ “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”