Beulah Foundation for Christ

       Listening to an argument the other day about 'Nature versus Nurture', got me thinking about our lives as sons of God in a dark and depraved world. Many believe 'Nurture' trumps 'Nature' every time. Why? Because it is believed that 'Nurture' carries within it love. However, we have seen some anomalies with these results. In the sense that many persons that were 'nurtured' still grew up with narcissistic, wicked behaviours, devoid of love and the attributes of love. What this shows, over and over again is that we cannot receive or give love if it is not centred on God!         When we bring this back home, many in the Body lack the warmth of love; thus, they cannot receive nor can they give it. Many congregations are devoid of the attributes of love. They may belong to the same fold, yet they have no love for each other! Many claim to be Born Again by accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord. Yet they are devoid of love for others but themselves

       The Psalmist declared, "God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God" (Psalm 62:11). Like him, we have heard God speak His Word to us through the Scriptures, and we have seen the manifestation of His Word in and around us. God is real and His Word is true! As sons of God, we attest to this truth not only because we read them in the Bible, but because we have experiential knowledge that it is the truth! In the days of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Esau, the Word of God was the passing down of God's instructions from one generation to another. Abraham taught it to his sons, and his son in turn taught it to his sons. However, we would see that not all the sons in each generation lived by what they had been taught.         One such character is Esau. He lived in the same house with Jacob, and a favorite of his father, yet, he did not understand or yield to the instructions of his father. If he had, he would not have turned his future into a curr