You won’t feel saved until you totally surrender to God!

You won’t feel saved until you totally surrender to God!

«No matter your religion, you won’t feel “saved” until you finally let the Almighty deliver you from the snare that is your ego's self exaltation. Why? Because, as long as you refuse to give Him full control of your life [thereby placing ego “into the back seat”], your conscience will keep nagging at you-- constantly reminding that you’re not treating Him as your real Ruler and King, but rather as a sort of “respectable” [but not indispensable] “Advisor” (or “Business partner”)-- the latter being the sort of vain and false egalitarianism Hebrew Scripture goes on to rebuke, when saying: “… Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in hearkening to the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee… Trust in the LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding”- 1 Samuel 15: 22-23, & Proverbs 3: 5 (JPS, 1917 Edition)»

Atheism: America's new religion

A person is not religious solely when he worships a Divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the complete submission of his will, and the whole-souled ardour of fanatism at the service of a cause or an individual who becomes the goal and guide of his thoughts and actions.
Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, disbelief would exhibit all the intolerant ardour of a religious sentiment, and in it's exteriors forms would soon become a cult. In this regard, it could be properly said that atheism, homosexual rights, political correctness, social acceptance, fame, money, sex, and power have become America's new religion.

The sad moral bankruptcy of modern Western societies

If we were asked to describe our current culture, three concepts would come to mind: First, our society is characterized by MORAL RELATIVISM. In other words, there is no absolute authority, there is no transcendent, inviolable law. There is no standard against which we are measured. Every individual is his own personal authority and determiner of what is right or wrong for him.
A second defining characteristic of our society is PERSONAL FREEDOM. While moral relativism says there is no governing authority over us, personal freedom says there are no rules to follow—the only cultural value that matters is our absolute autonomy. Any decision a person makes is valid solely because it is what he or she wants.
“My body, my choice” is far more than a pro-abortion slogan—it’s the indisputable justification for every life decision. There are no guidelines you need to follow except those you choose to adopt. Personal freedom has become the ultimate virtue. The only thing our society won’t tolerate is being intolerant of someone else’s decisions. Finally, and closely linked to the first two concepts, we live in a society completely engulfed in POSTMODERNISM, a commitment to the notion that there is no such thing as objective, absolute truth. MODERNISM was defined as the pursuit of truth—the attempt by way of human discovery to understand truth, discern truth, define truth.
But today’s postmodern society says the truth we’ve been looking for doesn’t even exist. In a postmodern world, everything is relative—you create your own reality and define your own truth.
It’s no wonder then that lying and lies are so brazen and pervasive today. If there is no right or wrong, if we are free to create our own reality, and if there is no such thing as absolute truth, the concepts of lying and telling the truth lose all meaning. In that moral quagmire, telling the truth is no longer valued or a virtue.
Government, academia, media, business—every human institution embraces lying as a way of life. That’s how you end up with a culture that asserts that love is hate, hate is love, good is evil, evil is good, normal is perverse, and perverse is normal. Introduce into the equation the Internet, and you have the ability to fabricate, perpetuate, and reinforce lies literally on a global scale.
As a result, resistance and hostility to the Hebrew Scripture is intense and widespread. That God’s Law is absolute, objective, divine truth that makes demands on us is the most counter-cultural and inflammatory claim you can possibly make. The days of at least a superficially peaceful coexistence between the secular and the religious world are over. The world is in rebellion against God and Scripture, and will do everything it can to obliterate truth, elevate lies, and silence those who preach any form of ethical monotheism. May the Holy One [blessed be He] have mercy of us!