Proverbs 2
If you accept my words...
If you call out for insight...
If you look for it...
Then you will understand the fear of the LORD...
Then you will understand what is right and just...
Then you will walk in the ways of good men...
Romans 7:15
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
Wisdom is there for the taking. Solomon laid out the path and the steps we need to take. Accept the words of God, live the teachings of Jesus and we will have wisdom. Call out for insight. Seek wisdom as a treasure hunter would pursue a long lost fortune, go on a quest for wisdom.
Look beyond self, look past personal importance, seek the greater gift to be shared. Then and only then will wisdom be found.
Remember, times and seasons of life come when we won't do the things we know we should do. We will hate what we do, and when that happens:
Accept His words...
Call out...
Search for it...
The we will:
Understand the fear of the LORD
Understand righteousness and justice
Walk with God and good men
When we forget, keep searching, we will find.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Three Things
Your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope. Faith produces works, love results in labor, and hope leads to endurance. These three, faith, hope, and love all come to us through Christ. When we obey, these three flow through us.
Faith in Jesus produces good works in us. Love from Jesus and for him prompts holy and righteous labor. Hope in Jesus results gives us the endurance to continue on.
As a Christ follower, the goal for me is to learn all I can and to grow all I can so that I may be available for the work God has prepared for me in advance. I don't grow for the sake of growing, I grow so that I may be useful in pointing others to Christ. Being a Christ follower means to do as he did.
He came, he healed, he taught, he died, he rose. He did that all out of love. He was and is the chosen one, the messiah. Never once did he deviate from his divine mission. He gave love because he is love. He gave hope because he is hope. He is faithful, and because of that we have faith. When we love God and love others we are love, hope, and faith to the world.
Faith in him leads to faith in others, love from him leads to loving others, hope in him brings hope to the world. Faith, hope, and love, three reasons we grow.
Faith in Jesus produces good works in us. Love from Jesus and for him prompts holy and righteous labor. Hope in Jesus results gives us the endurance to continue on.
As a Christ follower, the goal for me is to learn all I can and to grow all I can so that I may be available for the work God has prepared for me in advance. I don't grow for the sake of growing, I grow so that I may be useful in pointing others to Christ. Being a Christ follower means to do as he did.
He came, he healed, he taught, he died, he rose. He did that all out of love. He was and is the chosen one, the messiah. Never once did he deviate from his divine mission. He gave love because he is love. He gave hope because he is hope. He is faithful, and because of that we have faith. When we love God and love others we are love, hope, and faith to the world.
Faith in him leads to faith in others, love from him leads to loving others, hope in him brings hope to the world. Faith, hope, and love, three reasons we grow.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Trust
What is it that I and others trust in? Do we trust in the power of money? Do we trust in the power that we think money will provide us with? Do we desire the power we think money will provide? Recent economic circumstances have reduced fortunes great and small to shadows of their former glory. The answer is clear, wealth alone does not last and cannot be relied upon or trusted in.
Do we trust in our government and elected officials? This too seems to be folly, our leaders are no different from us. Vanity and ego's get in the way of potential, theirs and mine. We are more like than unlike, that makes trust tough. What then, is left to trust in? For me it's not what is left to trust in, it is who is left to trust in.
God is who he says he is. "I am who am." God does what he says he will do. God calls us to him. Do we listen for his voice, can we recognize his voice?
The Pharisees and Sadducee's were amazed by Jesus. They marvelled at his teachings and miracles. After they marvelled, scriptures tell us they left him and went away. (Mt 22:22) It's possible to marvel at Christ without following him. It's also possible to marvel and follow after him, trust this truth.
Do we trust in our government and elected officials? This too seems to be folly, our leaders are no different from us. Vanity and ego's get in the way of potential, theirs and mine. We are more like than unlike, that makes trust tough. What then, is left to trust in? For me it's not what is left to trust in, it is who is left to trust in.
God is who he says he is. "I am who am." God does what he says he will do. God calls us to him. Do we listen for his voice, can we recognize his voice?
The Pharisees and Sadducee's were amazed by Jesus. They marvelled at his teachings and miracles. After they marvelled, scriptures tell us they left him and went away. (Mt 22:22) It's possible to marvel at Christ without following him. It's also possible to marvel and follow after him, trust this truth.
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