Psalm 9:10 – “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” How would you like to receive some of God’s best and most precious blessings? How would you like to have God watch over you, guard you, and deliver you from evil people and their plans? What about living your life in security while at the same time avoiding fears, anxious thoughts, and the dread of disaster? Does that sound appealing? All of these things and many other amazing blessings come to the person who acquires God’s wisdom. (Proverbs 1-3) So how do we get God’s wisdom? Is it only for “special” people like Solomon? God had Solomon write Proverbs to explain to us that His wisdom is for anyone who wants it. He even explains where to start. Proverbs 9:10 quoted ... Read More about The Worth of Godly Wisdom
I Have a Purpose
Psalm 138:8 – “The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.” Sometimes I feel incredibly insignificant. The majority of things I get to do in life seem small, slight, and of no importance except to just get through the day and meet its demands. I don’t think I’m alone in that feeling. All of us have a longing for our lives to matter, but on the surface of our routine and occasionally mundane existence it’s honestly sometimes hard to find significance. I was very encouraged when I read Psalm 138 today. The promise that ‘The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me,” confirms to me that God absolutely has one for me. Thank God, I have a purpose and He will make sure that He (not I) will fulfil it! That is ... Read More about I Have a Purpose
Finding Hope in Hopeless Situations
Psalm 131 – “O Lord, my heart in not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.” Hopeless is an absolutely devastating place to find yourself. Even as a follower of Jesus I have been in situations that felt utterly hopeless, and I can say from experience, that having no hope is crushing and leads very quickly to despair. In my own experience I found it helpful to remind myself that my feelings can and quite often will lie to me. In fact, as Jesus said in John 8:32, it is only the truth that will set you free. The truth for us in those ... Read More about Finding Hope in Hopeless Situations
What God Is Waiting to Give You
Matthew 7:7 – “Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.” Most of you are familiar with the longest chapter in the Bible, Psalm 119 with 176 verses. It covers over six pages in my Bible. Any time you try to follow a daily Bible reading plan Psalm 119 is usually given it’s own day due to it’s length. I have a new Bible, and I am reading my way through it, but I have not set myself a time limit. So when I got to Psalm 119, I decided to take my time and meditate on the verses and I was amazed at what God showed me. In Matthew 7 Jesus tells His followers to ask God for things, but most of us are at a loss for knowing what we should be asking God for. What’s amazing to me about Psalm 119 is that in parts of it, David lists many things ... Read More about What God Is Waiting to Give You
What God Is Waiting to Give You
Matthew 7:7 – “Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.” Most of you are familiar with the longest chapter in the Bible, Psalm 119 with 176 verses. It covers over six pages in my Bible. Any time you try to follow a daily Bible reading plan Psalm 119 is usually given its own day due to its length. I have a new Bible, and I am reading my way through it, but I have not set myself a time limit. So when I got to Psalm 119, I decided to take my time and meditate on the verses, and I was amazed at what God showed me. In Matthew 7 Jesus tells His followers to ask God for things, but most of us are at a loss for knowing what we should be asking God for. What’s amazing to me about Psalm 119 is that in parts of it David lists many things ... Read More about What God Is Waiting to Give You
We Have the Mind of Christ
I Corinthians 2:16 – “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.” Paul says this amazing statement almost as an after thought. As believers in Jesus Christ…as those who possess the Holy Spirit of God; we have also been given the mind of Christ. That is astonishing if you think about it. For those of us who trust in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, God has not just given us salvation and citizenship in heaven, by His grace and by the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts we can think like Jesus. Which means that when those powerful temptations come upon us; the ones Satan knows he can always get us with, now, in Christ, we can say “NO”. What an awesome weapon! All we have to do is say “no”, which, because of Jesus, we can do now. ... Read More about We Have the Mind of Christ