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During my quiet time today I was reading in I Kings and ran unexpectedly ran across a verse that showed true obedience to God.
The verse is I Kings 12:24 and is God speaking to the son Solomon after his kingdom has been removed from him for the sins of his father. God did allow Solomons son, King Rehoboam, to keep one tribe so that the name of his servant David would live on. When this happened King Rehoboam began to assemble troops from the tripe of Judah and Benjamin to regain his kingdom. This is where the verse comes in, it is God's messenger talking to Rehoboam. I Kings 12:24: This is what the Lord says: Do not go up to fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Go home every one of you, for this is my doing." So they obeyed the Word of the Lord and went home again, as the Lord had ordered. To me this is awesome. You have a group of men and a king who desperately wants his kingdom back who completely submits himself to the will of the Lord and does away with his fleshly desires. He did not even question God's word he just simply obeyed him, unlike today where we would have asked a million questions instead of just accepting the fact that God knows better than we do and has a reason for everything.
If we as Christians would show this type of obedience to God in our daily walk with him I believe our relationship with God and our faith in Him would grow stronger than ever. If we would just listen to Him instead of always doing all of the talking and just do his will for our lives instead of the sinful desires of our flesh.So just remember no matter wha the situation is God always knows what is best no matter what you think is best.
Well I hope you found this verse to be a useful in your christian walk has I have in mine and I hope I wasn't to confusing.
To God we give all the praise and Glory
in Jesus Christ Name
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I was just reading my bible and doing my quite time when I ran across these awesome verses:
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and discipline;
Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding
Just thought I would share them
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Man, I'm sure that many of you struggle with time issues. I know I do all the time. I always find myself juggling a million things at once. Two things that I have really tried to incorporate into my daily routine is a daily prayer time and quiet time; this can sometimes be very difficult in todays society. So, far I have not been as consistent as I would like to be, but what I have found is that when I do have these quiet times and daily prayer that I have a lot more peace about my day and a lot more confidence about my walk with Christ. I used to think that I could just be a Christian and not do these things, but once I really began to realize what being a Christian meant I also realized that I can not even begin to live a Christian life with out God's word by myside and his voice in my heart and that it takes more than just asking him into your hearts. I know I stumble more often than not, but I still try to commit time to God everyday, so that I can figure out what exactly God wants me to do with my life.
God Bless,
Jared
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Hi again, hope everyone has recovered from the much inticipated Red vs. Blue softball game although the outcome was not exactly how I had invisioned it, well enough of that "jibba jabba" we need to get down to buisness which has to deal with....... You guessed it the one and only GOD himself. So, as some of your may know I have been a believer in Jesus Christ since The Passion Confrence in Nashville Tenn. in Jan. of 2006- This was when I asked Jesus into my heart and asked hime to be my Savior...Since then I have seen drastic changes in my life such as cleaning up my language and leaving a job that was not helping me in my Christian walk... however , God has done a lot of work in my life since this last visit to the Passion confrence in Jan of 2007. Over the past five months I have increased my bible reading and prayer by about 90% and I have dove deeper into the word of God then I have ever done before in my Life. Over the past five months I have strengthend my relationship with God, been baptised, and have gained a sense of peace and meaning in my life through Jessu Christ. I know what your thinking, this guy just has it going on and life must be so easy for him, if this is what you are thinking than let me be the first to inform you that that is the farthest from the truth. I still struggle with things everyday just like any other christian does. The big one that I struggle with and I am sure most you over the age of 13 have stuggled with this at one time or are struggling with it currently, I am talking about sexual temptation. This is a struggle that plagues us all the time because we have society trying to tell us it is ok to be sexually impure, but we know that Gods word says otherwise. Recently, in our college bible study group we have embarked on a new bible study in which we confront the sexual issues and learn to overcome them using Gods word as our guide. This study, although we have just started, has really opened my eyes to just how sinful sexual sin is and I only wish I would have had a study like this when I was growing up. The study is called Every Young Mans Battle and the girl version is Every Young Womans Battle and if you every have the opportunity to embark on this study I highly reccomend it because it will really help with your struggle with sexual sin. Well its about time for me to give my farewells...........God Bless
Jared
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| Not really sure what exactly a blog is at this point in time. I wonder who invented the blog and why they decided to call it a blog? Food for thought. Oh, sorry I get carried away sometimes. I am guessing that a blog is a place where people can write about different inter personal issues or just issue that people deal with in modern day society. I guess people could also just ramble on forever and ever about nothing in particular and call it a blog as well. Oh, while I am thinking about it me and Tamara have finally set a date for all those interested and it is October 25, 2008 as of right now. This date is fairly solid given that we do not have a unforseen circustances that may hinder this plan in the days to come.... Back to the subject at hand.... a blog.... since I have recently participated in a believers baptism I feel a compeling need to write about all the events that happen in my life that are willed by God( which should be everything) as I grow each day stronger in my faith. With this being said I pray that God will bless this "blog" so that it may help someone dealing with similar issues in their lives and so that they will know that hardships are not the end but just a challenge, and that with God all things are possible---Amen Know before I end I would also like to pre-apologize to all the English Majors out there in computer land and anyone else who actually reads this blog for any spelling or gramitical errors. You would think after 3 years of college I could spe1l words the correctly... Thank goodness for spell check..............Bye for know and God Bless
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