Saturday, November 28, 2015

There are no Jews, no Greeks, etc (the people of the church)

t God tells us from the get-go to love each other. Have love in our hearts and bear no grudges toward one another. In that way we will be keeping His commandments. He wants us to be in obedience to the extent that not even food or clothing should be com-mingled with food or clothing that God doesn't want us to use. And He tells us to be hospitable to people not in our general community. Why? Because He loves and wants all people to come to Him, and food and clothing are not given the same consideration as other people, at least by God. He loves living beings. He uses inanimate objects. That's the difference. (Leviticus 19:18,19,34)

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Who am I? My relationship with God through prayer

God considers me among His highest and most valuable possessions. Not only that but He considers me as useful to Him and helpful. (Song of Solomon 1:9). He considers me beautiful. (Song of Solomon 1:15) And He considers me gentle and harmless and loving in nature and He wants me with Him. (Song of Solomon 2:2-14) And He excites me to love Him. (Song is Solomon 5:2) In fact, I want to spend every waking moment with Him, even though I am told to not disturb Him (Song of Solomon 3:5, 8:4). But I am mindful of Jesus telling His apostles not to prohibit the children from coming to sit by Him. And He loves me to come by Him and to sit with Him. (Song of Solomon 4:1,7; 6:4)

Friday, November 13, 2015

There is Jews, Greeks, etc. (part 3)

We are His and because we are His we are interconnected to one another. Sometimes we don't realize that and we dispute with each other over trivial matters to the point of breaking up the church. But if we learn that while we are all His we are also independent thinkers and all have our own decisions, choices, experiences and wisdom we will be able to love one another as God does us, because we are like parts of the body. This is why Paul stressed this to the churches, so that they would learn this and live in peace with one another. (1 Thessalonians 5:13)

Saturday, November 7, 2015

There are no Jew, no Greeks, (part 2)

God chose us, to be His church, to be His children, to live with Him forever. But what we often forget is that He chose us, and He gives us every opportunity to choose Him and His lifestyle and walk as He walked. (Ephesians1:4) The only way to do this is to become deeply rooted in Him. (Ephesians 3:17)