Day 13

Derrick


Psalm 13:5 "But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation."
It’s so true, I've never been so happy, I've never rejoiced so much, than in my salvation. I don't understand how a sinner like myself can be declared right. I don't understand a lot of things in the Bible. Given the trinity, God is 3 yet He is 1, hurts my brain. Do I understand everything about the Bible, No, but i believe what the Bible says.


A lot of people tend to take what they believe and put it into the Bible. While I take what the Bible says and believe it. The written Word of God is and always will be my only guideline. I do not take other books or writings and put them in the same awe inspired place as the Scriptures. Do I read other things, yes, but I understand that everything outside of the Bible can be fallible, while the Bible in and of itself (in original writing i.e. the manuscripts written in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic) are the inspired word of God.


 2 Timothy 3:16-17 "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." this is my favorite verse, i use it often, and come back to it a lot. When Paul wrote the words "all scripture" he was referring to both OT and NT writings... just jog over to 2 Peter 3 to see that even Peter understood that Paul's writings were Scripture... WOW...


2 Peter 3:15-16 "And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."

I got off on a tangent today and was amazed at where the trail took me... I'm passionate that Christ died for my sin, that He was buried, that He rose again, and now He wants a personal relationship with me. Do i understand it? Not one bit, my brain can't understand why the God of all Creation, would pick me. BUT I BELIEVE IT.... AND I AM JOYOUS THAT IT IS TRUE....




PRAISE GOD... I am forgiven...and one day I will be in heaven.

Kayla-


I want to talk about the passage from Luke where it talks about being a light. I love that. But, we have to be careful. Luke tells us that after a lamp is lit, it's not hidden. It also tells us that the light in us can be a light of goodness, or a light of darkness. I'm not positive but it says it all comes from our eyes, so it makes me think that this can be our attitudes, how we see others, how we see the life we have been blessed with. So we have to be careful about how we are viewing things and what we let ourselves see. We are the light of the world. Let's let God shine through. 


Blessings.