Daily(ish) Truth

I'm sorry for the lull in posts. As I get back into the Word, God has shown me so many wonderful and convicting truths that it will take me more time to faithfully work through them all. So I wanted to take this time to write a quick personal note. Something that the Lord has shown me recently (well not really recently, it is something that I have always known but never really let myself acknowledge or share with others) is that I have a crippling fear of being found out. This fear is rooted deeply in my pride and cripples me from fully fulfilling God's call to love others. The only way I know how to kill pride is to humble yourself before others and put your insecurities out there. So, my fear is that other people will know that I don't have my act together and that what they see is sometimes a front. To love others is to help focus them on and point them to Christ, and this fear of being found out deters me from that. I find that many times I do not direct conversa...

Continuing the journey through 1 John, I am in chapter 2 and in just the first six verses the Lord has shown me a stumbling block in my walk. Far to often I focus on the "big" roadblocks in my relationship with Christ: my pride that fools me into believing that I could and should plan what I think will be best for my life (I am not advocating that you don't ever plan, I just tend to plan selfishly on what I think will make me the happiest and most comfortable while not being open to how best I can serve God at any given time) and my tendency to lose sight of God as a need. In the latter, I find myself selfishly trying to minimize God into something that is just a good thing that benefits me, and not seeing him as God, my Lord, Father, and Savior that I dedicate my life to glorifying and serving. As you can see those are two very different views which I believe will lead to two very different eternities. Now to the text: "And by this we know that we have come to know...

Disclaimer: The majority of these posts will be me trying to work through and dig into the Bible. I am not a theologian, a seminary student, I haven't even read the whole Bible, but I want to know the Lord and I know that Bible is His word. 2 Timothy 3:15-17 "and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 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 competent, equipped for every good work." This is my goal that I may be a man of God that is competent to follow His will and equipped for every good work for His glory. So I pray that through this God will be glorified and that anyone that stumbles upon these will not take my word for what the Bible says but will search the scriptures themselves and come to know the Lord more the intimately as He so desperate...

Sometimes it is the simple things and messages that bring about the most profound change. Possibly the most basic and simple truth about God hit me a few days ago, and it has brought me out of the spiritual drought that I've been in this past week or so. God loves you. That's all. God is perfect love, and Christ is the perfect example of biblical love (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). This truth has led me to 1 John, especially chapter 4."In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins" 1 John 4:10.  Our entire life is based off this wonderful truth, that we are capable of life much less love only because God loves us so much that he sent his son to be the propitiation (atoning sacrifice) for our sins. We are only capable of love because of God's love for us. No one of this world, family, friends, even spouses, will ever know you as intimately as God our creator knows you (Jeremiah 1:5). So think about th...