November 2, 2015

DJ

Matthew 5:48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Always read verses in context. If we think we can achieve some sort of perfection in our lives we are only fooling ourselves.

Yes we can hope to become better at things and hope to better influence people, but if we want to achieve some sort of perfection we have to have a whole lot of outside help!

Christ is willing to make us perfect; but we should be willing to love the people around us just as He has asked us to.

Start with that love and invite Christ in to help you become a better person with His help!

November 1, 2015

DJ

Deuteronomy 18:13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.

When God was giving the people of Israel the rules and regulations about how to live He was not trying to create an impossible maze for the people to live in but pointing them toward how they should live.

Yes it may well seem impossible for us to live up to the rules and regulations in the bible, but they define a new way of living.

Man has always sought boundaries in which to live and God was defining them as clearly as possible.

One of two phrases sum up the purpose of the Commandments well; this being one of them.

October 31, 2015

DJ

Psalm 27:13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

We always have hope. That hope may seem very slim or even non-existent at times, but it is always there.

God made this hope real when He allowed Jesus, His Son, to die for our sins and make that hope very real.

We live in that hope; the goodness of God came through the promise Christ gave to us.

We do indeed live amongst the living.

October 30, 2015

DJ

Psalm 116:9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

When you invite God to be a part of your life you are making a very big change to your life; not just lifestyle but many things in your life change.

The psalmist expands this thought by saying their life is an open book to God; nothing can be or will be hidden from God.

They then give us all further hope by reminding us we are amongst Christians; we live amongst a living people, people who have life because we have a Saviour who gave it all for us!