June 6, 2013

DJ

1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

When we do read God’s Word and take that truth into our hearts we do find that God continually teaches us to love others; although it is a commandment in some places, here it is a consequence of us following His Word and being led by the Spirit.

If we are willing to listen to God and to obey His Gospel as it has been given to us, then we should by inference continue to love other people and to lift them up as we do ourselves.

It should not be under duress but through the love that He gives us to share with others that we do this. God loved us in the beginning and that love needs to come out of us toward others.

June 5, 2013

DJ

2 Peter 3:1 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.

We must not forget that our bibles are actually written by human hands and that some of them are letters written by people to other people as words of encouragement and guidance.

Because they are so important they have been included in what we call our bibles because the people that wrote them were guided by God to write them. God wants us to think along His lines and not to be swayed by worldly ways.

Reading our bibles will help us to remember His ways and help us to think more along His lines that of worldly ways where we could quite easily get lost in our own devices.

June 4, 2013

DJ

Hebrews 2:1 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

Have you ever sat down to try and work out how important instructions are in a project? Have you ever thought about how important God’s instructions to us are?

God gave us the bible so that we would know His Word, His instructions, His wishes, His rules and His ways. They are a very important part of our lives and one that too many people cast aside as being unimportant.

If we wonder why things go wrong we should also wonder if we are in fact listening to God when we should be – if we are not then we may well drift far away from God and the truth…

June 3, 2013

DJ

Proverbs 3:1 My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands;

God’s Word is important; just how important it is is not something that can be measured easily or by simple words. It is only after you have brought it into your life that you realise how much you need it.

Keeping the gospel in the forefront of your mind is just as important as keeping your own personal safety in constant thought. Just as your safety will only truly be found out when something breaks through, so too will it be too late after finding out that it was important after all!

God wants us safe and secure and not just waiting for something bad to happen before we realise we should have tried earlier…