October 9, 2021

Exodus 10:17 Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me.

How good are you at admitting when things go wrong? How good are you at blaming someone when things go wrong?

We don't have to look at our modern world to see how much of a blame game is going on in the whole world, we can look back over millennia to see how we do just as our ancestors have done!

When God was showing Pharaoh just who was God, Pharaoh continued to chance his arm every time things went bad...

Are you like Pharaoh?

October 8, 2021

Luke 11:3 Give us each day our daily bread.

The disciples were lucky enough to learn a lot from Jesus as He taught them; but I'm pretty sure they learned a lot more living their lives afterward.

We don't have to shut ourselves away from the world in order to learn about God!

If we can identify what God does in the world around us, then we can learn a lot more about Him through our daily lives!

October 7, 2021

Psalm 103:19 The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.

When we see similar words at the beginning of the Lord's Prayer, we don't often go back to our Old Testament to see where they come from...

Jesus based all He taught on the words God had already given the Israelites through the prophets and kings...

We need to reconcile both 'halves' of our bibles to see the whole picture Jesus was trying to teach us. Don't ignore parts of the bible because you think they are too difficult to read!

October 6, 2021

Ephesians 3:19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

The closer we get to God, the better our relationships with others get, not because they are Christians as well, but because we try to live by God's love in our lives!

God wants us to share this love Christ shared with us – we need to draw on this love in everything we don in our lives.

We may not be able to understand the depth of Christ's love for us, but if we aim to have that love with others, life would be so much better for all!