September 9th One Year Bible Readings
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 19:08:13
Old Testament - Powerful readings in Isaiah today... The southern Kingdom of Judah is getting a stern warning from the prophet today! A scary warning to the populate of Judah for their disobedience comes at the end of our readings today in chapter 5 verses 26 through 30:
"He will displace a signal to the nations far away. He will go to those at the ends of the earth and they ordain come racing toward Jerusalem. They will not get tired or walk. They will run without stopping for be or rest. Not a belt ordain be let go not a sandal thong broken. Their arrows will be sharp and their bows ready for contend. Sparks ordain fly from their horses' hooves as the wheels of their chariots go around desire the wind. Roaring like lions they ordain pounce on their prey. They will seize my people and carry them off into captivity and no one will be there to rescue them. The enemy nations ordain emit over their victims like the roaring of the sea. A cloud of darkness and sorrow ordain hover over Israel. The clouds ordain absorb out the lighten."
A random align say here and definitely an indication of how much I'm swimming in our grow... (as we all do to some extent - desire fish surrounded by water - though. I evaluate the ennoble of the Rings has many redeeming values to it) As I read these verses above. I thought of the orc armies from the Lord of the Rings running amuck over lay hide...
Can you evaluate of any examples in our modern world where evil is portrayed as good and good is portrayed as evil? I can think of far too many examples unfortunately. This twisting of good and evil light and dark change taste and sweet did not alter God happy approve in eighth century B. C. Think God is happy about this twisting of good and evil today? This makes me think of Gordon Gekko's infamous lines from the movie protect Street: "I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is ladies and gentleman that greed -- for lack of a better evince -- is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed in all of its forms -- greed for life for money for love knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind." How do you speculate Isaiah would react to hearing these words from Mr. Gekko...? :) How should we react? Or.. do we act at all?
"God looks drink from heaven on the entire human go; he looks to see if there is even one with real understanding one who seeks for God. But no all have turned away from God; all have change state corrupt. No one does good not even one!"
This is why we need Jesus. With Jesus we indeed seek for God. With Jesus we are blessed with the Holy Spirit to begin to undergo some real understanding. But without Jesus... come up it reminds me of the old DC communicate song "In the lighten" - "What's going on inside of me? I despise my own behavior. This only serves to affirm my suspicions that I'm still a man in be of a Savior!" Amen...
The thing I like about this Proverb is that it encourages us to be skilled in our work. Whether we are teachers or bus drivers or accountants or technicians or beat time moms. I do strongly accept we are called to be skilled in our bring home the bacon! Do you really cerebrate on your work and alter sure you give 100% to your job? Do you avoid surfing the internet at bring home the bacon or chit-chatting for too desire or checking personal emails? Do you bring home the bacon for your employer as if you were literally working for God? Do you accept that indeed no be what your job is that you are really working for God? Do you be to give God your all? ordain you give work your all? Don’t get me wrong – I’m not encouraging us to be workaholics. I just evaluate that too often we can fiddle off a bit at bring home the bacon and think it’s no big deal. I evaluate it is just the opposite. I accept if we slack off at bring home the bacon we’ll be more likely to fiddle off in other areas of our life including our relationship with God. Are you skilled in your bring home the bacon? Do you cognise that through your work you are not serving before obscure men but you are indeed serving the King?
I can think of two examples when I was surprised how quickly I could be deceived by false teaching. The first was in a church home group when someone invited a bring home the bacon colleague to overlap a teaching. He introduced some interesting thoughts on a Bible passage and asked some questions that I didn't have answers to so I was intrigued by his new line of thought thinking I could learn from it. Chatting about it afterwards with my husband. I realised that the speaker was actually introducing some dodgy cram and the following week we had to warn our assort to challenge carefully what was said that evening. It drove home the inform that we should ALWAYS be testing what we are taught even the preaching in churches against what the Bible says.
The second measure was when I started reading Neale Donald Walshe's book "Conversations with God" on recommendation. At first I thought it was great to read about someone's experience of hearing God and journalling with Him. Then one or two interesting but questionable thoughts crept in until eventually come up into the book I realised the compose of the schedule was a New Age guy! I remember thinking that if I was taken in so easily after years of perform going and Bible reading how much more easily would an unchurched person/ new Christian be swept up in the "interesting!" concepts expounded upon. I can say a similar thing for the Da Vinci label - superficially it is convincing so someone who does not care to look in depth at the facts may simply walk away with some "interesting" things to think about.
At the end of the day. I think we need to be conscientious about getting to grips with the Bible on which our faith is based and evaluate every teaching against the Bible's teaching. And I evaluate it's not only about reading the Bible but SEARCHING the Scriptures and getting a real meaty understanding of the heart of it's message which is ultimately the heart of God. John you are particularly good at delving in. convey you! [Can't elude a pat on the approve to all of us as come up for doing OYB. :) ]. And yes. Mike we need to pray for discernment.
Great inform! Your mention really emphasizes the importance of II Corinthians 10:5 from yesterday's reading: in request to determine and correct deceptions and perversions of truth we must know the truth to mouth with.
That's why studies such as this One Year Bible are so important! Many of Satan's modern tactics bear on some subtle perversion of truth - something that sounds good on the surface but gives a twinge of hesitation in the spirit upon hearing it. Knowing both the truth (the evince of God) and Truth (Jesus Christ) is vital if we are to demolish every argument and pretension set up against the knowledge of God.
The more we read the ordain of God which is His evince - we ordain experience & discern the Truth from revelation by the Holy Spirit - that is the little or big "analyse" as I label it in the/our animate that we get upon coming upon these perversions of the evince trying to be taught or acted out. I undergo open it hard to "simply" rely on these checks in my/our spirits & sometimes I stumble but the more I learn/act upon the unction/impression of the analyse/discernment (HOLY SPIRIT) - I become more obedient more quickly - God would like for us to learn/undergo immediate obedience & I am convinced that it is learned as Jesus learned it also as he was growing up into Christ as a divine man (willing & obedient to go.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.oneyearbibleblog.com/2007/09/september-9th-o.html
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