Simply In His Word 8-5-13


I think its all how you look at it; are
you looking for an exciting story or are you looking for life giving
principles to live by?

Don't be a thief trying to only get in the New Testament without first understanding the Old.
It is important to read the old, as much as the new
because the new teaches us about the old and the old of the new. We
are taught in the old testament of things that would happen in the
new.
In our own lives
we can learn a lot by looking back and seeing how we went through
things before; both good and bad things we have been through have a
purpose.
The Lord brings
the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the
peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the
plans of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose
God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
Psalm 33:10-12

For you see your
calling, brethren that not many wise according to the flesh, not many
mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish
things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the
weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;
… that no flesh
should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who
became for us wisdom from God-- and righteousness and sanctification
and redemption-- that, as it is written, “ He who glories, let him
glory in the Lord,” 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
It is written was
written in Jeremiah, old story, Jeremiah 9:24.
God knows, God
knew, what we were going to walk through as people and wanted to help
us with a way out, so He sent His son to help us. Some days we walk
in our lives as if He is not in control, we think we an handle a
problem ourselves and so we do not ask for help. Other days we choose
to leave it in His hands because we realize life as we know it is a
lot easier to deal with if we just allow God to direct our paths, and
stop trying to figure it all out on our own. Proverbs 3:5-6
So if the old
story supports the new one, can our old life support our new life in
Christ? Well, yes and no. We find in our old self that we needed
Christ; our new self lives and walks an breaths Christ.
The life we lived
before our realization that we needed Him in our lives was a stepping
stone. The things we lived through alone with out Him may have been
harsh, or not, but either way we did it on our own and we had no idea
that God was waiting there with an outstretched hand until the light
bulb came on in our head illuminating the fact that Christ was always
there for us.
I think the light
bulb is the Holy Spirit; He opens our eyes to see and ears to hear
what He has for us; without Him we are left in darkness of this
world.
We would not know
that we cannot do things on our own if we did not try to live on our
own and realize the difficulty in trying to live as a perfect person.
People in the Bible proved to us in the OT that we are fallible, we
are weak and we are unable to walk a straight and narrow life without
help in our lives. We as people have fought to the death, we have
been ruthless, we have been mean and nasty; but God always forgave
us. Strange as it may seem the people of the olden days made a path
that shows us how they prospered in many ways when they were
following God's directions; as well as how they failed, were utterly
destroyed and made slaves when they did not.
So what can we
learn from those 'boring pages' of the Bible? We can learn to live
for Christ. To walk in His Word means to follow after what God would
have us do; He would that we follow Him.
So when you read
the Old Stories in the Bible this week lets stop and think about how
those people pointed the way to Christ.
When I first God
saved I had decided to believe the Word in the Gideon's New Testament
I had. When I read my first full Bible I found that the old supported
the new and little by little I decided I had to believe the whole
thing, or not at all.
Well, when I accepted that Christ was to be my Lord of all, I accepted 'all' of His Word as truth.
Well, when I accepted that Christ was to be my Lord of all, I accepted 'all' of His Word as truth.
So this week when
you read, think on these things.
Dear Heavenly
Father; thank you for your Word and Truth. Help us to understand what
and why You gave us in Your Word, our Bibles, and help us to apply
it all to our lives as You would have us do. In Jesus' name, amen.
Suggested
reading: John 10:1- Psalm 33:1-22, Jeremiah 9:1-25, 1 Corinthians
1:1-31.