More -In His Word 11-13-17
Today’s people seem to want more; more cars, more food, more
money, more hope. They want more than they need but they need more than they
want. I say this because what they really need is more of Him, or more time
spent in His Word!
Lately as I read it is sporadic, somewhat random places that
I travel through in His Word. I have been walking with Jacob after he wrestled
with God and knew the plans He had for him; I have walked with Paul out of the
jail cell alone with Silas when they let him go because of the power of God and
yet he stayed to be properly removed. I have also walked with Jesus as He sat
with a hand full of men, including Peter, on a beach and spoke wisdom into
their lives to strengthen them for the live they would lead. In all of these reads I have been drawn into
the visual of where they were and I felt as if I were there. This is what
happens when I spend more time in my Bible. Who have you visited this week? 
Was it Mary as she ran to visit Elizabeth? Or perhaps you
were a bystander on the road to Damascus with Paul?
Maybe you were able to touch the hem of His garment
alongside the road when Jesus walked by?
No matter what we are walking through in life there is a
peacefulness that can come when we spend a little more time in our Bible reads.
Especially if we stop to think about what we read when we close the book. I am
not saying you have to be a Bible Scholar, but that we all should stop and
think about what we read each day and ask God what we are to do with it.
Many shall nations shall come and say; Come and let us go up
to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us
His ways, and we shall walk in His paths, for out of Zion the law shall go
forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Micah 4:2
I ask myself how can He teach me of ‘His ways’ if I do not
read of them and pray to Him to ask for guidance? If you continue on you find
that we will be assembled and gathered together to learn, to grow closer to Him
and do walk in His way. Before we can walk in it we must know what it is all
about and were it is in the first place. In all of our lives we must know the
Word of God to grow stronger, healthier, more prosperous in many ways.
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an
apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— the
gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy
Scripture regarding his Son, who as to his earthly
life was a descendant of David, and who through the
Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his
resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. Through
him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the
obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake. And
you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:1-6
We too are called to be set apart for the gospel of God. We
too are given power by the Holy Spirit that we can do all that God has called
us to do and be; but if we do not read the Word and pray, how will we know it
is true?
For all things are for your sakes that grace, having spread
through the many cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. Therefore,
we do not lose heart, even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward
man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction is but for a moment,
is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, for we do
not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.
For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen
are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:15-18
If anyone serves Me let him follow Me and where I am, there
My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. John
12:26
When I first ‘got saved’ or ‘found Jesus’ or whatever word
you choose to call the time that you first believed; I did not think I believed
the full Word of God. The truth was I had never read it. The more I read the
New Testament, the more I learned that there were references to the Old
Testament. Eventually I realized that there was so much more to learn about
Jesus in the O.T. and I had a firm desire to study it out and read it through
and figure out just what God was all about so that I could live a life pleasing
to Him.
That is what our lives are all about; our purpose, our
calling, our needs are all to follow God and do what He desires for us to do.
He just allows us some other things to do to grow us into the man or woman that
He chose for us to be.
It could be that we do not realize the perfection in our
Father’s guidance through His Word, it could be that we just do not get it, but
He has a plan for each of our days. In fact it says in Matthew 10:30, that the
very hairs of our head are counted. Jeremiah 29 tells us He knows the plans He
has for us. He knows us in detail but it
is our job to know Him and know His peace.
If we struggle and struggle through life trying to do things
on our own and keep making the wrong choices then we will keep falling in the
same mud. It is only when we relinquish that desire to control everything and
remember to put our faith in God to literally direct us that we can have
eternal peace.
I am not saying that things will always go right, we are
humans and we will definitely get into some trouble in our lives but God has a
plan He has a way out when we get ourselves there. The plan is found In His
Word!
So I pray today that you will totally turn your plan over to
His plans for your life today. Stop worrying what is next and truly let go of
the stress and let God take it on.
I am speaking from the heart today because I stress over
everything from which travel cup will or will not fit in the cup holder to
whether it will leak if I knock it over and make a mess. Yes, I am telling on
myself! I need to let go and let God take the controls and stop being such a
micro-manager! I do mean micro! I know the truth I know my God has the control
but that I keep pulling on the reigns. It is had to believe that my God will
take on the minor things in life, but as my husband said to me today; I need to
have faith in God. I need to truly believe that God has my back and just go
with it!
For the weapons of our warfare are
not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting
down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of
God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and
being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. 2
Corinthians 10:4-6
Dear Heavenly Father, Help us today to totally trust n You,
to follow what You say in the Word of God and to keep our eyes on the finish
knowing that You really do have our best interest at heart. Help us to gather
more wisdom, more guidance and more of You; in Jesus’ name, amen.
Suggested Readings 2 Corinthians 10: 1-17, 2 Corinthians
4:1-18, Psalm 51:1-19 and John 12:1-50.