Fabulously Humble

Is true humility shrinking away from being noticed at all? Wasn't Jesus a walking light among people? Didn't he show God to the world even though it made the Pharisees angry enough to literally kill him?

It seems every time we are taught about humility, it is to shrink away from being ourselves and in a way it is, but it is so that we can allow the glory of God to shine through us. We can't do that if we stay in the background trying to blend into it.

Trust in the Lord...

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV)

How many times do we depend on our own worldly ways to take care of ourselves and our families? How many times do we think that we know more about our own situations than God possibly could? Maybe we think that He does not have time to care or maybe it is not important enough to bother God with? How often do we hear from God AND are we even listening?

God tells us in the above Scripture that we should completely trust in Him without trying to understand and to simply acknowledge Him and He will show us where we need to go. That sounds so easy, so why is it so hard to do?

Psalm 37:3-4 (NKJV) tells us to, “Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.”

Again, simply trust in Him and do good. Stay and grow by His faithfulness to us, but in return, we are to enjoy our relationships with Him. In doing so, he will give us whatever our hearts desire. Are we getting the desires of our hearts?

We should be in a constant state of joy because being in a relationship with Him is the ultimate high. When and how are we going to finally say, "Okay, Lord, here it is? I will no longer doubt your will for me. I am giving You charge of my life. I am releasing it to You. You have known me since before I was born. You know my future. I trust You with my life, my family, my job, my finances, and my health. Your will be done, not mine. I am trusting in You. In Jesus’ Precious Name, Amen."

Paul tells us in Romans 8:38-39 (NKJV), “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

How can we not trust in love like that?

May God Bless You Some More!

God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit

After my tearful realization that I had not allowed God to work in my life and I certainly had not worked for Him, I could not find enough books about prayer, Jesus, life in the church, bible studies, etc. to satisfy my hunger for "more."  I bought no telling how many books that I just knew would help me grow as a Christian and prepare me for my "ministry."

I would open a book and read a chapter or two and put it down.  I would open up another one and read a chapter or two and put it down.  Later, I would find the first one and not even remember that I had started it.  The same with the second one.  Then, as I prayed one day, God stopped my book reading and told me that I needed to get to know His Son before He would allow me to go further in my pursuit of knowledge.  He was the One putting the brakes on my reading causing me to lose interest before I got started well.  So I bought another book, Jesus, the Authorized Biography, by Gary C. Wharton.  I thought this would be easier for me to understand since it put everything in chronological order, satisfying my quest for analyzing everything.  You got it....wrong, again.  I could not get anything out of it even though it was based in Scripture. It is a good book and I have read it since, but I was directed, you guessed it, to God's Word, where I should have started.

So that's where we're going with this...to God's Word.  The book of John, to be specific.  John was one of Jesus' inner circle.  He is credited with writing the book of John, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John and Revelation.  His purpose in the book of John was to tell about the Divine nature of Jesus...that He was indeed the Son of God, the Christ, and the Word from the beginning to the end, the Alpha and the Omega.

John 1:1-5 (NKJV)  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.  And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."

John starts, not with the birth of Jesus, but with the statement that Jesus existed before the world existed and that He was with God as all things were made and that He was God.   That can be confusing, and the way that I simplify the Trinity is by making each part of it a separate "being" if you will, in my mind.  Maybe this will help you, as well....

God is Spirit and is all powerful (omnipotent), all knowing (omniscient), and everywhere (omnipresent.)  Jesus has this same Spirit, but also had a physical body when He was on the earth.  His father was God and His mother was Mary, a woman.  So Jesus was both Spirit (God) and human.  Then when Jesus returned to heaven to be with the Father, He sent the Holy Spirit to be in us, as believers... brothers, sisters, daughters, sons. fellow heirs.  The Holy Spirit is part of God's Spirit that has been sent to help us.  The Holy Spirit was there when God made the world. This same Spirit lives in God, Jesus and in us.  That doesn't mean that we are God.  That means that we have been included in His family to receive all that He has for us and that the Holy Spirit is a way for Him to comminicate with us, live in us and guide us.  So all three, God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are God....the Holy Trinity because God lives in all three.  I hope that explanation helps and keeps within biblical context.

Always verify anything and everything you read or hear with Scripture.  If it doesn't line up with Scripture, it is wrong.  God's Word, the Holy Bible is never wrong.

Psalm 139 View passage at BibleGateway.Com  (This is one of many references in the bible that shows God's omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence. This is one that shows them all at the same time.)

Luke 1:26-38   View Passage at BibleGateway.Com  (Christ's Birth Announced to Mary)

Genesis 1:2 (NKJV)  (Shows that God's Spirit was there in the beginning)

The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.  And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Mark 16:19 (NKJV)  (Jesus returned to heaven.)

So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into Heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

John 14:16-17 (NKJV) (The promise of the Holy Spirit sent to live in us.)

And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever--the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

May God Bless You Some More!