Two for the Price of One
Good morning!
Thankfully, I was able to sneak away some time now. I figured should take advantage of it and write the e-mail now, as opposed to waiting until around midnight to spam it out. I actually almost sent it out last night; that would have thrown everyone for a loop, so I decided against it... plus, I was tired =)
I have been wrestling over 2 things this week. The first one is simple: I/We need memorize more scripture. I wish it were as easy as Sunday school back in the day. You memorize one a week and get a candy if you recite it correctly. Sadly, those times are gone. There are multiple reasons and benefits to memorize verses, which I am sure you all know, but that just doesn't change the fact that we need more Scripture committed to memory. You with me? I am doing 1 Corinthians 15:57 and Psalms 84:11.
The second thing I have been pondering is God's qualities as a leader. Time and again, God's role as a leader has been standing out to me and how I need to mimic those qualities above all else. The trait that remains at the forefront of my mind is God's role as an initiator. 1 John 4:19 says that "we love because He first loved us." Our knowledge of love is a direct result of what Christ did on the cross. That holds true even when you compare it to the "love" of this world. The biased, conditional, lustful "love" is nothing more than an attempt for man to experience heavenly love without the Heavenly Father. It is a perversion of the truth. How many times do we fall for the counterfeit? In what areas of our life are we refusing to accept God's leadership in our life and settling for a perversion of this world? God initiated a relationship with us so that we wouldn't have to settle for second-rate, yet we still do. Think about it...
MTI
Thankfully, I was able to sneak away some time now. I figured should take advantage of it and write the e-mail now, as opposed to waiting until around midnight to spam it out. I actually almost sent it out last night; that would have thrown everyone for a loop, so I decided against it... plus, I was tired =)
I have been wrestling over 2 things this week. The first one is simple: I/We need memorize more scripture. I wish it were as easy as Sunday school back in the day. You memorize one a week and get a candy if you recite it correctly. Sadly, those times are gone. There are multiple reasons and benefits to memorize verses, which I am sure you all know, but that just doesn't change the fact that we need more Scripture committed to memory. You with me? I am doing 1 Corinthians 15:57 and Psalms 84:11.
The second thing I have been pondering is God's qualities as a leader. Time and again, God's role as a leader has been standing out to me and how I need to mimic those qualities above all else. The trait that remains at the forefront of my mind is God's role as an initiator. 1 John 4:19 says that "we love because He first loved us." Our knowledge of love is a direct result of what Christ did on the cross. That holds true even when you compare it to the "love" of this world. The biased, conditional, lustful "love" is nothing more than an attempt for man to experience heavenly love without the Heavenly Father. It is a perversion of the truth. How many times do we fall for the counterfeit? In what areas of our life are we refusing to accept God's leadership in our life and settling for a perversion of this world? God initiated a relationship with us so that we wouldn't have to settle for second-rate, yet we still do. Think about it...
MTI
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4/16/2008 10:52:00 AM
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