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Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lena not on your own understanding. In all your ways akknolwdge him and he will make your paths strait.
Proverbs 3:5-6
I see this verse, or at least ones that have similar meaning everywhere in the Bible. Trust in the Lord. Give him your trust. Believe in him.
Do we as Christians truly give him our complete trust? Or at times do we stray from our paths because of our own choices? I think that we all know the answer to that question. At times, yes, we truly give ourselves to the Lord and trust in his will. But more often than not, we give into the temptation and make a choice that turns us from God.
Satan is crafty, and we are only human. One thing that my Youth Leader says everytime she's teaching the Seniors, or the Juniors, or a combination of the youth groups in our church she says this at least once "We are always going to sin because we are born with a sin nature."
Do you know what that means? It means that from the moment we were born, we were condemmend to hell. There's no escaping the life Satan has made for us, in other words, no matter what we are going to sin. We can't stop that, it's going to happen.
The differnce between Christian and non-Christians however, is that we accept and know that we have done wrong, and we beg God to forgive us and try our very hardest to embrace him and hold on to him. We try our very hardest to be worthy of Him, even though we know that we will never come close.
Song for the Day: Jesus Messiah
Prayer for the Day:
Lord, I want to thank you again for the sacrafices that you have made for me and my people. Without you when we die we would go straight to the pits of the earth. We love you Lord, you who are the King of Kings, who have brought us out of the desert. Forgive me in that I have sinned against you, help me to be a better person that I am.
Amen
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Warriors for Jesus Luke 23:34
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing."
Luke 23:34
Wow. Just wow.
Do you get the true magnitude of what he is saying? "Forgive them". He's asking forgiveness for his tormentors, for men who have beaten and starved him, mocked him, and nailed him to a cross. Can you see how totally amazing that is. I don't know about any of you, but I wouldn't be like that if people had nailed me to a cross. I don't see "forgive them" comming out of my lips anytime soon in a situation like that. Do you? I have a feeling that you wouldn't either. For one thing, you'd be mad as heck, for another, you'd probaly be dead. Just thinking about it makes me wince.
And it should make me, you, and everyone wince. Do you really understand just how much pain and humiliation that they made him feel? And to go through all that and just say "Forgive them" shows truly just how much Jesus was willing to give to us so that we could go to paradise. A few passages earlier, Jesus asks God to "Take this cup from me". He didn't want to have to do it.
He knew he was going to be in a lot of pain, and he asked God to take this burden from him, he was scared. We forget that while Jesus was a perfect human, he was just that, human. He had feelings just like we did, he was subjected to temtation just as we are. The only difference between us and Jesus, other then the fact that he was God in the flesh is that while we were both tempted, we have given in to the temptation. And we will continue to give in to it. We were born with a sin nature, and we are never going to lose that until we die.
Do you get it? Here was this human who had done no wrong, God's son, who knew what had to be done, asked His Father to take the burden from him in prayer, and still went to the cross because it was the only way to pay for our sins. He didn't need to do it, he could've refused. But he did it anyway. And then even when he is in emence pain, he begs forgivenness for his tormentors. Forgivenness for men he barely knew who spent the past few days spitting, taunting, beating, pressing thorns into his head, and the grand finale, the took nails and drove them through his hands and feet. And he forgives them.
I hope that someday we all understand the power of God's love and forgivennes completely. Because being able to do that is pretty amazing in my eyes.
Song of the Day: Our God is an Awesome God
Prayer:
Hey God, thanks.
Luke 23:34
Wow. Just wow.
Do you get the true magnitude of what he is saying? "Forgive them". He's asking forgiveness for his tormentors, for men who have beaten and starved him, mocked him, and nailed him to a cross. Can you see how totally amazing that is. I don't know about any of you, but I wouldn't be like that if people had nailed me to a cross. I don't see "forgive them" comming out of my lips anytime soon in a situation like that. Do you? I have a feeling that you wouldn't either. For one thing, you'd be mad as heck, for another, you'd probaly be dead. Just thinking about it makes me wince.
And it should make me, you, and everyone wince. Do you really understand just how much pain and humiliation that they made him feel? And to go through all that and just say "Forgive them" shows truly just how much Jesus was willing to give to us so that we could go to paradise. A few passages earlier, Jesus asks God to "Take this cup from me". He didn't want to have to do it.
He knew he was going to be in a lot of pain, and he asked God to take this burden from him, he was scared. We forget that while Jesus was a perfect human, he was just that, human. He had feelings just like we did, he was subjected to temtation just as we are. The only difference between us and Jesus, other then the fact that he was God in the flesh is that while we were both tempted, we have given in to the temptation. And we will continue to give in to it. We were born with a sin nature, and we are never going to lose that until we die.
Do you get it? Here was this human who had done no wrong, God's son, who knew what had to be done, asked His Father to take the burden from him in prayer, and still went to the cross because it was the only way to pay for our sins. He didn't need to do it, he could've refused. But he did it anyway. And then even when he is in emence pain, he begs forgivenness for his tormentors. Forgivenness for men he barely knew who spent the past few days spitting, taunting, beating, pressing thorns into his head, and the grand finale, the took nails and drove them through his hands and feet. And he forgives them.
I hope that someday we all understand the power of God's love and forgivennes completely. Because being able to do that is pretty amazing in my eyes.
Song of the Day: Our God is an Awesome God
Prayer:
Hey God, thanks.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Warriors for Jesus Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
Psalm 119:105
That's the way it should be. God's word (The Bible) should be a lamp to guide our spiritual lives, and a light for the path of your life.
God tells us to obey authority (Children to parents, parents to government, etc) but what should be first and formost in our lives is to obey his written laws. Many of the laws today go along with the Bible, and for that we should be thankful, but there may come a time, and maybe there are some laws even now that go against God's teachings. I say maybe because I am a teeenager who is still to young to vote so I have no knowledge of the majority of the legal system.
But, for an example, say there was a law that told you to worship an idol ( I know that in some places they've had or have laws like this, take Daniel into consideration.). You know that worshipping idols is wrong and a sin, but say that the consequence was death. Death would be the penealty for disobeying this law. Would you worship the idol to save your own skin? Our would you stay on your feet, stay silent, and stay strong in your faith to God?
The sad thing is is that even now we as Christians are being ridiculed and persecuted for our faith and beliefs. It's hard for the average Christian teen, espeacially because of school and peer pressure. It's hard to be any sort of Christian in a non Chirstian environment. And sometimes it's easier to be like Peter for a moment. Sometimes it's easier to be afraid and give in, denying your faith and your God.
But we shouldn't be like that, we shouldn't be afraid. We have the King of Kings on our side, and no matter who forsakes us in our lives he's always going to be there for us. So even when people make fun of you, for your faith or any other reason stay strong, satnd up, and don't let sin tear you down. Be courageous in your faith, and obey God in everything, even when others think your wrong.
Song for the Day: Courageous by Casting Crowns
Prayer:
Jesus, forgive me of the sins I've done, and for the sins I'm going to do. Help me to obey you in all things, and no matter what happens in my life to put you first. Lord, please help me to be a better Christian, and to walk in you path always. You are worthy, and we give You all the praise. You chose to save us whe You didn't have to, when we are truly worth less than the dirt under your feet. Thank you for loving us so much, God. We love You just as much.
Psalm 119:105
That's the way it should be. God's word (The Bible) should be a lamp to guide our spiritual lives, and a light for the path of your life.
God tells us to obey authority (Children to parents, parents to government, etc) but what should be first and formost in our lives is to obey his written laws. Many of the laws today go along with the Bible, and for that we should be thankful, but there may come a time, and maybe there are some laws even now that go against God's teachings. I say maybe because I am a teeenager who is still to young to vote so I have no knowledge of the majority of the legal system.
But, for an example, say there was a law that told you to worship an idol ( I know that in some places they've had or have laws like this, take Daniel into consideration.). You know that worshipping idols is wrong and a sin, but say that the consequence was death. Death would be the penealty for disobeying this law. Would you worship the idol to save your own skin? Our would you stay on your feet, stay silent, and stay strong in your faith to God?
The sad thing is is that even now we as Christians are being ridiculed and persecuted for our faith and beliefs. It's hard for the average Christian teen, espeacially because of school and peer pressure. It's hard to be any sort of Christian in a non Chirstian environment. And sometimes it's easier to be like Peter for a moment. Sometimes it's easier to be afraid and give in, denying your faith and your God.
But we shouldn't be like that, we shouldn't be afraid. We have the King of Kings on our side, and no matter who forsakes us in our lives he's always going to be there for us. So even when people make fun of you, for your faith or any other reason stay strong, satnd up, and don't let sin tear you down. Be courageous in your faith, and obey God in everything, even when others think your wrong.
Song for the Day: Courageous by Casting Crowns
Prayer:
Jesus, forgive me of the sins I've done, and for the sins I'm going to do. Help me to obey you in all things, and no matter what happens in my life to put you first. Lord, please help me to be a better Christian, and to walk in you path always. You are worthy, and we give You all the praise. You chose to save us whe You didn't have to, when we are truly worth less than the dirt under your feet. Thank you for loving us so much, God. We love You just as much.
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