GREETINGS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS! GRACE, MERCY, AND PEACE TO YOU, AND YOUR FAMILIES, FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH HOLY SPIRIT!
I am reading the Old Testament. God wants us to read His Word, daily, and meditate on it. Do not feel you must read as much as I read; ask God to show you the reading plan He wants you to have. I read the Bible through, once a year. I start with Genesis, chapter 1, on January 1st, and continue until I have read all the way to Revelation 22. I read 10 chapters a day. It usually takes me almost to the end of April to read through. Then I reread the New Testament, monthly. At 10 chapters a day, it takes 26 days to read the New Testament through. And YES, God DOES speak to me, every day, through what I read, even though I read a lot. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO SPEND TIME ALONE WITH GOD, regardless of how much He leads you to read.
Today I read the story of David, in I Samuel 15-24. I am constantly amazed and astounded and awestruck over how many times the Israelites disobeyed God, and bowed down to worthless, dead idols, despite what God had done for them. The Israelistes SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES how God parted the Red Sea, enabling them to walk over DRY land to the opposite side, and SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES how God closed up the Red Sea on the Egyptian arm when they tried to cross, yet not soon afterwards they made a golden calf and worshipped IT, saying they should go back to slavery in Egypt!
Think about what it must have looked like, to all the Philistines and Israelites, when David and Goliath came against each other. David was a shepherd; even his brothers didn't have a favorable opinion of him. Goliath stood NINE AND A HALF FEET TALL (six cubits and a span) and was an EXPERIENCED warrior. Goliath, smug and overconfident in his strength and previous victories, probably believed he could dispath David with one stroke. BUT GOD WANTED EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT IT WAS HIM WHO KILLED GOLIATH, NOT DAVID! All David did was sling one stone (I've heard other commentators say that perhaps David knew that Goliath had 4 brothers, and the extra stones were for them), and it sank into Goliath's forehead. ONLY GOD COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THAT.
Yet the Philistines still didn't believe. Later, we see how the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant,a nd took it home. God afflicted the men of the city with tumors (some commentators say they were hemorrhoids), and so they sent the Ark back on a cart pulled by 2 cows who went WITHOUT HUMAN GUIDANCE back to where the Israelites were living.
But some of us are doing the same things! We try to understand God and His ways with our own strength and understanding. It's hard to rejoice when things are hard, and when we experience pain and suffering. BUT GOD HAS A PLAN! God CAN be trusted!
PROVERBS 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will direct thy paths.
I am reading the Old Testament. God wants us to read His Word, daily, and meditate on it. Do not feel you must read as much as I read; ask God to show you the reading plan He wants you to have. I read the Bible through, once a year. I start with Genesis, chapter 1, on January 1st, and continue until I have read all the way to Revelation 22. I read 10 chapters a day. It usually takes me almost to the end of April to read through. Then I reread the New Testament, monthly. At 10 chapters a day, it takes 26 days to read the New Testament through. And YES, God DOES speak to me, every day, through what I read, even though I read a lot. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO SPEND TIME ALONE WITH GOD, regardless of how much He leads you to read.
Today I read the story of David, in I Samuel 15-24. I am constantly amazed and astounded and awestruck over how many times the Israelites disobeyed God, and bowed down to worthless, dead idols, despite what God had done for them. The Israelistes SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES how God parted the Red Sea, enabling them to walk over DRY land to the opposite side, and SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES how God closed up the Red Sea on the Egyptian arm when they tried to cross, yet not soon afterwards they made a golden calf and worshipped IT, saying they should go back to slavery in Egypt!
Think about what it must have looked like, to all the Philistines and Israelites, when David and Goliath came against each other. David was a shepherd; even his brothers didn't have a favorable opinion of him. Goliath stood NINE AND A HALF FEET TALL (six cubits and a span) and was an EXPERIENCED warrior. Goliath, smug and overconfident in his strength and previous victories, probably believed he could dispath David with one stroke. BUT GOD WANTED EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT IT WAS HIM WHO KILLED GOLIATH, NOT DAVID! All David did was sling one stone (I've heard other commentators say that perhaps David knew that Goliath had 4 brothers, and the extra stones were for them), and it sank into Goliath's forehead. ONLY GOD COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THAT.
Yet the Philistines still didn't believe. Later, we see how the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant,a nd took it home. God afflicted the men of the city with tumors (some commentators say they were hemorrhoids), and so they sent the Ark back on a cart pulled by 2 cows who went WITHOUT HUMAN GUIDANCE back to where the Israelites were living.
But some of us are doing the same things! We try to understand God and His ways with our own strength and understanding. It's hard to rejoice when things are hard, and when we experience pain and suffering. BUT GOD HAS A PLAN! God CAN be trusted!
PROVERBS 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will direct thy paths.
GREETINGS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS! GRACE, MERCY, AND PEACE TO YOU, AND YOUR FAMILIES, FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH HOLY SPIRIT!
I am reading the Old Testament. God wants us to read His Word, daily, and meditate on it. Do not feel you must read as much as I read; ask God to show you the reading plan He wants you to have. I read the Bible through, once a year. I start with Genesis, chapter 1, on January 1st, and continue until I have read all the way to Revelation 22. I read 10 chapters a day. It usually takes me almost to the end of April to read through. Then I reread the New Testament, monthly. At 10 chapters a day, it takes 26 days to read the New Testament through. And YES, God DOES speak to me, every day, through what I read, even though I read a lot. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO SPEND TIME ALONE WITH GOD, regardless of how much He leads you to read.
Today I read the story of David, in I Samuel 15-24. I am constantly amazed and astounded and awestruck over how many times the Israelites disobeyed God, and bowed down to worthless, dead idols, despite what God had done for them. The Israelistes SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES how God parted the Red Sea, enabling them to walk over DRY land to the opposite side, and SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES how God closed up the Red Sea on the Egyptian arm when they tried to cross, yet not soon afterwards they made a golden calf and worshipped IT, saying they should go back to slavery in Egypt!
Think about what it must have looked like, to all the Philistines and Israelites, when David and Goliath came against each other. David was a shepherd; even his brothers didn't have a favorable opinion of him. Goliath stood NINE AND A HALF FEET TALL (six cubits and a span) and was an EXPERIENCED warrior. Goliath, smug and overconfident in his strength and previous victories, probably believed he could dispath David with one stroke. BUT GOD WANTED EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT IT WAS HIM WHO KILLED GOLIATH, NOT DAVID! All David did was sling one stone (I've heard other commentators say that perhaps David knew that Goliath had 4 brothers, and the extra stones were for them), and it sank into Goliath's forehead. ONLY GOD COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THAT.
Yet the Philistines still didn't believe. Later, we see how the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant,a nd took it home. God afflicted the men of the city with tumors (some commentators say they were hemorrhoids), and so they sent the Ark back on a cart pulled by 2 cows who went WITHOUT HUMAN GUIDANCE back to where the Israelites were living.
But some of us are doing the same things! We try to understand God and His ways with our own strength and understanding. It's hard to rejoice when things are hard, and when we experience pain and suffering. BUT GOD HAS A PLAN! God CAN be trusted!
PROVERBS 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will direct thy paths.
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