Just to leave your guys with a verse for today:
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:9
Well, the simple truth to some may be difficult to accept, but we must always recognise that God's ways are higher than ours, so we will never be able to fully comprehend what He has install for us.
Sometimes we may ask "Why do so many trials befall me?" or "Why are some people elected to be saved while others aren't?". These are all, granted, tough questions that the Bible may or may not have answers to. Those that the Bible has answers to, the Lord has allowed us to gain an insight to. However, those answers not stated in the Bible, we must know that it is not for us to know.
As Deuteronomy 29:29 states: "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."
In Christ,
Timo
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Hey guys! Long time no blog. Been kinda busy at the moment, struggling with studies a little as well as VBS preparations. Also have to think of a theme for the LTF camp. Hope I'll be able to cope with all this by the grace of God.
Anyway, just wanted to share a verse I shared with lucas on saturday.
Romans 6:13
Neither yield ye your members as instrements of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of the rightousness unto God.
Basically what this verse is talking about is that we as Christians should constantly be reminding ourselves that our bodies are for the Lord's use, and not to carry out our own unrighteous deeds. As verse 12 of the same book states: "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof."
Sometimes we may be struggling with very pertinent sins, sins which are hard to quit no matter how hard we try. However, we must realise that to refuse it and resist it by our own strength is not enough. We must present ourselves a living sacrifice to God with our whole heart, and then, only then, will we be delivered from sin itself. Ofcourse from time to time we will still face temptation because we are all imperfect, but by yielding your life to Him, we will be constantly reminded how He is able to provide a way to deliver us.
Been struggling with a problem lately too, and it's something maybe a few of us face often. However, I am constantly reminded how I should not yield to temptation. I always remind myself that if I do, I would be going against the Word of God, and that this action of mine will be judged when I see Him again. Song Of Solomon 12:14 states: "For God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." Should not be afraid?
But rest assure that "where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:" Our Lord will not forsake us and leave us alone in our greatest time of need. We sometimes wonder why we have to go through so many trials and temptations, but all these are to purge us, that "when I'm tried, I shall come forth as gold".
May those who have not believe quickly come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, according to the perfect will of God. To God be the glory!
In Christ,
Timo
Anyway, just wanted to share a verse I shared with lucas on saturday.
Romans 6:13
Neither yield ye your members as instrements of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of the rightousness unto God.
Basically what this verse is talking about is that we as Christians should constantly be reminding ourselves that our bodies are for the Lord's use, and not to carry out our own unrighteous deeds. As verse 12 of the same book states: "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof."
Sometimes we may be struggling with very pertinent sins, sins which are hard to quit no matter how hard we try. However, we must realise that to refuse it and resist it by our own strength is not enough. We must present ourselves a living sacrifice to God with our whole heart, and then, only then, will we be delivered from sin itself. Ofcourse from time to time we will still face temptation because we are all imperfect, but by yielding your life to Him, we will be constantly reminded how He is able to provide a way to deliver us.
Been struggling with a problem lately too, and it's something maybe a few of us face often. However, I am constantly reminded how I should not yield to temptation. I always remind myself that if I do, I would be going against the Word of God, and that this action of mine will be judged when I see Him again. Song Of Solomon 12:14 states: "For God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." Should not be afraid?
But rest assure that "where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:" Our Lord will not forsake us and leave us alone in our greatest time of need. We sometimes wonder why we have to go through so many trials and temptations, but all these are to purge us, that "when I'm tried, I shall come forth as gold".
May those who have not believe quickly come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, according to the perfect will of God. To God be the glory!
In Christ,
Timo
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