Day 38,
I do apologize that my blogs have been minimal at best in the past few days. Honestly I have been meditating and resting in great teachings on the Bible from different pastors I respect. I have been in awe of the awesomeness of my Lord and God through these sermons and teachings. I have listened to topics on manhood, womanhood, sex, relationships, hell, homosexuality, becoming fearless for Christ, fasting, salvation, and so much more. I have been overwhelmed by all the teachings and at the same time I continue to crave more. I feel blessed by the men I have selected to listen to because I am confident of their teaching in the Bible and encouraged that they speak boldly and with wisdom on even difficult yet necessary topics in Christianity. I think about how this was exactly the model Jesus espoused as he showed us the example of teaching the disciples wisdom and truth in the Bible (Torah).
I have asked myself if I would also be able to speak with such boldness and have the courage to address topics within the church that are taboo, that are controversial, and that are just plain difficult to talk about. I praise our God that he chose to discuss these topics in His word. I praise Him that, contrary to current popular opinion, He has chose to address these topics concisely and with enough clarity to know how God wants us to live in this life. I am thankful that even with the fall, which is what causes such confusion within Christianity, that Jesus came to redeem us and raise us above the fall by giving us the Holy Spirit and leading us to a clear understanding of the Bible if we will take the time to learn from Him. I even praise God that we will have to wrestle with Him and the scripture to come to that point of clarity.
Our God has been so gracious that He has put in place the ability to know Him through a relationship with Him. In every relationship there is the struggle to fully know and understand the person in whom you are in a relationship with. Just live in a marriage where we will never fully and completely understand our spouse's, we also will never completely understand everything about God or what He was saying in the Bible. God did make the gospel and how to come to Him completely clear. He did make known how we are to live. He made known what is required of us to truly be His followers. We have been given the greatest two resources on life in all exist, which is the Bible and the Holy Spirit. Together they are the key to understanding how we are to live and minister in Christ throughout our life. In them, we are shown what in our lives need to change and in what ways we are still rebelling against God so we can come to a place of repentance and restoration in our relationship with God.
I cannot get over how loving, gracious, and fair our God is. He has not made it difficult to come to Him. He has extended Himself way past what He ever had to do for us to know Him. God never had to make His word available to us, God never had to come down and directly teach and lead us, God never had to send Jesus to come and die for us. We deserve nothing but death and judgment from God and yet His love has overflowed so abundantly that we all have the opportunity to know God and live for Him daily and into eternity.
In you are a follower of Jesus and believer in the one true God today, lift your hands in praise and supplication to Him. If you do not know of the God in whom I speak of today, I pray that you would know Him. I pray that you would seek Him with all your being. I pray that you would open the door to your heart and let Him reign upon your throne. I pray that you would dive into His word and allow the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to His mighty saving work. If there is any questions you have, anything you just want to talk about, if there is anyway I can pray for you, please let me know. Though I do not know who you are, I love you as Jesus loves you and I desire nothing more than for you to know the loving and gracious Savior I am learning more about each day.
Blessings,
Greg
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