by theThinker | Mar 23, 2012 | faith, spiritual thoughts
All these words describe a life that is genuine. When Christ is the center of our lives we become consistent with our actions. We become predictable in our responses. We become transparent in our life style. Outside observers will look on and say as they did about the disciples, “these men have been with Jesus.” The Word of God will come alive in our lives so much that our lives will speak louder than our words. No one will have to second guess us. We will be a genuine reflection of Christ wherever we go. The Word of God is what makes this transformation possible. Nothing outside of the Word of God will transform us because God causes the transformation of the seed of His Word that we sow in our lives. He alone can bring forth fruit from His Word. God can help us to have a consistent character that becomes predictable and transparent. All that will be reflected from our lives is Christ the Savior of...
by theThinker | Mar 21, 2012 | faith, spiritual thoughts
We go from day to day looking for the BIG things that God does or will do for us but never seeing the SMALL things that He does for us daily. We have to train our minds to observe the little things and give thanks for them. God does a lot for us. We need to get a sheet of paper and make a list of them. I promise you that you will be surprised to see the amount of blessings that we receive on a daily basis. God is a God of the big things and a God of the small life sustaining things. Learn to count your blessings and name them one by one and you will have to praise and give Him thanks for all that He does that we don’t seem to appreciate Him for. Being grateful to God is very important to our worship of Him daily. He is worthy of all our...
by theThinker | Mar 19, 2012 | spiritual thoughts
“Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might..” We are weak but we don’t know it. We don’t realize that it is because of His mercies and His grace that we are alive. He SUSTAINS us from day to day without asking for anything from us. God is so great that He can sustain this entire universe all by Himself. How awesome is that? He can do it all by Himself. We can’t comprehend how that is possible. He holds all power in His mighty outstretched arms. We have to be grateful to Him for the special God that He is. Think about this, how many of us if we hated something with a passion we would make provisions for those who would desire the thing that we hated? That is what God did when He sent His son to die for us. We were sinners and yet God who could not entertain sin allowed His son to become our sacrifice. What a might God we...
by theThinker | Mar 15, 2012 | faith, spiritual thoughts
It is a challenge to be a patient individual. It feels at times like everything is an emergency and we are in a race to get to some place important in a hurry. We hurry people along and sometimes get angry in our vehicles because they aren’t moving as fast as we want them to move. When we finally get to our destination, we are frustrated and upset at everyone. We get stressed out and develop bad health because of our lack of patience. Was it worth it to allow everything to become an “emergency” in our lives? If we could think about our life in retrospect, was it worth the frustration to loose our cool? Was it worth it to look bad before others? Was it worth it to be stressed out? The Bible teaches us to “be anxious for nothing but in all things by prayer… .” If you have observed God throughout the Bible, you realize that there are no emergencies for Him. God is very organized and so His timing is always perfect. We need to take that example and capitalize on it. We need to learn His patience by studying Him and how He responds to every situation. He never reacts because He thought about every situation in advance. Since we aren’t God and we don’t know all things, we have to depend on Him to guide us into a life of patience. It is worth all the discomfort in our efforts to learn how to be...
by theThinker | Mar 13, 2012 | faith, spiritual thoughts
Double, meaning two. Am I a two minded Christian? Do I have a Christian life and a secular life? Does Christ have a double mind? If He doesn’t, why should we? I hear this so often and I say it at times, “my Christian life.” We are Christians ALL THE TIME, not some of the time. We don’t put our faith in Christ as our Savior on sometimes and then we take it off at other times. We are Christians at home, on the road, in the car, in the bus, in the train, at school, at work, at church, everywhere. Once we have given Christ our lives, we can’t ask Him to give us control of it in certain situations. It doesn’t work like that. We are Christians 24 hours per day 7 days per week. We are His ambassadors always and He occupies our lives always. He is our honored guess and we are to entertain Him always. So I ask the question again, are we double minded Christians? Definitely...
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