Scripture: Matthew 6
"11 Give us today our daily bread."
Live for today alone. Rely completely on God's provision.
That's all.
Ready, Set, Go.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Another rambling of mine.
Scripture: James 4
"13 Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” 14 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. 15 What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” 16 Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil. 17 Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it."
OAP: James 4 is a very short chapter, but it is dense. Our connection group discussed it for close to 2 hours but we still didn't feel finished with it. This last part was the hardest to deal with. God doesn't usually play a big role in my daily decision making. There are times when I do ask things in his name or create plans with his will in mind, but I often forget my own inability to know what is best for me. I have no way of seeing even a second into the future of my life, let alone what I will be doing years down the road. But...God knows everything that will ever happen.
That's ridic to think about. Sometimes I just like to imagine all the things that God knows that I take for granted. Random things, like the fact that he knows the secret times I trip and fall, and laugh to myself thinking no one has seen me. And I think about the big important things too. He crafted the entire earth and knows every inch of it intricately. He knows the lifespan of every plant, animal, and person that has inhabited it and every person that will. And when he knows people he KNOWS people. Every imaginable thing about every single human being, and then some.
Before he even created the earth, he knew the exact moment and location of my birth, what color my eyes would be, every kind of food I would like or dislike. He knows every single thing. Even seemingly absurd things, like what socks I would be wearing this morning, everytime in my life that I would sneeze, the colors and number of the petals on flowers in my backyard, the look and feel of the buttons on clothes. He knows the moment of my death. For all I know, my life on this earth could end today, this afternoon, at my next heartbeat. Why do I try and plan out the unpredictable? Does it give me comfort to try and figure out what my life will be like from day to day? Am I scared of entering true submission and living a life free to the will of God? Do I forget or overlook that God knows every moment of my life from start to end, every option and opportunityI have, what is best for me? Why don't I go to him more often for help with decisions and plans? Lots of questions. I don't know.
I pray that I might learn to find submission to your will.
"13 Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” 14 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. 15 What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” 16 Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil. 17 Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it."
OAP: James 4 is a very short chapter, but it is dense. Our connection group discussed it for close to 2 hours but we still didn't feel finished with it. This last part was the hardest to deal with. God doesn't usually play a big role in my daily decision making. There are times when I do ask things in his name or create plans with his will in mind, but I often forget my own inability to know what is best for me. I have no way of seeing even a second into the future of my life, let alone what I will be doing years down the road. But...God knows everything that will ever happen.
That's ridic to think about. Sometimes I just like to imagine all the things that God knows that I take for granted. Random things, like the fact that he knows the secret times I trip and fall, and laugh to myself thinking no one has seen me. And I think about the big important things too. He crafted the entire earth and knows every inch of it intricately. He knows the lifespan of every plant, animal, and person that has inhabited it and every person that will. And when he knows people he KNOWS people. Every imaginable thing about every single human being, and then some.
Before he even created the earth, he knew the exact moment and location of my birth, what color my eyes would be, every kind of food I would like or dislike. He knows every single thing. Even seemingly absurd things, like what socks I would be wearing this morning, everytime in my life that I would sneeze, the colors and number of the petals on flowers in my backyard, the look and feel of the buttons on clothes. He knows the moment of my death. For all I know, my life on this earth could end today, this afternoon, at my next heartbeat. Why do I try and plan out the unpredictable? Does it give me comfort to try and figure out what my life will be like from day to day? Am I scared of entering true submission and living a life free to the will of God? Do I forget or overlook that God knows every moment of my life from start to end, every option and opportunityI have, what is best for me? Why don't I go to him more often for help with decisions and plans? Lots of questions. I don't know.
I pray that I might learn to find submission to your will.
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