Faith has been talked about so much. You can tell a mountain to move and it will move. Does that sound silly to you? Well, that is lack of faith. Unfortunately it sounds silly to me very often. It is hard to have faith for everything. I tend to want to know everything all the time. When we do not know something and have to wait, we tend to go nuts and stress out about it.
We have to have Faith, God has everything in control. If it is God's will it will happen, God will open the right doors for us. God will move what he has to move in favor of those who love Him. It does not matter what others say, No body can fool God. What He wants, IS done. I want to have faith and trust in Him fully! If we believe I know that God will answer us. We have to pray and belive that everything is in God's hands.
Friends come and go. Family is said to always be there for you. The truth is the only one that loves you and cares for you unconditionally is God. I love to read psalms because it is like a diary, so much is emotion is poured on to this book. I was thinking about how those that will back you up in hard situations are so scarce. Psalm 116: 1-2 says beautiful things about how God is always there for anyone that needs him."I love the Lord, for he heard my voice;
he heard my cry for mercy.Because he turned his ear to me I will call on him as long as I live."God is always looking out for us. He will help us, he will have mercy on us if we seek him will a pure heart. I am thankful for the love God had for me. He deeply cares about me and I can feel him. I want to do my best for Him, he does so much for me and I want to give Him something back. I know that i will not give him what he deserves, but I want to give him as much as i can. I want to please Him. I Love the Lord above all things, He is the number one priority in my life.
I have heard many times that the end is near and it usually has to do with mayans hehe. I have lived many speculated 'ends of the world' , but like the Bible says, nobody knows the day or time. In First Peter 4:7-8 It does mention that the end is near, but of course we do not know how long this is. A day may be years in the time of God or vice versa. This chapter states how we have to be very alert and sober of the mind. We cant be playing around or living a life that is not pleasing to God. We have to be prepared for when the time comes. We have to live a life that is pleasing to God and edifying to others, spending time in prayer. Above all though, we have to love others. Jesus always mentions this. Love covers a multitude of sins. I want to be alert and sober of the mind, being ready for Jesus, spending time in prayer and loving others. I want to obey what God wants.
Our actions are reflections of what is in our hearts. I was reading in Matthew 12:35-37 that a good man brings out the good stored in him and the bad man brings out the evil stored up in him. This caught my attention because as "stored up" I belive that it is what is in our hearts. If we have bitterness, jealousy, and anger it is like evil is stored up in our hearts and if honesty, love, and purity is stored up in our hearts it is good! We act according to what is stored up in our hearts. Then in the next verses this is about in the day of judgement, how we will have to give account of the empty words we speak. We have to be careful about what we say, if it is edifying to others or not. We can be condemned by our words! I want to be careful of what I speak and how I act because I want to have a heart full of goodness.
Proverbs is packed with do's and don'ts. I was reading proverbs 14 and it was a very long list of what consequences certain things bring. Verse 22 especially caught my attention, it says that those who plan evil always #fail, but those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness. In a previous post I mentioned the "eye for an eye" , that Jesus likes us to calm down and let him handle things instead of answering for ourselves, or plotting evil. We as humans like 'revenge' or making others eat a spoonful of their own chocolate. As we plot evil though, we are sowing evil and we reap what we sow. This is why in the verse it says that whoever plots evil will fail,or go astray. We should sow good to reap good. I want to do good so that I reap love and faithfulness. Again Jesus is telling me to let him handle things and behave well.
Today I wanted to explore more of the red letter, what Jesus said. I feel like if I want to know him more, I should study what he said and what he did. I read Luke 21, and for this post I want to focus on verses 1-4. This is a well known portion of the Bible I think. This talks about the Widow's offering. Jesus was at the temple and saw how people were leaving gifts and their offerings in the temple. Many people were giving many things or some of the many things they had, but a poor widow only had little to live off of and she gave it all as an offering. Jesus then said that everyone was just giving out of their own wealth and that the widow had given more than them. This was really interesting and I compare it to letting Jesus take 'part' of our lives and not all of our lives. I want Jesus to take all of my life and I want to give him everything , not just what I have left. Jesus deserves my best and more.
Today I was reading another part of Matthew 5, but this time verses 38-42. These verses are about not reacting against those who react against you. It gives the well known example that if someone hits your cheek, let them hit the other cheek as well. Jesus says that we have to do this, not act the way the acted with us. We have to show that we are different and take care of our testimony. This is so hard for me, with my temperament I am not one to let people say things and stay quiet. I am one to react and say what I think…even one to punch back. I know it's not good and thats why I think that Jesus put in my heart to read these verses. I want to work hard to let Him take care of making these people "pay" for what they do and try no to fight them with my strength. The same comes in Matthew 5: 43-48 to love our enemies. We may be the ones to show our good testimony and make our enemies love us, just as we "love" them if we obey what Jesus says.
I know that many people have killed others because of their "anger attacks, but it is so interesting how in the Bible 'Just' being angry IS like murdering! As I was reading Matthew 5: 21-25 it surprised me how if you have problems with anyone around you it is subject to judgement. This chapter even says that if we are living having unresolved matters with our brother we are in danger of the fire of hell! That is pretty serious! It even goes on to serving at church (i saw it this way), if we are serving at church and are not completely clear of issues, Jesus commands us to leave our "gifts" in front of the altar to reconcile with our brother and to THEN after that to go and offer our gifts. Jesus tells us to resolve any problems immediately because if not, we are going to be put into prison and not get out until we have paid every last bit. This makes me think about times when forgiving someone or asking for forgiveness has been so hard. I want to make sure to have all matters resolved and in peace with everyone.
Faith has been talked about so much. You can tell a mountain to move and it will move. Does that sound silly to you? Well, that is lack of faith. Unfortunately it sounds silly to me very often. It is hard to have faith for everything. I tend to want to know everything all the time. When we do not know something and have to wait, we tend to go nuts and stress out about it. 
