Today I've been thinking a lot about Humility
It's been a reoccurring theme throughout my studying in the word today
Today during my prayer time God brought to my attention mark 10:17-
We wanna go and follow God
We go to him and say that we wanna be apart of his kingdom
and we then go on to tell him that we've gone to sunday school
we've lived a good life and that we have lived by his rules!
Then he says "One thing you lack" is that u refuse to GIVE!!!
"Give to the Poor" is something that we refuse to do!
I am not talking about your typical giving to the homeless I am talking about Giving LOVE to people in the hallways who are alone!
We stand like the rich man and keep ourselves far away from that as we possibly can!
Peter did this at Jesus's Trial
He was close enough to be there
but not close enough to be identified with Christ!!
I think this is the life that we live!
Close enought to God to say we are christians but far enough away from God to be labeled as a freak or Radical!
Today I was also reading in Daniel and something really jumped out at me
It's been a reoccurring theme throughout my studying in the word today
Today during my prayer time God brought to my attention mark 10:17-
17As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
18"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone. 19You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'[d]"
20"Teacher," he declared, "all these I have kept since I was a boy."
21Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
22At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
I find that many times christians are like this man in mark 10We wanna go and follow God
We go to him and say that we wanna be apart of his kingdom
and we then go on to tell him that we've gone to sunday school
we've lived a good life and that we have lived by his rules!
Then he says "One thing you lack" is that u refuse to GIVE!!!
"Give to the Poor" is something that we refuse to do!
I am not talking about your typical giving to the homeless I am talking about Giving LOVE to people in the hallways who are alone!
We stand like the rich man and keep ourselves far away from that as we possibly can!
Peter did this at Jesus's Trial
He was close enough to be there
but not close enough to be identified with Christ!!
I think this is the life that we live!
Close enought to God to say we are christians but far enough away from God to be labeled as a freak or Radical!
Today I was also reading in Daniel and something really jumped out at me
22 “You are his successor,[c] O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself. 23 For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
In this story Daniel is talking to King Belshazzar
Daniel is telling Belshazzar what the writing on the walls meant
Daniel is telling Belshazzar that his father king Nebuchadnezzar had submitted to God
Belshazzar's Father had decided that God was in control of all of his land
God controlled his mighty nation
and because of his submission God gave Nebuchadnezzar large amounts of land
But Belshazzar had defiled God!!
I find it very interesting that the main thing that Daniel says about Belshazzar is that he is not Humble!
Out of all of the things that Belshazzar had done Daniel was most concerned about his Humility and Humbleness!!
Let us not be people who aren't humble
Let us embrace Gods grace and Love
This Holiday Season let us not just give gifts lets Give LOVE!!
Not in a gift but lets show people the real LOVE of a real God
In this story Daniel is talking to King Belshazzar
Daniel is telling Belshazzar what the writing on the walls meant
Daniel is telling Belshazzar that his father king Nebuchadnezzar had submitted to God
Belshazzar's Father had decided that God was in control of all of his land
God controlled his mighty nation
and because of his submission God gave Nebuchadnezzar large amounts of land
But Belshazzar had defiled God!!
I find it very interesting that the main thing that Daniel says about Belshazzar is that he is not Humble!
Out of all of the things that Belshazzar had done Daniel was most concerned about his Humility and Humbleness!!
Let us not be people who aren't humble
Let us embrace Gods grace and Love
This Holiday Season let us not just give gifts lets Give LOVE!!
Not in a gift but lets show people the real LOVE of a real God
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