7.23.2010

Driving Through the Chaos

I do not have much to write today, but I hope that is copacetic.  There are days I do not want to publish, but we must battle through this and be witness's of public worship. A lot of times I  act the role of a Hermit Crab; scrambling to be ontop of the pile of fellow hermit crabs, joyful only when I am in charge, and am on top. But miserable when others are given the green light while I am stalled behind the red one.  This is not the way that Jesus proclaimed. LORD help me be happy for those that are in my life, let me pray for them, let me not manipulate them, reform that old donkey that brays from my heart.




 

CBR 7.16.2010

Scripture Memory
John 1:12-13 
¹² But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, ¹³ who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.


Proverbs 28
Jesus came to fulfill the law not to abolish it.  The law protects man from living a life of Chaotic Destruction.   Prayer must be done that is aligned with God, if our prayers are not aligned with God's will, the prayer will not be answered.  We can find a loophole in almost any law, as we grow in Christ we will be enabled to live more and more Christian Lives.  


There are no shortcuts that are worth it, somewhere the short cut will send us down the chute.  


1 Chronicles 14&15
God will gather his remnant from afar.   We can easily say that we are faithful but what happens when the oxen stumble? David was so eager to bring the arc to his city that in his zeal a shortcut with a devastating effect was taken! He should have moved the arc like God had said, in Exodus 25:12-15.   But this method designed by God would have taken a lot more time.  Instead he put the arc on a donkey cart, the donkey stumbled, and one of his men reached out, then was dead because he had touched one of God's divine things.   Numbers 4:15


God's army is a beauty to me, thinking of angels lightly brushing the tops of trees on their way to destroy the enemies of God's Children is delightful.  


Ezekiel 17&18
LORD God will replant the nation of Israel, entwined as a light against the darkness that faces us in opposition.   God promises to dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish.  The LORD is our security. Repent now and know me again! How does one repent and live righteously without Christ's enduring sacrifice?


Colossians 4 
Ongoing process of renewal.  I liked the description by James Fergussan that sees the old self as an old man, and the new self as a young man.   

Proverbs 27:
I'm only human; I'm just a man
Help me believe in what I could be and all that I am
Show me the stairway
I have to climb
Lord for my sake
Teach me to take
One day at a time

One day at a time, sweet Jesus
That's all I'm asking from you
Give me the strength to do everything that I have to do
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus
And tomorrow may never be mine
Help me today
Show me the way
One day at a time.

Could you remember
When you walked among men
Jesus, you know when you're looking below
It's worse now than then
Pushin' and shovin' crowd in your mind
Lord for my sake
Teach me to take
One day at a time


I Chronicles 9:
So I talked to my Pastor about struggling with I Chronicles and he told me to get for the church, Pratt's book on I & 2 Chronicles.  I am excited for the day I get it.  There are not many people with these names any more.   My wife does not want to name our kids Bocheru. "Dude were not calling our kid Boche,  I would rather have them named Carlton then that."    It would be neat to see kids being named after the people mentioned in the historical record of Chronicles.  


 Gate keepers at the thresholds, protecting the house of God was a family affair.  Important jobs were bakers, singers, guards born into the guild of their family.     A lot of kin were born that were not mentioned here because they died early on.   The role of the child was not big until he was 13, by then they knew the child would probably survive his youth.   




Ezekiel 13
He warns us of who we must listen to! If it is too easy, or too alluring it may not be the gospel.  But in community rooted to the bible one can decipher the truth through the direction and sway of the spirit of God.


Philippians 3
Paul had everything going for him, but now he finds his life in a prison cell.  But somehow his faith is renewed when he is in jail.   His life was set, he was a Benjaminite, the might men of valor, from the twelve tribes of Israel.   They were the men to set off and defend the nation of Israel.   From action to inaction he sets in jail and prays to God that the people will understand that to be in Christ is to gain it all, to be outside of Christ is to lose it all.  


Scripture Memory
John 1:10-11 
¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. ¹¹ He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

7/7/2010	Leviticus 18	1 Chronicles 7	Ezekiel 11	Philippians 1
7/8/2010	Leviticus 19	1 Chronicles 8	Ezekiel 12	Philippians 2
7/9/2010	Proverbs 27	1 Chronicles 9	Ezekiel 13	Philippians 3
7/10/2010	Psalm 82	Psalm 83	Psalm 84	Psalm 84
7/11/2010	Psalm 82	Psalm 83	Psalm 84	Psalm 84
7/12/2010	Leviticus 20	1 Chronicles 10	Ezekiel 14	Philippians 4
7/13/2010	Leviticus 21	1 Chronicles 11	Ezekiel 15	Colossians 1