Proverbs 3
5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
The Christian life is hard. Who even told you it was going to be easy?
Verses in the Bible that speak how troubles may come prove to me that I shall be on my guard. That I shall fight and be sober. That I shall be ready.
Trials are on the way.
But just like any soldier in the battlefield, we will always get those wounds and bruises.
There will be times when you will be tripped to fall and as you are about to stand up, you are pushed to the ground once more.
Sometimes, you will be lying on the ground longer than you'll be standing on your feet.
Like you are being cornered, no escape and no place else to go. It's your end.
The end of your rope.
In those times of failure, what will you do?
What shall we do?
Matthew 11
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Don't we love this passage?
I realized how fast I seek for advice from church mates and Christian friends, not realizing that I was ignoring the One who can give the best advice.
I have sought counsel for every trial and suffering I am faced with.
I jumped from one person to the next because the previous advice didn't solve it.
The worst part?
To learn my lesson, I had to be carrying so much burden to realize I can't carry them anymore.
I needed to be broken down and humbled to the point of being hopeless.
I need God.
I can't do this anymore.
I am no good.. I need you Lord.
John 9
39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
Sometimes God blesses us by letting us realize how much we need Him.
By letting us remember how blind we were and that He is the one who gave us our sight to see the kingdom of God.
He will do it if that shall make us ABIDE WITH HIS SON much more.
But instead of going and running to His Son, we grab some preacher's book, we ask our pastor, we ask our friends. Yes, God speaks through them. But God's Word is complete and enough for us to help us in any hardships that we have.
2 Timothy 3
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
But we don't run to the Bible first, do we?
We tend to depend and trust other people more than we do God and His word.
Heresy starts when someone depends upon other man's words or other things rather than the Bible alone.
2 Chronicles 16
12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
Instead of seeking God and asking Him to heal him, Asa depended on what the doctors say about his health.
Does it mean he doesn't think God can heal him?
Maybe not, but the fact that it didn't even come to Asa's mind to seek God but went to the doctors first, reflected Asa's heart.
He is more interested in what the doctors will say.
And how did the story end?
2 Chronicles 16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
After 3 years, Asa died.
Psalms 10
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
By not coming to God, we proudly say that we can do it without Him, because if we do think otherwise, we will not put Him at the end of the list. He'll be our first priority.
Job 8:
5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Let us seek God's face and His face alone.
Let's get back to reading our Bible and not all those books of men that you can buy from a Christian bookstore. Why settle for anything less? Why not have the perfect truth and perfect wisdom from God's Word alone?
Job 8
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
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Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Verses in the Bible that speak how troubles may come prove to me that I shall be on my guard. That I shall fight and be sober. That I shall be ready.
Trials are on the way.
But just like any soldier in the battlefield, we will always get those wounds and bruises.
There will be times when you will be tripped to fall and as you are about to stand up, you are pushed to the ground once more.
Sometimes, you will be lying on the ground longer than you'll be standing on your feet.
Like you are being cornered, no escape and no place else to go. It's your end.
The end of your rope.
In those times of failure, what will you do?
What shall we do?
Matthew 11
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Don't we love this passage?
I realized how fast I seek for advice from church mates and Christian friends, not realizing that I was ignoring the One who can give the best advice.
I have sought counsel for every trial and suffering I am faced with.
I jumped from one person to the next because the previous advice didn't solve it.
The worst part?
To learn my lesson, I had to be carrying so much burden to realize I can't carry them anymore.
I needed to be broken down and humbled to the point of being hopeless.
I need God.
I can't do this anymore.
I am no good.. I need you Lord.
John 9
39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
Sometimes God blesses us by letting us realize how much we need Him.
By letting us remember how blind we were and that He is the one who gave us our sight to see the kingdom of God.
He will do it if that shall make us ABIDE WITH HIS SON much more.
But instead of going and running to His Son, we grab some preacher's book, we ask our pastor, we ask our friends. Yes, God speaks through them. But God's Word is complete and enough for us to help us in any hardships that we have.
2 Timothy 3
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
But we don't run to the Bible first, do we?
We tend to depend and trust other people more than we do God and His word.
Heresy starts when someone depends upon other man's words or other things rather than the Bible alone.
2 Chronicles 16
12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
Instead of seeking God and asking Him to heal him, Asa depended on what the doctors say about his health.
Does it mean he doesn't think God can heal him?
Maybe not, but the fact that it didn't even come to Asa's mind to seek God but went to the doctors first, reflected Asa's heart.
He is more interested in what the doctors will say.
And how did the story end?
2 Chronicles 16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
After 3 years, Asa died.
Psalms 10
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
By not coming to God, we proudly say that we can do it without Him, because if we do think otherwise, we will not put Him at the end of the list. He'll be our first priority.
Job 8:
5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Let us seek God's face and His face alone.
Let's get back to reading our Bible and not all those books of men that you can buy from a Christian bookstore. Why settle for anything less? Why not have the perfect truth and perfect wisdom from God's Word alone?
Job 8
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
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