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Mark 10:4
Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Him.
The one who beterayed Him. When I read that, this thought hit my brain. "That's how everyone looks at Judas". I feel like when people think of Judas, they don't think of him being a follower of Jesus, they just focus on him being a betrayer of Jesus. Now I'm not defending his actions of beraying Jesus, I'm just saying that everybody has. When you sin deliberately, you betray Jesus. When you turn your eyes and make something else your god, you betray Jesus. There's this one song, I can't remember the name of it, but it says, "O my soul. O my Jesus. Judas sold you for thirty, Id've done it for less." I heard that song and it really made me self-analyze. At first the song bothered me but the more I thought about it, the more it didn't bother me because of the honesty. The part that we have to see is that it's not an excuse to sin. It's a reason not to! That's where we pray and ask God to cleanse us and make us bold. That's where you ask yourself, "Am I willing to sell my Savior for _________?" You fill in the blank. Judas was and did. And although that's how everyone sees Judas, I really do hope to see him in heaven.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Friday, February 9, 2018
Psalm 18:26
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Psalm 18:26
With the pure You show Yourself pure, and with the crooked You show Yourself astute.
So my Bible is a NASB (New American Standard Bible) version. Other versions say something different than the word "astute". I read it and had no idea what it meant. The verse before says, "With the kind You show Yourself kind; with the blameless You show Yourself blameless" and then it says the one about the pure above. So when I read that I thought to myself, "Well God can't deal crookedly with somebody.". I borrowed some data on Sarah's phone and looked up the deffinition of the word. The deffinition of "astute" is having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage. So what this verse is saying is with the crooked, God sees the crookedness and uses it to show Himself. When I figured that out, it made me think of my life and how I was to how I am now. I was crooked. I was not okay. I had a God shaped void in my life. God came to me and wrecked me. God took my breathe away. God washed me away. The reason I didn't say He washed away my sins is because He did so much more than that. All I was was sin. God washes away sin and if all I was was sin than God just had to wash me away completely and build a whole new Roaren. I know I'm still human and I'm still a sinful creature but the mercy and grace that God's shown me is beyond me. I'm writing a song called "Bleed For Me". It's about my inner disgust and inner sin, yet God still loves me with all of His heart. God has been and always will be astute with me.
Psalm 18:26
With the pure You show Yourself pure, and with the crooked You show Yourself astute.
So my Bible is a NASB (New American Standard Bible) version. Other versions say something different than the word "astute". I read it and had no idea what it meant. The verse before says, "With the kind You show Yourself kind; with the blameless You show Yourself blameless" and then it says the one about the pure above. So when I read that I thought to myself, "Well God can't deal crookedly with somebody.". I borrowed some data on Sarah's phone and looked up the deffinition of the word. The deffinition of "astute" is having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage. So what this verse is saying is with the crooked, God sees the crookedness and uses it to show Himself. When I figured that out, it made me think of my life and how I was to how I am now. I was crooked. I was not okay. I had a God shaped void in my life. God came to me and wrecked me. God took my breathe away. God washed me away. The reason I didn't say He washed away my sins is because He did so much more than that. All I was was sin. God washes away sin and if all I was was sin than God just had to wash me away completely and build a whole new Roaren. I know I'm still human and I'm still a sinful creature but the mercy and grace that God's shown me is beyond me. I'm writing a song called "Bleed For Me". It's about my inner disgust and inner sin, yet God still loves me with all of His heart. God has been and always will be astute with me.
Judges 6:31
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Judges 6:31
But Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal, or will or will you deliver him? Whoever will plead for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has torn down his altar."
To give you some back story, Joash is Gideons father. In the middle of the night, Gideon did as the Lord told him and took 10 of his servants and detroyed the altar of Baal. So in the morning, everyone who worshipped at the altar came and found it destroyed. They found out that Gideon had did it and went to his father and told him to bring out his son to be put to death and the verse above was Joah's reponse.
So why did I chooe this verse? I chose it because of the response of Gideons father. My favorite part is highlighted in my Bible. "If he is a god, let him contend for himself". The people stood up for this god that did nothing for them and wanted revenge. The thing that I love is God can contend for Himself! In 1st Kings, chapter 18, Elijah told the worshippers of Baal to show himself. They cried out to Baal and cut themelves with swords as usually done in the rituals of Baal. They cried out and nothing happened. So then Elijah called on the Lord and God visually answered. You see God can and does contend for Himself. God shows Himself in everything. There's a song called "The Sea Always Seems To Put Me At Ease" by Being As An Ocean. The song is about getting in an internal tiff about the presence and goodness of God. At the end of the song it turns around and says "For we see testimony of You in the sea, Your creation, all of nature. So with a sudden rush, we abandon our solitary perching place. And as we wash away the mourning dust, Immersed; we see Your face." The sea always seems to put at ease. God always seems to put me at ease.
Judges 6:31
But Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal, or will or will you deliver him? Whoever will plead for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has torn down his altar."
To give you some back story, Joash is Gideons father. In the middle of the night, Gideon did as the Lord told him and took 10 of his servants and detroyed the altar of Baal. So in the morning, everyone who worshipped at the altar came and found it destroyed. They found out that Gideon had did it and went to his father and told him to bring out his son to be put to death and the verse above was Joah's reponse.
So why did I chooe this verse? I chose it because of the response of Gideons father. My favorite part is highlighted in my Bible. "If he is a god, let him contend for himself". The people stood up for this god that did nothing for them and wanted revenge. The thing that I love is God can contend for Himself! In 1st Kings, chapter 18, Elijah told the worshippers of Baal to show himself. They cried out to Baal and cut themelves with swords as usually done in the rituals of Baal. They cried out and nothing happened. So then Elijah called on the Lord and God visually answered. You see God can and does contend for Himself. God shows Himself in everything. There's a song called "The Sea Always Seems To Put Me At Ease" by Being As An Ocean. The song is about getting in an internal tiff about the presence and goodness of God. At the end of the song it turns around and says "For we see testimony of You in the sea, Your creation, all of nature. So with a sudden rush, we abandon our solitary perching place. And as we wash away the mourning dust, Immersed; we see Your face." The sea always seems to put at ease. God always seems to put me at ease.
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