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My Daily Bible Reading

Today’s Life Journal Reading is from:

1 Timothy 5,6; Titus 1,2,3

Scripture

   
¹¹ For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, ¹² teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, ¹³ looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
(Titus 2:11-14, New King James Version)

Observation:

This is just a reminder of what we should try to set out as goals, not in a legalistic, Pharisee way, but from the free will and desire of our heart, to strive to serve our Heavenly Father. We are human, we will fall, we will involuntary sin,and Praise His Name, that He seeks to lift us up and help us move forward, not stuck in one place or backward.

It’s an active choice, still though, how we react to the world and how we choose to live it. If we voluntarily seek a life we know is not pleasing to God, it’s of our own choice, but if we seek to free of us of that, He is pleased.

It feels hard sometimes doesn’t it?

My pastor described as having a “Sin Addiction” when we are newborn in Christ; We are clothed in the body still of our old life and it’s a process of working through what we use to be and embracing who we are now.

For some, the blessing is that it can happen quickly, for others, it’s a long road toward redemption but made by the free will choice to fully embrace the freedom and salvation that our Heavenly Father offers us.

When we choose to follow Him, we stop making excuses for sinning, and instead call out to Him and seek growth through reading His word, so we are no longer who we use to be, but we become who we are now.

Application:

It’s a reminder that no one but else make the choices to either live in the world or just with the world. It’s a reminder that no one forces us to make the choices that we choose to make, other than ourselves, and by taking the personal responsibilty of accepting this precious gift from our Heavenly Father, we choose ourselves, to follow Him or in some cases, deny Him with our lives.

If I had to choose between eating food that is good for me (this is just an example, lol), or food that is bad for me, ultimately, no one else is truly at fault than me, if I choose to eat the food, I know will not help me in my growth, and so, it’s a reminder of my growth as a Christian, to choose that which glorifies and lift HIS name up, by the choices I make of the heart and of the heart and not out of desire to be legalistic thinking by appearing good, it will save me.

Prayer:

Thank You Heavenly Father for teaching and gently (and sometimes not so gently) rebuking me where I need to be reminded, “wake up”. Lord, I pray that You will seek to humble me where I need to be humble and reminded that I am a broken vessel at Your hands to be remolded in Your image, not mine or that of the world and if I am not humble or speaking words of Glory to You,Lord that You, in Your way, remind me and set my path straight not crooked.

Amen.

****Purpose of this post****

Gentle Readers, There are days that I will read a verse or passage and just feel pulled to share here, but there are days when I will read something and just feel, I need to spend the day, in personal contemplation of what is being convey and may just post via Twitter, what passages I have read that day and post nothing on here.

That is what bible reading is about; It’s not about having to write something down everyday; There maybe days when you are reading say, Numbers and it’s just lineages, but other days, you may find yourself dealing with a “powerhouse verse” of the moment and have to just go “WOW” and seek God in personal time and prayer to understand what He is sharing.

I will try to post daily, but particularly on weekends, if I’m sick or I’m just completely in awe of what I’m reading or maybe I am trying to understand what I am reading, I may not post here, I may just write in my Life Journal (hardcopy), because I will find myself having to seek His Word and/or the Commentary and just seek in prayer to understand what our Father in Heaven is seeking to reveal.

Either way.

Reading His Word, is about getting to know Him better and developing your Christian growth and maturity. Do what is right and good for you.

If you do use the Life Journal and participate in the daily readings, I would like to hear from you and your perspective on each day’s reading, when I do have a post up, or feel free to comment on a previous “Daily Bible Reading post” or send me a quick email.

Please feel free to join in the linky that I post below, so others too, who uses the Life Journal/or SOAP method to read the bible can participate.

Don’t feel obligate to have to blog about each passage to be read, but if anything, feel free to share those passages that have the most impact on you that day.

There maybe some days that you may read your daily reading and find nothing to jot down in your journal or on your blog and that’s okay, but there maybe other days, that you will find yourself inspire.

This is about you being encouraged to have a personal relationship with our Heavenly Father, and spending each day with Him, You and Him.

It is my prayer and hope that this will be an encouragement to establish a personal daily reading as well.

To find out more about using the S.O.A.P. method, here’s a link to an ehow article and here’s the link to the Life Journal to find out more what it is, and how you can use it for your own daily bible readings. If you don’t want to order the journal or if it’s not available through your local church, another method is simply, buy a journal or notebook or even blog about your life journal readings.

Disclaimer: I am not personally affiliated with the church that the link goes to, but merely share it as a resource of what the Life Journal is, how to order it.

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