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My Daily Bible Reading

Today’s Life Journal Reading is from:

2 Timothy 1,2,3,4

Scripture

   
¹⁴ Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers. ¹⁵ Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. ¹⁶ But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. ¹⁷ And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, ¹⁸ who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some. ¹⁹ Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”
(2 Timothy 2:14-19, New King James Version)

Observation:

No one wants to be like: Hymenaeus and Philetus; No one.

We see it around us more and more these days as people twist the truth to fit their lifestyles and expect our Father to work on their terms and not the other way.

Did we not seek Him to be free of our rebellious ways or are we seeking Him to try and corrupt what cannot be corrupt?

Humility is not natural for human nature; Look around us and we see it everyday, but it is something we and I know I pray for that I develop as second nature, should strive for in all our words and lives and part of that including how we also act (and react).

It’s so easy to say, but this is just how I work, but trouble is that we are no longer about the “I” and we are about “Him” now.

This is how He works…not us.

A simple litmus test for us to ask ourselves each day is…if I was having a one on one with our Heavenly Lord today, would I be able to present what I say, what I do, how I live my life, and look Him with humble worship and present our lives rightfully, or would I hang my head?

There is a classic saying that goes “Love means never having to say you’re sorry”; If we love our Heavenly Father like we say we do, shouldn’t part of that include living our lives “In Service to Him” by not being legalistic or Pharisee like, but by living a life that we want of our own free will, to be pleasing to Him and we can lift it up and give it up to Him in Glory.

If we are doing things that we could not give to Him without feeling a bit of twinge of guilt or sorry, turn away, it’s not that hard to stop doing whatever it is.

Application:

When we care about someone so much, we don’t want them to be hurt, or for them to be hurt by how we speak of them or portray them as, these verses are a wonderful reminder that as followers, when we profess to believe in Him, it’s not just our words that will reflect our faith and following of Him, but our actions and sometimes even our lack of actions.

This is a reminder that we have all sinners and though clothed still in that of a sinner, being imperfect does not give license to continue to sin. We will fall and have our bad days, and praise Our Father, He is there to pick us up, but we are not maturing or growing, if we don’t learn from what we shouldn’t and practice what we should.

Like an athlete, we don’t develop what we need to develop by not training, by not learning, by not seeking Him to train and guide us and if we seek to,not be approved by our good works, but by embracing and manifesting the grace that is given to all of us, like an athlete that is poorly or not at all trained, we fall behind and are left behind.

Keep up the good race and be diligent and study His word, but that alone is not what saves us, it’s by following Him and allowing Him to be in and work through us and to manifest Him by allowing Him the door to transform us into what He calls us to be and not by what we define ourselves as.

It’s never about us….It’s always about Him.

Prayer:

****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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