My Daily Bible Reading
Today’s Life Journal Reading is from:
Acts 5:29
Scripture
29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. (Acts 5:29, New King James Version)
Observation:
We all want to fit in don’t we? No matter who we are with, where we are: Work, Church, Neighborhood, just the world-We all want to fit in, but look at Peter.
Wow. Look at Peter. When we met him, following Jesus earlier, what did he do? He deny Christ, not one time, but three times and now look at him, chasing and following our Father with a fever that can not be contain.
Looks like he’s worried less now what everyone around him has to think and more worried about what our Father in Heaven has to think.
The truth is that our world, our culture, we as people in general, are like the waves of the ocean-Constantly changing, influence by self, by selfish desires, by changing thoughts, influences and emotions that are not always as controllable as we like to think they are, but our Father-He is a solid foundation whose Truth never changes and is a solid rock that has and always will stand the test of time.
While we and the world we live in changes each day like the weather in the sky and the waves of the ocean-sometimes smooth, sometimes rocky-Not our Father in Heaven.
He is always there.
His word, is always true today as it was yesterday as it is today and will be tomorrow.
That’s whom we should choose to hunger for, to pursue, to crave, to follow,to obey.
He doesn’t come in and out of our lives like the people of our life do; He doesn’t move like our best friend, or our neighbor, or change jobs or homes or towns. God is always there, everywhere, anywhere, with us always when we need Him.
Not just on Sundays, but everyday; Not just during the day, but any time of the day, our Father is there and it is He, who we should seek and obey, not men.
When we get over that hurdle and release our need for the approval and attention of men, but seek instead our Father, we find the Truth and the comfort that we all seek and need.
From the MHC, it is shared:
The apostles testify to Christ before the council.
Many will do an evil thing with daring, yet cannot bear to hear of it afterward, or to have it charged upon them.
We cannot expect to be redeemed and healed by Christ, unless we give up ourselves to be ruled by him. Faith takes the Saviour in all his offices, who came, not to save us in our sins, but to save us from our sins. Had Christ been exalted to give dominion to Israel, the chief priests would have welcomed him.
But repentance and remission of sins are blessings they neither valued nor saw their need of; therefore they, by no means, admitted his doctrine. Wherever repentance is wrought, remission is granted without fail. None are freed from the guilt and punishment of sin, but those who are freed from the power and dominion of sin; who are turned from it, and turned against it.
Christ gives repentance, by his Spirit working with the word, to awaken the conscience, to work sorrow for sin, and an effectual change in the heart and life. The giving of the Holy Ghost, is plain evidence that it is the will of God that Christ should be obeyed. And He will surely destroy those who will not have Him to reign over them. (Ac 5:34-42)
The advice of Gamaliel, The council let the apostles go.
The Lord still has all hearts in his hands, and sometimes directs the prudence of the worldly wise, so as to restrain the persecutors. Common sense tells us to be cautious, while experience and observation show that the success of frauds in matters of religion has been very short. Reproach for Christ is true preferment, as it makes us conformable to his pattern, and serviceable to his interest. They rejoiced in it.
If we suffer ill for doing well, provided we suffer it well, and as we should, we ought to rejoice in that grace which enabled us so to do. The apostles did not preach themselves, but Christ.
This was the preaching that most offended the priests. But it ought to be the constant business of gospel ministers to preach Christ: Christ, and him crucified; Christ, and him glorified; nothing beside this, but what has reference to it. And whatever is our station or rank in life, we should seek to make Him known, and to glorify his name.
Application:
This is a reminder of Acts 17: 10-12
“And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable woman which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.”
Our Father is the final authority and we should strive in all areas of our lives to be discerning Christians and part of that is to seek for ourselves, His Word and test all and not just rely on what someone says or does.
One of the things that todays scripture really just laid on my heart is being careful to based what our Father has to say on just what someone else has to say, but first and foremost go to His Word, read for myself and particularly follow our Father and not just what is the popular trend or thought that is happening.
Everyone’s walk is personal and more than just that, if we lose sight of Him and based what we believe in Him on what others are doing or thinking, it’s easy to lose sight of the whole picture which is bigger than us.
We should always search the Bible, go to Him in prayer, obey what HE lays on our heart to do and follow that true and true, for the truth is that people will fail us whether intentionally or unintentionally but our Father in Heaven never does.
It’s all about Him and all about for His Glory,not ours.
If there is anyone to follow and who is the Leader, it’s our Heavenly Father:
I Chronicles 29:11: “Yours, O Lord, are the greatness, and the might, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is yours; Yours is the kingdom and You are He Who is exalte…d over everything as the Leader.”
Prayer:
Heavenly Father, Thank You for Your Strength, Encouragement and Guidance; Lord, I pray our hearts are forever humbled, hungry always for YOU and YOUR word and that we seek You always and to obey You, Father, for You are the solid rock that we could always depend on.
Thank You Father for the blessings, the lessons and the challenges You lay before us, knowing we are strong enough, in and through You to face each day.
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.
is plain evidence that it is the will of God that Christ should be obeyed. And He will surely destroy those who will not have Him to reign over them. (Ac 5:34-42)
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