Greetings beloved sisters!
I trust all is well with you in the Lord and you are holding on and pressing on wherever you are! May God be glorified in us and in the good works we do because we are part of the true Vine!
This verse stuck out to me while I was reading. It seems a very strong statement and command Paul is giving.
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
1 Thessalonians 5:27
Thankful we can still read the letter today! Let us obey it also!
Here's Ruth chapter 1 and 2 reading...
There's a lot of scriptures about envy and stife etc in the NT and I was pondering how we do not want to have that amongst ourselves.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
We want to be spiritual and not carnal! And perfect and blameless for His glory!
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
James 3:14-18
We want the wisdom from above and not the opposite!
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Philippians 2:3
God's ways are always best! And we walk in the Spirit and crucify the flesh.
We are always testing ourselves to the Word, the commands and what is modelled by godly saints in it.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:17-18
How much more should we care about spiritual needs of each other? It is always faith and works throughout scripture. It's something I am testing myself in and it stands out to me through study, how Paul wrote his epistles. He showed much love and care and compassion to the saints. He gave us commandments of God to be the same in being tenderhearted, affectionate, kind, caring, merciful, longsuffering, praying for each other and much more! So I want to model my writings after those commands and the good example too! Try my best to anyway:-)
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:1
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Philippians 4:9
We are blessed to have the written word to live by it all! We will surely be responsible how we lived up to it. So many things to make sure we haven't slipped in or areas to grow in or be encouraged in if we are doing them right.
It is good to wait on God for things. He can reveal or change things in His timing. His ways are not our ways and so much higher! We trust in Him, surrender to His will, and know that He is in control!
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalm 27:14
We don't have to live out this life all on our own...God is working in us and we need to rely on Him! We don't need to feel as if we do it all ourselves, though of course we do have to do many things with our own will and fight. But without Him we can do nothing! Everything we do good is also just our reasonable service and duty, living out His commandments.
Was thinking of God changing the set course of nature in these accounts...
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
Joshua 10:13-14
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And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Isaiah 38:7-8
Very interesting. But we know He is Lord of all! He can do anything!
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Matthew 19:26
Yes that includes changing hard dark hearts into soft willing hearts after Him! He transforms lives! He is the Potter and we the clay.
Here's one of God's creatures I had to capture from my little home last night. While I think he's super cute I don't want to step on him or have him crawl on my face in the night:-)
So very many creatures and other things He made! Glory to Him!
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This world is dark and perilous. Hold fast to truth and keep pressing on sisters, and obeying the gospel every day!
Love in Christ,
Sister Chayil
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