Choose this Day whom you will Serve
To choose the way of life means to learn from the Bible and act upon it. Blessings and wisdom will follow. As for you and your house, will you serve the LORD?
Following the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Acting upon what you discover in the Bible.
To choose the way of life means to learn from the Bible and act upon it. Blessings and wisdom will follow. As for you and your house, will you serve the LORD?
Our lives are not about remaining static. Rather, our lives are all about running toward the prize for which God has called us.
When God’s people needed to cross the Red Sea, it split in two. There were giant walls of water. A similar thing happened when they crossed the Jordan River.
Sometimes the LORD God calls us to stop praying and start moving. It is as if fresh blessings are withheld from us until we take action.
The Lord Jesus said this is the second greatest commandment of all.
Melchizedek was the king of Salem and a priest of the Most High God. He brought out bread and wine. Then he blessed Abram and the Most High God.
We are to flee from doing the wrong thing. Instead, we are to pursue doing the right thing. This is part of being a disciple. It is action-faith.
I wrote this Haiku poem after meditating on Mark 2:22.
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; the late 1980s] My missionary friend Tom and I made our own Christian pamphlet in Japanese, and then handed them out on the streets.
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; 1988] The aircraft made its final descent. Its wheels skidded onto the runway. And with that, I had arrived. I was in Japan. I was a foreign missionary.