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THE REAL TEST_____________
It is always easier to walk with the
crowd, to agree when everyone else
is agreeing to go with the flow. However
it is how we stand in opposition that is
often the real test of our faith in God.
Put on the whole armor of God, that
you may be able to stand against the
wiles of the devil (Ephesians 6:11) To
be a true Christian means to oppose
evil. To stand with Christ often means
to stand against people and ideas that
are set against him. While a Christan is
to be patient and loving, he or she is not
to be passive. A Christian is a solder
in a war.
Christ displayed such a character.
While He was meek and gentle, He could
also be aggressive and bold: "I tell you
no; but unless you repent, you will all
likewise perish."(Luke 13:3) "For laying
aside the commandment of God, you hold
the tradition of men" (Mark 7:8) "Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites. For you travel land and sea to
win one proselyte, and when he is won,
you make him twice as much a son of
hell as yourselves. (Matthew 23:15)
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IT'S STRANGE ISN'T IT ?
1. Isn't it strange how a $20 dollar bill seems like such a large amount
when you donate it to the church, but such a small amount when
you go shopping?
2. Isn't it strange how 2 hours seem so long when you're at church,
and how short they seem when you're watching a good movie?
3. Isn't it strange that you can't find a word to say when you're praying,
But you have no trouble thinking what to talk about with a friend?
4. Isn't it strange how difficult and boring it is to read one chapter of
the Bible, but how easy it is to read 100 pages of a popular novel
or Zane Grey book?
5. Isn't it strange how everyone wants front-row-tickets to concerts or
games, but they do whatever is possible to sit in the last row of the
Church ?
6. Isn't it strange how we need to know about a event for Church 2-3
weeks before the day so we can include it in our agenda, but we
can adjust it for other events at the last minute?
7. Isn't it strange how difficult it is to learn a fact about God to share
it with others, but how easy it is to learn, understand,extend and
repeat Gossip?
8. Isn't it strange how we believe everything that magazines and
and newspapers say,but we question the words of the Bible?
9. Isn't it strange how everyone wants a place in Heaven, but they
don't want to believe, do or say anything to get there?
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I CAN SLEEP WHEN THE WIND BLOWS
A farmer advertised for men to work on his farm, but received only one application, an eighteen year old boy who was asked, "Can you run a tractor?" "No , Sir." "Can you handle a milking machine?" "No, Sir I've never worked with one." After several more questions and negative answers, the farmer said, "Well, what can you do, young man?" He answered, "I can sleep when the wind blows."
The farmer didn't understand, but neither did he press fo an explanation. He needed help so badly that he gave the boy the job. It was not many days afterward that a storm came up in the middle of the night. The wind began to blow accompanied by thunder, lighting and rain. The farmer was awakened and ran to the room where the boy slept. There, just as he had said, he was sleeping through the storm. Rather than wake him, the farmer himself ran to the barn to check on the animals and equipment. He found the doors to the barn tightly shut and bolted. The animals were in their shelters, properly secured. Then he remembered the pile of straw that the wind would be blowing in all directions, but he found it had been covered with canvas and tied down. Every thing was secure. On the way back to the house the farmer remembered what the young man had told him: "I can sleep when the wind blows." And he understood
Do we have the confidence to live through life's storms knowing we arew prepared to meet God? If so, we can sleep when the wind blows...and can say with Paul, "I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of life..." Only then can we know the "peace of God that passeth all understanding." (Philippians 4;4-9)
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AUGUST
1 Isaiah 5-9
2 Isaiah 10-14
3 Isaiah 15-21
4 Isaiah 22-31
5 Isaiah 32-37
6 Isaiah 38-42
7 Isaiah 43-46
8 Isaiah 47-51
9 Isaiah 52-57
10 Isaiah 58-63
11 Isaiah 64-66
12 Jeremiah 1-3
13 Jeremiah 4-6
14 Jeremiah 7-10
15 Jeremiah 11-14
16 Jeremiah 15-18
17 Jeremiah 19-22
18 Jeremiah 23-25
19 Jeremiah 26-28
20 Jeremiah 26-28
21 Jeremiah 29-31
22 Jeremiah 32-33
23 Jeremiah 34-36
24 Jeremiah 37-40
25 Jeremiah 41-44
26 Jeremiah 45-48
27 Jeremiah 49-50
28 Jeremiah 51-52
29 Lamentations 1-2
30 Lamentations 3-5
31 Ezeliel 1-4
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IF JESUS CAME TO YOUR HOUSE
If Jesus came to your house to spend
a day or two, if he came unexpectedly
I wonder what you'd do.
Oh, I know you'd give him your nicest
room to such an honored guest, and
all the food you'd serve him would be
the very best.
And you would keep assuring him
your glad to have him there. That
serving him in your own home is joy
beyond compare.
But when you saw him coming would
you meet him at the door, with arms
outstretched in welcome to your
Heavenly visitor.
Or would have to change your clothes
before you let Him in?
Or hide some magazines and put the
Bible where it'd been?
Would you turn off the radio, and hope
He hadn't heard? And wish you hadn't
uttered that last loud hasty word?
Would you hide your worldly music,
and put some hymn books out?
Could you let Jesus come right in or
would you have to rush about?
And I wonder if the Saviour spent a
day or two with you, would you go
right on doing the things you always
do? Would your family conversation
Keep up it's usual pace? And would
you find it hard each meal to say a
Table grace? Would you sing the
songs you always sing, and read the
books you always read?
And let him know the things on
which your mind and sprit feed?
Would you take Jesus with you
everywhere you'd planned to go?
Or would you mabe change your
for just a day or two?
Would you be glad to have him meet
your very closest friends? Or would
you hope they'd stay away untill his
visit ends? Would you be glad to have
him stay forever on and on?
Or would you sigh with great relief
when He at last was gone?
It might be interesting to know the
things you would do, If Jesus Christ
in person came to spend some
time with you.
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SEPTEMBER
1 Ezekiel 5-9
2 Ezekiel 10-13
3 Ezekiel 14-17
4 Ezekiel 18-21
5 Ezekiel 22-24
6 Ezekiel 25-28
7 Ezekiel 29-32
8 Ezekiel 33-36
9 Ezekiel 37-39
10 Ezekiel 40-42
11 Ezekiel 43-45
12 Ezekiel 46-48
13 Daniel 1-3
14 Daniel 4-6
15 Daniel 7-9
16 Daniel 10-12
17 Hosea 1-6
18 Hosea 7-14
19 Joel 1-3
20 Amos 1-5
21 Amos 6-9
22 Obadiah 1
23 Jonah 1-4
24 Micah 1-7
25 Nahum 1-3
26 Habakkuk 1-3
27 Zephaniah 1-3
28 Haggai 1-2
29 Zechariah 1-7
30 Zechariah 8-14
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