3-15-09

Well, let's go to 1 Chron. 1:1-3 which names off a line from Adam to Noah. "Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah." Why I'd brought this up was the fact each of their names lead to a prophecy of Christ's coming. Here it is:

• Adam-Man(kind)


• Seth-Appointed; Chosen


• Enosh-Mortal


• Kenan-Sorrow


• Mahalalel-The Blessed God


• Jared-Shall come down


• Enoch-Teaching


• Methuselah-His death shall bring


• Lamech-despairing; hopeless; lost


• Noah-rest; comfort

To link these in my words: "Man is appointed for mortal sorrow. But the Blessed God shall come down teaching that His death will bring rest for the hopeless, lost, and despairing." Not just this, but throughout the Old Testament, you can find several prophecies/hints which led to Jesus' Coming. Even Isaiah 7:14 prophesied His birth through Mary, "Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." Unless you caught this earlier, the name means "God with us". I can go on all day with some small clues that led to Christ's arrival, but, again, it's throughout the OT.

1-18-09: How to be Glad in When the Snakebite Enters Your Veins

Well, as simply as I can put this, is just like Day 14 in the "Purpose Driven Life". There will come a time or two, maybe more, when things don't go right and you'll feel the snakebite entering your veins. Again, it's like Disturbed's "Prayer", living won't always be easy.

Let's go to Psalm 137:4-6 "How can we sing songs songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof my mouth if I don't remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy." Barren, in this case, is anywhere God's name isn't known or those who wanna silence His name.

Still, how to be happy in the midst of all this chaos? Simple, just believe anyway. It may not be easy, but if doing so even when you don't feel like it is worship that'll please God.

Moving right along to Psalm 63:1 "O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirst for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water." Yet, it was this, the rest of David's psalms, and his faith that had God calling him "a man after His own heart".

Once again, we'll have our troubled times and such trials to test our faith, but all I can say is just believe anyway. God is more concerned with our response to fear than the fear itself. That is, don't be building any golden calves to face your fears to.

1-25-09 "I Gotcha Where I Wantcha."

Yep, another one I'd held back for a while but it's coming together. Here it is, "I got ya where I want ya and want ya where I got ya."

There'll be a time when Satan thinks that way and wants to call checkmate. So, don't let his scratchin zombie claw get into your twilight zone. Let's start with Psalm 37:18-19 "The days of the blameless are known to the Lord, and their inheritance will endure forever. In times of disaster, they will not wither; in days of famine, they will enjoy plenty."

Just like the chorus of Disturbed's "Prayer", life won't always be easy, we will be tested. Even in 1 Tim. 4:1, "The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons." I also put up in a blog from "The Purpose Driven Life" that once we become saved, Satan, like Agent 47, will accept a contract for our hit. That is, even before, he still wanted to bring us away and assume checkmate.

As in chess, the King will always have at least one more move, God won't call "Checkmate" just because there's nowhere else to go. Don't listen to Satan's taunting, making you declare checkmate. Let's not forget how he tempted Jesus for the 40 days. After all that, Jesus still came out strong and never gave in. An hour, day or two is one thing, but try 40 days. So, in the end, Satan may just say, "I got ya where I want ya. You failed at everything-your life, job, happiness, even at you faith. CHECKMATE!" Don't listen to them and either ignore it or recite some verses to annoy him.

3-1-09: The Question About Faith

Pretty odd line, yeah? Well, it primarily needs to do with significance. Without faith, pleasing God would just be merely as impossible as trying to shove a square peg into a round hole. There are a few examples of faith, and here they come.

First off, there's progressive. You'll find a bit in 2 Peter 1:5-6 "...make every effort to add to your faith goodness, ...knowledge, ...self-control, ...perseverance, and ...godliness." This is an example of progression. God chose to have us develop overtime instead of overnight which He could've done. Again, He chose for us to develop overtime and not be fully grown overnight. This way, we wouldn't learn too much and constantly forget though we will but this is why we happen to relearn the same lesson several times even if it was like 50 times before.

Next, there's destructive. Let's go to James 1:19 "...Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger." Notice how destructive many of us become when we don't just listen in the first place? It goes onto verse 20 "for man's anger doesn't bring about the righteous life that God desires". Again, this is why it's best to stop and listen once in a while.

Third and last for now, though by a few adjectives, but it all goes into polluted. Two other words can be misdirected and shipwrecked. Let's head to 1 Cor. 13:2 "If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom the mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I have nothing." Verse 3 is almost like 2 but "If I give all I possess to the fire and flames..." Anyway, we can give until it hurts and give some more, but if we don't learn the brotherly love described here, our faith doesn't mean jack.

Funny that many of us put faith into a soap opera, news, or any other media that may want to silence God's name or even misuse it. What I'm saying is that when we put all our faith into a show, the news, or even Wall ST, it's just not polluted, but shipwrecked and will soon be gone with the world. So, may our faith faith be on God, not on just self and definitely not in Wall ST.


----------------
Now playing: Motörhead - The Game
via FoxyTunes