The Bema Awaits...

The Bema Awaits

 

 

As we go through life, how many times does someone do something to you and you hold a grudge? We need to live everyday as if we knew that Christ was going to come that day. There are many times in the Christian life where we need to just forgive and forget. But, do we do that? I know it may seem like I am "preaching to a choir" but, the Lord really brought this to my attention tonight.

 

Hebrews 12:1-2  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,

let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

 

Jesus faced the cross with joy. We need to face difficulties and trials in our lives too. So, does that little thing that your brother or sister did to tick you off really matter? No! When we meet with Christ in the air, we are all going to have to give an account of our lives to Christ. I don't know about you, but I don't want to look back over my life and just see a life full of grudges that could've been easily forgiven and forgotten.  

A Whole Bible?

A whole Bible?

or a Bible full of holes?

 

 

Do we read the whole Bible? or do we only read the parts that "justify", if you will, our sins? There are many people in this world today that go about their lives living as they want, claiming to be Christians, but living however they want. They don't think about the Bible as a whole, they just read the parts that they want to read that they think will "justify" their sins. If you ask them, they would probably tell you that their sins were ok because the Bible says they are. However, they think this way because as they read the Bible, they are picking and choosing which passages they are reading and they are not reading the passages that they know are going to make them feel guilty about their sins.

 

How many times do we, as Christians, do this? When we have sin in our lives, is there certain passages that we stay away from because we know we will be convicted of our sin if we read them? When we read the Bible, we need to read it has a whole...not full of holes. 

A Funny for Today

If you need a good laugh...

Tonight Jimmy was working on cleaning his room.

(and from the pictures...he is doing a VERY deep clean ;)

As Dad walked by,

this is what he saw.

The only thing that you could see was his socked feet.

  

Then he thought that if he had a pillow,
he could just sleep there for the night.
I don't think it would've been too comfortable though. ;)
Anyway...he said that it would've been a pain in the neck.

God doesn't call the qualified...

Jacob was a cheater, Peter had a temper,

David had an affair, Noah got drunk,

Jonah ran from God, Paul was a murderer,

Gideon was insecure, Mirriam was a gossip,

Martha was a worrier, Thomas was a doubter,

Sara was impatient, Elijah was moody,

Moses stuttered, Abraham was old,

and Lazarus was dead.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called!

 

This last weekend, I went to the Truth Weekend at Camp Chetek. One of the sessions was on the message of the Gospel. Brother Ben Schettler talked about how we can be missionaries even now. But before we share the message of the Gospel with others, we must understand and get a grip of the Gospel for ourselves.

 

Have you ever just sat back and thought about what Jesus did for us? God sent His perfect Son to the world to take on all our sins and die in our place. We should have died on that cross for all our sins, but Jesus took the punishment on Him and went through the agony of His Father turning His back on Him. If we don't have a grip on that truth, then we are going to have a hard time sharing it with others.

 

Then this morning, Brother Mark Zimmer and his family were visiting our church from Yap, Micronesia. He also talked about how the Gospel changes lives and how we must first have a grip on it before we can share it.

 

I am so thankful that God can use me for His glory. This poor, wretched sinner...it was in His perfect plan to create me disabled so that through me, His glory would be made known. The question is, Are we willing to let God use us? After all, God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called!