Bible Reading

What book are you currently reading, or have read lately? A novel, encyclopedia, or magazine? Perhaps, there's a news article you've just laid down, or a love letter, or menu. Think of all the media you've read today, yesterday, last week, and in the past year - at work and at leisure. Or the stories you've read from childhood, fairy tales and Aesop's Fables. 

How many textbooks, reports, newspapers, novels, and children's books have been edited, reviewed, or rewritten for "just the right word." All of them. Yet, this is the reason some people won't read the Bible. 

Without the Bible, we wouldn't have the story of Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, Samson and Delilah, Noah's Flood, Jacob's Ladder, or Joseph's Coat-of-many-colors; or the story of Moses leading 3 million Hebrew slaves out of Egypt through the Red Sea and toward the Promised Land, and Moses on top of Mt. Sinai interceding before God for those same people who unknowingly broke the Ten Commandments before he did! And the story of Jesus Christ who said he was God's Son and preached love and forgiveness and declared that we are no longer under the Law, but under Grace, and how Jesus was murdered by religious rulers for his gospel, and then how God rose him from the dead 3 days later to prove who he was! And how the resurrection shadows the story of Jonah and the whale.

Regardless, wether or not one believes the Bible is true or not, it is rich in history of middle-eastern kings, literature, poetry, and proverbs...and past and future prophecies that far surpass Nastrodomous's quatrains. There's a scarlet thread that weaves through Genesis to Revelation and ties everything together. We see the beautiful tapestry unfold when we take time to read the Bible.

~dkg

The Great Commission

"Us four and no more!" ...What if Noah and his three sons had said that?

Some people believe that salvation and the calling of God are just for them and their church, or denomination, or family. Jesus came to save the whole world, everyone, but not everyone believes God. (Believing in God, and believing God, are two different things).

When Noah built the Ark, it took 150 years! He preached the entire time the message that God was going to send a great flood to cleanse the earth of wickedness and to "Get ready!" For fifteen decades, Noah told everybody who would listen. Only those people closest to him, believed what God spoke through him. Only eight souls were saved in the ark.

It's been over 200 decades since Jesus preached, "Get ready!" And that the Great Day of the Lord is coming when God will cleanse the earth again, but not with water, with FIRE. Only those closest to Jesus, believe what God spoke through Him. "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you."

The Bible prophecies that comparatively only a few souls will be saved. Still, Christians must warn others of God's coming judgement against an ungodly world just as Noah did. The "Good News!" is that God has provided for us a safe refuge in Jesus Christ. It is not for us to chose who to witness to. Jesus commissioned us, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel."

"Go!"

~dkg

Spiritual Housekeeping

Ten years ago, I heard God's still small voice say, "Get your house in order." There was a sense of urgency and thought that I would die soon. I lived each day sensing that "today could be the day" (I still do), and gave away unneeded things, got paperwork in order, and tried to be patient and loving to my family and others. Here it is ten years later, I'm still here! (Thank you Lord). 

Recently, I questioned God, did I heard his voice back then and if so, what was "Get your house in order" all about. Instantly I felt that it wasn't about dying, it was about Living. Our body is our house (God's temple) where our soul and spirit dwells. God wants us to align our body and soul with our spirit that is united with His Spirit; and to be congruent in purpose. In other words, God want us not to be "double-minded" when it comes to living for Him. Getting our spiritual house in order is getting rid of unnecessary things that interfere with our peace. Just like living in a cluttered house can be overwhelming and cause us great anxiety, so too, can living with cluttered minds and hearts filled with unecessary things of this world. God want us to have Peace.

"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."

I am still getting my house in order. Housekeeping is an every day thing. "Get your house in order" is God's way of saying, "Always be ready. I'm coming back soon!"

~dkg