The first quote starts,

“The man can neither make nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels. He is also, in theory, committed to a total service of the Enemy; and if the Enemy appeared to him in bodily form and demanded that total service for even one day, he would not refuse. He would be greatly relieved if that one day involved nothing harder than listening to the conversations of a foolish woman; and he would be relieved almost to the pitch of disappointment if for one half hour in that day the Enemy said ‘Now you may go amuse yourself.’ Now if he (the patient or man) thinks about his assumption for a moment, even he is bound to realize that he is actually in this situation every day.”

(not my favorite but just thought a good deal about it)

Interesting right?

If God were here beside me, I would work my butt off for him and not give the slightest complaint, and if He told me that I should go do something else, I might feel a little down, because I know I could do much more to serve Him.

The sad part is we are in the very presence of God at every moment, and we slack off and do half jobs, or decide that we don’t feel up to it, or that we don’t want to.

The problem. God is here, we are hypocrites.

We would do it without complaint if we could see God, but since we can’t and He sometimes feels miles away, then there is no problem.

Being double faced, and its wrong.

I underlined most of what that said, and thought about it, and I cannot agree more with C.S. Lewis.

We act as though it is our time, and that we own this time, and if something happens to it, then it is the end of the world, but see that is where we get it all wrong.

It’s not OUR time,

but rather His time.

We are all living and acting on God’s time, and we should act and live like we are. I am not saying become extremists and go “gun ho for Jesus!”, but we need to realize that we do not own this time, and we ought to give it over to God to use best in our lives. Sometimes that is sitting down with a senile old man, or a weird chatty old lady and simply listening and caring about what they are saying. Sometimes it will be that you have to drive someone somewhere because they have no other way. Sometimes it may be that you will have to walk to a neighbors house and see how they are doing.

It is ALWAYS going to take love, and patience, but it is not your time you are wasting…

It is God’s time you are using…

Kind of cool  right? I thought so…

Hope all are well, and I will write you another day… probably in this coming week.. No promises..

So often in the past I have never looked forward to the return to school, however this time there is something quite different about it.

I am living off Campus, and will have my own room…

I will hopefully (God willing) have a job while in school…

I will have an amazing girl to be there with me…

and most obvious to myself… I have changed…

As we all do through the years, I have grown older and, in some ways, wiser…

I have had experience through this summer towards youth ministries…

I have discovered what ministry really entails, and that I truly do love being a pastor, maybe not so much focused on youth, though I love teens and being around them, but I think I am better suited elsewhere…

I could do youth for a while, but I do not think that is where I am to be serving for my life…

I have also seen a lot of myself that needs changing and that needs work, and have been humbled by even some of these youth at times…

Though often times I say to people “I just want to be out there doing this stuff instead of talking about it!!”, I realize now that there is more work to be done in my life before I get there…

I truly do feel like I could do ministry right now, however I would stumble much and fail many times along the way, and some of the occaisions would not be pretty…

It is weird to tell myself that… I’m not ready…

Though often I want to shout out “I want it now!!” I have come to see that it is prideful of me to assume that I am good enough and do not need this time that is ahead of me..

I need to realize that timing is very important…

I used to think myself very patient, and I am in a lot of ways, but my patience runs out very quickly when it comes to school and homework, because I find it useless and mundane…

I never think of it as useful and interesting..

But it is…

See homework and school is what shapes us to become what we are looking towards becoming…

homework moulds me into someone who will be able to do little tedious papers and writings in the future…

Homework builds discipline and organization hopefully if done right…

In my feild school never ends, at least it shouldnt…

Because we can never know too much, and we need to continue to learn more and more about God..

Onnce I preached about knowing God better and how we needed to open our Bibles and continually strive to know God better…

I preached it, and maybe listened and dedicated myself to it for the rest of that internship and maybe a little longer, but I had forgotten it, it would seem.

I am blessed with the opportunity to learn about God in a way that some countries do not have available, and I take it for granted.

I have these immense sources of knowledge about the Bible and God teaching me, and I say “MAN this is boooooring!”

I have been a fool many times, and now I realize that I have failed to use what God has blessed me with so much…

This year, I am very excited to go back to school and learn even the most mundane of topics…

I am geared up and ready to get at it…

I dont know if I can keep up, but I am willing to put everything into it..

And that scares the crap out of me haha..

but I know that it is good…

Praise God, for He is so worthy of it,

your brother,

Dwyer

and state of the Body of christ in our present day. I dont speak much, or give

too much in my opinion on many matters, but if someone asked me about what I

thought the Church today should look like, I would not hesitate to tell at 

length what I believe and how badly we are missing the mark.

I always look to Acts and the Epistles for the runnning of churches, and I 

believe that they had a really healthy and loving Church back then, but we

have gotten away from what was originally modelled to us. We seperate ourselves

on such small issues, and have denominations of thousands of kinds. There are

issues that we will all have different opinions and struggles with, however this

should not keep us from being united as one in Christ. Whenever I think about

the Church I think unity, and community first off. I strongly believe that we 

ought to be working together as believers and followers of Christ no matter

what denomination you follow. We should be able to come together and work 

together as the body of Christ working for his glory and his plan.

Anymore we are individualistic and keep to ourselves and OUR congregations,

yet in the past Paul sent letters to cities, and towns not specific churches.

To the believers of Rome he wrote Romans, to the believers of Colossae he wrote

Colossians, and to the believers of Thessalonica he wrote Thessalonians. These

books are more aptly seen as letters written to the Church of the cities named,

and not the church specific. The letters were circulated through the churches of

the area written to, but only because it is addressed to the Church.

the Church is every believer around the world, the Church of Cambridge is all

believers in Cambridge, and the Church of Toronto is ALL the believers in

Toronto. The Church has much that is debated and discussed throughout itself, but

should remember the end goal and the most important thing, and that is glorifying

God. Letting out the good news as we have been ordered to do, yet too often our

small group of individualistic churches do not talk to each other thinking “those

pesky pentacostals!” or “those lazy Baptists!” or “Those blasphemous Catholics!”

We forgot the greatest command, and that was to love your neighbour as yourself.

Even though we say “I love them, but don’t like them!” That does not give you

rights to not work with them, or to not associate with them. They are still your

brothers and sisters in Christ and AS SUCH you should want to work with them to 

further the kingdom of God!

I heard someone once ask if we should practice the act of the early church of

sharing all their possessions and bringing up the needy and the widows, and I

heard sadly it trashed, because practically it does not work today. I disagree,

I cannot stop thinking ‘why? What makes it impossible for us to practice today?’

I do not think that we could change over night, but the idea of giving up some

luxuries so that we can build each other up and help one another out is super

practical, though hard to introduce and get going in our materialistic and self

centered world.

I have been sort of jumping around here hopping from idea to idea, but in the end

the idea is that we can accomplish a great deal in unity as a Church, and that is

evident in the tasks that we DO come together to accomplish.

A church I used to attend practiced this a little with meetings with the leaders

of the churches in the area, and they all came together for one event and it has

seen a large number of people turning out and coming out for it. There is still

a long road ahead of this church and the surrounding churches, but when the Church

of that area finds out and wakes up, then there will be incredible things happening

in that town.

A church I went to for one service said “We are going to bring this town to Christ

victoriously!” As you can imagine this was a very bold proclamation, and the town

is still very much in need of Christ. When they said “We”  though, they did not 

mean the Church of the town, but rather OUR church, OUR congregation, WE will do

this OURselves.

I petition a different chain of thought however, and that would be this…

Come together as the Church of Sarnia, Cambridge, Sudbury, Toronto, Ottawa, London,

the Church of Ontario, New Brunswick, Quebec, NewFoundland, Alberta, Ohio, Illinois,

the Church of Canada, United States, England, France, Japan, Australia, Mexico,

The Church of the World comes together… however we need to…

and we get this body working, moving, reaching, touching, loving…

That we instead of thinking of ourselves alone out there in this evil world,

thinking that we are united as a body in Christ!

This is something that I keep thinking about and is something that I want to bring

in with my ministry, but one man alone cannot change much.. 

in Christ Ashleigh and her family as they go through this ordeal,

and at no point do I ever want to diminish the amazing works being done there

For those who do not know, a dear sister in Christ who attends our school

became ill, and we as a College and many churches through Canada and the

States, and other countries have come together in prayer for her.

We are now two days in and a nurse was quoted a saying that she has seen

“amazing works” already in the healing process. Ashleigh, who was in a 

medical induced coma, woke up from it in good timing and has surprised the

medical staff at her progress already. She has a lot ahead of her, and is

still in need of prayer, therefore I ask all brothers and sisters in the

body of Christ to remember this sister in your prayers!

This story, and the amazing things going on in it is not what I am concerned

about. We should be praying for this sister and seeing God work through the

prayers of a great number of believers who have come together is a great

thing to perceive. This is not what I want to go on about, but it is very

important that we pray and petition on Ashleigh’s sake. Please pray for her…

However,

I had a great feeling of distress and sadness when I think upon the fact that

this communal prayer, is only thought of in dire situations that happens to us.

When our friends are badly injured, or threat of death, then we come together,

but we often forget about the power of prayer when these times are not around.

This is what I think we need to be focusing and I think that I heard a little

bit about this from a talk through Impact group, but I think it needs to be

expanded and really focused on. We need to remember this communal prayer, and

its power that we see in this moment, and practice doing it for all things!

This past week 150 people have died, 1,500 have been injured, and 50,000 are 

left without a shelter in Italy, because of a earthquake Sunday evening. 

I barely even caught hint of this, but because I got curious and thought that

there must be something going on in this world that also needs prayer, I went

on CNN.com, and BBC.co.uk, and CBC.ca to find any news about the world today.

I caught the Italy story early on, and heard about it in early stages, but did

not give it my full attention, because my mind was preoccupied and this hardly

mattered it being overseas and all. I regret ever thinking that, because no

a human life is precious no matter where it is. We sit over here and have this

crisis, and suddenly life is short and precious, but when it is far off we dont

give a crap. 150 people died… I dont want to minimize the importance of our

dear sister in Christ’s case, but imagine how many families (maybe even Christians)

who are suffering through this earthquake. Ashleigh definitely needs our prayers,

but so do the people of Italy… Prayer that God would do something huge in this

desperate time… Prayer that the church there could find opportunities to reach

out to those in pain and love them… Prayer that the believers in Italy

persevere through this hardship… Prayer that Italy would come to know God…

Again my case is not to diminish oiur prayers for Ashleigh, but to shed light

on a fact… That this same power through prayer.. Can be used for much more…

We are in the midst of seeing God work wonderfully in Ashleigh’s life, but

what about our friends overseas who also need God to be there for them?

Another case…

Niger and Nigeria

An epidemic had struck these two countries for the most part, but through the

Meningitis Belt in Africa. I, whom has had meningitis, caught onto this, and

wrote an article that I was going to post up somewhere about it, but never

finished. Nigeria was hit bad, with it’s Ministry of Health reporting that of

17,462 suspected cases of meningitis, there have been 960 deaths since the

beginning of 2009 till March 25th, in which the week of the 25th was the highest

number with 171 deaths of 4,164 suspected cases. Niger’s Ministry of Health

reported 4,513 suspected cases with 169 deaths. In which the week of the 25th

saw 1,071 suspected cases, and 30 deaths. In one week, between those two

countries there were 200 deaths… In one week alone… The World Health

Organization (W.H.O.) put up reports on their website (http://www.who.int/en/)

giving the results and what they are trying to do for it which I went to and

read over and found as much information as I could about. Something I had gone

through and survived… has killed over 1,000 people since the beginning of 

the year 2009. We need to be praying for these people! For the church there!

Our brothers and sisters!

Let me repeat myself once more… I am not trying to make Ashleigh’s case look

any less important, but I am trying to open your eyes! Get involved into what

is happening in our world, and organize for the Church (the body of Christ) to

be praying for it communally!

Let me say that when I heard about the suffering of believers in India, I was

at a loss at how to feel about it and pray about it, because I did not know

if my prayer would count for much… BUT In a time when you see God work…

Remember it well… PRAY HARD… For everything! As a community and as the Church

We come together and pray and see God doing some amazing things, so lets keep

doing it…

God answers prayer absolutely, even when we do not immediately see the results..

persist, and persevere! Continue honest prayer for the nations…

The way you would prayer for any brother and sister you know in need…

Pray for the nations like that, for some may be just that..

I havent posted anything in a while as some may notice…

The break had struck and I was filled with thoughts of relaxation and rest, and therefore that is what I did.

However I am back at school now and intend to restart my blogging again about things that I think up as I go…

This past week I was contemplating Gandhi and what he stood for in this world. I approve of the man in the respects of him pushing forward the idea of non-violence. Pacifism is something that I hold to. I, a man, still enjoy to wrestle with a friend or the shot of a gun, but I never thought that war was a way of solving problems, and would never want to kill a man.

Who am I that my life should be more important than this man’s?

I would think to myself in a battle with myself and an enemy pointing our rifles at each other… And in the end I am sure I would cast my gun aside and let him kill me… I have tried to look out for everyone and try to befriend everyone.. No matter how hard it is at times I continue to try. I simply cannot justify any war anymore. I look at war and see only destruction.

The Bible says “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9)

Gandhi said “I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.” (Mohandas Gandhi)

Some ask what about those who wronged you?

Again the Bible says “Do not repay anyone evil for evil.” (Romans 12:17)

Christ told us to turn the other cheek for them to hit.

In Proverbs it says “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty give him something to drink. In doing this you will heap burning coals on his head.” (Proverbs 25:21-22)

Dwight D. Eisenhower said “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”

as well as “If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”

I cannot justify any war, and may never, because in all situations there is the “ability to find a peaceful solution.” I loath war, and think that I shall never go out to one, but I shall die for what I believe in. My Jesus shall I die for… My family shall I die for… My brothers and sisters in Christ and of the world I shall undoubtedly die for. Not because I am some hero or anything, but because I love them, and my life is a small price to pay for their lives… I do not fear death, for I know where I will end.

Peace at all costs? Yes… I believe that…

I wonder, ponder, and then conjure differing thoughts, sought, yet only caught by few who are true to learning anew. I never bother to be the scholar anymore, cause they just holler about how they are the star, how pious they are, and the rest of us are black… Black as tar. I just want to love, and to speak of my master from above. They stop me and hate the way I see this world, and I am to be someone I dont know anymore. They never cared before, but now that I have something new instore, they tell me it aint right, that I am too tight, and have lost all sight. They all know the name, and have all played the game before, but they always remain the same. I feel now that I have never seen clearer… Now I look in the mirror and realize that I am a bearer of great news, and no longer to sit in pews, no longer to lose, but I am ready to be sent. Too long have I lent the faith of my fathers and I repent that I have been fake so long. I rise now with a different song; knowing the one before was wrong. I understand that there is a new demand for the greatest command to love your neighbour. All this with the need of a saviour and the messiah who made right the way. Many come and say that you are falling away from what was set in stone, however every man is prone to mess up the unknown. We think we know the world, but there is so much squirreled away that we have not hurled out every definition. We suffer from every kind of condition, that puts us in awkward position and we think ourselves great, and it makes me so irrate. We try and open every gate, and fail miserably, cause were too good to learn from history. God, my God knows, that as I tear these clothes, as once more the crows of the rooster are heard, that there is no word for the way that bird filled my life with shame as once more I rename my faith and deny the one who came. My God saves and paves a path that craves after Him. Follow and believe, and forevermore receive… He is faithful and never leaves.

Again as I said before I am no poet, but I do enjoy rhyming in spare time… This one I wrote out a while ago, but finally finished it off(ish) today.

I myself try to superseed cliques, and I always have. I befriend everyone. In highschool I was able to hangout with the losers one minute and then go over to the cool kids and hangout with them and talk to them. I could fit in with the nerds and at the same time fit in with the jocks. I never let the groups seperations keep me from getting to know everyone. I never felt like I truly belonged to any of the groups, but that I had several things in common within every group.

The thing is, I am finding it harder to do with the groups formed here…

Which is a bad sign..

Here I have found it hard to find any opportunity to talk with certain people when they are in their group, because they are too tight and have all their inside jokes. They have a relationship that is far further built up than I with any of them, and I have made attempts to hangout with everyone, but it has become soo much harder, and even sometimes feels very awkward the way I do make an entrance in a group.. I have never had so much difficulty with people than I have had here.

Am I blaming them?

No, and yet yes?

I think that I need to make more of an effort myself to get into those groups even though it may feel awkward or like I cannot at times, but they also need to open their group up to others and accept all. We Christians are so good at making our groups exclusive unless we really like you. I remember youth group was tough at times for me, because I came into a group that had already been built up and had everything. They had their inside jokes and their meaningful relationships. I in that situation remember feeling like I never really was a part of the group, and that it hardly mattered whether I was there or not, and often I would tell my parents that I would not go or did not want to with excuses like “I’m tired” or “I have homework” or anything to get out of it. The only reason I really had though was I did not feel like I was wanted or that I had anything to offer there… Now they worked on that and eventually I made it into the group and they gave me some place there, but at the same time I still felt at times out of place… I love that youth group now, because of the years I spent with them IN the group, however I hated it for a while and did not want to go…

I am tired of these cliques we build though, and I find them unbiblical… Jesus did not hang around one group the whole time. He had few that he really built into and had with him when he went places (the diciples), BUT he hung around the prostitutes one time and then with the common folk another. He would go visit the tax collectors, and then the tax collected common folk. He healed lepers whom no one would dare go near. Jesus was above groupings. Jesus hungout with EVERYONE, and not just specific people. Yes his disciples were ther, but he even sends them away sometimes. Another point to make about him hanging around the disciples could also be that Jesus was the leader of that group and he did not let them sit in the corner and stick to themselves, but rather brought the group to others. We need some group of friends that we can truly trust and truly share with deeply and grow with, but at the same time that group of friends should be able to go out and spend time with others and not have an awkward feeling about it. The group should be moving around others and not sitting in its corner all alone build into itself.

“WHEN NO ONE ELSE WILL BE YOU’RE FRIEND I’LL DO THE JOB. WHEN NO ONE ELSE WILL BE YOU’RE FRIEND I’LL DO THE JOB. I WANT THE JOB, I FILLED OUT IN THE ONLY APPLICATION.” -Listener “When No One Else Will Be You’re Friend I’ll Do The Job”

I love this song, but this line is the one that speaks most to me and what I want to be like. I think Jesus was like this. When no one else will be there, I want to be. In fact I will go as far as to write it out and apply for the place. I want the job. The wording in that is so true, because often a friendship and taking someone on like that can be a job, and tough. To WANT the job. I want to go out and seek eevryone in this way. When no one else will be your friend… When the groups are all full and there is no place for you… When cliques are built and no one else will let you enter… I am ready to take on the job.

cliques are stupid…

Coming from a man whom at times probably does this very thing with people…

For that I apologize and please help me take this plank out of my eye before I even think about your eye…

Some of you may agree with me and that is cool and some may disagree and that is also cool, but let me know what you guys think. I truly enjoy feedback.

Dwyer

I can rhyme, with rythme and time,

But I aint no poet, dont you know it.

I can throw words, like herd or birds

to sound nice, but I dont got the spice

The zest for poetry, and obviously

theres no need, to plant the seed

of doubt in your mind, cause you aint blind

to my moments of weakness, and still you caress

me and let me know, that you can clean me white as snow.

I never asked you, but that time I sat in the pew

You understood my pain, and you had nothing to gain

from giving me life, seeing worthy of this strife

I do not understand, this new and weird command

To live your desire, and to have a new burning fire

that shall never die out, and evermore shout

that you are the king, and my voice will sing

Of your praises and glory, your amazing story

That has touched me so, and helped me grow

Why can this world not see

My God, how much I love thee..

That is all… Sorry I have not posted in a while. Exams and due papers are killing all my time.

Dwyer

It says this:

“My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.” (NIV James 1:19-21)

As I went through this I kind of did what I do when I was writing a sermon, and really looking at what the words were saying.

When James says “My dear brothers, take note of this:” it means it is important and he wants you to really think about what he is saying and to take it to heart.

He then says “Everyone” defining the group to whom this is regarded. Not wives, husbands, children, widows, or any other thing. No EVERYONE is in this group. He is talking to the pastors, elders, deacons, congregation, individuals, and just everyone.

“Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.”

We know who he was talking to, us, and now he lets us know what we ought to be doing, and that is:

1. be quick to listen

2. be slow to speak

3. be slow to become angry

What does this mean?

Being quikc to listen, means shutting your mouth and hearing out what is being taught to you or shared with you by someone.

Psalms 49:10 says “Be still, and know that I am God;”

Proverbs 1:5 says “Let the wise listen and add to their learning,”

Proverbs 12:15 says “The way of the fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.”

The act of listening is overall seen as a good thing to do in the Bible. The act of listening is reinforced in James a something we should be quick to do, for if we are not then we are speaking to which James says:

be “slow to speak,”

We often shoot our mouths off about everything and anything, and we tend not to think about it. It is funny that James deals further on the tongue in Chapter 2 saying:

“Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.” (NIV James 2:5-8)

Our tongues are evil, and by speaking without thinking and speaking quickly you are giving it chance to continue to spread its “deadly poison.” 

This is not the only verse about being slow to talk.

“When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise.” (NIV Proverbs 10:19)

“He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity.” (NIV Proverbs 21:23)

Calamity.

I knew this was a bad word right away, but did not know the direct definition I assumed it was chaos, or destruction. 

Here is one definition from one site:

An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster

Another site of a known dictionary (Merriam-Webster) says this:

a state of deep distress or misery caused by major misfortune or loss

Calamity.

It is so true that when we let loose our tongues they can cause such deep distress and misery. They can cause what seems to us like a disaster.

“slow to speak,”

and finally “slow to become angry.”

By listening sometimes there are things we get angered by or offended by, and James knows this, but had he left it at “slow to speak” then we would have still harboured anger in our hearts. Thinking angry thoughts and having that anger fester inside us, but we are in need of being “slow to become angry.”  Think about that… Taking the time to listen and not becoming angry at first impulse when you do not like what someone said. 

WE DONT DO THAT!

We get angry and get offended when people attack our faith and we get up and spew out words, and oftentimes those words hinder our cause rather than reinforce it. We do not listen and speak first, because WE need to win the arguement, but that again hiders our cause rather than reinforces it. 

What else does is wrong with anger?

Chew on this…

“for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.”

So we get angry, and our anger is not the life the “God desires” of you. You are not living the way God wants you to live by being angry. In fact you are doing the opposite.  Great eh? SO be “slow to become angry.”

“Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that iis so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.”

THEREFORE!

With what I just said in mind…

“get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent”

moral filth is that which you feed yourself which is morally wrong, and you know it. Crap in Crap out right? Yea so James so rid yourselves of moral filth. Quit taking in trash! 

AND

rid “the evil that is so prevalent”

This at first made me chuckle, because James is saying “MAN the sin is right there and so obvious!” It is so true that our sin at times can be soo obvious and we are just ignoring it. Like if you had peed yourself, and then tried to hold your book over your crotch and pretend nothing happened, but everyone can see the line down your leg, and can smell it. That is our sin at times, and by hiding it we are just making ourselves look like fools. I laughed, and yet I do it probably all the time, so you can laugh at me too. 

So everyone knows the sin is there, so DEAL with it. Get rid of the evil that is so obvious to everyone!

“and humbly accept the word planted in you which can save you.”

The word humbly is sooo huge for me in this passage.

Humbleness.

I try so many times to go before God with a humble heart. Knowing it has nothing to do with me, and I can do nothing without Him. Being humble before God usually means you have hit rock bottom and are  crawling back saying “Uhm… Hi God… I uh… messed up big time again. I could not do it without you, and am nothing without you. Help me? please?” An understanding where you cannot do it alone.

“and humbly accept the word planted in you”

Accept the word of God and take it into your own life. If we took a plant, and somehow managed to get it to live inside your body, it would grow and I htink that is the concept here. The word is planted in you. If you accept it it will grow inside you and will become a part of your daily life. You will live your life according to the word of God.

“which can save you”

The word of God saves (period)

Saves us.

Without the word we could not know the gospel, and we would not know Christ’s sacrifice. The word has saved us, and saves many people today. When we have the word planted in us, we can go out and us the word to save. When we are living as the word is a part of our daily living, then we can go out and us the word to save.

This is what I got out of this passage SO FAR!

And it has just been such a blessing to read this and to wrap my head around it and to preach it to myself, because I struggle at times with these things.

Thank you for bearing with my preaching,

As for now… I am very… very tired… 2:00 in the morning is not the best time to finish off a blog friends…

So goodnight and God bless!