A Fresh Start

Ok, so much for my dilligence to daily bible reading! I know I have been incredibly slack, not doing the reading or the blogging like I should, I've just been so busy!!!! So instead, I have decided once again to take a different tact. I was struggling big time with Genesis just understanding what was going on, so instead I have jumped to Luke, the NT and a fresh start. I will blog anything that I get out of my reading in the hopes that someone else gets something out of it too!

Luk 10:10 But whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,
Luk 10:11 ‘The very dust of your city which clings to us[b] we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.’
Luk 10:12 But[c] I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city.


This verse frightens me! It will be worse at judgement for those who KNOW the gospel and yet turn away from God then those who never knew at all, and when I think of all the christian people I have known who have backslid, who have fallen away, who for one reason or another have decided to follow their own path with no regard for God....this truly frightens me....even myself...I strive to do God's will but look at my lack of discipline! I dont read the bible NEARLY as much as I should, and I neglect God in so many things.....I pray the Lord grows me before it is too late!!!!

Luk 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’[k] feet and heard His word.
Luk 10:40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.”


I love this verse, because it reminds me that Jesus wants us to know HIM first and foremost. Yes serving is important, and we are called to be servants, but we cannot bless others properly with our service if we dont first get to know the Lord, and seek HIS will in our service. We can get so caught up in church life about what we're doing to SERVE, that we forget that our top priority must always be our relationship with God. We have to remember to keep that right, to keep it pure and clean, THEN and only then can we serve others as God would have us do.

Luk 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

Sometimes I fail to see God as my Father....sometimes I see Him as a huge, powerful God, and I lapse into wondering why He would possibly be interested in me...sometimes I see Him as mean, who remains silent in my time of need.....but the reality is God is my Father. He gives and does not give according to what is good for US, not necessarily what we WANT all the time. He does this to discipline us, to train us, to show us the way to go, and if necessary to make us rely on Him more...becuase the more we are in trouble, the more we have nowhere else to go!

Luk 11:27 And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”

Luk 11:28 But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”


AHHHH the first ever Catholic!!!!!!!!!!! LOL LOL LOL When I read this verse I LAUGHED because this is EXACTLY the mindset of the RCC when it comes to Marian worship. Even then, Jesus rebuked her, saying that those who hear the Word of God and keep it are more blessed, because they have known the truth without seeing, and have believed without proof. Oh man I love it....how much does Jesus ROCK!

Luk 11:33 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light.
Luk 11:34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.
Luk 11:35 Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.


What are we allowing ourselves to see? What are we filling our minds with? Are we keeping what we view pure, or are we corrupting it with things of this world? Our eye is the lamp of the body, and we are called to walk in light and not in darkness. When we keep our mind pure in God, we shine out God's love, nad others see it.