Category: Devotional Time

A Call To Order

3/6/2014

I am a Mama who currently homeschools her lad.
I am not organized, I don't plan well, I'm a spur of the moment, go with what works type of gal.
I have a lad who, like his father, likes to know what's going to happen and how things are going to be laid out.
This is a struggle for me and lately I've been rebelling within about that.

So when I did my devotions this morning I felt a firm check in the spirit about the slight rebellion within.

You see?
PREPARE your work.
Get things READY.
THEN do your job.

See?

So even God himself wants me to be organized and prepared for the tasks that lie ahead.
How do i argue and rebell against God???

Can't really. :)

The thing is.. I DO KNOW that preparation helps.

How often do I say to myself... oh.. if only I had written that down I would remember to do it. And I often have regrets that I didn't accomplish certain things with the lad. I don't want to be a lazy or forgetful person either so, with the Lord's help and encouragement, and my families proclivities to wanting to know what the PLAN is... I will learn to be more organized and prepared. :)

I don't want to be THIS person: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man. (proverbs 24:33-34) I do want a lad who loves to learn, who is capable of doing whatever God calls him to, and lad who knows how to discern what is right and knows the importance of family. So let me not be lazy and ill-prepared.

So..how are you building your house???

Devotional Time: Luke 9

1/8/2014

So I get a daily email from BibleStudyTools.

This mornings reading was from Luke 9:1-27; Genesis 15; Psalm 8

I've read from Luke 9 a lot throughout my life. I grew up in a Christian home and despite a difficult young adulthood, have remained true to the faith I was raised with. So when I read it this morning it was reminding myself of things I already knew until I came to this verses.

7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was going on. And he was perplexed, because some were saying that John had been raised from the dead, 8 others that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had come back to life. 9 But Herod said, "I beheaded John. Who, then, is this I hear such things about?" And he tried to see him.

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I don't know why that grabbed my attention.
Possibly because in my email it had the title "Herod is perplexed by Jesus" and I never had that stick out before in any reading I had done before of this passage.

But it made me stop and think. Herod.. the man who tried to have Jesus killed a baby is perplexed by the excitement that Jesus is raising among the people. Some people thinking that Jesus was John ... and I can just see Herod going...but I had John beheaded, what are these people thinking?   And he's so intrigued that he tries to see Jesus Christ.   I don't know if he was successful, I'm presuming not.

Herod wanted to see Christ.

This shouldn't surprise me as much as it did.   We as believers are called to show Christ to the world. Christ came for everyone... even Herod.    And here I am, finding myself surprised, learning the Jesus was interesting enough for Herod to take notice of him in (what seems to me) a positive way. He's curious, interested, perplexed and wants to know more.

Isn't that how we should all be though?   Curious, interested and perplexed, wanting to know more about Christ?   Shouldn't we be inspiring those same thoughts in the those around us?

I am getting better at being open about my faith...it's been slow coming, I wasn't raised to be real open about what I believe, but I am getting better. God has been so gracious to me at showing me that talking about him isn't a scary deal and people aren't rejecting me if they aren't interested in Christ.    Reading these words, for some reason gives me more hope.   If Herod (a leader, not inclined toward the things of God) can be curious, interested and perplexed by Jesus, perhaps I can encourage others to be as well. :)

What do you think???     Who can you encourage to be curious, interested and/or perplexed by God and his son Jesus today?