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September 8, 2010 Today's Word from Pastor John on Proverbs 8Proverbs 8 I am an unashamed lover of Jesus Christ!
I search for Him everywhere in the scriptures and, lo and behold, He was easy to be found in Proverbs 8. Read to the end of the chapter; everything it says is Jesus.
I have already told you in previous days that wisdom is the word of God. According to the Gospel of John 1, speaking of Jesus it says, In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Jesus is the word, so it is evident to me that both Proverbs 8 and John 1 are talking of the same person . . . Jesus.
Over the past number of weeks I have been refreshed in my thinking about The Kingdom Of God. Look at verses 15 -17: By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just; 16 by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly. 17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
I am reminded that Jesus is the King of kings, and that we are as His followers KING’S SONS. Never forget who you are. You are king’s sons and, therefore, Jesus is the King over us, who are also kings under him.
Notice, as God’s children and reigning under Christ, we are loved as we submit to Him and seek Him diligently (v. 17).
God, keep me understanding who you are, who I am, and how I should act as a King’s Son!! Reign in me, sovereign Lord. Reign in me.
Happy to know whose I am, and who I am. I am John King, a King’s Kid. Blessings. | |
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Posted 9/8/2010 in Weekend |
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September 7, 2010 Today's Word from Pastor John on Proverbs 7Proverbs 7 Wow! Another chapter warning against sexual sin. There must have been a real problem back then with the sins of the flesh. Again, could be a page out of today’s media. The words pressed into me today, though, are verses 1-4 My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; 2 keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 3 bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend.
Again, the source of our protection and power of overcoming is called wisdom and, as in the whole of the Proverbs, wisdom really is the word of God, the bible.
Solomon is saying that we are to get so much of God’s word into us that, whenever we are tempted to sin, the irritation caused by our knowledge of God and His word would cause us to run from the temptation. The thought is that, whatever the temptation, our knowledge of the word would drive us from it.
Sounds like good advice to me, but you know simply getting God’s word into us, simply getting knowledge will not keep you from sin. Solomon knows that, so he adds the words of verse 4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend.
So wisdom (the word of God) is to be in as close relationship as my sister. Then he talks of “insight” as an intimate friend. Insight is revelation. By that I mean it’s one thing knowing God’s word; it’s another thing to have the Holy Spirit of God bring it to your memory and make it alive to you and cause you to have the word as a weapon against Satan and sin.
In scripture there are two words used for “word.” There is LOGOS, meaning the written word and RHEMA, meaning the revelation word, the now word. Pray that the Holy Spirit will make the word you need in time of temptation be a RHEMA word, a now word to fight that situation or that temptation. A RHEMA word has power attached to it. It’s a turbo attached to the word that God brings to your memory that drives you from temptation and sin. Wow! This is a long blog. Sorry about that, but the truth of it is thrilling.
This is John King saying, “Have a great day, and pray for insight to go alongside your wisdom.”
Blessings. | |
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Posted 9/7/2010 in Weekend |
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September 6, 2010 Today's Word from Pastor John on Proverbs 6Proverbs 6 This whole chapter beats with very wise counsel, and what to talk about from it is difficult. However, I am drawn to verses 6-11. 6 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 7 Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, 8 she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. 9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, 11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
I am drawn to this as there is a story attached to it. I think that if they did evaluations of whether a child was ADD back when I was around eleven or twelve years of age I would have probably been put on whatever drugs they use in our day and age for controlling that disorder. Anyway, suffice it to say I had a terrible job concentrating in school and, apart from sports, had a very low attention span. Well, one day I was in a geography lesson and must have either fallen asleep or was caught doing something other than the lesson, because I suddenly heard my name called and was told to stay behind after class.
When I went to see Mr. Griffith, the geography teacher, after class, first thing he did was pull out a bamboo cane and brought that down on my hands (sounds awful, I know, but I did deserve it). Then he sat me down and wrote out the words of Proverbs 6 on the blackboard and made me write the words out one hundred times in my notebook. It took an age to do, needless to say. I got no break time that day and by the end of the day I had memorized these words. Back then I could not understand why he got me to write these particular words out. I even thought he felt I was some kind of slug, as I had never heard of the word “sluggard.” As the years have gone by, I have thanked that man many times over for getting the instruction of these words inside my brain. I have never forgotten them!
I have also applied the principle: Hard work never hurt anyone. I have lived by the principle that I would work doing anything rather than know extreme poverty and see my family hurt by it. I thank God that although we have known want, it was never from a lack of effort to apply myself to work wherever I could find it.
Sad the children not taught what these words are about. Sad the family with members not willing to do their part to see the family live above poverty. Happy the family who, having done all they can, now look to the Lord to make up the difference.
God make me like the ant and save me from being a slug-gard. Haha! God bless you and guide you into the truth of this chapter. See you tomorrow.
Blessings, John | |
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Posted 9/6/2010 in Weekend |
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September 5, 2010 Today's Word from Pastor John on Proverbs 5Proverbs 5 Wow! What a start to the day, reading Proverbs 5! It’s all about adultery!! Actually, as I read it I found myself thanking God for a great marriage to Letty, and also sad at the memory of great couples we have known who lost their marriages to the things this chapter warns us about. The whole chapter paints a picture of the woes that await anyone trapped by the enemy and led down the path of being unfaithful to their spouse. I have witnessed, more times than I am happy about, Christian couples broken and hurt with their kids broken and hurt as a result of not heeding the warnings this chapter offers. I sit listening to the stories and find myself thinking, “Would you have done this if you really stopped and saw the hurt it’s all causing?” Anyway, in the midst of this chapter there is a verse that shines like a diamond. It is verse 21: For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.
I want to live my life in the sight of God. By that I mean I want to live happy that God sees everything I do and say. Oh, I mess up, but this thought keeps me from a lot of trouble.
Actually we are never out of sight of an all-seeing God, and He ponders our paths. See, His path is best and His ways are best. I want God to guide me with his eye. I want to live so focused on Him that I am kept on the right path by that gaze.
My prayer for you and me is that we will keep our eyes fixed on the One who never takes His eyes off of us. May you be kept by this great, loving, protecting God today.
Many blessings, John | |
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Posted 9/5/2010 in Weekend |
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September 4, 2010 Today's Word from Pastor John on Proverbs 4
Proverbs 4 | |
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Posted 9/4/2010 in Weekend |
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