The Better Part, week #26

 

The FB posts from the last week of one half-year:

The Better Part, Day #144:

 

Mat 4:5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple

Mat 4:6 and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, "'He will command his angels concerning you,' and "'On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'"

Mat 4:7 Jesus said to him, "Again it is written, 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'" 

 

Jesus faced all the same temptations we do- and this one here I saw in a new light today. Just like he was telling Jesus, "Prove it!" , he does the same thing to us over everything we've already confessed, but have that hanging guilt about it everytime it comes up. "Prove you're forgiven!" He shouts- and our answer can be just like Jesus' because he is really testing God's forgiveness.

 

 

 

The Better Part, Day #145:

 

Charles Stanley: "...it doesn't matter if your mission field is giving, praying, serving, it doesn't matter if you go to the ends of the earth or you go ten steps. If your not doing something, you're not in the will of God."

 

 

 

The Better Part Day #146:

 

Mat 18:21 Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?"

Mat 18:22 Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. 

 

And if I have to forgive "that many times", how many more will He forgive me? Stop your lies, Satan!

 

 

 

The Better Part, day #147:

 

Pastor Jack Graham, trying to make a point: "You might be saying to yourself, 'But my testimony isn't that great, my story isn't that interesting...' "

 

Me, Stepping on his point: "But your GOD is!"

 

 

The Better Part, Day #148:

 

Psa 127:1 A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 

 

 

I was thinking about this verse last night when I was looking at the UMC and all the other "mainstream denominations" (Yes, Catholics too, no matter their protests) and how the world has influenced and corrupted them. Luther, in the day of corruption, indeed had the Lord build the house; but those who followed, many thought it was enough to just affix Luther's name to the door.

 

Luther affixed 95 theses, or accusations, against the door of his church, to show them how far off track they were. And daily, we need to pound our own 95 theses- whether we are a church, a denomination, an individual facing the mirror- on the door of our souls, to make sure we walk aright. Don't rest; righteousness becomes self-righteousness all too fast.