Monthly Archives: December 2010

Bible reading plan

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As part of our studying Proverbs we were encouraged to plan. Planning and diligence are the ways of the wise. Laziness and sloth are ways of the foolish. This includes spiritual diet, physical exercise, friendship, finances, and all areas of life. How have I been with my daily reading and devotion time? Not very good.

We need to be more consistent in this area. I feel my wife and I have been lacking in reading and consistent prayer as well. Part of our Winter retreat has been reading time and seeking the Lord. I think having a consistent family devotion/worship time will do us good. I am the head of the household, so I will try to implement this more consistently.

Lord help us in preparing this coming week and have this as part of our life. The bible is the word of God must be foundational to our family, our faith and life. May you bless it O God!

Want to be a somebody

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Today’s worship service looked at Phil 2:1-7. A very simple and often read passage. Pastor at one point noted that everyone wanted to be a somebody. But at some point in their life they will realize that they are a nobody. SO they have a choice as to how to live… will they live for self in the sense that every thing they do will benefit themselves… out of rivalry and conceit? OR will they trust God to be their glory, trust God to be their worth.

This was particularly convicting because I don’t see this in myself, but I do it often. How I treat others is a reflection of what I think of myself. When I lie or when I brown-nose or when I look down upon or when I am critical, it reflects my heart condition. It reflects my theology. In those instances of sin, God’s voice is overshadowed by the voice of my flesh. I want to be somebody and my flesh will seek to validate myself at all costs.

But Christ died for me. And he was raised up for me so I don’t need to do that anymore. I need to trust that that is enough for me and that is enough for others.

My worth and the worth of everyone around me is not based on what I think of myself or what others think… it is ultimately decided and determined by God. So how then shall we live?

if there is any encouragement in Christ…
Do nothing out of rivalry or vain conceit. But in humility, consider others better than yourself. Look not to your own interests but to the interests of others.

Oh Help me O God, to look to you. TO Seek you and to be encouraged by you and to be whole in you. That I may have compassion, seek unity, live a life worthy of the calling that I have received.