How is it that we forget what He did so easily.  It says in Is. 53 that, "He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, [our] faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him," and yet " He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [He was] bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement ( Read more... )

Isaiah 46:4 says, "Even to [your] old age, I [am] He, And [even] to gray hairs I will carry [you]!  I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver [you]."  Shortly after, God expresses His concern with idol worship: "  They lavish gold out of the bag, And weigh silver on the scales;  They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god ( Read more... )

I am in Isaiah thinking to myself, "come on people, God is God, so why are you inventing idols and ignoring His voice".  Although this calls for outrage, we do the same thing, every time we make something or someone else more important that the LORD.  Listen to why we should give God the reverence He deserves:

Is. 43:1, 7; 44:2, 21, 24
But now, thus ( Read more... )

again, what does God call us to do?

Deut. 10:12-13
...fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,  and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes...

nuff said

check this out...every verb in bold is what God did and everything underlined is what He expects of us:

Deut 6
20 “When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you?’ 21 then you shall say to your son: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, ( Read more... )

Num. 30:3-16
if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by some agreement while in her father’s house in her youth,  and her father hears her vow and the agreement by which she has bound herself, and her father holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement with which she has bound herself shall stand.  But if her ( Read more... )

So last Thursday Bijan told us to reread chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation.  check out what i got from it this time around ( Read more... )

Lev. 16:20-22
And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the tabernacle of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.  Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head ( Read more... )

What is a blessing when it comes as a result of faithfulness can be deadly when provoked by disobedience.

this study note i found in my Bible in reference to Leviticus 10:2 blew my mind.  Aaron's sons disobey the LORD and He devours them with fire.  so first God's fire is a total blessing, but soon after, b/c of the sons' disobedience, it becomes ( Read more... )

12 Then Moses said to the LORD, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ 13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace ( Read more... )