Good Morning Sunday...
Father thank You for this AMAZING DAY. Please fill us with Your Spirit and help us to be a LIGHT. Endow us with Your PEACE and WISDOM, so we may bring LIFE to this world. In YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST Name we pray. Amen!
- It's Not What You Know. It's Who You Know.
Who do you spend more time with than anyone? I will give you a hint: You look at them in the mirror everyday. That's right, You, ourselves. Since we spend more time with ourselves than anyone else, it would follow that, as people, we are pretty interested in ourselves. So, how happy are you with yourself? Do you like you? Would you rather be someone else? Can you be honest about your strengths and weaknesses?
The world is filled, from the beginning, with counterfeit or copied wisdom claimed by man that came first from God's Word. For instance, "great minds" from the past are credited with famous sayings such as "know thyself" or "the unexamined life is not worth living." These two particular quotes are accredited to Socrates, but all one needs to do is look in The Bible and you will find this Wisdom throughout God's Word. It goes without saying, The Bible was here long before Socrates. Let's take a look at a just a couple of verses from the Bible that stated this first:
“Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: “Consider your ways!”
Haggai 1:5 NKJV
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
I Peter 5:8 NKJV
We could keep going, but you see that Our Father tells us to "consider our ways" and "be sober" in these two "witness" verses. What He is saying is know yourself, consider, and be realistic or "sober" minded about your weaknesses and strengths. If you want to "resist the devil" you need to know yourself, so you can spot when the enemy is trying to tempt you. The point? Knowing ourselves is pretty important to living out a productive, meaningful, and fruitful life.
That is good to know, but let's take that one step further. God Is Our Creator. He Knows Us Better Than Even We Do! So why wouldn't we get to know God Our Father, who knows us better than we do, and can show us "the real us" better than even we can "see?" Our Father has provided to us a Way, Truth, and Life from His Word and His Son Yeshua, Jesus Christ, to get to know Him better everyday! If we get to know HIM better, we can know ourselves better than we ever thought, and we can know our true and perfect reason to our being here on this earth. As we will read in scripture today, two things that help immensely are "Keep it simple" and "Come as a child."
Do you want to know yourself better? Do you want to know your life's purpose? Do you want a meaningful, productive, and fruitful life? If you do there is a very simple answer, so simple in fact it "confounds the wise." Get to know Our Father and His Son Yeshua, Jesus Christ, The Creator of Heaven and Earth, and each of us can begin down the path of a meaningful, productive, and very fruitful life!
Can I get a witness?! Yes!:
The Word of God:
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”
1 Corinthians 1:18 KJV
“for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:21 WMB
“But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”
Matthew 6:33 WMB
“and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Matthew 18:3-4 WMB
“In that same hour Yeshua rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.””
Luke 10:21 WMB
“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the FOOLISH THINGS of the world to CONFOUND THE WISE; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 1:25-31 KJV
“For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you. For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end (as also you have understood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.”
II Corinthians 1:12-14 NKJV
“But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for first excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.”
Philippians 3:7-11
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Thank You and Yahweh Yeshua Ha'Mashiach, God Our Father and His Son, Bless You!