Many of you will read the title of this blog and a couple pieces of Scripture will come to mind. These scriptures both covered what many people consider to be the basics of life. Shelter, clothing, food, and drink. About shelter, the man many of us claim to follow, had none to call his own. On sustenance and clothing for our nakedness, he told us never to worry or fret over, it would be provided as his Father provided for the birds of the field and the lilies of the valley.
Funny thing is, how many of us have actually taken him at his word? How many of us are worried about the clothing we put on this morning? How many of us, after waking looked at our full fridges in despair crying, "I have nothing to eat!" How offended God must be.
What I want to cover here a lot are the basics of life and how they relate to God. Everyday things that we don't connect to him out of ignorance or neglect. Things like the food in our refrigerator or the clothes on our back. I want to discuss the things we ask of God and the things we think we can handle deciding ourselves.
I hope to also talk about the deeper things of God and apply them to daily life, as I feel any good lesson has an application. If you believe in predestination, what effect does that have on your daily world, does it effect anything at all? If you believe in miraculous healings, what does that change? Is there just war, can a Christian fight, if so what for? These subjects and many more I hope to cover, always attempting to link them to our life.
For the few people who might glance at this occasionally, I hope I can make it worth your while. Feel free to comment and critique as need arises. My point is to apply the Scriptures to our lives, and to hopefully with those points make changes to my own and anyone who will listen's life.
"And Jesus said to him, 'Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.'"
Luke 9:58
"Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!
And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.
For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. "
Luke 12:27-31
i did not read this thoroughly through, but i got stuck on the first few paragraphs. it brought tears to my eyes because it reminded me howww selfish i am and the need for "surrender." literally just wrote about that in my journal, and this served as an affirming encouragement. thanks!
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