Never mind the challenges of emigrating, settling in a foreign land or any unforeseen pothole. Since leaving South Africa February 23,2005, all I can say God is good. Drama has been following me around the past year, so what. God is good.-Lloyd
Saturday, February 23, 2008
3 Years on...
Never mind the challenges of emigrating, settling in a foreign land or any unforeseen pothole. Since leaving South Africa February 23,2005, all I can say God is good. Drama has been following me around the past year, so what. God is good.-Lloyd
Monday, February 04, 2008
Walking and Talking
I have learned one lesson of truth that could have saved me from some stresses concerning guidance. Three words, Trust and Obedience. I've been reading, John Chapman's Book, Know and Tell the Gospel. No other words in my quiet time have sounded louder.
Here's the sad irony behind the stresses, not to mention the disobedience. Glossing over the obvious and much needed instruction of the Gospel, I avoided the instruction and continued to read the Bible. That does not take a rocket scientist to figure out my confusion's and stresses came from.
The very core of the Gospel demands obedience and trust. Obedience in the sense that one has to submit to the Kingship of Jesus. He is Lord, because He is Saviour. Not to forget that we who are believer's share in the Hope of His resurrection.
Proverbs 3:5-6, can be summarized in three words, trust and obedience.
v5- "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;"
v6,obedience- "all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." More strikingly, in the Context of Proverbs Chapter 3, the command could have not been any clearer, starting from v1-4; v7-8; v9-10; v11-12; v13-18. Faith in God (v19-26) demands obedience to his instruction, (v27-35).
James 1:5-8, in the context of trials and temptations, concerning wisdom:
"If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does." The rest of the chapter isn't much different. If you profess to listen you have to walk. "Do not listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what its says." (Read the rest of James 1 v21-27).
There is no other hymn that could elaborate more eloquently in expressing this important truth: Trust and Obey
"When we walk with the Lord
in the light of his word,
what a glory he sheds on our way!
While we do his good will,
he abides with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.
Refrain:
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Not a burden we bear,
not a sorrow we share,
but our toil he doth richly repay;
not a grief or a loss,
not a frown or a cross,
but is blest if we trust and obey.
(Refrain)
But we never can prove
the delights of his love
until all on the altar we lay;
for the favor he shows,
for the joy he bestows,
are for them who will trust and obey.
(Refrain)
Then in fellowship sweet
we will sit at his feet,
or we'll walk by his side in the way;
what he says we will do,
where he sends we will go;
never fear, only trust and obey."
-Lloyd
Here's the sad irony behind the stresses, not to mention the disobedience. Glossing over the obvious and much needed instruction of the Gospel, I avoided the instruction and continued to read the Bible. That does not take a rocket scientist to figure out my confusion's and stresses came from.
The very core of the Gospel demands obedience and trust. Obedience in the sense that one has to submit to the Kingship of Jesus. He is Lord, because He is Saviour. Not to forget that we who are believer's share in the Hope of His resurrection.
Proverbs 3:5-6, can be summarized in three words, trust and obedience.
v5- "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;"
v6,obedience- "all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." More strikingly, in the Context of Proverbs Chapter 3, the command could have not been any clearer, starting from v1-4; v7-8; v9-10; v11-12; v13-18. Faith in God (v19-26) demands obedience to his instruction, (v27-35).
James 1:5-8, in the context of trials and temptations, concerning wisdom:
"If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does." The rest of the chapter isn't much different. If you profess to listen you have to walk. "Do not listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what its says." (Read the rest of James 1 v21-27).
There is no other hymn that could elaborate more eloquently in expressing this important truth: Trust and Obey
"When we walk with the Lord
in the light of his word,
what a glory he sheds on our way!
While we do his good will,
he abides with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.
Refrain:
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Not a burden we bear,
not a sorrow we share,
but our toil he doth richly repay;
not a grief or a loss,
not a frown or a cross,
but is blest if we trust and obey.
(Refrain)
But we never can prove
the delights of his love
until all on the altar we lay;
for the favor he shows,
for the joy he bestows,
are for them who will trust and obey.
(Refrain)
Then in fellowship sweet
we will sit at his feet,
or we'll walk by his side in the way;
what he says we will do,
where he sends we will go;
never fear, only trust and obey."
-Lloyd
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