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1 Thessalonians, 2 Timothy, 2019

Study Quiet

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Now this is interesting. The word study does not appear but a few times in the KJV of the Bible.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 and you thought I was going to say 2 Timothy 2:15. And I am but I got to tell you this first.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 says study to be quiet. Which made me pause!
I mean study to be quiet?!  Does GOD mean we need to study to be quiet?  Now, that I think about it; that does make sense to me.
Study to be quiet.
Quiet does not come easy to us humans.  And even if the atmosphere in our present vicinity is quiet that does not mean it’s quiet inside our soul. We could be racing at the speed of light with anxiety and worries.  
Study to be quiet.
Applying ourselves to learning from GOD how to be quiet in Him. (Psalm 46:10)
And I am thinking, quiet, quiet before and to one another; you know, so we will know what to say and WHEN to say it!
Oh, Yes! I can see study to be quiet! A lesson for me to learn!

1 Thessalonians 4: 11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; source

I wondered which other translations gave the word study in this verse. I discovered, not many, but Young’s Literal does. That’s my go-to translation for the closest to the original that I know how to get. In fact, the YLT reads really close to KJV.
Now for the verse, you expected:
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  source
 
Okay. On with this Tuesday!
1 Peter, 2019, Salvation

Do You?

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8 Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not even see Him now, you believe and trust in Him and you greatly rejoice and delight with inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 receiving as the result [the outcome, the consummation] of your faith, the salvation of your souls. source 1 Peter 1 AMP

Yes. Not perfectly yet. But I am delighted to report I am learning! 

2019, Gospel of John

IF

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A portion of Wednesday morning’s reading.

John 15:9 I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love [and do not doubt My love for you]. 10 If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. 11 I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing. source

Remain in My love.
And I asked how is it that I keep jumping out? It didn’t take long to get an answer. Do you see that first word in verse 10? IF. We must pay attention to Ifs. Ifs are conditional. Ifs mean if. If I do this or that; then that and this will happen; and if I don’t, it won’t.

So what is the IF I must do to remain IN The LORD’s love?  Wait! NOTHING I do or do not do will cause Him to love me (or you) less or more. BUT if we fail to do the IF we will surely love Him less.  So what is that IF?

Let’s go back to the Text.  IF I (you) keep His commandments, IF I (you) obey His teachings we Will love Him more and more and more.

So, when I find my love for Him is waning, cooling off, not as intense, not as sweet, not as comforting — from this verse I can know I have slacked off on the IF. I’ve ignored, refused, and/or just flat-out failed to do what He taught me to do.

BUT THE GOOD NEWS is with repentance my love will grow again!

Re-read and updated today, December 26, 2022

Love, Kathie 

2019, Gospel of Mark

Free to Not Believe

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Thinking: JESUS will not override man’s unbelief. We are free to disbelieve Him.

The people of Nazareth when given the opportunity to believe chose NOT.  And He let them. 

Mark 6  (AMP) Jesus left there and came to His hometown [Nazareth]; and His disciples followed Him.

3 Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are His sisters not here with us?” And they were [deeply] offended by Him [and their disapproval blinded them to the fact that He was anointed by God as the Messiah]. 4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor (respect) except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” 5 And He could not do a miracle there at all [because of their unbelief] except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6 He wondered at their unbelief.

And He was going around in the villages teaching.

I don’t want to miss the miracles that can be mine so when my faith is wavering I choose to be like the man of

Mark 9.  24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

And do you know what Jesus did?!

27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. source

Jesus will not override our unbelief but He sure will give us faith when we ask!