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2 Timothy, 2019, For What It's Worth To You

Heads or Tails

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Come. Take a peek over my shoulder at my study notes from a portion of 2 Timothy 3; you just might be able to make heads or tails from them. :)

  • Verse 14 BUT as for us, we shall not be deceived (referring to verse 13) if we abide in what we have learned from the HOLY SPIRIT.

14 But as for you, continue in the things that you have learned and of which you are convinced [holding tightly to the truths], knowing from whom you learned them,  source

  • Verse 15 You know what is marvelous about this verse? From childhood you have known the sacred writings! Could we even imagine what this earth would be like IF every adult walking this sphere right now had known the Bible from their childhood up? You know that word known is deeper than head knowledge, right?  Try intimately familiar.

15 and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings (Hebrew Scriptures) which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus . . .  .  source

  • Verse 16 Look at the progression.
    Instruction
    Conviction
    Correction
    Training

So the Scriptures that Timothy had learned from his youth til then Instructed him. What did it instruct? That he was a sinner in need of a Savior – gifting him with holy conviction which corrected his thinking and trained him that righteousness is only in JESUS.

16 All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage];  source

  • Verse 17 What does GOD want for us?
    He wants us to be complete – to be whole in all our senses. He wants us to be proficient, that is being well able to voice how we have been made whole. And added to that He wants us fit, made ready and enabled to tell others how they too can be made whole, complete, proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for whatever this life throws at them.

17 so that the man of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. source

That’s it for now.

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Up and Coming

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I’ve done some deep ponderings this morning spanning years reaching back to the late 1800s when my great grandparents, Sallie and James, breathed younger air. I hope that is right, all I remember hearing people call him was Pappy. Sallie, I am sure of but Mammy was her handle. I don’t remember the year of the birth of my grandmother Callie. It could have been 1899 or so but maybe not as her firstborns were born in 1924;  my Momma and her twin.

Generations of the Living. How we do that living is more important than we often ponder. I’m now 67, in less than half a year that number will be 68. In these 67 years I have seen seven, yes seven (7), generations of my people walking this Earth’s crust – well, James not so much walking yet. 🥰 And I pondered these generations of my people and our kin – gosh! there’s a lot of us! I have not even a good estimate as to who were church-goers and who was not. Reaching back that far I don’t even know the names of all my kin, let alone if they loved JESUS. But of this conclusion I am certain, watching the years that I have – if you go to church and don’t take church home with you to do as Deuteronomy 6 commands, you open the floodgates of hell to deluge your children and your children’s children and your children’s children’s children to the 4th and 5th, maybe even 7th generation and beyond. We all are built upon what was built and JESUS CHRIST is the only safe, solid, strong and steady foundation that will give our Babies a fighting chance. If we violate Deuteronomy 6:4-9, the hedge is down.

But the good news is we can start Today to put that Hedge in place for those up and coming and we can pray for miracles for us old folks. 🥰

2 Corinthians, 2019, For What It's Worth To You, It's a Bonus Post

Choice

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Something I read in my Journey Magazine has me pondering still.

In part, it read: “I think that’s something we all want to know — that we are really loved.  . . .  I still found myself testing her, pushing her, wanting to know what she really thought.”

The writer then went on to talk about GOD’s love for us; how He proved His love through JESUS.

And so here I am writing about relationships: horizontal and vertical.  Horizontal being human to human and vertical, human to GOD.

We can be deeply, I mean really, loved by someone but when we allow thoughts and circumstances and disagreements and differences to blind us, we fail to own that love and we feel unloved.

It’s the same with GOD. He for sure, without conditions, without measure, loves every soul ever born or yet to be conceived but so many do not receive His love. Why? The Bible says they have been blinded. (see 2 Corinthians 3:14 and 2 Corinthians 4:4)

And even though He proved Himself through the substitutionary Life, Death, Burial and Resurrection of JESUS the CHRIST, until we believe and rely upon (receive) His Atonement, we keep doubting He loves us; and we keep acting out that unbelief, wanting Him over and over again to prove to our human senses that He does indeed love us.

This I have learned. He cannot do that.
It is not with the human senses that we believe and receive His love, it is by OUR CHOICE. We choose to believe and He ensures that we do.

Love, faith, relationships — all are gifts. We can unpack them or not, it’s our choice.

An Afterthought: You know even after we have personally received and relied upon His Atonement for us, if we choose to live by our senses instead of the gift of faith He gave us, we will pout for Him to prove to our flesh that He loves us.  It’s a process. And we are progressing one good choice after another!

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