Category Archives: James

2024, James, Joshua, Judges, Questions

Do We Know?

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My notes at the close of Joshua: death comes to all.
Second, choose, make up your mind, is it GOD or not. And in that, I was reminded of James 1:8.  You know what it says, right? 

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 

Then we moved to Judges. 

Joshua died. Caleb remains — we shall see for how much longer. 

Judges 2: 10-13. Let me copy and paste it for you here. 

10 After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel. 11And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

12 Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, 13 for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.  source 

How does a generation that knows GOD produce a generation that does not know GOD?
And what happens when a generation does not know GOD? 
They do evil in the sight of the LORD. They serve baals. 

Why? Why, baals? 
Because people worship.  We are born to worship. We are going to worship. Even Atheists worship. Yep. We ALL worship something or Someone. 

What/who do you worship? Do you know? How do you know? 

Until Next Time, Holy hugs, Kathie 

2023, Giving Thanks, James

Glasses of Cold Milk

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Particularly in November, we think about the giving of thanks. And there are a plethora of things to bring on the thanks. 
Birthday cakes for daughters and the Dad who bakes them.
Glasses of cold milk and Little Boys oohing and ahhing over the cows. img_0378 img_0398-1

Simple things. 
Simple things that bear the Fingerprints of GOD.
How many can you name today? 

2023, Christian Living, James, Questions

Mirror, Mirror

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This is not a time-intensive post; not much editing. 

James 1: 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.  source 

This is so important! HUGE!
If we come to the Word and we read but we refuse to OBEY what we read we have profited nothing! It has given us no RIGHT Standing with GOD and we are not changed.

When we stand in front of a mirror it reflects our appearance. We see our own reflection. We see our face, and our hair, we see what shall be presented to others when we turn from the mirror. The mirror lets us see what needs changing. Is there a smudge on our face, is our hair in place, are our clothes modest, do our shoes match? All these material things.

The Bible has a similar function but for the inside.
What do we see?
Do we see GOD?
Do we see ourselves?
Do we see the filth within?
Do we see our sin?
Do we see The Savior?
What shall we do?
Shall we read and walk away the same?
Will we not allow The Word to remove the smudge on our faces?
Will we not allow the Word to bring our shoes (walk) to match The Bible?
Will we not allow the Bible to determine the clothes we wear? Will we wear the Full Armor of GOD? The-Armor-of-God-2
Will we read The Word and make no adjustments?
Then we have read in vain. We have looked in The Mirror and have decided to go out into the world reflecting our own fallen image instead of JESUS.
How foolish and evil can we be?

James 1: 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.  source 

Shalom, Kathie armor-of-god-cdd53f0d-6b0f-4ca0-9f21-ea844a06ea1-resize-750