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The Histogram

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I know that my photographer friends will be wondering what I am going to talk about here today.  I am not all that experienced so I will not be giving any expert advice.  For you non-photographers the histotram is a little graph that tells the photographer if you too much light or not enough light and much, much more.  Some swear by the historgram and many others say to ignore it.

As I was thinking about the histogram something came to my mind.  Just like the historgram having supporters and enemies so does the Bible.  The Word of God is loved by His people and hated by those who are not God’s people.

The Bible is our Guidebook for life.  I love It!  Maybe, it is because the Bible is like a mirror and people don’t like what they see when they “look into It”.  There are many ways this line of reasoning can go.

It is safe to say that if you are just aimlessly wandering through life and you think you need an anchor in life.  The Word of God is a great place to start.  There you can learn who God is and what He did for you personally.  It is a supernatural Book.  The great thing is that God’s Word has all the answers to all of man’s questions.  What a Book.  It is the Book of all books for sure.

So, how are you doing?

Esau’s Example

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Today we go back to our work week schedules unless you are enduring severe winter storms as we are.  As of this writing they are predicting about half an inch of ice to be on the ground as you read this.

Sometimes we do not like the way things are going.  We get tired of always facing opposition.  The blues creep in.  Dissatisfaction with life gets a foothold.  Then what?  Eventually we come to the place that we just want out of it.  We want to do as the old commercial would tell us, “Calgon, take me away!”

Then the realization sets in that we have no control over some of these things.  This really causes the feeling of being trapped.  Then we start to lash out.  Our attitude becomes that of I will do the opposite of what you tell me.  We start to exhibit the attitude of Esau.  Look at Genesis 28:8-9, “And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.”

This is none other than an instance of rebellion.  We feel trapped so we rebel against whatever we feel is pressing against us.  As in our account in the Scriptures, rebellion never works.  The Bible is full of individuals that were rebellious starting with satan himself and we see where that took him.

If you “feel” the rebellion rising up inside of you I would tell you to confess and forsake it immediately.  Maybe you even need to trust Jesus Christ as your Saviour.  I would love to show you how to do just that.  Contact me and I will do what I can to help.

So, how are you doing?

Christmas 13

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There is a Southern Gospel song entitled, “He Still Speaks” by Ponder, Sykes and Wright.  I love this song.  The truth in the song is outstanding.  You can figure from the title what it is about.  Many people in our day want to say that God is dead and that He no longer speaks.  This could not be further from the truth!

I know He is alive and speaking to His children.  He has spoken to me.  I was reminded this as I was reading Matthew 2:9, “When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.”

Here is an earthly king who gave orders to a group of people.  They obeyed.  That is really something.  In the realm of Jesus Christ we have a Perfect King; but, we continuously fail to follow His Commands.  The reasons for this are countless.  The next time the King of kings speaks you and I should obey sweetly and immediately.

So, how are you doing?

Read Me

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My dear friend Dr. Larry Lilly posted a great article at this link with a picture of a Bible covered in dust and the words “Read Me” written in the dust.  It caused me to think.  I was thinking about when I have downloaded programs before on my computer there seems to come with the download something called a “Read Me File”.  I found this interesting.

God saves us and then He gives us His “Read Me File” to help navigate the way.  The problem is that most Christians, like me, don’t read this “Read Me File”.  We let it sit around and gather dust like the picture on Dr. Lilly’s blog.  This is sad.  One of my favorite bluegrass songs is titled, “Dust on the Bible”.  If you listen to the words and get over the genre it has a powerful message.

We have all heard the trite sayings like, “Seven days without the Word of God will make one weak.”  Another good one is, “Sin will keep you from God’s Word and God’s Word will keep you from sin.”  The truth of these are mountainous.

So, why don’t we read the Word of God?  I am afraid we have been sold a bill of goods that says God’s Word is not relevant, it is archaic and many other lies of hell.  Honestly, some of us are just too lazy to pick it up and read it.  This is tragically sad.  Look at Psalm 119:105, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”  It is simple.  We want to live life our way and that is it.  We don’t want God’s counsel so we don’t read His Word.

So, how are you doing?

The Iron Did Swim

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Here in Indiana we have had so much rain in the past three days that it is historic.  There have not been floods like this in ten years.  Sometimes life is like these historic rains.  It seems we are plodding along pretty good and crash, flash and floods.

What do you do when life falls in on you?  Look at II Kings 6:5-6, “But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.  And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.”  This man’s reaction is what we should do also.  His first reaction was to reach out to God’s man.  So many of us withdraw from the people that can help us.  I am guilty of this at times and I don’t like it.

We get motivated by embarrassment, pride and many other things.  This keeps us from getting help.  We need to run to the LORD, His Word and His man for help.  Don’t try to be an island unto yourself because you might end up like on of the pictures we have seen on the news lately.  You could end up surrounded by water with no place to turn; but, up.  There is a thought…

So, how are you doing?

Anchors For Being Alone 4

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Acts 27:29, “Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.”

Today we will look at the last anchor.  That is the anchor of remembering, recommitting, and resting in the promises of God.  Deuteronomy 6:9, “And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”

There is one thing that I lack and it bothers me.  That is Bible memory.  I am a poor student of the Bible in this sense.  You and I who know Christ as their Saviour need to remember God’s Word, recommit God’s Word to memory and then we can rest in the promises in God’s Word.  This is so easily said and not so easily done.

Let me challenge you and I to begin to work on memorizing God’s Word.  In the times of being alone and temptation we then can go to our memory and recall God’s Word and recite it and encourage ourselves and the devil will be repulsed by it.  Get into God’s Word and get God’s Word into you (and me).

So, how are you doing?