Here is what I've been thinking about lately.
"But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord, ' and not do the things which I say? Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house; who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not sake it for it was found on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundations, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."
These verses challenged me greatly while reading them because i began to think about how important it is to not only speak the things that Jesus would speak but to also practice the things that Jesus did. I am continually supposed to be growing more and more in the likeness of Jesus Christ.
The truth is we all are.
How do we do that if we don't study Jesus?
If we don't make time for him?
Have we all really come to know everything there is to know about Jesus and is that why we stop reading about him?
So what keeps us from growing?
What keeps us from practicing as believers the things that Jesus said and did?
What keeps us from knowing HIM more...
from being transformed ....
into His likeness.
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I've been truly blessed to have someone in my life that helps me to at least once a week get into a book that helps me learn more about Jesus....sometimes i wish i would do more than once a week but i will be honest...I'm not in the word everyday i try for at least every other day but there have been weeks when it's only been the one time, and other weeks when it's been everyday and some weeks when it's been 2-4 days.
But Luke really challenged me this week because i don't want to be the man whose house gets destroyed because of a wave.
Now to put it into a sentence that really challenges me....
I don't want to be a woman whose faith gets lost because of trials.
What about you?
"But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord, ' and not do the things which I say? Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house; who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not sake it for it was found on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundations, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."
These verses challenged me greatly while reading them because i began to think about how important it is to not only speak the things that Jesus would speak but to also practice the things that Jesus did. I am continually supposed to be growing more and more in the likeness of Jesus Christ.
The truth is we all are.
How do we do that if we don't study Jesus?
If we don't make time for him?
Have we all really come to know everything there is to know about Jesus and is that why we stop reading about him?
So what keeps us from growing?
What keeps us from practicing as believers the things that Jesus said and did?
What keeps us from knowing HIM more...
from being transformed ....
into His likeness.
----------------------------
I've been truly blessed to have someone in my life that helps me to at least once a week get into a book that helps me learn more about Jesus....sometimes i wish i would do more than once a week but i will be honest...I'm not in the word everyday i try for at least every other day but there have been weeks when it's only been the one time, and other weeks when it's been everyday and some weeks when it's been 2-4 days.
But Luke really challenged me this week because i don't want to be the man whose house gets destroyed because of a wave.
Now to put it into a sentence that really challenges me....
I don't want to be a woman whose faith gets lost because of trials.
What about you?
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