Understanding Or Appreciating Particular Scriptures

I was doing my "Read Through the Bible in a Year" when I just came across Jeremiah 1:19, and decided to add it to my "memory verses." What a great application there is from this verse for us. Have any problems or negative things that come into your life? Of course, we all do. Now look at...

"And they shall know you are Christians by your love one to another." John 13:35. And they (unbelievers, other believers, readers on this website) shall know you are Christians by your love one to another. If all the text you (me, others) have written was gathered into one place, how far...

One of my memory verses is John 7:18 "He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory." I keep this in mind in the battle of spiritual pride. Well, after responding to a post here on CF, I see that there is an exception to these words. Generally they are true, and it was the Lord Jesus...

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In Hebrews 3:3 we see that Christ Jesus was "better" (the key word in Hebrews) than Moses (just as Hebrews shows that Christ Jesus was better than the angels, the prophets, Joshua, the law and old covenant.) We can all so see the following similarities between Jesus and Moses: Both would leave...

As I read Isaiah 53:11 in the KJV, I come across the word "knowledge". "By his (Christ's) knowledge shall my righteous servant (Christ) justify many." Christians are justified, reckoned "just" by what Christ did for them on the cross. We are not "just" because we have sinned, but we are...

For the longest time I have had trouble understanding the phrase in Ecclesiastes 3:11 "the world in their heart", or as other versions put it "eternity in their heart." As I thought about it last night this came to me: "the world (universe) is seemingly endless, and eternity has no end...

This Sunday at Church, listening to my Pastor's sermon, I began taking notes as I was absorbed in the message. I noticed others weren't that interested, and my wife later said she had trouble staying awake. Some sermons are just more interesting to certain people. Being Communion Sunday (We...

Though not necessarily the perfect interpretation, Isaiah 65:16-17 could be used as an application of what it is from God's perspective to think of souls suffering through eternity. Now "we" humans usually think of this subject from our perspective. People say "Well, if my dear wife of 65 years...

Are you having a bad day? Are things going wrong? Are you ill, or anxious (worried) about something? Are you just not enthusiastically joyful about the day and what is going on in your life? Are you not "joyful in the Lord"? But you are at least on this site, reading this blog. All hope...

As I read Proverbs 4:18 and Matthew 5:14 and Matthew 5:16 I think of "the awesome responsibility of God's People". "But the path of the just (God's people) is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." "Ye are the light of the world. a city that is set on an hill...

At first glance, or even after reading 1 Chronicles 1:1-4 many times through one's lifetime, this passage may look rather boring, yet it is one of my favorite passages in all the Bible. It gives the "Christian" message in this "Jewish" book, in two sentences. Adam (Man made in the image of...

I usually like to write just abbreviations for scripture addresses, but if I want people to be able to click on them to see what they say, (without turning to them in a Bible, or having to look them up) I have learn to write the whole name of the book out; instead of 1Pe .... it's 1 Peter...

"For by grace are ye saved by faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." Eph 2:8 Now some say it is the faith that saves you, while some say it is the grace that saves you. I just responded to a post that mentions this subject with this. Grace is from God, faith is from us...

In Matthew 3:2, John the Baptist says "Repent". In Matthew 4:17 Jesus says "Repent". The definition of the Greek word (spelled in English) "metanoeo" (translated "repent"), as given in the Greek dictionary of the Strong's Concordance is "TO THINK DIFFERENTLY", ex. "RECONSIDER". Imagine...

How many times have I heard "I wish I knew what God's will was for me (or for my life)." Others have said "No one can know what God wants you to do." In Colossians 1:9 Paul reveals part of what he and Timothy would pray for the Christians in the city of Colossae... "that ye might be filled...

In Matthew 4:8-9 it says "Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me." It has been argued that since...

Imagine if you could be shown every one of the sins you have ever committed, one by one, no matter how long it takes. You are given the ability to be totally alert for the duration of this showing, and you see "as in a movie of yourself" you committing each of these sins. You feel the shame of...

I now understand that I am only allowed 5 categories of blogs to post, and if I want to post a new blog, I just post it under one of my 5 chosen general categories. I have also found it acceptable to just post things under other peoples blogs, and that was fine.

Though I regularly go over Job 38:31,32 every two weeks as part of my memory verse review, this morning these verses became clearer in my mind. "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades.." the Pleiades stars come up in the eastern sky in the springtime, and the ancients associated them...