Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. Charles Caleb Colton
In your patience possess ye your souls. Luke 21:19 KJV
In your patience possess your souls Luke 21:19 NKJV
By your endurance you will gain your lives. Luke 21:19 NASB
By standing firm you will gain life. Luke 21:19 NIV
By standing firm, you will win your souls. Luke 21:19 NLT
These are the words of Jesus as His disciples asked Him some questions about the future. Jesus had just told them how Jerusalem would be destroyed, which did happen by the Roman Empire about forty years after the prophesy. His disciples wanted to know what would be the signs of these things that were going to happen, and He gave them some of the events that would take place beforehand. Jesus also prophesized about events that would take place before His second advent. The time when He comes back to earth to rule and reign. The historical view of what actually happened and some of the events that are taking place in the world today and are interesting indeed, but in my daily study of the word this small scripture verse amongst all the prophesy really grabbed my attention. Jesus told His disciples who were no doubt scared by what He had said, to Stand firm and you will gain your life. We know for a fact that many of the disciples and apostles did not live long enough to see the destruction Jerusalem; they were martyred before the events took place. So did they gain their lives? You bet they did! By standing firm in what they believed, what they had on the inside of them, their faith, could not be taken from them regardless of the situation on the outside. We believers know that the substance of our faith is love and life. Nobody can take your faith without your permission. Nobody can take your spiritual life with out your permission. By standing firm you will gain your life, what a simple statement that has such power to it. Today in my program of recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction, I am able to once again take the words of Jesus and apply them directly to my daily time of meditation, and come back with results that will help me live life on lifes terms, one day at a time. God does for me what I could not do for myself JRE
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. Gods experiments always succeed.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Oswald Chambers has a way of cutting through the thick of it and getting right to the point. Today may I realize that no matter what I bring to God, the most important thing that I can bring is myself. By giving up the right to myself that God has freely given me, I become whole. This is one of the paradoxes of reward found in Jesus Christ. Thanks for letting me share JRE
In your patience possess ye your souls. Luke 21:19 KJV
In your patience possess your souls Luke 21:19 NKJV
By your endurance you will gain your lives. Luke 21:19 NASB
By standing firm you will gain life. Luke 21:19 NIV
By standing firm, you will win your souls. Luke 21:19 NLT
These are the words of Jesus as His disciples asked Him some questions about the future. Jesus had just told them how Jerusalem would be destroyed, which did happen by the Roman Empire about forty years after the prophesy. His disciples wanted to know what would be the signs of these things that were going to happen, and He gave them some of the events that would take place beforehand. Jesus also prophesized about events that would take place before His second advent. The time when He comes back to earth to rule and reign. The historical view of what actually happened and some of the events that are taking place in the world today and are interesting indeed, but in my daily study of the word this small scripture verse amongst all the prophesy really grabbed my attention. Jesus told His disciples who were no doubt scared by what He had said, to Stand firm and you will gain your life. We know for a fact that many of the disciples and apostles did not live long enough to see the destruction Jerusalem; they were martyred before the events took place. So did they gain their lives? You bet they did! By standing firm in what they believed, what they had on the inside of them, their faith, could not be taken from them regardless of the situation on the outside. We believers know that the substance of our faith is love and life. Nobody can take your faith without your permission. Nobody can take your spiritual life with out your permission. By standing firm you will gain your life, what a simple statement that has such power to it. Today in my program of recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction, I am able to once again take the words of Jesus and apply them directly to my daily time of meditation, and come back with results that will help me live life on lifes terms, one day at a time. God does for me what I could not do for myself JRE
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. Gods experiments always succeed.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Oswald Chambers has a way of cutting through the thick of it and getting right to the point. Today may I realize that no matter what I bring to God, the most important thing that I can bring is myself. By giving up the right to myself that God has freely given me, I become whole. This is one of the paradoxes of reward found in Jesus Christ. Thanks for letting me share JRE
