Day Twenty-seven

Abide in My Love

Even as the Father Hath Loved Me, I Also Have Loved You: Abide Ye in My Love - John 15:9.
Abide in My love - We speak of a man’s home as his abode. Our abode, the home of our soul, is to be the love of Christ. We are to live our life there, to be at home there all the day: this is what Christ means our life to be, and really can make it. Our continuous abiding in the Vine is to be an abiding in His love. ~Andrew Murry

Day Six

Nothing in my hands I bring. 

Simply to the cross I cling. -Unknown

    Nothing in my hands I bring:

For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. Isaiah 64:6

                                                                   Romans 3 (BSB)

1 What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 2 Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? 4 Absolutely not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written:

“So that You may be justified in Your words,

and prevail in Your judgments.”

5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms. 6 By no means! In that case, how could God judge the world? 7 However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner? 8 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result?” Their condemnation is deserved!

There is No One Righteous

(Psalm 14:1-7)

9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. 10 As it is written:

“There is no one righteous,

not even one;

11 There is no one who understands;

no one who seeks God.

12 All have turned away;

they have together become worthless;

there is no one who does good,

not even one.

13 Their throats are open graves;

their tongues practice deceit;

the venom of vipers is on their lips;

14 their mouths are full of cursing and of bitterness;

15 their feet are swift to shed blood;

16 ruin and misery lie in their wake;

17 and the way of peace they have not known;

18 there is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. 20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the Law. For the Law merely brings awareness of sin.

 Simply to the cross I cling:

Righteousness through Faith

21 But now, apart from the Law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. 22 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

25 God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. 26 He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith. 28  For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

29 Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, 30 since there is One God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

31 Do we, then, nullify the Law by this faith? By no means! Instead, we uphold the Law. 

31 Days of Reflection Day 1 " Broken Eggs"

 In August 2015 my daughter's family and I were in a car accident. We all had minor injuries and we are healing well. Immediately after the accident, my grand daughter Jude began "rounding" things up that had been strewn about in the car. She carefully found everything and put it all in the diaper bag. She returned to the car to have one last look around and that is when her heart was broken. There in the backseat floorboard area she found the eggs her mother had just purchased. She began to sob and ran to her Daddy and said "Oh Daddy the eggs are broken!!"  He reassured her that it was OK and they would be taken care of. She continued to sob and replied" but they can not be fixed daddy!

       I thought about this many times over the next few days. We try to gather ourselves and fix our problems, but we are broken eggs needing repair, we can not fix ourselves. Abba Father wants us to bring everything that is broken in our lives: our hurts our heartaches and our grieving. The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed. (Psalms 34:18 ISV)
 He is the only one that can heal us. Here we are Lord, we can not fix our hearts but you can. We need to be completely surrendered to Him so that He can work through all He has purposed for us. 

At the same time the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we don't know how to pray for what we need. But the Spirit intercedes along with our groans that cannot be expressed in words. The one who searches our hearts knows what the Spirit has in mind. The Spirit intercedes for God's people the way God wants him to. We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God-those whom he has called according to his plan.
(Romans 8:26-28 GW)

Day 15 Biblical Womanhood " How to Keep Our Way Pure Part 4" Psalm 119:13-16

13 With my lips I recount
    all the laws that come from your mouth.
14 I rejoice in following your statutes
    as one rejoices in great riches. Psalm 119:13-14

A declaration of commitment.

 With my lips I have declared
All the judgments of Your mouth.

With my lips I have declared all the judgments of Your mouth: The Psalmist understood the importance of not only silently reading or hearing the Word of God, but also in saying it. To declare God's word (all the judgments of Your mouth) with his lips was another part of his relationship with and love for God.

i. We may confidently conclude that there is not enough - never enough - of this among the people of God. God's people should have His word not only in their minds and hearts, but also upon their lips. Saying it is powerful and must not be neglected.

ii. "When we make the Scriptures the subject of our conversation, we glorify God, we edify our neighbors, and we improve ourselves." (Horne)*1

I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
As much as in all riches. 
As much as ever any worldling*2 rejoiced in the increase of his wealth. In the way of God’s commandments I can truly say, Soul, take thy ease;” in true relationship with God through Jesus, there is all riches, the unsearchable riches of Christ.*3

I will meditate on Your precepts,
And contemplate Your ways.
I will delight myself in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.

(Psalms 119:13-16)

 He looks forward with a holy resolution never to cool in his affection to the word of God; what he does that he will do, 2 Cor. 11:12. Those that have found pleasure in the ways of God are likely to proceed and persevere in them. 1. He will dwell much upon them in his thoughts (Ps. 119:15): I will meditate in thy precepts. He not only discoursed of them to others (many do that only to show their knowledge and authority), but he communed with his own heart about them, and took pains to digest in his own thoughts what he had declared, or had to declare, to others. Note, God’s words ought to be very much the subject of our thoughts. 2. He will have them always in his eye: I will have respect unto thy ways, as the traveller has to his road, which he is in care not to miss and always aims and endeavors to hit. We do not meditate on God’s precepts to good purpose unless we have respect to them as our rule and our good thoughts produce good works and good intentions in them. 3. He will take a constant pleasure in communion with God and obedience to him. It is not for a season that he rejoices in this light, but “I will still, I will for ever, delight myself in thy statutes, not only think of them, but do them with delight,” 
Ps. 119:16. David took more delight in God’s statutes than in the pleasures of his court or the honors of his camp, more than in his sword or in his harp. When the law is written in the heart duty becomes a delight. 4. He will never forget what he has learned of the things of God: “I will not forget thy word, not only I will not quite forget it, but I will be mindful of it when I have occasion to use it.” Those that meditate in God’s word, and delight in it, are in no great danger of forgetting it.*4

 As we can see here if we saturate ourselves with Gods Word, we will be more likely to keep our way pure.
Why study so long on keeping our way Pure? I  believe that this is key to every other aspect in the Titus passage that we have been studying.  So Ladies are you keeping your way Pure?  

*1 Guzik
*2Worldling definition, a person devoted to the interests and pleasures of this world; a worldly person.
*3 *4 Matthew Henry's Commentary

Day 14 Biblical Womanhood "Taking a look at verses 11 and 12 of psalm 119"

Today we will take a look at verses 11 and 12 of psalm 119


 Verses 11-12 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.  Praise be to you, O LORD; teach me your decrees.

 First of all memorize His word!  It can help us when we are being tempted. We can remember  Gods absolute truth and apply it and obey it. " To have God’s word of promise laid up in the heart is the only security against being surprised into sin." *1    Second we must  humble  ourselves and submit ourselves to Gods authority in order to be taught His decrees by His Spirit. “We need to be disciples or learners— ‘teach me;’ but what an honour to have God himself for a teacher: how bold is David to beg the blessed God to teach him!” (Spurgeon) 


*1 The Pulpit Commentary

Day 13 Biblical Womanhood " How To Keep Our Way Pure Part 2"

I thought we could explore this more closely, so we are going to look at just two verses at a time. This section Psalm 119:9-16 is a prayer to God by the Psalmist. 

" How can a young man keep his behavior pure? By guarding it in accordance with your word. I have sought you with all of my heart; do not let me drift away from your commands." 

(Psalms 119:9-10)

 Verse 9 "How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word."
 By looking to God’s Word, and guiding ourselves so that, we may "cleanse our way"—not otherwise.

Verse 10 I seek you with all my heart; 
 "If from there you will seek the LORD your God, then you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and soul."(Deuteronomy 4:29)

do not let me stray from your commands. The Psalmist prays for help not to stray.


i.e. "let me not accidentally and through ignorance stray from the right path."1

1 The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 

See you tomorrow

Over-whelmed

Recipe for overwhelmed  stew:

1 big ole house hunt.

1 going through everything and getting rid of things we dont need.

1 Heaping bushel of Normal daily activities (homeschooling and homemaking) .

1 Boys Bedroom that has a little empty nest waiting for a grown Man to return in 8 months.( He is in a Intense discipleship program.)  I Miss Him.

1 Starting a new business with Usborne Books and More .

1 taking on new responsibility with Ministry (Husband and I) @ church.

1 Not spending enough time in the Word.

1 Not enough time for adequate prayer.

Mix all together well until your frazzled.....


 A Better recipe:

1 Gods Word  Daily

1 Daily Prayer time and then more prayer throughout the day.

1 Trust God With all the rest!

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(2 Peter 1:1-8)