Just Follow the Word

I would rather be a door keeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tent of the wicked...verse 10b I have to be honest with you when I first read this verse I thought to myself, "That depends what the wicked are doing."  Sometimes the easy path looks so good to me.  I started to classify certain actions as differing degrees of wickedness I found myself  getting caught up in "judging" which sin is ok and which one is not. As I dug in a bit, searched my own thoughts and heart, and heard the gospel message preached yesterday, it became very clear that the tents of the wicked are those who don't see themselves as needing a Savior.  If I am left to myself I will choose the tents of the wicked everytime.  Sinful nature? Yep!  The truth is when I read the verse again and again it becomes very clear I would rather be a door keeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tent of I am "ok"  I am really not that bad...

Good Morning! This is the last week of summer for my kids and I always have a hard time thinking back over the summer and looking ahead to the school schedule. Did we do the things we wanted?  Change is not my favorite thing!  I just read somewhere this week that we are to celebrate the end of things and also to celebrate the new beginnings.  We always celebrate the end of the school year but we don't celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of school very well... ...as I read verse 5 of Psalm 84 I thought of my own strength, I thought of a pilgrimage and I also thought about where my heart is set.  ...as I read verse 6 of Psalm 84 I thought I needed a pastor and a concordance. I am sure there is a great meaning to this verse but I have no clue other than I can relate seasons to it because they talk of spring and autumn. Maybe I can tie in spring being a beginning and autumn being the end of something? ...as I read verse 7 I thought of the ne...

As I was thinking of verse 1 of Psalm 84 yesterday I thought of some people in my life and also my own life  that are and have gone through some really hard times.  The blog made it sound so easy just to look up and say "How lovely is your dwelling place Lord Almighty!"  We fight against our own fleshy desires and our enemy prowls around looking to get our focus down on the problems... he  often times goes to great lengths to keep our eyes and lips from saying, "How lovely is your dwelling place!" I have to be honest as I read verse two, which says "My soul yearns, even faints for the courts of the Lord, my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God."  I actually thought to myself and confessed to the Lord that often times my heart cries out to EASY times and for "my"courts and for "me"  and the my living god of myself.  Sure there are times when I look so forward to when I get to see Jesus face to...

Did I ever tell you I LOVE the Psalms?! This is one book of the Bible that you can read just one verse and it means so much just by itself!  So many of us want a quiet time and then "busy" hits and we can't get enough "time".  It is quite an encouragement when you open to the book of Psalms and you instantly hear about who God is and what He has done and is doing in just one verse!  A few verses popped out to me as I read Psalm 84 for the last few days and I would like to share a few of them with you. What if we read verse 1 only...How lovely is your dwelling place, LORD Almighty!  What is Gods dwelling place?  Is it church?  Is it my home?  Is it the world/creation?  Is it me?  Is His dwelling place lovely?  Is His church lovely?  Is my home lovely?  Is His creation lovely?  Am I lovely?  I know God is lovely, so the question to myself is if He is dwelling in me or m...

Psalm 63:2-5 Good Morning! Another picture of Alaska and another thought about what God impressed on me while I was away. This picture was taken from one of Kingdom Airs planes.  They train men to be missionary bush pilots and we were able to go up with some of the men he trained. The pictures really don't do it justice, it being the beauty of Alaska!  This was ONE of many pictures I took of scenery and often times I would catch myself with my mouth hanging open over the unbelievable creation/scenery.  I wonder as we described life and  replaced the word scenery with creation  if we would tend to think of God and all what he created more often?  Just a thought.  Well before I left I was asked to give suggestions for some devotions while we were in Alaska.  My first place I went was Psalms because it often talks of mountains, creation and the grandeur of God and His work.  I ...

Good Morning! It has been more than a week since I last blogged, I was gone to Alaska for a bit.  Our church goes on a mission trip every year to Victory Bible Camp in Alaska and this year my daughter and I got to go along.  What a trip! I hope to share some pictures and some lessons that I learned while I was there in the next few weeks, but today I want to share about the person I met while I was there. Her name was Nadine! I left for Alaska with no expectations.  I read Psalm 5:3 before I left, it advised me to lay my expectations before the Lord.  The only problem I had was that I didn't have any expectations.  I really kind of left with the question, "Why am I going Lord?  Why did you allow me to go on this trip?"  Every day we worked and we did fun things I kept looking and waiting to see what it was that God wanted to show me or use me for in Alaska. Well, Wednesday night we got to me...