Musings Of The Word of God

We are promised by Jesus, "he that loses his life for My sake, shall find it." Matthew 10:39. For those who may read this that are new believers, studying scriptures in the light of truth found in one or two verses would be a good way to begin... That is, if you will commit your heart and mind to the Lord to teach you, God will be faithful to lead you in the scripture and speak to you what you need to know, daily. In fact, He will show you your need for His truth over and over as you walk with Him, as He does with all of us. The basis of what I am sharing can be found in the principle or doctrine known in Hebrews 6:1 as "repentance from dead works". Since this is football season, let me open with a punt and get this ball in play for you here : God weakens us, or rather, shows us our neediness. This is part of walking with Him. For Jesus promises us a yoke. See Matthew 11:28-30. We must be led into or taken into His yoke to walk with Him. We may think

“This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe.” John 1:7 Referring to John himself, John said that “he came for a witness…” (NKJV) or he came to “bear witness” (KJ). The Strongest Strongs Concordance shows in this verse that the word Witness is really the combination of the two words in the KJ - “bear witness” #3140 The word is martyreo - and means “to testify”.   Through John’s life people saw The Light. Through that testimony. Have you ever seen a child clean their room where they take everything and push it to the side and make an aisle to get to their bed, dresser, closet, etc, and they say to you, “It’s clean”? That is how we are with the Lord. We are cleaned up enough to function better, sometimes just enough, and then we consider the rest “clean”. So much repenting is called for in the walk we have with Love Himself. We are drawn to want more love, to need more care, to depend more expensively on Him. Exp