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So, how do we know if we are reading the Bible properly? If whenever your reading the Bible and it bothers you and troubles you and sometimes even makes you angry, chances are your beginning to understand it. Hang in there with reading it because the Bible is filled with amazing blessings but to get to them we must travel through some muddy waters.

I guess I began wondering if there were other Christians raised in the church who one day realized decades later that they never really read the Bible . They have no clue what it says. They only know what someone else told them it says.
A funny thing happens when you read Gods Word as it was meant to be read. In context from beginning to end. Cover to cover. You soon discover that what you were told doesn't square with what it actually says.

This blog chronicles my journey from when my eyes began to open since my first time thru the Bible. I examine how so many passages of scripture get twisted to fit someone's agenda. I talk a lot about "context." Quite often I sound critical and judgmental. This cannot be avoided. My goal is to promote discernment. My goal is to encourage others to research what the read and listen to . So many believers have no idea why they believe what they do.
The main idea of this blog is context. Read Gods Word as a book. Not rocket science. It will take some time. It wont happen over night. Comparing what we "thought" the Bible says to what it "actually" says can be frustrating but the blessing of understanding Gods Word in context is worth the effort.
Acts 17:11b

I recently purchased a chronological Bible that I truly love and I think it could help those who struggle reading the Bible .
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Keeping our eyes on Jesus (part 3)

So what does it mean :

"keeping our eyes on Jesus " mean, in relation to our everyday problems in life, for the Christian?
(i plan to ask other seasoned Christians that)

I don't know.

All I know is, it has something to do with unconditional love..

Receiving it & displaying it.

Christians talk funny concerning love.

We say things like

"Love can fix an anything "

Or

" love never fails "

We don't understand that, love BY ITSELF" is Law.

Get it? That's why a summary of the "law" is to love God & others.
Now the Bible's standard there is "perfection" and I have yet to meet anyone who's met that standard.

The law is there to prove to us, we can't keep it.

"keeping an eye on something "means having a constant awareness of, whatever your keeping an eye on.

When it comes to Jesus, it may or may not always concern salvation.

But it does concern sanity and clarity of mind when living and discerning in a sinful world.

Only God's Word reveals who He is and in turn, reminds us who we are.

The only "love that never fails" is love, without condition.

We "keep our eyes on Jesus" by reading His Word and seeing an overwhelming abundance of God's love, to us!

Knowing this helps us love others.

"keeping our eyes on Jesus" means having a daily awareness of God's promises as we live out our everyday lives.

For the Christian, marriage is a good example of how, the love we know of, begins as law, which comes by way of a vow before (u guessed it)
God.

Love begins as law but, keeping our eyes on Jesus, and His perfect love to us, turns our love into something greater and when that occurs, our problems pale in comparison.

That takes alot of time.

The Bible is not contradictory when it says

"love never fails" (first) then later says "love without deeds is dead"

Unfortunately, we've reversed those two.

Some think, it's what we do that creates a "love that never fails.

Sorry Charlie,

I don't love my wife because of what she does.
I love her because she loves me no matter what.
What she does is prove of what she is,
and what she is, is prove of what she has. Jesus.

I'm not even saved because God loves me.
He can love me all He wants, love doesn't save me.
I'm saved because of His grace /mercy in offering His Son Jesus to die in my place. Salvation thru His Blood & Resurrection.
What God did proves (to us) Who He is.

God is still God, whether He did that or not, whether I believe that or not, whether I keep my eyes on Him or not.

The fate of this world is settled, absolute.
The fate known as our problems is settled, there here to stay and will only get worse. Absolute.

Even Keeping our eyes on Jesus will not change that.
If that troubles someone,I'm not sorry.
The cost of God's love was too high, the rewards, to vast and the joy it brings is to intense.

God's promises has sustained countless believers in the past and will do the same for countless believers yet to be born and my failings is in my struggling to post these thoughts as I know I much too often forget this.

I don't pretend to know all the answers, but i know I had to post these thoughts before I get into the final four chapters of God's revealed Word.

I'm quite certain these chapters will cement forever, the thoughts expressed in this post.

Tryreadnit!