Self-Sufficiency

There is so much talk about people needing to be more self-sufficient. We should grow our own foods. We should have large gardens, hopefully producing all of our vegetables. We should have orchards. We should have animals. We should even butcher those animals ourselves. We should grow and grind our own wheat, and make our own bread. We should become less reliant on the world to provide everything for us, for when the world comes crashing around us we will crash with it, if we are reliant upon it.

I agree with every bit of this, but the question is…is this “self-sufficiency”?

Christ, Our Passover Lamb

Today is Passover, according to the Jewish calendar. You say, “So what? that’s a Jewish celebration.” But how wrong you are. The Passover is very much a Christian celebration. For Christ is our Passover Lamb.

⁷Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened: for Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. – 1 Chorinthians 5:7

 

Marriage

Today rounds out the first nine years of marriage with my loving wife. Oh, the things I have learned. I praise God that He has sustained us through all things.

Therefore shall man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh. – Genesis 2:24

The world is attacking the act of marriage from every possible angle today. Declaring it a useless, antiquated system. Defiling it through homosexuality. Promoting promiscuity and divorce. Why does this sinful world hate marriage so much?

Humility

What is humility? What is it to be humble?

HUMIL’ITY, n. [L. humilitas.]  In theology, humility consists in lowliness of mind; a deep sense of one’s own unworthiness in the sight of God, self-abasement, penitence for sin, and submission to the divine will.  (“humility.” Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language. 2014.)

HUM’BLE, a. [L. humilis.]  Lowly; modest; meek; submissive; opposed to proud, haughty, arrogant or assuming. In an evangelical sense, having a low opinion of one’s self, and a deep sense of unworthiness in the sight of God.  (“humble.” Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language. 2014.)

The Purpose of Prayer

Why did Christ command that we should pray? Isn’t God all-knowing? If He knows everything, is our prayer telling Him anything?

Sometimes, it seems like when we pray we truly believe that we are telling God something that He doesn’t already know.