...The despised...God has chosen...

(1Co 1:28)

Holy Spirit you are always welcomed in this heart and in this house. Be with us all, guiding and revealing as we study God's Word together, Amen.

Our Creator, our God thinks and acts on a completely different level than His creation. We often pat ourselves on the back over how intelligent and creative we are, while God smiles. He smiles on us in the same manner as a human dad would smile when his child demonstrates the ability to tie his own shoes. Our Earthly endeavors pale in the presence of His mighty abilities.

Have you noticed that the Lord often selects those who are, shall we say, lacking in one area or another. The Bible uses a word, PECULIAR, referencing those God selects for really HUGE tasks. Many, if not most of the great biblical patriarchs had some serious baggage when God called them to service. God loves to take the rough stone, the ugly rock, shape it and polish it to fit His lofty purposes.

(1Co 6:9-11) Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Just as God the Father did for select individuals under the Old Covenant, Christ Jesus does for all who believe in the New. By His death and through His blood, all of our sins are washed from us once and for all. Do you Believe?

(Eph 2:1-3) And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

(Tit 3:5-6) He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.

(Isa 55:8-9) "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Your Bible is brimming with the most beautiful and incredible events that clearly demonstrate the limitless love our Creator has for His creation. There is a powerful reflection of His great desire that not one of you perish, but longs for you to call His name, to believe, to be saved. Its all in the Book!

Lord Jesus, thank-you for filling us with your Holy Spirit. For taking our place and purchasing us as Your own. Grant us wisdom and discernment in learning and knowing Your ways as we obey the commandments and love You as You love us, Hallelujah, Amen

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?