Psalm 15

As we grow up, we become alike those who we surround ourselves with. Despite who we become, the challenge still remains the same. The challenge can be easy for some, and the hardest test for others. But when I read this passage, I was reminded of what a worthy and blameless person should be. We think that letting a few words of vileness slip is not a big deal, or if we play a joke on someone who is completely innocent, is that the way that we are called to live?

I don’t imagine being a worthy person as a complete boring person with no existence, or a doormat that everyone wipes their feet on, but as we are called to be the light of the world. We have to figure out what kind of light we want to be; whether it’s a regular bulb, or one with a magnificent glow, hanging on a chandelier, lighting up for everyone in the room, etc. Though we cannot achieve 100% of perfection, but we can try to get to it as close as we can. We are called to live blameless for Him, so that we may reach His Holy sanctuary.

I encourage you to examine your daily activities and reactions, and ask yourself, would this be appropriate in the Lord’s eyes? Would He know if I was joking, or if I didn’t mean it? We cannot speak differently in codes, but we should be one transparent sheet who is consistent in all areas of our lives. Let your life reflect those that are worthy to the Lord. When we do these things, it will be hard for us to be shakened when the enemy attacks.

Let us strive to walk a blameless walk, so that everything we do may be pleasing to Him, and to be a light unto the world until His return.

“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’” – Romans 10:14-15

Ever since the announcement of the Guatemala Missions trip in 2010, I can’t stop thinking about it! I can’t stop thinking about missions. Over the past year, the realization that God has called us to the mission field has become a lot clearer to me, and not just the mission field across the ocean, but the one we wake up to every morning. I was looking through one of my older devotion journals tonight, and I stumbled across this verse. I actually didn’t write down much thoughts on this verse back then, other than there are people around us who are so desperately in need of the love of Jesus Christ, and our actions alone aren’t merely enough.

A friend once told me to “Preach the good news! Use words if you have to!” I think as Christians we too often opt out for the easy way out and say ‘we’ll walk the walk, and they’ll see Jesus through us‘, but I’ve come to the realization that that’s not near enough. Yes, God called us to obey his commands, live lives of integrity and what not, there’s definitely nothing wrong with ‘walking the walk’, but in a generation where there are so many beliefs that being a good person will get you into heaven, our efforts to show Christ through our actions can often be watered down to nothing more than ‘good works’. We need to live out and speak out of the life we have in Christ!

I’ve been reflecting lately and just feel that God is calling us all to do so much more, an incredible fire burns in my heart to see the world saved and see the message of the gospel shared with anyone and everyone!

I’ve been reminded over the last few weeks of the importance of reading scripture
We cannot go out and do God’s work if we do not have the instructions that He’s outlined in the Bible.

How is your bible studying?
Is it a challenge?
I should hope so.

I am reminded that Satan will try his best to make sure that we do not find salvation in Jesus Christ. But just because we do become Christian doesn’t mean we’re out of the fire. Satan will relentlessly make your walk a hard path and will do his best to make sure you stumble along the way. What easier way to stunt our Christian walk than to make sure we don’t have the time or motivation to read the bible?

Joshua 1:8 says:

Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

It’s saddening to know that in our society today, we rarely have time to meditate on our bibles day and night. We are lulled into a belief that we are constantly busy and we forget about the important things in our spiritual life!! People nowadays barely have time for their family let alone the condition of their souls.

Is bible studying no longer important to our walk? I should hope not!
Take up the challenge and read your word and I will guarantee that God will shape your life and will give you an amazing vision and desire and passion for your life.

If you choose not to study the word of God, then I am confident you will miss out on God’s many blessings and lessons that He has prepared for you.

Here’s an interesting way to put it into perspective about the state of our bible studying time (bear with me as this will require some knowledge of math hehe):

Assumptions:

• The average person becomes a Christian at age 14
• The average Canadian dies at age 80
• The average Christian reads his or her bible for 10 minutes a day

Then:

• The average Christian would’ve lived 66 years reading the bible
• At 10 minutes a day, that works out to be roughly 87,600 minutes of reading the bible a year
• If an average Canadian lives to 80 years (assuming this person is a Christian), then he or she would’ve read the bible for  5,781,600 minutes in his or her life
• Of course, being a Christian for 66 years would equate to 34,689,600 minutes of our life; this works out to us only spending roughly 16% of our life reading the bible or 11 YEARS in total of reading the bible!

What did we do for the other 55 years?

Think about it.
We are young right now – how will we shape our future spiritual life?

Are you willing to take up the challenge to spend more than 10 minutes a day studying scripture?

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