Thursday’s Blog – Providing Spark that ignites Life.

Thursday’s Blog – Providing Spark that ignites Life.

Proverbs 2:1-5 – My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Bible Challenges and Comments

There are parents who plan for the birth of their children to be at certain times of the year; like a New Year baby, the first in your town is easier to accomplish than the first in the nation. We are happy with the local news, yet for some the desire can be aimed at national recognition. Again an always we have to throw in the “disclaimer” I truly do not seek to offend anyone who has hoped or planned for a child. All children are a blessing to family, friends and neighbors and there should be a celebration.

There is much we could say about the activity of raising children, some good disciplines and some bad ones too. The results of both the good and the bad make us adults to be who we are today and we carry this on from generation to generation. God has much to say about this in His Word but sadly there are only a few who find His Word to share it on time in training up their child; and there are the personal choices of children as they grow into adulthood… good and bad.

We do not have the time today to go into why families fail but the root cause is “idolatry” that is to worship something, someone or some so-called deity other that the ONE true God. Exodus 20:1-6 states this clearly. Below is God’s challenge to all of us (not just Israel) to worship HIM and Him alone.

5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

The course of this blog could keep spiraling downward, but we need to pull up on the flaps and get focused on a truth that will brighten the days ahead. The Holy Bible is not like the sacred writings of the world around us, all such writings are idolatry. The Living Word of God will endure time and eternity, notice what the LORD Jesus says in Matthew 5:18 – For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law until all is fulfilled.

Below is a jot and a tittle from God that is the cure for idolatry found in our homes, idolatries of the past, present and future are wiped away with the following declaration from God Himself; 1 Peter 1:22-25.

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, But the word of the Lord endures forever." Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.