Hello! This is the first post in my new blog, "Sojourner Passing Through." I chose this title because it's the way I often feel on this earth--it's not my true home. As a Christian, my true home is the place Jesus has prepared for me in heaven. Earth is not my home, but heaven. If you happen to run across this blog, I pray that you gain some comfort, some understanding, or whatever it is God has in store for you.
Verse of The Week--Galations 6:2
SUNDAY
For the Sunday School lesson I taught today about Ezra, I ran across James 1:22, which says, "...be doers of the word, and not hearers only..." This verse spoke to me and made me think about what I do with God's Word. Do I just read it and then put it aside, not activating the power God gives us through the Holy Spirit?
The lesson was about how Ezra was a man who walked with God on a daily basis, who studied, obeyed, and taught others God's word as a captive in Babylon. Kind of like what I mentioned above, he must have always felt a sense that Babylon was never his true home. When King Artaxerses allowed him to lead a group of the remnant home, it must have been awesome for Ezra to know he was going home.
Anyway, I challenged my class members to take one verse per week and really study it, meditate on it, pray it throughout the week, allowing God's message to come through loud and clear. That's what prompted me to start this blog. I realized the best way for me to keep up with my verses week to week was to write a blog that tells my experience throughout each week LIVING GOD'S WORD!! I'm really excited to begin.
My true verse for this week (other than James 1:22) is Galations 6:2, which Brother Gil Lain, our fabulous minister, used today in his sermon. It says, "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." As I think about this verse, I think about the way Christ himself lived this "law" by bearing my burdens of sin upon the cross.
This week, as I wake each morning, I am going to pray that God allows me to be used by bearing someone's burden, that as a fellow sojourner, I can come along side someone in need and bolster them in Christ...ALWAYS in Christ!!
Let the adventure begin!!!!!
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