Throughout the course of the day I have many "blog moments" in which I mostly share with my family and it's to the point where I will give an insight I have and mirror it with scripture and they will say... "I feel a blog coming on...." lol. No wonder the power of how Jesus did life and taught everyday with his disciples of things seen or experienced. It's powerful. I just wish sometimes there was more time in a day in which I could express more or give myself more to teaching/writing/speaking etc... all pulled from the lense of truth scripture.
So I'll take a recent one that I didn't share with the family yet.... lol!! As they'll just have to come to the blog to get it. ;)
Roger and I were wanting to bless the kids with whatever they would like to do for family night ended up getting roped into the viewing of Hunger Games. Both Roger and I had no desire to go see it BUT we did give it to the kids to choose. They SO wanted to see it we opted to experience it all together. Believe it or not, they wanted to see it with us rather than on their own. I suppose I should've been more excited. What did intrigue me though, was once again digging into their world of what they were so excited about so I could relate and share truths with and discuss etc. All our kids had read the book prior and that too had me curious. They LOVED the book. Roger and I had no idea what the story was about.
We have this family tradition in which we always debrief a theatre movie as a family as to how we liked it and also what really stuck out to everyone. They usually leave me to the end as I'm usually more intense?? lol! I know... I know .... you that know me are laughing already.
Anyways... couple thoughts....
1. I was intrigued at how much more insight the kids had from reading the book. As Roger and I asked specific questions they would go on to give us more understanding and history that was hard for us to see and pick up in a short amount of time obviously. It blessed me to hear them go off on tangents about certain situations and the passion that would arise. Or even how they said they knew deeper thoughts that were going on in the characters minds having read the book that we had no clue about.
And then I really saw the power of scripture. How reading God's word and really knowing it allows us to see "the movie of life" with deeper understanding. We can see so much more depth behind certain "scenes" when we really KNOW the word of God. Hebrews 4:12 "The word of God is.... a discerner of intents and motives of the heart..." Hence understanding more what a person is thinking in everyday life based on the true facts we pick up through scripture and coupling them with the actions we are seeing.
NOTHING.. absolutely... nothing in my life replaces my desire to search, to know, to understand the word of God... it is so powerful. They are the very words and wisdom of God!!! What a gift it is to us to be treasured and immersed in, that life would be so much more than shallow and surfacey. I confess to be true, the more I am in it, the more I can truly discern others thoughts and motives of the heart... again you can ask my family. It helps with the lying... lol. For the most part people, start to give up because you can see deeper.... anyways that's another blog.
2nd thing. There is ONE line that stuck out to me above all. It was brilliant... you know why because it's theme is SCRIPTURAL... hence TRUE. ;)
"Hope... it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of HOPE is dangerous."
ohh... I loved it. True?? Absolutely! Think about it. A heart without hope in anything is sickened in despair. Crushed. (Prov 13:12) Three remain... Faith, HOPE and love. (1 Cor 13:13) Now I do believe hope isn't the only thing that is stronger than fear, I believe LOVE is too. God says that. But LOVE always HOPES which is interesting. (1 Cor 13:7) But a lot of HOPE is dangerous... YES!! I agree.
There are so many examples of those who have gone before us gallantly all had a HOPE. King David despite running for his life from Saul many times filled his psalms with "turning his hope constantly to God." Look up hope in the Psalms it's all over! "His hope was in God's unfailing love." Psalm 33:18
There is one though that takes all the glory, honor and praise as the example of this. Jesus himself. Especially as we come to Easter this weekend watch the Passion of the Christ again. Watch it with your whole family. How can anyone endure such physical abuse, and death, even death on a cross WHEN He had the power at any moment to be released? Any moment. God had given Him all of that and yet HE still under went such prolonged agony, pain and sorrow. The final blow was His own Father having to turn His back on Him as He bore all OUR SIN... OUR freakin' Sin... it should have been ME.... but HIM... so innocent... why??? Because "He had HOPE." "For the JOY??? (Are you kidding??) set before Him, endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:2.
Eph 1:19,20) even when He told the Pharisees, "destroy this temple and I will raise it up". His focus was on His Father, doing His will, the glory that He had with HIS FATHER before the world began... look at his prayer in John 17. He can't wait to show His disciples the glory, the goodness that He was going to again. It's so so beautiful to me.
And now what are we told to do to "Fix our eyes on our JESUS".... nothing else. JESUS. Heb 12:2. He's the one that opened the way for us to taste and see and experience His glory, the Father. It is the only way. Jesus, the way, truth and life.
Be honest... where is your hope?? Really? Is it sidetracked? Has it been more focused on your career, promotion, a raise, an inheritance, a gift, your spouse, an upcoming marriage, a proposal, the right boy/girlfriend, a date, our kids' sports, our kids' academics, winning something, our physical bodies, strength or beauty, our car, our homes, a vacation, the next wave of technology...etc..etc... I could go on... but be honest with yourself. All of these things will let you down. They are temporary in all respects and then you will become depressed or saddened when perhaps they don't work out the way you want...
There is one who has a promise of eternity, and unfailing love. One who will never leave you nor forsake you. His name is Jesus. When we give our hearts to Him truly, you know what happens we are given our deposit of Jesus, the HOLY Spirit, that guarantees our inheritance. He truly becomes our HOPE of Glory as we learn to fellowship with Him everyday living and dwelling in our hearts.
"Christ in you is your HOPE of Glory." Col 1:27
Remember the quote.... "Hope is stronger than fear. A little is effective.. a lot is dangerous."
I have no fear of death for my hope is my JESUS. And yes, that makes me quite dangerous to the enemy!!
( I think I wrote a novel .... but I wanted you to have the whole truth. Besides that I was getting fired up over here imagining the glory that we will behold in heaven. The glory of the one and only...)
JESUS
"My HOPE is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness."
