Devos!

In today's Bible time, I was reading Esther and I came across the word Xerxes the name of the King at that time, and I recognized it. Not because I have heard the story before but because it is one of my history terms. I thought that was so interesting! This isn't the first time it has happened either, I was reading my Bible one day and it had spoke of something happening to a city that I was learning about in my History of Civilizations class. Trippy huh?
Anyway!
God has really been working on my heart these days; trying to get me to obtain Wisdom and Faith more than anything. In today's 50 days I was reading about how faith is kind of like walking backwards. 2 Corinthians 5:7 says We live by faith, not by sight. Even thought I have explained this to myself, wrote about it, and prayed about it many times over the past few weeks, I still need to realize I need to work on not wanting to see the whole picture! It is not my job, gosh dang it. I need to begin by turning myself around, and beginning to walk backwards. This whole forward motion, depending on my own sight and walking on my own path is not working.
Then in my Life Journal reading, I read Luke 17: Sin, Faith, Duty. Jesus speaks on all three of these things (of course faith is in there). In the sin category, He tells us to keep forgiving. When The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" (Luke 17:5). He increases their faith by telling them that even the faith the size of a mustard seed can make a tree become uprooted and planted in the sea if they command it to. This has never occurred to me before; I didn't realize that by Jesus saying a small amount of faith will cause amazing things to happen actually increased their faith! This is why I love the Bible, I get a new meaning every time! Jesus goes on to talk about duty. How when we are in service to someone, it may go unnoticed, we might not be thanked for it. Even still, we need to think that we are still unworthy and we just did our duty, we do not deserve recognition for doing something we were suppose to do in the first place.

I absolutely love reading the gospels; not only because I get something new out of it, but I seriously get to know Jesus in such a powerful way! Reading the red letters is just so radically life changing that when I see pages with nothing but red letters I get so excited just to read the words that came out of Jesus' mouth. He was fully anointed by God and he definitely knows what He's talking about.
The rest of Luke 17 is about the coming of the Kingdom of God. He compared it to Noah and Lot. People will be doing what they do every day when Jesus comes. Those who didn't believe Noah that the flood was coming were doing their every day things when the flood hit and they were all destroyed. When Lot left Sodom, God destroyed it! People weren't sitting around waiting to be destroyed, they were going about their business when they were destroyed. Jesus is not saying He is going to destroy when His day comes, He is saying that it will be completely unexpected!

I love God's word. I have just been savoring it and it has made me so joyful. (: