righteous walk

Revelation 1:7  “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.  Even so, Amen.” you can’t miss Him!!! One morning years ago, a bright warm light through my bedroom window woke me up.  I opened my eyes but couldn’t see anything except the brightness.   I got out of bed but couldn’t see where I was going because everything was consumed by the light and I was completely confused.  I was trying to get to the bedroom window to see where the…

Matthew 26:24   “The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.” The world uses religious holidays to cram what should be daily practices, into one day of the year.   They watch The Passion of the Christ on easter (and cry) to show God they care – and move on. But God never asked us to cry and point our finger at His killer. When The Passion of the Christ came out, everyone…

Amos 5:21 “I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.” The world has just finished celebrating a string of holidays and everyone gave it their best shot.  They tried to love everyone and remember the ‘reason for the season’ to earn points toward heaven.  But there is a paganistic origin to just about everything the world celebrates – including christmas, easter rabbits, thanksgiving, birthdays and all the other feast days that we create.  Most crucially, if we are celebrating these things as Christians, we are in disobedience to God. God never told…

John 14: 15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” How should we love God?  What will He accept?  We can’t love Him just any old kind of way.  The only way to love God is through obedience to Him.  Nothing says, “I love you, Lord!” like doing exactly what He says when He says it (nothing more and nothing less).  God told us in His word what He wants, and we just need to obey. Obedience is learned through praying, reading the Bible and following the Spirit.  This walk with Christ is not a waltz in ¾ time, it…

Luke 21:11 “And great earthquakes shall be in divers’ places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” A pestilence is a “contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating” – Merriam-Webster.com.  Well, more is coming. Everything God does is so that His Word is fulfilled. He will change the situation before he will change His word. COVID-19 is a pestilence that we were all surprised by, but we shouldn’t have been. God warned us of this in the New Testament, and this is just the beginning. Before God would bring…

Psalm 119:18-19 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wonderous things out of thy law.  I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. Many Christians say they don’t read the bible because they can’t understand it.  On the other hand, non-christian scholars read it just for the facts.  But the Bible is the miraculous living word, Jesus Christ, the Power which God uses to transform our lives.  It shows us the different facets of God, describes who He is and who He is not; what He commands and what He will not tolerate.  He…

Proverbs 11:19 “As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.“ The righteous walk in obedience. God has always commanded that we walk in his path, rather than our own personal preferences, to produce righteousness.  He commanded Israel in the old testament to walk in His statues.  His disciples in the new testament were commanded to follow Him.  We are commanded to walk in the Spirit wherever He leads us – over hills and through valleys, or in stillness at rest.  Righteousness is a free gift from God that we receive when we…