Seek First The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness

  Just a quick scroll through FB proves these words to be truth. 1Tim. 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. I can’t count how many times I have lost track of the excuses that different people use to twist scripture or to invalidate it. I know the urge to confront, argue with what they say and try to prove that they are wrong. You do this if you like but I think that it might be more productive to read and do verse 5. “But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” Took me a while to really understand these 2 Proverbs. Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But he who heeds counsel is wise. Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than ...

  The more that I observe behavior the more I see that the things that we hate about others most often are the things we hate about ourselves. It is just easier to punish others than ourselves.

 2 Kings 13:14-21   Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, “O my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!” And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So he took himself a bow and some arrows. Then he said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So he put his hand on it, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands. And he said, “Open the east window”; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot”; and he shot. And he said, “The arrow of the LORD’s deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them.” Then he said, “Take the arrows”; so he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground”; so he struck three times, and stopped. And the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syr...