We don't mean to do it but we just almost find ourselves doing it and for most of us it sends fear, shame and discouragement into our hearts. We read or hear tell of someone who looks a lot (sometimes, just a little) bigger than we are and we judge them to be successful. We are good people so we like to see others succeed but "why must they succeed more than ourselves?" It's not that we can't rejoice with those who rejoice (not that we even know on a personal level all those successful people) and it's not that we are witches who can't bear to see others succeed. It's just that we are humans and we deserve to succeed - ok, we are aware that the race isn't to the swift or the fight to the strong - but if you had seen how hard we have worked, how right we had lived and how intensely we've prayed, you'll agree with us that "it's really our time to succeed." We made the charts and filled out all those reports. Everything sugges
In Deuteronomy chapter 4 we find the phrase “ the Lord is a consuming fire .” In that book the Lord had given His chosen people a law to obey. A law that was to save them, a law to enrich them, a law to make them inGodded, a law to make them the best of what a human can be. He gave them this law for he wanted a called-out people, a people who are counter culture, a people who are holy. After he had given his laws, he added the words “ I am a consuming fire and I am a jealous God therefore I will burn out against you if you do not follow my law .” In previous chapters, the writer gives the believer so much positive motivation to follow and obey Christ; you’ll think he’ll have no nee of negative motivation. Yet he talks of judgement and wrath. Take a look at some of the reasons he gives to help us stay faithful. Remember that this time we are in the New Testament. The Old Testament was a ‘come and see’ religion. In the Old they had a written law on parchments that when diligently