Finally, the last post of the books of the Bible to catch up!
Titus
Grace.
2:4-5 They [The older women] can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. Although I didn't have any Titus 2 women in my life, I do hope to be one as I get older.
Grace.
Philemon
Grace.
4-5 I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. I hope someone can say that about me!
Grace.
Hebrews
3:13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We need to be sure to do that, even if we don't feel like it!
4:15-16 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. He has been tempted too and was able to withstand it.
8:5 They [the high priests of a new covenant] serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned
when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make
everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” I was thought it was strange back in the old testament that God was so specific about the measurements of things in the tabernacle, but this made me understand why!
Grace.
James
1:14-15 Each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
2:14-17 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. Explaining the importance of having both faith and deeds!
4:13-17 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why,
you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You
are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. Trying to do more of this and less of making plans .... of course if you fail to plan then you plan to fail!!
Whew!
Hopefully by the end of the week I will be done with this 90+ day challenge!!
O:)
Melissa
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