Matthew 9:1-13, Acts 13:1-25, Psalms 21, Genesis 46-47
Dear friends,
I just want to say how this has been such a blessing to me, to be able to keep in touch with you all through this site, it's really been giving me encouragement in my walk here in Paris, I urge you to continue walking with me in these scriptures, it'll be amazing to finish the bible after one and a bit year together. As David sings to the King, I want to seek this state of happiness with God:
Psalm 21:6 For you have made him most blessed forever; You have made him exceedingly glad with Your presence.
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Acts 13
From this reading, I am impressed by the confidence in which Paul spoke, to be truly effective witnesses of God, we need this confidence, knowing who we are inside and outside in Him so that others can be convicted as well, that what we speak of and provide a testimony for will be one of integrity and truth. As for now, I know that I have yet to be able to do that-and am happy to be able to bring people to church with me-but I am waiting for moments when the Holy Spirit can guide or lead me to take initiatives in approaching deeper more convicting issues. Also, in this verse, my question that I asked in the last post was answered: that God brought His ppl to Egypt for His greater glory.
In Matthew 9:
'I desire mercy and not sacrifice': I'm trying to decode the meaning of this. Just like how the witnesses were not able to marvel the miraculous act of forgiving of sins, and were more impressed with the apparent act of healing the paralytic, I think we often get caught up in the actions and manifestations of signs, instead of the inner conversion of our souls, which should be more important.
In response to Matthew 9, and to your commment, I think that it often goes both ways. When Jesus asks in vs 5 "For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?" I was asking myself the question and I think that at times it's easier for us to go up to someone who is going through a difficult time and tell them that there's no need to worry; that God is watching out for them and that He loves them. It's sometimes more difficult to be the one to clothe and feed and house people, and to actually BE the answer to their prayers.
In Mt 9:6, it says "But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins... Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house." Right now I want to be a nurse, and I'm hoping that through healing people physically, and serving their spiritual needs, I will somehow be able to glorify God. I think that Jesus explicitly heals both a person's spirit and body, because both are necessary.
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