Daily Bible Reading with DragoNate #103

Celebration

2 Samuel 6

I pray blessings on you as you read.

(v. 3) "David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the Lord with his might, while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets."

My Thoughts

We all celebrate many different things. Birthdays, Christmas, New Year (both of which just passed) other holidays, our favorite sports teams' wins, and our own personal victories. There's so many things to celebrate and there's so many ways to celebrate! How do you celebrate different things? Do you party, shout, sing, give a gift or a hug or kiss, or dance?

David danced to celebrate the return of the ark of the covenant. Others at that same time were shouting for joy, playing trumpets and also dancing. The point is that celebration is awesome! As we get older, we don't really celebrate our birthdays as much. Even I don't really. I think the reason is that as kids, we are excited to grow up so our birthdays are very important and exciting for us. As we get older, we realize that we are getting closer to old age and eventually death, so we are less excited. We should change that.

Each day we get to live is a blessing from God. Each birthday should remind us of how much closer we are to being in heaven with God, rather than how much closer we are to death. That's why we should still be at least a little bit excited on our birthday and celebrate!

I don't think there is any good reason not to celebrate good things or memorable things that happen in our lives. On my next birthday, I am going to try to remember this and remember to be more excited about it than I was this year. If you really don't want to grow old, then you need to stop thinking about it and not let yourself become old. When you stop laughing and you start getting grumpy about your life and your age, that's when you've gotten old.

Let yourself get excited about things! Get excited about things like a little kid, no matter what your actual age is! Never stop laughing or finding joy and excitement in things and remember to enjoy your life, starting now and going forever. It's not too late to enjoy the rest of your life now.

Prayer Time

Now you talk to God about what you read, and you can even read this chapter of the Bible for yourself before you do.

Let me know your thoughts on this reading as well.

Thank you for taking the time to read, I pray that what you have read blesses and inspires you! Godbless!

Daily Bible Reading with DragoNate #102

Shelter From God

Zephaniah 2

I pray blessings on you as you read.

(v. 3) "Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord's anger." 

My Thoughts

Those who love and obey the Lord, and follow His commands and His ways are given shelter from God. Yes, from God. As I have mentioned before, God never promises us a good life or a safe life or a happy life or that nothing bad will ever happen to us. We can make all of that more or less true by keeping our joy in the Lord.

The shelter that Zephaniah is talking about is from God's anger. Yes, God gets angry too, but extremely slowly and His anger is a righteous anger. God's anger is against those who do wrong. Those who go against God's commands and those who disregard Him. Sin is disobedience to God, and that must be punished because God, being completely Holy, cannot be in the presence of sin. That's where Jesus comes in.

Jesus is our shelter. Jesus has given us shelter from the wrath of God. If we accept Jesus and invite Him to dwell in our heart, then He does so and He also gives us shelter so that we don't have to face the wrath of God that He will pour out on those who don't accept Jesus.

Those who don't accept Jesus and who do not follow God faithfully will not be given any such shelter. They will instead have to suffer at the hand of God, and believe me, that is not something anyone would ever want, nor would I wish that upon my worst enemy.

Again, the choice to accept Jesus is yours, and yours alone. If you choose to, then I welcome you into the family of God! If you choose not to, I just want you to know why. You have to ask yourself this, I don't really need to know, but you do. After all, it is a very serious decision with very serious consequences on both sides; positive and negative. Make sure you know the reason why, and if you do not, then I do suggest that you find out.

Prayer Time

Now you talk to God about what you read, and you can even read this chapter of the Bible for yourself before you do.

Let me know your thoughts on this reading as well.

Thank you for taking the time to read, I pray that what you have read blesses and inspires you! Godbless!

Daily Bible Reading with DragoNate #101

Humbleness

Isaiah 23

I pray blessings on you as you read.

(v. 9) "The Lord Almighty planned it, to bring low the pride of all glory and to humble all who are renowned on the earth."

My Thoughts

When I read Isaiah 23, what stood out to me was the word humble. There are lots of other verses, where Jesus speaks for example, that talk about being humble, but this one I just don't see anything else right now. So that's is, obviously, what this post is about.

Being humble is a lot like being meek, which is another topic I blogged about. Where I believe the difference lies is in our attitude before we are humble or meek. What I mean is that meekness comes from being shy, you don't want to stand out or be big or anything like that. You'd rather be in the background. God doesn't want that, so you become meek.

In this way, humbleness comes from the opposite. You are outgoing, you want to be big and you want to stand out. Before I say anything else, I have to say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with being outgoing, in fact, it can be a good thing! The exact same goes for being shy. What I am talking about here are the extremes of the two. If you are so shy that you won't talk to anyone, you won't help bring others to right relationship with God. If you are too outgoing, you are usually pretty egotistical and you'll be turning people away from God. God doesn't want us to do either.

Meekness is for when we are very low and brings us up higher. Humbleness is for when we are very high and brings us down lower. The end result is the same for both, it just depends on where we are beforehand. We all need to be brought down in some areas, and in other areas, we all need to be brought up.

This post was supposed to be about humbleness, but it ended up being more of a comparison between humbleness and meekness. That's okay though. Maybe this cleared up some questions you had, maybe it gave a new perspective. If you do have other questions, I do have an email you can contact me at in the about page.

Prayer Time

Now you talk to God about what you read, and you can even read this chapter of the Bible for yourself before you do.

Let me know your thoughts on this reading as well.

Thank you for taking the time to read, I pray that what you have read blesses and inspires you! Godbless!