Tuesday, August 5, 2008
verses
On Friday evening we discussed my "life verse", an impacting, life-changing verse. I would like it if everyone could post one of their "favorite" or life-changing verses, and explain why it is meaningful. It will be interesting to read your thoughts on them and it will help everyone to understand each other a bit better.
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H-E-L-L-O..... is anyone out there?
yes I am out there....but I dont know. I dont have a "life verse" or at least not yet that I know of. I mean I do have a psalm that was said over my life over and over again but I dont know what my life verse is. After I read this I even went so far as to ask God to show me my life verse. But I dont know it yet.
i want to edit myself..... Not show me my life verse, but rather give me a verse that I could call my life verse...haha yeah i make no sense
Mine is Ecclesiastes 3:11. "He has made everything beautiful in its time".
It applies to every aspect of my life. I feel like it also has A LOT to do with trust. Trusting in the process and in the outcome. Believing that Jesus will make me, my life, my circumstances, my heart.. beautiful in HIS time. That whole chapter is wonderful and has taught me that different seasons are ok and are from God. He wants to take you through different seasons to mold you.
Barry, Mr. "H-E-L-L-O"...I don't see your life verse life verse... I am not sharing until some other people start talking here!!!
Pastor Don I forgot to ask you about the Kroc center cleanup saturday. Do you know who/if anyone from our church is going and what time and such. I would like to help but I kinda would like to go with people. If you know of anyone let me know thanks!
well first of all sorry i havent been to this site yet. i completely forgot about it. anyway, as far as a life verse, im not sure i read the bible enough. i have a lot of verses that have impacted my life at one time or another. right now it is Psalm 23. a couple of weeks ago God put that verse on my heart and i saw how it was relevant but i wasnt sure if God wanted me to know it was from Him. so i was sitting there reading it and then elaine started to sing verses from it and it became a theme to the day. it just floored me. At PBC we spent almost a whole week on just that verse alone, learning what it meant at the time it was written which meant all the more. anyway, yeah that verse i love.
another quick one, it isnt so much a single verse. the beginning to philippians. the way that paul speaks to his friends amazes me. theres no sarcasm, no tearing down and no alterior motive. He just expresses his love for them. its something that i think our group needs. not that i think we are doing a bad job but one thing i normally notice from a group who goes out and serves is how close they are. encouragement and letting eachother know what God thinks of each of us.
i know in my life personally that it is easy for me to make quick little snappy jokes about people, but if i chose to represent God in a right way toward my friends and fellow believers and then we go out to serve others, i think in the small amount of time that people would see us, they would see God bc we act like a family.
that is what is on my heart for now. its tough, but oh so fulfilling.
Had a chance to look through James this morning and I'd have to say (since it's highlighted in pink:D) that I love James 5:16. (In addition to Proverbs 31.)
I have been listening to two songs lately that speak of this verse. Call On Jesus by: Nicole C. Mullen and I Know You Are There by: Casting Crowns.
I think the reason we can and should re-read scripture, aside from the applying it to our hearts and minds, is to see it (as a diamond) with many facets. To come at this verse and only apply it to prayers for the afflicted would be to short change it.
In my mind it speaks of continually communing with the Heavenly Father, it speaks of having faith that He really is there...listening...that as we share our lives and get to know one another healing can take place in that communion. That communion and fellowship with one another is a balm for our wounds that should be embraced!
This is truly a verse that I continually try to renew in my life...daily...to love others, build relationships, to speak to God continually because He is always there! Always! That through these actions I will find and help return healing.
And I'm quite certain that in a few years this verse will reveal a new and fresh revelation.
Now...I expect to see something from Barry and Lisa! :P Enlighten us with your wisdom!
This is off topic, but right now I am very concerned by the Russian attack on Georgia. The west has been called on by president Mikhail Saakashvili to provide "more than humanitarian aid." The implications of this is so huge! I can't help but think how crucial prayer is for the leaders of our country to proceed with wisdom. God, this world needs You! God, this nation needs You! God, have Your way!
To put my finger on one specific verse is, well.... not going to happen, at least not yet. Ezekiel 36 (the whole chapter) is very important to me but I'll have to explain that in person, it's more typing than I have in me right now.
There is not one particular verse that I can call my life verse but there are some that have the same theme and seem to jump off the page at me. For example: John 13:35 "Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples." Another is Colossians 3:13-14 You must make allowances for each other's faults and forgive the person who offends you.... 14 "And the most important piece of clothing you must wear is love. Love is what binds us all together in perfect harmony."
I have a longing to see the body of Christ relate to one another in this manner. Not just within our church community but across all boundaries and all denominations.
Yeah, so there's a little sample of what bangs around in side of my cranium.
How's that Adam? And... how bout you Miss Lisa...
"See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many." That's Hebrews 12:15. A wound untreated often turns into anger and bitterness and resentment and alienation because it wasn't taken care of properly when it was smaller. That's why you can't wait any longer to do whatever you have to do to deal with your wound.
Thats what I personally have been struggling with these past couple of months. I let bitterness and anger take root in my life a long time ago and I didn't take care of it then (when it was small). So I use this verse as my life verse so I can try my best to to fully and honestly forgive people that have hurt me in my life and show them Christ like love and not be bitter and have anger towards them. Not loving and forgiving some people that have hurt me in the past has effected and affected me and my relationship with the Lord and I can't have anger and bitterness in my life no longer and all I want to do is be closer to God. So Hebrews 12:15 is my life verse.
I guess I would have to say that John 3:17 would be my verse of substantial importance. In the NKJV it states "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." In this verse I see God's attitude towards mankind, not (yet) condemning them for their sin, but actually wanting them to be reconciled with Him. It makes me think how my attitude should be about the "Unsaved." I, coming from a "slightly" judgmental background, I used to think in terms of "God vs. The Wicked" instead of "God loving the Wicked."
Also, in seeing both God's heart and the level of importance in this matter, it makes me rethink my rules, or stances who I think I should fellowship with at a church level. I mean, I see a lot of good-hearted Christians who let themselves be divided from each other over the silliest doctrines. Don't get me wrong, there are doctrines worth being divided over, but, come on, so often it isn't the case. Personally, this verse really reminds me that seeking and saving "the lost" should be the cause that binds us together, that we can work out our differences on the other stuff.
So, in closing, I guess this is my life verse.
Any thoughts?? Would love to here them, on here, or TaylorGuiatr355@yahoo.com
In Christ,
Adam W. Capron
How great it has been reading what everyone has shared!
The truth is I have been equally blessed by so many different verses at different stages in my life.
However, when I lose my way I repeatedly go home to 1Cor. 13. It is rather lengthy and I encourage you to look it up.
REAL love constantly perplexes me,humbles me, and inspires me... It has been the hardest Kingdom concept for me to grasp. In my opinion, the single most profound thing human beings can ever learn is love--how to give it AND how to live it.
It's a little after the fact but I did promise to leave my thoughts on here, so better late than never.
It's a little strange because, as other people have said, I haven't really thought about a single "life verse" that has changed my life in a huge way. There are lots of verses that I refer to in different situations but few that really wholly encompass the way I live my life.
That said, after thinking about it, there is one verse that does stand out to me quite a bit:
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5,6 (TNIV)
I think too much.
I love causality and figuring out how and why things work the way they do, be it something like math, engineering, music, computers, or figuring out why people are the way they are, or (probably more often than anything) why I myself do and think things the way that I do.
That's certainly not a bad thing, but (like anything) it can have bad results when taken to extremes. For one thing, I'll sometimes end up thinking about a situation so much, and what should I do, and what would happen if I did that, and what would happen then ad absurdium that I end up not doing anything at all.
Other times, I'll think I have something thought out, and completely miss whatever it was God wanted me to see, or fail to give Him credit for something that happened because I figured it out "myself" anyway.
Those are the situations in which I look back on this verse and remember that, no matter how much it seems to make sense, I never have it all figured out. I've never had trouble with the trusting in God part, except when it conflicts with whatever I think I have figured out.
As it's worded in The Message (same passage):
Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own.
Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he's the one who will keep you on track.
There are, like I said, buckets full of other verses I come back to over again, but I seem to need this one more often than most. It's something about the way I approach things, I think.
...why is that?
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