Scattered

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to let you know that I’ll be taking a wee bit of a break this week from the blog.

My parents are in town, and I want to squeeze as much time with them as I can.  I might scatter a blog or two, but I swear that’s all!

So have a great week, and I’ll blog to you soon!

Book

Guess what I’ll be doing tomorrow :)
Reading this book by the amazing Kristin Billerbeck.

Can’t wait to give you the full review tomorrow!

Have a great day everyone!

Odd

Today in Matthew 3 I read about John the Baptist.  Now this dude was lit.  He wore camel skin and ate honey and locust.  He didn’t cut his hair and he was the announcer for Jesus.

If you read your Bible there is no way to take John the Baptist any other way.  You can not coat or cover up this man, he was the bringer of news about the upcoming events.  He also was the spokesperson for calling it like it is.  He called out the local pastors at that time calling them a brood of vipers, he said that if anyone doesn’t bare fruit that you’ll be cut down and burned up.  He talked about judgement and how it’s coming.

This dude was God breathed and God sent.  How come we never talk about him in church?  I have my opinion, I think because he hits a little too close to home.  He points out a lot of obvious things wrong with the local Jewish leaders as well as their followers during his time, and I think not much has changed within the Christian Church since then.

So here’s a little bit of what John said to the people, and I think you should take it literally and apply it to the culture of Christians and the leaders who preach to them.

“But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭3:7-10‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Have a great day everyone!  Don’t be like the brood of vipers that John called out! 😁

And go read the whole chapter!

Ceasing

Pray without ceasing, such a little verse with such an incredible impact.

We don’t do this enough, we don’t take prayer seriously I feel too.

When we’re directed to pray without ceasing, I’ve come to the conclusion that God wants to be involved in every single detail of your life.

Yes.  Every single detail.  Why?  Because He loves you absolutely, He wants to hear about the test, He wants to hear about the students who you’re frustrated with, and He wants to hear about what lunch you made your kids.

He wants you to pray without ceasing.

True

What’s amazing to me, is that the line of Jesus has been tracked since the very beginning.  Not just tracked but names given.  I can track to my great grandparents and then I’m like whelp that was fun on to something else :). But the whole chapter of Matthew 1 is about genealogy.

People spend huge amounts of time tracking down their genealogy, and we believe wholeheartedly what the web or documentation tells us.  Why is it so easy for us to believe a birth certificate from the 1800’s but not a document that has been kept carefully recorded without mistake over thousands of years?

If anything, we know Jesus existed.  He has the documentation to make him a historical figure.  What is up to you is to ask yourself, is He what He claimed to be?

Disagree

So this is my Todd :)

I love him a bunch and a half, he is my peanut butter to my jelly, my peas to my carrots.  He's my best friend.

Every morning we wake up and go sit in our perspective chairs.

And we have a quiet time, sometimes it's just that.  Me praying and him reading his Bible or me reading my Bible and him praying.  Sometimes we have discussions and sometimes we agree and then other times we disagree.

For instance, he hates selfies.  I for, one love them :)

He doesn't agree becoming a member of a church is Biblical, I for one want to be a part of a body of Christ.

He very strongly believes that we are nearing the end times, I for on believe that I need to live each day as if it's my last, but I really don't do the research to see if it actually is my last.

These are disagreements that we have discussed sometimes rationally and other times not so rationally.

Ladies this is to you.  Are you respecting your husbands stance on things?  Or are you belittling him to the ground and pestering him until he changes his mind?

We as Christian women, children of God are called to come under our husband to support him.  We're called to respect him and do our very best to honor him and the choices he has made.

Am I perfect in this?  No, by far my mouth has gotten away from me and said some mean things.  I have bickered and badgered Todd for disagreeing with me on a topic.  I'm not in any way the model wife, but I do see the times where I listen respectfully to his side and I try to understand where he's coming from and I gain something.  

And maybe just maybe they'll bend a little too and take a selfie with you even if they hate it :)

Flash Sale

Who wouldn’t want 70 percent off!

https://www.mymaryandmartha.com/18012/shop/catalog.aspx

Go get them before the sale is over April 21-25!