Bible Prophecy and Inspiration

When the word “meditate”  is put in the search engine of the NIV 1984 version of the bible eighteen matches come up.  Sixteen of those are in the Psalms.

David a man after God’s own heart made it a practice to meditate His Word and His ways.  God knows a sincere heart.  How does He know it?  First because God knows everything.  We don’t trick God.

God knows when our heart is sincere, because we seek Him.  He knows if we are just seeking what we want to find, or if it is truly Him.  He even knows to the degree we are seeking.

Matthew 6:21- ²¹ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Do you treasure your love and relationship with the Lord?  If you do that is where your heart is and He knows it even better than we do.

Psalm 1:1-2 –  ¹ Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, ² but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.

Meditate.  There is a lot of meditating going on in this world and most of it isn’t towards our thought on the Lord.

Much of the meditating today is connecting with your inner self and the new age.  Where does connecting with yourself help you in your walk with the Lord?  I’ve been trying to write on a regular basis that we need to die to ourselves and let the Lord shine through us. 

Psalm 119-98-100 – ⁹⁸ Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.  ⁹⁹ I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.  ¹⁰⁰ I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.

Wisdom and understanding come from the Lord.  Connecting with the inner self only connects you stronger to a fallen, lost creature who needs the Lord.  It’s kind of like a cat chasing its tail, but worse.  While one is seeking their inner self, the enemy gets a stronger foothold.  The light comes from the Lord.  Only darkness is in someone who doesn’t seek God.  The deeper one meditates into his lost spirit the darker it gets.

We need to meditate on the Lord and His Word.  Let’s meditate on Him and make Him our treasure.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 – ¹⁶ Be joyful always; ¹⁷ pray continually; ¹⁸ give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

When life is joyful, it’s good.

I’ve always told people, if you think you’re happy or if you think you’re unhappy, you’re right.  That’s what you are.  Nobody can make you be one or the other, you choose.

Now I’m not oblivious to the obvious.  Our lives at times get turned upside down from close events near us.  Still how we choose to perceive them is up to us.  We must turn them over to the Lord and still be grateful for all that we have and all which He has done.

If you have Jesus as Lord, you should be happy.  You have what you need.  However, you still choose after that how you will view things.

God wants this for us.  It is His will that we give thanks, pray to him continually and that we be joyful always.

You’re a creature that has been made with a free will.  You don’t have to obey.  You don’t have to love God.  You don’t have to be happy.  However, you won’t have the last say and its God’s will that you do choose correctly and seek Him so you may live in eternity with Him.  For those who don’t, it’s a lake of fire according to His Word.

Romans 2:5-8 – ⁵ But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. ⁶ God “will give to each person according to what he has done.” ⁷ To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. ⁸ But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.

So many warnings to the ones He loves.  We have to stay in the Bible because it is the Word of Life.  We naturally are sinners and when we slip further away from the Word of God we become more self-seeking and stubborn.

We will give an accounting.  That’s a positive for us to dwell on while we still have a chance to serve Him.  We can’t take our eye off the prize.  What would we be taking it off for?

All of us are one day older than we were yesterday.  We are all one day closer to seeing the Lord face to face.

The proof is in the pudding that nothing earthly material is making the trip later when we leave.

We’re going to give an accounting for what we have done.  We’re going to give an accounting for what we didn’t lift a finger to do.

Why are we ignoring that?

We all need to do our best while we still have time.  Let’s all shoot for the words, “Well done good and faithful servant!”

Philippians 3:7-9 – ⁷ But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸ What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.

One continues to know the Lord more and more every day that he seeks.  I’ll vouch that every day I keep towards learning and trying to live for the Lord this scripture live 100 percent true.

Test it out if you haven’t.

Fact: Worldly wealth passes away.

Literally the Light is the Lord.  There is nothing but total darkness without God.

What I mean by that is no ONE could find God without out God’s help.  That’s why no matter how well someone may be doing in their walk; it’s not by their own power.  Not even a little.

Those individuals ARE being receptive and are opening up so they God may work through them.  We truly
can be nothing but grateful that God came back as the lantern and full light that we can now see spiritually.  Others that choose not to submit to the Lord are blinded by the fog and darkness.

Romans 3:10-12 – ¹⁰ As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;
¹¹ there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
¹² All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”

Do you remember before you sought God?  I do.

There was total blindness to what was truth.  I wasn’t lacking in making my own determinations and calling them truth.  However, I still remember being oblivious to God’s Word and how it pertained to everything that was going on around me.  To honestly look back, there was that veil, that fog, that…darkness.  The Light was available I just hadn’t turned towards it or sought it.

No man apart from Jesus is righteous, not one.  We are completely lost without Him.  We need to recognize that and walk with Him constantly and not wander out on our own.