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Why “Read with me,”?
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Inspirational on October 15, 2011
I have been for the past year posting a “Read with me,” verse via twitter and facebook. It is my intention to increase readership of the bible, which I believed could and would make a difference. However as I reflect I understand that just to read a few verses or a few chapters will by itself be of no profit to us. The word of God must be applied in our lives if we are to ever be effective as God has purposed. Hence the reason why I have added an hash tag at the end of each “Read with me,” tweet, #dayandnight as a reminder.
I have been doing that to signal to readers to not only read and not look at it again, but to meditate on the word of God, day and night as the bible teaches in Joshua 1:8, it reads: This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
So friends as you continue to read with me, remember to think on the word, ask God how to apply it to your lives. Even now think how you can apply Joshua 1:8 to your life. I think everyone I know would love to “have good success.”
Watch where you’re going!
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education on February 5, 2011
As I read my proverb for the day, and sat down to feast on the wisdom I might find, my eyes brought me to the last two verses of Proverbs 4. Verses 26 and 27 in essence tell me to pay attention to where my feet are trodding.
“Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all they ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.” -Proverbs 4:26
I like when the word “ponder” is used. It tells me I am really to think about where my steps are taking me. It tells me my daily walk is crucial to my becoming established later. Then the last verse tells me to stay my course. Meaning when I find out what I am supposed to be doing, then I am not to get sidetracked. I am not to go off course, for danger awaits me there.
Man this is clear as day now, why didn’t I learn this earlier, or did I and I just didn’t pay attention. What will you do?
Be wise.
Don’t be lazy. Let’s go!
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Money, Work on January 20, 2011
I like how KJV describes the lazy in Proverbs 20:4. He says, “The sluggard will not plow…” Not only does he describe the lazy as slow, using the word sluggard, but he says what he “will not do”. This tell me it wasn’t anything else but his own will that kept him from working hard.
That tells me that no excuse is ever good enough for being lazy, for it is the persons own will that will push them to move or cause them to sit still. No cold weather. No person. No obstacle. No difficult task will keep me from moving if my will to move is stronger.
So what happens to the person whose will won’t let them do the work that is necessary in the season set before them. The same verse gives their end, “…therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.”
Plain and simple. If your will is to be lazy and do nothing in the time given to you, then you will have nothing and have to beg in the time of other’s harvest.
What will you do?
Be wise.
What God hates…
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education, gossip on January 6, 2011
Labour not to be rich….This is so counter-cultural.
My this is totally contrary to what the rest of the world teaches. Proverbs 23:4 says, “Labour not to be rich:…” , but everything I have been instructed from traditional education to everyday worldly knowledge says the complete opposite, or it is implied that we must work our hardest to become rich. This will give you all the opportunities to have what rich people have. Big houses, big cars, fancy vacations, etc.
I like the way the English Standard Version (ESV) reads,“Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist [abstain].”
The word toil, makes it plain for me, because it means to strive, and it gives me a sense of a frustrating work that is done. Now I don’t believe that what this passage is teaching is not to work hard, or that all work should be peaceful, but I think the later part of the phrase is where we are to bring caution. The motive of our labour, work, or toiling is not to be an end goal of wealth, but we are to work with a larger purpose. Now don’t be shocked when working in your purpose brings you wealth, but on the other hand don’t be upset if it doesn’t afford you the opportunity to have the latest car and biggest house in your family. What God has for you…………..
Is for you.
Be wise.
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