Sheep Food

  Do you find it hard at times, laborious, and maybe even a 'challenge' to just sit down and spend quality time reading your Bible?  Can you be in to just the first few minutes of reading and you find your mind wandering as your eyes glaze over the words in front of you?  Would you admit that oftentimes, reading is like trying to 'force those vegetables down' that you know are good for you, but you can't wait to get back to your movie, or fiction novel or news channel that you probably spend more time consuming than you do the scriptures?  I have a possible explanation for that and it just might be the book has been 'closed' up to you. I’d like to share another ‘discovery’ that I personally experienced over the past few years as I have come to learn what it means to ‘abide in Jesus’. I don’t even hesitate to describe it as a ‘supernatural, spiritual phenomena’. I know, I know...that kind of talk makes folks nervous, which is puzzling given the God we claim t...

  If you have been reading the past 2-3 days here, I have attempted to lay out as clear as I could what my own recent journey has been like the past several years, ever since March of 2020 and how I came to discover what it means to abide in Jesus. I am pushing to be 65 years old, and it almost shames me to admit it took this long to learn the most vital lesson any professing believer would need to learn about their walk of faith. But here I am. Yes, this has been my ‘personal’ experience, which is just that – personal. But I have also laid out plenty of scripture for study and confirmation. I have also been careful to make the point that abiding in Jesus is not reading through some easy ‘5-step-program’ on how any believer can abide in Jesus. I could be wrong, but I don’t think that is how it works, or is even ‘suppose’ to work, as if we can ‘figure it out on our own’. As I stated earlier, when I began to study and learn and see and hear...what God’s law was all about, it awake...

  He was young, he was wealthy, and he apparently had great influence among his people at the time. He also seemed to have been raised in a decent home having been taught the commandments of God. And yet, he knew something was lacking in his life. This most likely proved to be the catalyst for him coming to inquire of Jesus after hearing all this talk about ‘eternal life’. You can read the story in Matt. 19, Mark 10 and Luke 18. We know it as the story of the ‘rich, young ruler’. This young man in search for truth did not come making demands; on the contrary, we read how he ‘ran to Jesus and knelt before Him’. (Mark 10:17). He seemed genuinely sincere asking what he might do to ‘inherit eternal life’. Talk about a willing and ready candidate to join this group of followers. So Jesus begins the ‘interview’. He lays out what is required and interestingly, it all points to the law, and keeping the commandments. The young man wants to know ‘which commandments’, so Jesus begins to ...