Four "Slices"
A few weeks ago I signed on at Challies.com to undertake Scripture memorization with new verses every week. There are two options: shorter or longer passages. I've gone with the shorter ones. The first passage assigned was 2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture was breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
My women's Bible study is going to undertake Ezra and then Nehemiah next year. I am looking forward to seeing how those books profit me in any or all of those ways. I already feel an affinity for Ezra, a model for any would-be teacher: For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statues and rules in Israel (Ezra 7:10).
The second week we were assigned Philippians 2:3: Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. We have to check our motives before we say "yes" or "no" to any undertaking, then, particularly if conceit or rivalry potentially enters the equation.
In line with the subject of humility (or so I saw it) week three was 1 Peter 5:5: Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. It caught my attention that Peter commands, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that whether one is one of the younger or one of the elders, humility must not merely mark but clothe them. Why? Because God is in opposition to the proud but gives grace to the humble. And who among us does not need that grace?
This week we are to memorize Luke 2:11: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. The angel announced this wonder--unto you--not to the powerful but to the powerless. And what was the response of the shepherds? "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us." And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.... And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them (Luke 2:15a-18,20).
How will you respond to this ageless news?
A few weeks ago I signed on at Challies.com to undertake Scripture memorization with new verses every week. There are two options: shorter or longer passages. I've gone with the shorter ones. The first passage assigned was 2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture was breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
My women's Bible study is going to undertake Ezra and then Nehemiah next year. I am looking forward to seeing how those books profit me in any or all of those ways. I already feel an affinity for Ezra, a model for any would-be teacher: For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statues and rules in Israel (Ezra 7:10).
The second week we were assigned Philippians 2:3: Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. We have to check our motives before we say "yes" or "no" to any undertaking, then, particularly if conceit or rivalry potentially enters the equation.
In line with the subject of humility (or so I saw it) week three was 1 Peter 5:5: Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. It caught my attention that Peter commands, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that whether one is one of the younger or one of the elders, humility must not merely mark but clothe them. Why? Because God is in opposition to the proud but gives grace to the humble. And who among us does not need that grace?
This week we are to memorize Luke 2:11: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. The angel announced this wonder--unto you--not to the powerful but to the powerless. And what was the response of the shepherds? "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us." And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.... And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them (Luke 2:15a-18,20).
How will you respond to this ageless news?
Labels: 1 Pet. 5:5, 2 Tim. 3:16-17, Lk. 2:11, Phil. 2:3
posted by Ebeth | 8:28 AM
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