This Past Week's Devotions

Monday : Insights from 2 Peter 1... Fruitfulness in the knowledge of Christ, will be the harvest of adding virtue, faith, knowledge, self control, perseverance, godliness, kindness and LOVE - which God gives. He has given us everything we need to live a godly life.

Tuesday: Today's devotion comes from 2 Peter 2...The passages are challenging. I can say I believe and know, the Lord will deliver the righteous and is faithful to watch over them and protect them from those after their own gain.

Wednesday: Today's devotion, 2 Peter 3 - God desires EVERYONE be saved from those vices that bring pain and destruction in one's life. ‪

Thursday: This morning we move on to 1 John 1 - God IS Light. There is NO darkness in Him at all.

Friday: Words from 1 John 2...Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before. Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are living it. For the darkness is disappearing, and the true light is already shining.

Exciting, yet challenging, week in the devotions the past several days. I noted this week I was challenged with the subject of judgment. It makes me cringe, it makes me uncomfortable. Perhaps because I have felt the pain of judgment as a child, adolescent and even as an adult. Or maybe because I have witnessed others judge individuals harshly, using the Bible as a reference, and I know people were driven from Love because of it - and I can relate to the pain of that rejection. Some Scriptures this week reminded me of those experiences and incidences where people are hurt every day,

in the name of Christianity, or being "RIGHT". I am grateful that even when I do not understand the breadth and depth of God's Word, He is patient with me and blesses me with the Grace needed to grow my understanding. I am thankful He loves me and delivers me, because I am His. I love knowing He desires to do this for absolutely every soul in the earth. And I am utterly grateful for His light shining in and through my life, as well as others truly belonging to Him! There is no darkness where He is, therefore there is no need to fear the dark!! I have to let that sink in...

I was compelled to share the song "This Little Light of Mine", since the past couple of days have focused on the light of God. But the following video spoke VOLUMES and I am more strongly led to share it. Actually, there are things Clayton (it has to be a God thing) says in this video, I just spoke to one of my friends with last night! Talk about a confirmation God is addressing something in my life :)