July 24 Continue Learning Each Day Proverbs 1:5
Good morning from Pastor Glen Brock, Baptist Tabernacle Church, Wendell, North Carolina… “A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:” (Proverbs 1:5)
Have you ever heard the statement that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?” I am here to tell you that God can and does teach old dog’s new tricks! It is important for believers to continue to seek His face and to continue to “dig” deep into His Holy Word, and to continue to learn and to experience His Grace and to be prepared to share and teach about His Love and His Amazing Grace! One thing that my Daddy hammered into my head was the fact that knowing something in our minds and knowing how to apply it or, doing it, are two different things! Folks, God expects us to continue to grow in His Grace and in our Knowledge of Him, with the goal of increasing our “closeness” to Him and to enhance our relationship and to be “effective” witnesses for Him. We must be “Life-Long” Learners, and we must continue to Learn about Him and to continue to Lean on Him and continue to Grow in Him and to experience the “Abundant Living” that He has ordained for us to experience! What God does with you is up to you! It always has, and it always will! Keep Learning, Keep Loving, Keep Experiencing, Keep Sharing, Keep Enjoying His Bounty, and Never, Ever, stop Growing in Him! Stay Strong, Stay Focused…THE BEST IS YET TO BE!
Perspective: How is it that professing believers can support social and political positions and opinions that are in direct conflict with the Holy Scriptures? How can one claim to be “Saved,” and support the systematic attacks on our children and the promotion of “Twisted” values? Everyone remembers the challenges when “Drag Queens” were reading to our children! Wonder why these “Queens” were not going into the Nursing Homes and reading to the elderly? How is it that believers can endorse the fallacy of more than 2 genders? Sin takes many forms and, as I grow older, I recognize the truth of God’s word: Matthew 7:13-14 – “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Your opinions do not matter to God! Repentance, Obedience, and Commitment are Essential for a growing and stable relationship with God, through the Grace of Jesus, and the Guiding and Empowering Promise of the Holy Spirit! Remember – “few there be that find it…”