Journal

4-2-05
Purging what need not be here.
Today, I had a hard time in Oswald’s book getting much, most of it I have heard and understand. But the one-year Bible today was a big help. I was reading the Duet. passage for today. And as I was reading it I notice a key phrase in the two chapters. “you must purge all the evil from among you” now as I read this I wondered how that works for me. I know that we are to have no sin in our lives, but back the O.T time they were to stone those who did not follow along. Now I know we are not to do that now… or are we? I began to think about it and in a sense we are supposed to stone, not be but the sin. We are supposed to find it so detestable as God does, that we want to stone that thing to DEATH! But most of the time we are to in love with our sin to want to kill it, so we just beat it up a little and want to call it good. Then we wonder why we have fallen into the same sin again.
So my prayer for today and the future is; that I would find sin so sickening that I would seek to destroy it by stoning it to DEATH!
Also that I would continue on in this new focus of getting up and spending my mornings with God. It has been a true blessing in my life thus far. Also I want to continue to try and check my motives why am I doing my devos today? Why am I at Bible school? Why do I want to serve God in ministry? Etc…
These things are so important that I get a hold of them and really live them out, I see the Lord giving me this avenue to grow and I don’t want to allow anything to take priority over that.

Thank you for your prayers


In Christ my Saviour and the entire worlds!!!

Praise Him for His undying love and sufficiency!
Nathan