"I Am" Blessed! Trusting God with All in Life! Get Planted in Good Soil, Fertilized by the Bible, and Grow God Fruit!
God is the great "I Am!" He is the God of Moses, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we are descendants of them and He is our God too! The Bible readings for this week talk about how important having faith is and following God! WE need to take a stand in this life! To be for God! To be for Jesus Christ and want to be more Christ-like in following Him! Faith in God if we are going to get through this life here on Earth School so to get to Heaven and eternity with God forever! God is kind and merciful! Today's readings remind us of how important great faith is, He said, "These things happened as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil things, as they did. Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death by the destroyer. These things happened to them as an example, and they have been written down as a warning to us, upon whom the end of the ages has come. Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure should take care not to fall." Without God we are nothing! We need God! In fact, in the Bible, Old Testament, Torah, it says in Joshua 1:8: "Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful." God reminds us of this, to always stay focus on God and His law and Words/Bible/Torah, how wonderful it this? God is the great I Am! It is sad to think how neutral Pilate was causing the death of Jesus Christ, we as Christians need to take a stand, not be neutral, be Christ-like and follow His word always! Be ready at all times for we never know the time or place! Let's stop being bad fig trees and not producing fruit for God before we are cut down. Fertilize your soul, have great faith, know God, love Him, Serve Him and read and heed His words. We need to be ready! As is says in Matthew 4:17: "Repent, says the Lord; the kingdom of heaven is at hand." We need to resist the devil and becoming slaves to satan like our so called leaders, billionaires, and elected. We all need to stop running from our problems or being consumed by this crazy world or material goods, bad so called leaders and elected, chaos, and lawlessness, we need to confront all, take a lead of faith, be challenged, and have great faith like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and even Gideon had have have great faith trust in the Lord and take a stand, be honest. give it all to the great I Am, God! Be blessed while here on this Earth School while daily reading His words as it says in Joshua! Make sure you are planted in good soil, fertilized well with God's word, and you will produce much good Jesus fruit! What a blessing!
Reading I
Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15
Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,
the priest of Midian.
Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb,
the mountain of God.
There an angel of the LORD appeared to Moses in fire
flaming out of a bush.
As he looked on, he was surprised to see that the bush,
though on fire, was not consumed.
So Moses decided,
“I must go over to look at this remarkable sight,
and see why the bush is not burned.”
When the LORD saw him coming over to look at it more closely,
God called out to him from the bush, "Moses! Moses!”
He answered, “Here I am.”
God said, “Come no nearer!
Remove the sandals from your feet,
for the place where you stand is holy ground.
I am the God of your fathers, “ he continued,
“the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.”
Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
But the LORD said,
“I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt
and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers,
so I know well what they are suffering.
Therefore I have come down to rescue them
from the hands of the Egyptians
and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land,
a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Moses said to God, “But when I go to the Israelites
and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’
if they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what am I to tell them?”
God replied, “I am who am.”
Then he added, “This is what you shall tell the Israelites:
I AM sent me to you.”
God spoke further to Moses, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites:
The LORD, the God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob,
has sent me to you.
“This is my name forever;
thus am I to be remembered through all generations.”
Ps 103: 1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11.
R. (8a) The Lord is kind and merciful.
Bless the LORD, O my soul;
and all my being, bless his holy name.
Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits.
R. The Lord is kind and merciful.
Reading II
1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,
that our ancestors were all under the cloud
and all passed through the sea,
and all of them were baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea.
All ate the same spiritual food,
and all drank the same spiritual drink,
for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them,
and the rock was the Christ.
Yet God was not pleased with most of them,
for they were struck down in the desert.
These things happened as examples for us,
so that we might not desire evil things, as they did.
Do not grumble as some of them did,
and suffered death by the destroyer.
These things happened to them as an example,
and they have been written down as a warning to us,
upon whom the end of the ages has come.
Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure
should take care not to fall.
Mt 4:17
Repent, says the Lord;
the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Luke 13:1-9
Some people told Jesus about the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.
Jesus said to them in reply,
“Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way
they were greater sinners than all other Galileans?
By no means!
But I tell you, if you do not repent,
you will all perish as they did!
Or those eighteen people who were killed
when the tower at Siloam fell on them—
do you think they were more guilty
than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem?
By no means!
But I tell you, if you do not repent,
you will all perish as they did!”
And he told them this parable:
“There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard,
and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none,
he said to the gardener,
‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree
but have found none.
So cut it down.
Why should it exhaust the soil?’
He said to him in reply,
‘Sir, leave it for this year also,
and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;
it may bear fruit in the future.
If not you can cut it down.’”
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