Baptist City Blog

Some things in life never change. For instance, love never changes. Once you choose to love someone, that love will never end. History never changes. The law of gravity never changes. As much as a person may try to change this law, they will fail because what goes up always comes down. These things that never change are timeless and unalterable.

When I look at the freewill offering, I’m reminded of my parent’s desire from me. There were things that they told me to do and I would do it, but they desired a willing heart while I was doing it. My parents wanted me to get to the point when I did what they expected of me to do, not because I had to do it, but because it was my will to do it.

There are repercussions to everything. You may feel that you have the right to do whatever you want, but you must also understand that there are repercussions with every choice and action. For instance, you can drive your vehicle as fast as you want, but you are going to have to deal with the repercussions of paying a speeding ticket if you get caught. You can't expect to do whatever you want and not have to suffer the consequences that go with it.

Every school has one; they have that child who thinks they must police everyone in the class or on the playground. They are the tattletale. They are the one who runs to the teacher to tell what they perceived that others did wrong. Most of the time, nobody likes the tattletale or want to be one.

One reason I love the warmth of summer is because our family loves to grill. My wife will get the meat ready to grill, my daughter will set the table, and I will get the coals hot so that I can cook the meat. It never fails that after I’m done grilling, the smell from the grill is on me. For the rest of the day, you can tell that I grilled because of the smell of smoke.

“Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.”

If anyone knows how to make a society civil, God would know how to do that. There is no doubt that if our society followed God’s laws that there would be no civil unrest. The reason we see the civil unrest is because we have thumbed our nose at God and told Him that we know how to make a civil society better than He does; but, we have miserably failed.

The verse above is a commentary of what God said would happen one day when the Israelites inhabited the Promised Land. He said that one day they would observe the Passover, and a son would ask the father, “What is this?” That father was to tell his son, “By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:” In other words, that father was to keep the history of the LORD’s strength before his children. However, I believe there is something missed in this verse. I believe that God wanted the father to tell his son about what the LORD had done so that it would motivate the next generation to allow the LORD to make history through them. It was not good enough for the son to just hear the history, but it was a motivator for the son to make his own history.

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When Moses returned to Egypt, he showed Israel through the signs of the rod that was turned into a serpent and the healing of the leprous hand that God would deliver them. 

Pharaoh’s dream was a warning by God about an upcoming famine that Egypt was about to face. Joseph warned Pharaoh that there would be seven plenteous years followed by seven years of famine. Because God was about to do this, Joseph encouraged him to prepare so they could make it through this time.

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We often talk about Abraham’s faith, but rarely do we stop to see what made his faith so great. When you study his life, you often see times when his faith wavered, but when you look at his faith at its strongest, you will be hard pressed to find anyone whose faith was stronger.