My Daily Bread

Did you know there's a danger in having too much peace & quiet?! In the book of Joshua, the Israelites crossed over Jordan and conquered the Canaanites, taking possession of the land promised to them by God… basically. In all actuality, though, they allowed some of the enemy to stay in among them.  First, it started with Judah: the people of the valley had chariots of iron, so they could not drive them out.  Now, this is the same people that saw water pour out of a rock and quail fall from Heaven, shoes that grew with their feet, clothes that never wore out…. Yet all of those testimonies did not cause them to have faith that God would help them win against chariots. So, instead, they made that enemy their tributaries. They taxed them and made them do labor. FEAR kept them from conquering that enemy completely. At first, they probably felt pretty good about that arrangement: no more chopping down their own wood or carrying their own water…  A little extra income each m...

 When I really set my heart to study the Bible for myself, I immediately began to fall in love with the written word of God. I had been a Christian since I was 5 years old, but it wasn't till my 31st year that I decided I needed to know that Bible for myself.  Until then, most of my knowledge of scripture and doctrine was based on other people's understanding of scripture. I read my Bible, but not daily and not in depth. I read enough to ease my conscience or to get what I needed for that day, most days.  But I began to hunger to know Jesus intimately for myself, leading me to study His book to me for myself.  And I fell in love—not just with the Bible, but with Jesus!  But about 4 years into my study of the Bible, someone told me one day that the only version we should be studying was the KJV... and I was devastated.  I had grown up with the KJV and didn't even realize there were other options out there until I was 18 years old and discovered an NKJV Bible...

The single greatest lie in the world is when the serpent deceived the woman into thinking she could disobey the voice of God and continue to live. His lie was very subtle, less outright and more a twist (perversion) of words to hide the truth. In the Hebrew, the word for "surely" (muth) is the same word used for "die"(muth); so the sentence would read something like: "You shall not DIE die." Sound familiar? "It's not really a LIE lie..."  "It's not REALLY stealing to take home office supplies..." No, she didn't die instantly, which is the only death she was knew existed. But she did die that day, in more ways than one.  Because Adam followed her into disobedience to the Voice, death entered into the DNA of all mankind. From that day on, they began to die a slow physical death. Their bodies began to decay slowly over time until eventually both bodies died... and all bodies thereafter.  But the greatest death that day was the ...