Doubt

James 1:6 "But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind."

doubt:to waver in opinion; to distrust; to question

I think it's saying that if you're going to believe in something, that you should go all in. Like an all or nothing. Because if what you believe in, you're not fully believing in, your life will be unstable.

Do I live without doubt? Am I unstable in all my ways?

Having a God that I can't fully grasp is hard, because I don't always understand what He's doing. And having a God that operates in an unseen world is hard because I can't see when He is going to bring breakthrough into a situation.

I guess sometimes I don't share my faith with people, is because of this because i'm not always confident that he's really at work in my little life. 

Or times I question Him. Why did you let this happen? Why haven't you done what I want already? 

But I know that isn't true and that he is involved even in the minutest details.

So do these times of lack of confidence make me one who doubts?

Well if so, i'm sorry Lord. I don't want to be a doubter, one who wavers, one who is compared to a tossing wave.

This verse is having me evaluate my walk and my life. I want to always be making sure that my life measures up to how the Lord wants me to be living.

Heads Up! I'm changing my blog name from Limbo to Wandering Heart!

James 1

James 1:21b "Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls."

James 1:27b "...and to keep oneself unstained from the world."

Q: How does this scripture reveal Jesus?

A: Just as i was telling the children in children's church today,       no one is perfect. We all have sinned and
    gotten icky sin staining our spirit. And there is only one way    to get rid of them.

    The answer is in a song we sing,

"Oh the blood of Jesus,
  it washes white as snow."

So the verse of James 1:27, reveals my necessity of keeping unstained, undefiled from this world. And that leads me straight to Jesus. The only way we can be unstained, from this filthy world.
Q: Challenging verse of the day?
A: Look to the previous answer. Keeping yourself unstained is our challenge.
Q: Uplifting verse of the day.
A: James 1:21b Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Q: How do these scriptures make you fall more in love with Jesus for who He is?

A: I would say that 1:21b shows how romantic God is. that He has created the greatest romance that could ever be. But that answer is more than falling in love with who He is because it makes me feel good to be in that romance. So then I have taken it from who He is(a romancer), to what He can do for me(romance me).

So I will use 1:27b-Keep oneself unstained. Because the only reason His blood can wash me is because it first was holy and pure.

Being in love with someone who is holy and pure. If He wasn't holy and pure He wouldn't be who He is. And for that I love Him. He has no unholy or impure thought towards me.
And women how often can you find that? In a world full of sick and twisted people?

do a favor for your spirit.

check this blog post out.  http://laurennicolelove.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-do-you-fall-in-love-with-jesus.html?m=0

Daily Devotion

 I've made up this little daily devotional with four questions to ask in accordance to whichever piece of scripture that you read.

 I do believe if you look, that you can find something revealing about Christ in all scripture. So I invite you to maybe search for this question in any scripture you read.

Philipians 1 & 2

How did a certain scripture reveal Jesus Christ? Philipians is Paul writing the Philipians while he was in prison and encouraging them to continue in their walk with Christ, and to do it well.
 So These two chapters of Philipians shows me... 
that with Jesus there is always a positive. We can't lose.
Paul was in prison and he still had the joy of knowing that even though it looked as though he lost, he knew that he really was winning in the spiritual realm.
Uplifting verse of the day: Phil 1:21
  "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

Challenging verse: Phil 1:27
 "Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ."

This really exhorts me, to be a better example of Christ. To have respect for His reputation. And not to drag His name in the mud, by being a bad example of a christian of a follower of Jesus. We are the only Jesus the unsaved will see. We are His body.

 

Verse to fall more in love with Christ: Phil 2:6 "Taking the form of a servant who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, being born in the likeness of man. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even on a cross."
        His humbleness is beautiful. 

I've added this question because I want to fall in love with who He is and not what He can do or how He makes me feel.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothèd then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.