Welcome to a group of women who's goal is to encourage each other to put down some serious roots in the Word of God. This blog is dedicated to reading through the Bible in a year. Hopefully you will find the encouragement and accountability here that you need to push through the tough parts- or when life just gets in the way. The reading plan is located at the bottom of the blog. It contains links to the passages we are reading through biblegateway.com. You can use those links or read your own Bible, whichever you prefer.
We are all members of Oak Hill Baptist Church in Griffin, Georgia and felt the need in our own life for a little bit of the Lord's splendor. Please join us!!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

ONE DAY HE'S COMING, OH GLORIOUS DAY

Matthew was written mainly for the Jews. Jesus is presented to them to be the Messiah of the Old Testament.

Chapters 15-17 are full of Jesus speaking. Wouldn't you just loved to have been there to hear Him speak to the multitudes who surrounded Him or to hear Him explain what He said to His disciples. When I read the words of Jesus, I can picture Him in my mind standing there saying them. I know soon I WILL see Him face to face and I WILL hear his voice as He welcomes me home.

It is so hard for me to understand how people of that era could see and hear Jesus and see all the good He did and still reject Him. Jesus called the scribes and Pharisees hypocrites because the put down the disciples for not washing their hands before eating. While at the same time they was not living the commandment, "Honor thy father and mother." Sometimes in today's world, we are guilty of doing like the Pharisees. We look down on some people for the sin they have committed while at the same time committing sins ourselves that aren't all that bad. God looks at sin as sin; there is no such thing as big sins and little sins, they are all the same. I know I have done this and pray God will forgive me and remind me this is wrong should I start to do this again. Jesus then tells them that it is not what one puts in his mouth that defiles a man but rather what comes out of it. What comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornication, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." (15:19)

As the people followed Jesus for THREE days with nothing to eat, Jesus fed the hungary with a few fishes and a few loaves of bread. It is recorded of Him doing this two times. At the same time, He was feeding their souls as well. Our Bibles are food for our souls. I feed my soul as I feed my body every morning. Do you have a special time set aside to feed your soul?

During this time, Jesus was teaching His disciples many things that would help them once He was gone. Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother to a high mountain where He was transfigured before them. His face shined like the sun and His clothing was white as the light. Moses and Elias was seen talking to Him. After it happened, Jesus told them: "Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of Man be risen again from the dead." (17:9) Thereby predicting his death and resurrection. In Chapter 17:22,23 He again predicted His death and resurrection. "The Son of Man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: and they shall kill Him, and the third day He shall be raised again."

Unlike other religions, we serve a risen Savior. While their leaders are lying dead in a grave, ours is seated at the right hand of our God. He is waiting for God to tell Him to go and gather his children home. I am looking forward to that, aren't you? One day He's coming, oh glorious day.
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  1. NatalieOctober 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM

    I loved Peter's response to the transfiguration scene..."Lord, it's great here! Let's just live here, you, elijah, moses and the rest of us..." Oh, that is SO what I would have been saying. We always want to hold onto the mountain tops don't we? Like Pastor Chris said in his sermon on Psalm 23- it's in the valley that we really do some of the best growing. Great post Ms. Boots- and I can't wait until we really do get to "camp out" with Jesus, Moses, Elijah and believers from all over the world. It will indeed be a glorious day!

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  2. AmyOctober 23, 2011 at 7:22 PM

    Ms. Boots, I love the way you feed your soul as you feed your body. What a wonderful way to remember how important it is to feed our spiritual hunger. The more I feed my soul the more I WANT to feed it. And Natalie, that is what I would be thinking too.Great job Ms. Boots!!

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  3. JaybrenaOctober 23, 2011 at 10:03 PM

    What comes out of the mouth, comes out of the heart....love that, Boots!!! Jesus is more concerned with what we are thinking than what we are doing. As we have discussed before, the New Testament raises the standard of the OT, it's not just our actions....it's the meditation of our heart.

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  4. MindyOctober 23, 2011 at 10:35 PM

    Ms. Boots - I too CANNOT WAIT until that day when we will be before Him in heaven. And I cannot wait until we will all be together as believers in heaven and we will not longet have any time restrictions on us. I get SO tired of trying to spend time with people and always feeling like I have to go because I have something else going on! UGH!!! I also loved like Amy what you said about feeding our souls. This is just as vital as physical food if not MORE so! If only people would get this fact as truth! It is also hard for me to imagine that people who saw what Jesus did and heard what He said could reject Him, but Revelation is also clear that even with all the horrible judgments that will be carried out, people will STILL refuse to believe. Fantastic post Ms. Boots!!!

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