A Blogging Intermission

Sorry, but I've decided to suspend blogging my journal for an indefinite period. I'm hoping to return to it in some form after a brief break. As Pastor says, read you Bible every day, love everybody and try not to sin.

Judges 13-16; 2 Corinthians 2

Judges 13:8-9a

Then Manoah prayed to the LORD : "O LORD, I beg you, let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born." God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field.

I don't know if Manoah really wanted instructions or he just needed some confirmation regarding what his wife told him. God isn't trying to make His will a big mystery. When He calls us to do something He is more than willing to give us everything we need for the job. Perhaps when I'm wondering if I've really "heard from God" about something, I need to be bold enough to ask the Lord for more clear instructions like Manoah did. God doesn't want me to be confused. Maybe when I don't seem to have clarity it's because I I haven't bothered to ask for it.

Judges 11-12; Psalm 50; 2 Corinthians 1

2 Corinthians 1:12

Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace.

What do I boast about? Am I "boastful" when I act in a way that conforms to "God's grace, as Paul does? Or do I try to immitate the world and try to look like I'm following their wisdom so they won't think I'm foolish? Never forget, God's ways often seem foolish to the world. I need to be sure I'm living by God's standard and not worrying what other's who don't have Christ think about that.