To the degree
we treat our neighbors
as we would want
to be treated,
we show we
Love Mercy
Do Justice
Our obligation
is to treat others
as we want to be treated.
Spiritual growth depends on desire for and submission to God. These three books have aided many Christians grow closer to God.
Spiritual Growth
is deepening, expanding, and developing your relationship with God, not in knowing fact about God, the Bible, or doctrine.
When God gives a desire to know Him, we need to respond as David, “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.”
The second important component to spiritual growth is submission, yielding to God. Yielding is saying, I will walk with you the way you are calling me to walk.
Different people have different journeys. Only in yielding to God’s will can we identify and walk how God has prepared for us.
Thoughts of God
Developing Studies in
Thoughts of God
My walk with Jesus has always guided me to the text of the Old Testament.
In the books of the Old Testament I see Jesus as the great ‘I Am’.
I see the work and person of Jesus in the feasts, laws, wisdom, psalms, and stories.
The themes of Ecclesiastes can be seen in these first 11 verses;
- First – the author sets his authority to speak,
- Second – the author declares – all life is fleeting,
- Third – the author points out, life and its natural cycles will always repeat,
- Finally, front and center, the author declares the futility and emptiness of everything – Hebel – Vanity