year of shadow

“Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.”

- 1 Thessalonians 5:18 NLT

Reminder: Every time you pray, you disrupt and delay the enemy’s plans.

God loves you.

¹⁷ “You can throw us into the blazing furnace. The God we serve is able to save us from the furnace and your power. If He does this, it is good. ¹⁸ But even if God does not save us, we want you, our king, to know this: We will not serve your gods. We will not worship the gold statue you have set up.”

—‭‭Daniel 3:17-18

Honestly though, who can be against us??

Why yes, I did immediately redraw the one from last week. The design and composition here was what I was originally going to do, but then that didn't happen. So now I have drawn it as it was supposed to be.

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

-C.S. Lewis

I had a coworker say to me today that he's a bad Christian because he hasn't read the Bible all the way through, and that is a ridiculous thought

Was Stephen, the first Christian martyr, a bad Christian because he died before the New Testament was written and never read the Bible all the way through? No.

Are Christians who are illiterate bad Christians because they haven't read the Bible? No.

Are Christians who don't yet have the Bible in their heart language and are unable to truly understand it or even read it bad Christians? No.

Yes, reading the BIble is a good thing. Yes, being able to read the Word of God is a wonderful privilege that we have. But your status as a Christian is not dependent on how many times you've read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. (That would be a works based religion.) Your status as a Christian is based on the Holy Spirit living within you and your being transformed by Him.

So read your Bible, but don't feel that your worth as a Christian comes from doing so.

Thou shall not stress over what seems impossible because nothing is impossible with God.