The Daily Scroll - One Man

Isn’t it incredible that God made a covenant with one man, Abraham? That covenant affected untold millions of people, but it started with one man. Have you ever received a personal word from the Lord? Has God held up His end of the deal? I have found from reading the Bible, and in personal life, that if God makes a promise, He holds up His end of the bargain even if we fail. He’s just that way. 

One man Abraham learned it, as told in Genesis, “God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. (Genesis17:19)

Seek the Lord while He may be found, talk to Him, listen and obey. He has a miracle for you.

The Daily Scroll - The Measuring Rod

 One of the last things that many of us do at the end of the year is take stock of our previous year. We do that by measuring and reviewing our goals, successes, and failures. Like the measuring rod of old, an accurate examination tells us a lot about where we are in life, a picture as it were. 

It’s been said, how do we know where we’re going if we don’t know where we've been, or more importantly where we are. The Bible teaches us to take stock of our lives and to keep short accounts with God.  The apostle John writes about just such an occasion. 

“I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers.“ (Revelation 11:1)

God wanted John to know precisely the size of the heavenly Temple and how many worshipers were there. God revealed Himself and His future plans to mankind clearly in the book of revelation. Even to the minute measurements of His Holy Temple. He wants us to know Him as He is, and by using the measuring rod on ourselves, we see ourselves as we are. 

The Daily Scroll - Regret

As I contemplate the majesty and wonder of God‘s creation, and realize that it pleased Him so much, that on the seventh day He rested, I can see that He probably surveyed and enjoyed His creation. Everything was going great. All the creatures of the earth were multiplying just as planned, and God was developing a relationship with His man Adam. Then the unthinkable happened, His man, for whom all creation was meticulously made, betrayed Him. He committed sin which ruined everything. God strived with man and tried to make it work, but man became wicked and evil. Except for one man, Noah. 

Can you imagine the heartbreak our Father felt. Until it got to the point of no return. He had to start over. He had one man that he deemed righteous. And this man had a family. These people would be used to start God’s dreams over. And today, evil again permeates the Earth. He promised not to flood the earth again, but His justice will prevail. We have been given a preview in the Bible of what is to come. So we should get ready.

“The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:5-8)

He’s coming for those who have found favor through Jesus Christ.

The Daily Scroll - Fingernail Hold On Faith

 Do you ever feel your faith slipping away? As we face life’s challenges, many times we feel it happening. But that is when we have to hold on. Sometimes opposition can be so severe that our faith seems to fail. But the Bible teaches us to fear not. I find myself sometimes barely holding on by my fingernails. I call that the fingernail hold of faith. Barely holding but still holding on in belief. Our grip gets stronger as we serve the Lord over the years and see how that time and again He comes through for us. 

Most people have faith in their mind and reasoning, but deep faith, which causes us to hold on, comes from the heart. Heart faith will hold an never let go. Again, that comes by knowing the Lord in a deep relationship. It will develop over time.The Bible says…

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1, NIV).

“Romans10:17 “... Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.”

If today you are hanging on by a fingernail, cheer up, you’re still hanging on.

The Daily Scroll - Proof In The Mirror

 If one has read the Bible or sat in Sunday school, the the story of the creation of man is something that we know. But as many times that I have read the Bible or listened to teachings, I didn’t realize until now that when God created Adam from the dust of the earth, that the earth was moist. Because of the mist, the earth was moist. You might even say that dust could have been worked into clay. 

It’s hard to wrap your mind around the action that God took in order to create the inward parts of man. Did  He start with the bones, then the muscles, then the flesh, into which He put the heart, the arteries and veins? Enriched with DNA that flowed through the blood which some say He infused from His own self as He breathed particles of His spirit into man creating Adam’s own spirit joined to the Spirit and life of the Father.?

Modern day scientists and inventors have created the most unbelievable products and mechanical systems, but they pale in comparison to God’s creation of man. Our most brilliant Doctors struggle to just understand the human body, but nobody could create man but God. So if you need physical evidence of the reality of God, just look in your mirror.

 “a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.“(Genesis 2:6-7)

The Daily Scroll - I Love You Lord

 Sometimes there are no words to describe the love and devotion that we have for Lord Jesus. 

Sometimes life boils down to this. Love God. Worship Him because He is worthy. 

The Apostle John wrote that we love Him because He first loved us. (I John 4:19)

So click the link below, skip the ads, and take a moment to worship him, from that deep intimate place in your heart, your soul. That place where it’s hard not to cry at the very thought of Him, His goodness, His grace toward us, and most certainly His self sacrificing love with no end, no judgement, nothing but pure holy love. Take a moment. 

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