Hello! This is my first blog. I'm very excited, and I know you are (haha what arrogant pish posh). Anyway, I'm doing this for kicks. I'm not serious about it, because there is absolutely nothing exciting going on right now with me. Don't really feel like doing anything else. Actually, I think that sounds really foolish so I'm gonna continue now with my Bible studying and do 1 Corinthians.
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Other day I studied Galatians. I'm mentioning all this cause studying my Bible is something new. I've read pieces before but never done an organized note-taking, thoughtful reading experience yet that actually is a good use of my time. Galatians was all about how the (you guessed it, Galatians) were doing stuff to try to earn God's grace. Paul repeated many times how we can't earn God's gift, we have to believe instead and do the following:
1 - Stand for your faith in everyone's presence, not just some.
2 - Don't be a people pleaser.
3 - Have FREEDOM in Christ.*
4 - Help fallen Christians.
5 - Do not let pride get in the way of helping them- you are really a nobody (Paul's words!)
6 - Do your part when it comes to your work.
7 - You reap what you sow.
8 - What counts is whether we have been changed into new and different people.
*Christ gives us freedom from the crap that brings us down. What this freedom lets us do is serve one another in love. It is not so we can go on satisfying ourselves sinfully.
So I took from this that I should stop believing the lie that being a good person to others is what is gonna earn me a trip to Heaven. It's faith, faith that shows despite the crowd or setting... And ultimately, if my life is more about avoiding sin than about joyfully going after God, it's gonna suck when I die. Cause that's not the way less traveled, that few ever find.
