Jeanette B's Blog – May 2009 Archive (3)

(From my study in James - I'm up to chapter 4, verse 4...)

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?



About this FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD, here's some thoughts I wrote down...



** First is about our GRIP!!

How tightly do we hold on to things?

This reminds me of the story of the monkey with his hand stuck in the peanut jar. He wouldn't let go of the peanuts!! If he let go, his… Continue

Man, that sounds like paradise!! Who in our society wouldn't want that?



David uses this phrase in Psalm 16:11 ...

"You will show me the path of life;

In Your presence is fullness of joy;

At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

We can see here that God is not a kill-joy! But many think of Him as being a God of restrictions, where you can't do this and you MUST do that. So instead, they blindly… Continue

We read in the Bible that Jesus went about doing good. (See Acts 10:38.) That included many, many healings and deliverances. And because we are Christ's, we too will only want to seek to do good to others.



However, there is a trap!! We must be careful not to get so caught up in good works, that we are not doing God's work.



Let's look how Jesus handled all this when He was on earth. Even though He was God, He was human like us, with the limitations of a physical body. He… Continue