Journal of Faith: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Philippians 2:12

   Often times I will stall my life when it came to making important decisions.  When I have a fork in the road, I weigh the pro's and con's of each path set before me, and I look for the wisdom of God to help me make the right turns on my life journey.  There is a scripture that says that "my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:" John 10:27.  I find that my greatest triumphs and biggest failures have been directly proportioned to my willingness to get quiet before God and listen for his instruction.      If we can not discern the voice of God, it is not for his lack of speaking but our lack of hearing. John 10:27 says that God's sheep know his voice, and this means that God talks in ways that we can hear him.  God has not left us without any help to walk this journey of faith that we are on.  He has left us his word and his holy spirit to teach us, guild us, comfort us, and convict us. It is up to us to study and...

This made me cry, but it helps me to remember how significant the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was.  If he had chosen to live, we all would have been doomed to eternally be separated from God. He died so that we might live.  This is the greatest act of love that anyone could do. 

      Walls have varying purpose including protection, support, warning, and intimidation.  Walls are  not malleable, they either stand or fall.  Walls are meant to make the statement, "Do not pass." When I think about the walls of Jericho and how the obedience of God's people brought the walls down without a single act of violence, I am encouraged.       For seven days people walked silently around the walls of Jericho, and on the seventh day they walked around it seven times and then shouted.  At that moment it didn't matter how tall the walls were, how thick they were, how fortified they were.  Those walls could not stand up to the faith and obedience of God's people.  This shows me that it is the will and the way of God to work miracles for the people who call on his name in faith. Active faith caused the walls of Jericho fall down at the shouts of God's people.    ...