Comments on March 25th One Year Bible ReadingsTypePad2012-03-25T02:43:03ZOne Year Biblehttps://www.oneyearbibleblog.com/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://www.oneyearbibleblog.com/2012/03/march-25th-one-year-bible-readings/comments/atom.xml/Duane Mclean commented on 'March 25th One Year Bible Readings'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c5ebf53ef0167643b66f0970b2012-03-26T01:43:04Z2012-03-26T01:43:04ZDuane McleanI love to sing. I sing when I wake up. I sing in the shower ,I sing in the car,...<p>I love to sing. I sing when I wake up. I sing in the shower ,I sing in the car, and at work. the bible says, make a joyful noise to the Lord, and thats exactly what I do. I also sing on the praise and worship team as well as the sanctuary choir. The songs we go over during choir practice, I sing continuously. There are times when God will bring to rememberance songs from my past that I learned when I was a kid.Its hard to sing and not be joyful. I believe that singing is a wonderful gift God gives us in order to praise and lift him up.</p>Steve commented on 'March 25th One Year Bible Readings'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c5ebf53ef0163033d53a1970d2012-03-25T02:51:40Z2012-03-25T02:51:40ZSteveDeuteronomy 4:1-49 Moses was a Sheppard, it must have been hard for him to watch but not be permitted to...<p>Deuteronomy 4:1-49</p>
<p>Moses was a Sheppard, it must have been hard for him to watch but not be permitted to accompany his flock as they finally cross over into the Promise Land. Imagine the responsibility of managing such a huge number of people, a people that are so prone to wander off in different directions. Got me to thinking about the way God sometimes uses Sheppard’s as leaders. The theme of Deuteronomy is love and obedience, the same agenda the good Sheppard has for his flock. The good Sheppard wants to take us out of the bondage of our own territory and lead us into the green pastures of the Promise Land.</p>
<p>The good Sheppard is willing to lay his life down for his sheep; he leads the sheep with love but at times the Sheppard must be harsh on the sheep when they wander. The Sheppard does not enjoy being harsh, he is only harsh because he knows the great danger facing the sheep that wander, realizing those that stray could permanently be separated from the flock forever.</p>
<p>Moses as a good Sheppard pleads with his flock to hearken to the word of the Lord by giving them reason after reason to obey God so that it will go well with them. Deuteronomy expresses the magnitude of God, His love for us and His awesome power as a God of consuming fire and a God of love.</p>
<p>In the words of my Pastor, “Yes, He's a consuming fire and those enemies of God shall be destroyed by that consuming fire. Consuming is just a qualifying word and that is a word that qualifies really the enemies of God; that which the fire will do to enemies of God. But that same fire transmits us into permanency because from us it consumes the dross and the impurities of our life. It's the refining fire of God burning within our hearts, consuming dross transmitting into permanency”.<br />
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