Luke 15:17-18 "And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!  

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,"

 

Have you sinned against another person and in so doing you have distanced yourself from them?

 

Stop making excuses. Start accepting responsibility for what you have done and the fruit it has produced. 

 

Sin will always take us farther than we want to go, cost us more than we want to spend, and keep us longer than we want to stay! 

 

Today - accept and act upon your guilt.  Take the initiative and seek to reconcile.

 

Next week we will share some more thoughts on the topic of reconciliation. D.V.

Psalm 44:1 "We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old."

 

The youth of our day are in desperate need of adults who have, and are, experiencing God.

 

They need adults who are willing to share the greatness of God's work in their lives.

 

This week spend time remembering what God has done in your life. How He has shown Himself faithful and true.

 

Then ask the Lord to lead you to someone younger, who is willing to listen as you share the goodness of our great God!

 

Let us make a point to seek to encourage the younger generation to follow God's word not only through instruction but by example in word and deed!

This past Sunday we learned to identify and reject false teaching.

In Job 36 the speaker is Elihu, one of Job’s friends. He is trying to explain away Job’s suffering based on a wrong understanding of how God works and what God’s word says.

Job 36:11 “If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, an their years in pleasures.”

Yet the truth is that God uses difficulties and suffering to accomplish His will through His children.

II Corinthians 12:9-10 : Paul had the thorn in the flesh I Timothy 5:23 - Timothy had a stomach condition

Hebrews 11:35 : People who are living by faith are suffering great heartache  

II Timothy 3:12 teaches that all that live Godly will suffer.

Today make sure you're drawing your conclusions and expectations about life from God’s word not man’s logic. (be it your own or someone else’s)

“Let us trust and obey for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus than to trust and obey.”