Read & Learn
By the inspiration and the revelations from the Lord, I have penned down all HIS thoughts here. Read, Learn and Practice them everyday. Word of God is way of life. Each topic is unique and relevant for our every day life. Why don't you get started now. Let's do it.
I write on a regular basis, so you will see a new topic added every time.
Wisdom Of God
Biblical wisdom invites people to a way of life that is in harmony with both the created order and God’s redemptive work. In the Old Testament wisdom is oriented around the fear of the Lord; in the New Testament wisdom is amplified and reoriented around Christ.
A Christian theology of wisdom begins and ends with Christ. The New Testament identifies Jesus as the ultimate source of wisdom. The Old Testament anticipated an eschatological fulfilment of wisdom, both by its call to wisdom as well as by Israel’s failure to live by that wisdom. In Christ Old Testament motifs related to wisdom found their fulfilment and reconfiguration. Old Testament wisdom was revelatory, organizing life around the fear of the Lord. In the New Testament this life is reoriented around Christ’s invitation to the wisdom of the gospel.1 In the Old Testament wisdom undergirds the whole creation. In the New Testament, like Lady Wisdom of Proverbs 8, Christ is identified with the work of creation but far exceeds that role as sovereign Lord of the universe. In the Old Testament wisdom plays a saving role, though not a redemptive role. In the New Testament wisdom is strikingly reoriented around the cross work of Christ and sets a new pattern for life. Wisdom in the Old Testament was to lead to a life of virtue; such a life is now made abundantly possible through Christ.
Kingdom Of God
The Kingdom of God is mentioned throughout the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. In fact, the phrase "Kingdom of God" is used over 70 times in the New Testament - with the Gospel of Matthew over 30 times.
As a Christian, it's essential to understand the meaning behind this phrase, which is often confusing for many Christians and non-Christians. If someone asked you what the kingdom of God meant, would you know how to answer them?
"For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." ~ Romans 14:17
Let's look at the original Greek and Hebrew meaning of the phrase, the different phrases used throughout the Bible, what it means to seek first the Kingdom of God, and how to live and pray with the Kingdom of God in mind
Love of Jesus
If love for one another is going to flourish and grow in our church, we must be rooted more deeply in love. That was the point of last week's message. In other words becoming a loving person means living with the roots of your life sunk deep in the love of Christ for you. Being loved by Christ is the ground of becoming loving. And the root that you send into that ground is the faith that you are loved.
There's a phrase in 1 John 4:16 that describes this root:
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us.
We have come to know, and have believed the love which God has for us. The love that God has for us is the ground of our becoming loving people. And the root that we send down into that ground, to be nourished by it, is faith—"we have believed the love that God has for us." Believing the depth of God's love for me is the key to my growing into a loving person.
And the key to believing the love that God has for us is seeing it revealed in the word of Scripture. A few people were allowed to see Jesus in the flesh and touch him and watch him teach and heal and suffer and die and rise. We might feel jealous that our faith in the love of Christ can't be based on that kind of first hand sight and touch. But that was not God's plan. When Jesus prayed for his disciples in John 17:20, he said, "[Father], I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word." It was the plan of God that we come to faith, not by seeing the love of Christ in the flesh, but by seeing the love of Christ in the word of those who knew him.