How did we get to Thursday already? I’m looking forward to a good day of study in preparation for Sunday’s message on Romans 12:1-2.
Here is today’s Bible reading: Exodus 15:19-17:7; Matthew 22:1-33; Psalm 27:1-6; Proverbs 6:20-26.
Matthew 22:29 (NIV)
Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
How true this is today. The topical, thematic, felt-need, seeker driven preaching of the day has produced entire churches that are ignorant of God’s Word. Too many congregations are a mile wide and an inch deep. We desperately need a return to the Word of God. It is no coincidence that the absence of the Word goes hand-in-hand with an absence of God’s power. The measure of the presence of God and His power in a church is not a crowd hat experiences the warm fuzzy sensation that accompanies a well-performed praise song. Rather, it is in the radical transformation of lives. The lost are found. Sinners become saints. Those in bondage are set free. May we truly know the Scriptures and the power of God.
Like the Apostle Paul, I want more than anything to know Christ (Phil. 3:10). I do not want to simply know about Him. I want to know Him-- personally, intimately, and experientially. It is not enough for me to hear about Him. I want to see Him with my own eyes.
With My Own Eyes 
Jody Garfield
February 2, 2012 at 8:36 pm
Psalm 27:4 One thing I have desired of the Lord, That I will seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord All the days of my life…….This verse reminds me of my daughter telling me on a walk that she thinks she will fall down when she meets with the Lord. I asked her why she thought she would fall down. Cierra said, “because He will be so beautiful. Wow,the insight from a child.