Pilgrim's Ponderings

Have you ever wondered what one week of your life would look like should God chose to take His hand of it? Would it change much? What would change if there would be any change? This annoyed me for the simple reason that even though I am in Bible college there are many weeks that my time didnt have anything that was characteristically God's doing alone. My life seems to be filled with many activities that I could be achieving in my own strength. Yes i know that the strength in my body and the air in my lungs itself is a gift from God. But what bothers me is when I see the life of Christ it seems packed with activities that ran on God's agenda and in God's power. A usual day starts with the a mental argument of whether to get up now or sleep for just a few more minutes, carries on to the mundane activities of navigating through traffic, and the usual routine of work which sometimes offers a few surprises - good or bad. Some times the evenings bring times with friends...

Genesis 3:1 - the serpent asks Eve - "Did God really say you would die if you eat the fruit?" And eve entered into humanity's first conversation with the devil. It didn't take long after that for the devil to draw her away with lies and deceit. A sunday school story and content for many messages around the world, but how true in our day. The oldest trick of the devil is still one of the biggest stumbling blocks in our churches and believers lives today. Doubt is his biggest weapon. He knows we study the bible, and he knows we listen to awesome worship songs. He knows he cannot fool us with an outright lie... but if he can create a doubt, then he can get you thinking. If he gets you thinking he builds up a conversation with you. Once the conversation is happening he slips in varying degrees of lies and before you know it you are in too deep looking for a way out. How often have you heard a smoker say "but did god really explicitly say i cannot smoke? show me where...