Serving God -John 12:25-26

I haven't been as good posting lately, (I'm blaming that for a lot of school and being on vacation), but I thought I'd get something in tonight.

"He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor."

he Who Believes -John 7:38

"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."

The Bible lays it out pretty clearly...salvation comes through faith. But before we go any further I do need to clarify that this faith comes from God, and certainly not from anything we do.


The one thought I wanted to leave you with is this: Does our faith extend beyond what we say, and into how we live? Do we live out a life of faith wherever we are?

How Can This Be? -John 1:34-37

This a continuation of the last blog post....and this promise really is a good reminder of how God really is in control of everything.

"Then Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I do not know a man?" And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible."

There are a lot of things that stand out to me in this passage that I found encouraging. First off, I liked the part where it says "the power of the Highest will overshadow you", just remembering that as Christians, God's power overshadows us. I also noticed how this passage also brought up a name for Jesus...it says that the "Holy One who is to born will be called the Son of God." Another thing I noticed is how the angel brought up the fact that Elizabeth had conceived a son. I think that was really to show Mary the power of God.

And lastly I saw the promise that through God, nothing is impossible. We as Christians should not doubt God and His Word...if He says it will happen, He will bring it to pass.


When we our going through hard spots, and have doubts, let our response to God be like Mary's response to the angel Gabriel, as she says in verse 38, "Let it be to me according to your word."

We can trust God, for with God, nothing is impossible.

Grace and Truth -John 1:16-17

This is a continuation of the last blog post....the next two verses in John 1. I saw these verses and thought they were really good...

"And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."

The grace and truth that we have received through salvation and God's Word is from Jesus.

...and the Word Became Flesh -John 1:14-15

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.'"

I think maybe this should have been the first passage I did for promises regarding Christ's birth. Here in God's Word we see a clear statement that 'The Word', Jesus, became flesh and lived with us. Not only was this book written by an eyewitness, but this passage also mentions how John the Baptist "vouched" for the validity of Jesus Christ.

This promise can be an encouragement to us, knowing that Christ did indeed come to earth...it's not just a nice story.

This section also really gets me thinking, "what would it have been like to have lived when Christ was on the earth?" The thought of being to be able to "behold His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth" gets me excited!

But then again we are able to get a glimpse of His glory in His Word, which is something that they didn't entirely have back then. We get a more complete picture.