We had company for dinner last night and enjoyed a good time of good food and a good game of Mexican train. (do you ever wonder if people from Mexico will press charges against the company that makes those and say they are 'scarred for life' because their country name has been used to play a silly game?) Stupid people with NFL and whatever the baseball league names are. I think I heard that the Indians, I forget which ones, are suing because the Washington Redskins were forced to change not only their name but the logo - which was a representation of one of their chiefs - who had posed for the photo. People are stupid. Not the Indians, but the people who push for silly name changes because they think someone might be offended. And how many people (and animals) have they called 'stupid' and 'idiot' - and yet, they are never called out for labeling someone and degrading them. Ok - I'm rambling and enough said.
We had an overall good weekend, I think. Church with Jentezen Franklin yesterday was good - our church had Pastor Mike (our worship pastor) speak and he was awesome!
Matthew 22:35-40 (NKJV): "Then one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing Him, and saying, 'Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?'
Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
One thing Pastor Mike brought up from this scripture, is that if we know God and are following Him, we love Him, BUT, the second commandment is harder - because you cannot love others if you do not love yourselves. How can you love others if you don't love yourself? For you treat them how you feel you should be treated. If you don't love yourself, you treat others as unloved as well. Does that make sense? The way Pastor Mike explained it made a whole lot more sense. It was an awesome service and he spoke the Word and the Word was truth. You just had to be listening and apply it to your self.
Bottom line - Love God, and Love Others. That is the first and second commandment.
I was able to watch almost all of the Perry Stone service yesterday afternoon. It was a powerful service too. In fact, it was so powerful, Jentezen Franklin, as whose church he was speaking, asked him to come back tonight and tomorrow night at 7PM EST to speak again. He did say one thing that I picked up on....
The war in Israel with Hamas is not a political war. He said it is a 'religion' war. If Hamas wins and succeeds in killing all the Jews, then the god the Hamas people worship is real. If Israel is not demolished... then their God is real. Well, we know which God is real... but it put a new twist on what is happening right now.
Perry Stone gave a lot of information about the history and what is going on now... very interesting - and even more so about how the devil is doing his thing in the world. I will have to watch tonight's program later as I have my gym appointment at 5PM and it will start at 4PM here. I can listen to part of it before I head over. I thought about changing my appointment but decided against it. I've already been told it's 'legs' tonight... sure hope I can walk to my car afterwards!
So how are you doing on the 'loving others' situation? Do you love yourself to where you can love others? Maybe you need to sit down and think about it. What is it about yourself that you don't 'love'? We usually think about our appearance, our hair, our weight, our looks.... but let's take a look at the inside - for that is what God sees. What is it on the inside of us that we don't like?
Is it our attitude? Maybe we need to change it! Maybe it is our behavior? Maybe we need to relook at how we react to things. Why not take a few minutes and just do an internal evaluation and see what it is that you DO like about yourself - and what you DO NOT like about yourself. Then see what you need to change so that you can love others like you love yourself.
Some of us will need to make great changes, ya think? I read in my devotional this morning about this guy who was constantly praying to God after he married, that God would change his wife. He didn't go in to specifics, but that he was always praying that God would change his wife. His wife woke up one night and found him downstairs and when she asked him if all was ok, he exploded on her and told her that he was praying that God would change her into the woman he wanted her to be... Hurt, she went back to bed without saying anything. A little later God spoke to the man and told him it wasn't his wife that needed to be changed; it was him. That brought about a whole nother outlook.
Maybe we all need to look at what we want changed in others and see what we need to change in ourselves. Maybe it is 'us'.... something to think about.
Blessings!
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