I decided to start this blog (2010) because my son, John-Robert gave me a One Year Bible for Christmas, the New Living Translation... reading it has changed my life... I post a daily Bible verse on my Facebook page every day and it has been well received... I thought that this would be a wonderful way to share part of what I read each day!... I hope that you enjoy it.



This Year 2012 I am going to do things a little different... not much...just a little. I am again reading through my One Year Bible (for the 3rd time). But I am also using "The Secret Power of Speaking God's Word" by Joyce Meyer. This book is divided by putting scriptures under different categories so they can be used to speak over our life situations. Each day I will read a category of scripture and pick a scripture in that category to write about.



Hugs

Jeannie







Tuesday, May 17, 2011

5.17.11

Proverbs 15:16 Better to have a little, with fear for the Lord, than to have great treasure and inner turmoil.

My Thoughts
First we have to know that here fear is defined as To be in awe of; revere... God gives us peace of mind and heart... that is priceless!... when we love God with all our heart and mind we have peace of mind.. peace of mind is amazing... most people would give up most anything if the knew without a doubt they could have peace of mind.. and the Bible tells us right here that peace of mind with God is worth more than all the treasures of the world.  

Here is how I could put this verse in my head to understand it more.  When we get paid.. we can do one of two things with our money...we can go buy ourselves all kinds of goodies... or we can pay our bills and  put our money in the bank and buy peace of mind.  It may feel  to buy ourselves some goodies... some treasures... and for a while we may have a blast...but when we go to bed at night and can't sleep... or when we go to the mail box and have anxiety because we don't know how we will pay the bills we don't really enjoy those goodies anymore.... If instead we had put the money in the bank we could pay the bills... not worry about an unexpected thing coming up and enjoyed, truly enjoyed the company of our family... then when were were able to truly afford a treasure it would be a treasure we would never have to resent when we looked at it... what we buy when we put money in the bank is peace of mind.. peace of mind is worth so much more than toys.

When we do what is right...and choose to do what God ask us to do...when we are in awe of God we have a wonderful peace.. a peace that passes all understanding. A calmness about us.  No matter where we are in life we can know that God will take care of us.  When we go about doing what the world wants...being underhanded and dishonest...taking advantage of people to have "treasures"... we may be able to amass much...but how can we really enjoy all that stuff if we are always upset in our soul? Nobody lives in peace that does wrong...that ignores God to have "stuff."  We were made to be children of the Most High God...we were made to love God with all our heart and soul...as long as we ignore that we can never have inner peace.  Loving God gives us peace beyond understanding...when we have that God gives us treasures, treasures that we can enjoy without turmoil.  When we learn that peace of heart and peace of mind are the treasures we seek after we will be a much happier people! The Bible tells us we won't be happy without God... The world tells us we won't be happy without stuff... which one are we going to believe?
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