I want to share two important points from today's Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan! The first is found in Psalm 122:1:
1 I was glad when they said to me, Let us go to the house of the Lord!
"Glad" here is the Hebrew word "samach", which means: to rejoice, be joyful, refers to a spontaneous emotion or extreme happiness which is expressed in some visible and or external manner. It usually finds a visible expression. So, if YOU are glad to be in the 'house of the LORD' everyone around you will know it! Now, when you realize that you ARE the house of the LORD, you should not be able to contain the jubilant joy that rises up inside of you! If it doesn't seem as though you are experiencing this yet, it simply means that you have not yet meditated on the Word of God concerning these Truths! What is holding you back? Whatever it is, it is NOT of God! HE is the One Who has instructed us to do so! AMEN! The other point I want to share today is found in our New Testament reading in 1 Corinthians 11! Verse 1:
Pattern yourselves after me [follow my example], as I imitate and follow Christ (the Messiah).
We are NOT to 'copy' other believers, but to 'imitate' those who follow the LORD and His Word closely. You may be asking what the difference is in these two ideas. To 'copy' someone means that, like a mimic, you closely follow everything that do and you begin to do and say the same things! To imitate means that you take in what they say and do, and, as the admonition says, you follow and do those things that line up with God's Word and that show something that JESUS Himself would do if He were on the earth today! By meditating the Word, you allow Holy Spirit, Who is your FOREVER Helper, to show you how those good and godly things we want to imitate are to be walked out in our unique lives, in keeping with our individual gifts, calling, personalities and Anointing! There is really a very BIG difference, when we actually break it down! There have been too many believers doing things that they have seen others do without a thought to why they are doing them in the first place! When you read 1 Corinthians 12, you will see that HE made us all different, unique and individual on purpose! Be YOU, IN HIM, and you cannot fail! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Alive":
Shalom in Him!
