Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

Imagine sitting at Chili's waiting for your appetizer when a guy walks in wearing a full suit of armor: Helmet, sword, metallic body armor, the whole bit.  You might conclude first, that this guy is CRAZY.  Upon further reflection, you might wonder if perhaps there is a battle coming that YOU are not aware of.  That would make you the crazy one: unprepared, unallied, unprotected and unawares. 

Listen today for one of the strongest images in all of scripture: THE ARMOR OF GOD. Listen to the call to be prepared and allied and in-communication.  Listen to the call to be ARMORED UP!  

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A fight is coming for you that is winnable; a temptation that is overcomeable, a wrong thinking that is correctable and an attacked position that is STANDABLE.  What we are after here is "standability".

Strength is going to be required.  The foe is tricky and powerful. We are not left unequipped for this wrestling.  Let's be ready to run TO the battle.  Let's assess our resilience and armoring up for the task ahead.

When the smoke clears, my prayer for you is that you will be found STANDING. Come back tomorrow by subscribing at bewithme.us or [email protected] or any podcast provider such as apple.

Who will you do your work for today? Specifically, what MASTER are you going to give yourself to?  Who will you be mastered by today? Let's hope to get this right.

Whether you are an employee, a boss, a team member, an owner, a bondservant, a leader or even a slave, the principles of this passage are the same:

• work as if we work for Christ
• know that He is watching, He is just, He is good.

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Something very important is happening in the homes with children. Parents are teaching their children to OBEY, to listen, to attend to, and to submit. It is a hard job to do right for parents.  It is even harder to learn it as a child.

God loves children SO MUCH that He gave them one of the 10 commandments: Obey your parents.  It is critical to learn to do just that one thing because of all the areas that one uses that lesson through life: in marriage, at work, as a citizen and in the church.  Most importantly, the yielded will is the most important thing at the moment of salvation.

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Though the bride seems to be the star of many weddings, the real hero is GOD HIMSELF.  He's the one who creates something on that day that only He can create: a marriage.  Something is called to existence that did not exist one hour before. He is the main actor. The bride, groom, pastor, music, beauty and pageantry are nothing without HIM. He joins. He creates a marriage.

We HOLD FAST because God HOLDS FAST first. He's got His big God hand wrapped around a husband and wife. To ask Him to undo it is almost like asking Him to do something un-God-like. We hold what God HOLDS FAST.

Husbands: understand what God has done, so you can better understand what you must do: HOLD FAST.

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If you are like me, you took pretty good care of yourself yesterday.  I ate when I was hungry. I put a sweater on when I was chilly. I slept when I was tired. I loved myself all day long.  Husbands, this is exactly how Paul charges you to love your wives. At least, this is how he starts his high call.

He dials it up even higher by pushing Christ's relationship with the Church into the marriage relationship. He basically says, "See how much I think of, care for, am patient with, and am sacrificial toward the Church? That is how much I want you husbands to love your wives. It is MORE than even you love yourselves.  It is HOW MUCH I LOVE THE CHURCH." 

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Husbands have a wonderful job. (love your wives) Husbands have a wonderfully hard job. The standard to which they are called is the highest in history: loving like Christ loved the church...and gave Himself up for her...so that husbands might present their wives splendiferously when this is all over.

It is the highest of calls. Join me for 7 minutes in how we get to splendor. bewithme.us Apple Podcasts, google, Spotify to subscribe.

Submission is the voluntary, relational attaching of myself under a designated person and under God. It is difficult. It is universal. It is often misunderstood. It is done in the sight of God and it is done primarily to God Himself.  This puts the attaching to imperfect people into some perspective and priority.

Wives submit to your husbands...this will never work if perfect husbands are required
AS TO THE LORD...this will always work perfectly.

Submission is a beautiful thing as it demonstrates an imperishable, internal, adornment of a position under God. It is the posture before Him that is demonstrated in the external words, attitudes and behavior before the him of one's husband. bewithme.us or [email protected] to keep walking another step tomorrow. I appreciate your bravery in listening.

Submission is the universal, voluntary attaching myself in relationship under designated people...

It will NEVER WORK unless you finish the concept because people, as you know are imperfect and flawed. So let's try again:

Submission is the universal, voluntary attaching myself in relationship under designated people AND THE LORD. There we go.  Much better.  Listen 7 minutes and come back tomorrow at bewithme.us or Apple Podcasts.

My dear mother was accurately told that she had 42 days left to live. It changed everything. 

• It changed her relationship with PEOPLE. They became more important
• It changed her relationship with GOD. He became more present
• It changed her relationship with STUFF. It became more perishable
• It changed her relationship with WORDS. They became more precious

Similarly, Paul charges the Ephesians to make the best use of time, just like my mother did. Listen 7 minutes to her wonderful story. If you get an extra day, subscribe at bewithme.us to get another pretty good story. Apple Podcasts.