Hi Line Ministries: Godly wisdom for daily living!

John Wayne once said, "life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."  However it is said, life can be full of a lot of struggles and issues and these struggles and issues can create a lot of anxieties, worries and stress for us.  Is there something we can do so that we do not get soured on life and in that process sour others we come in contact with?  The answer to that question is a definite YES!

The Apostle Paul is trying to teach the Galatians to never again be deceived into trying to attain something by their own efforts that God had already given them by His Grace.

Not whether we can see 20/20 or where we envision ourselves in 5 or 10 years but what are we seeing on a day-to-day basis.  Our natural senses will cause us to only see and consider the existing conditions and leave us trapped within the confines of what is humanly possible.

Galatians 2:14" (MSG) "If you, a Jew, live like non-gentiles when you're not being observed by the watch dogs from Jerusalem, what right do you have to require non-Jews to conform to Jewish Customs just to make a favorable impression on your old Jerusalem buddies?"

The Bible is also known as the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, the Good Book, a Treatise, the Holy Writ, the Living Word, and an anthology.  It's power, influence and endurance is unmatched by anything!  The Bible is not just a collection of writings from a group of authors like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Louisa May Alcott but it is handbook for living life in harmony with our Creator not only in this life but in the life hereafter as well.

"The Law".  (NLT) "The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship."

The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don’t, the parts we see and the parts we don’t. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one-part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance. (1 Corinthians 12:25-26

"lest, by any means I might run, or had run, in vain."  

If we're not careful, we will assume that just because someone goes to church, and they are a good person in the community that they are Christian; that may not be the case!  

Immediately he preached the Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God. (1 Cor 2:2) For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.