Hi Line Ministries: Godly wisdom for daily living!

The decisions we make this year are going to go beyond, in scope and ramifications,  those daily seemly mundane decisions that we normally make. 

Thousands of years had passed since that first pronunciation of a Savior, and untold hundreds maybe even thousands of lives had been lived out, so  on that night in the town of Bethlehem Mary, "brought forth her firstborn Son and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn."

So God granted him what he requested!

In the middle of 9 chapters given to genealogy, why would the chronicler interrupt his genealogy to introduce us to a man named Jabez who is found no where else in the Bible but in these two verses?  

Why would the Holy Spirit have a historian interrupt his genealogy to introduce us to a man who only appears for two verses in the Bible?

I am amazed at the different ways the Lord uses the word "Harvest" in the Bible to make clear a principle or  describe an event.  Here are a few that I found very interesting.   

Christianity and good citizenship should go hand-in-hand.  Now more than ever, with the pandemic that has ravaged our nation, the violence that has filled our streets, with the evil ideology which has tried to permeate our places of worship, our educational institutions and  the seat of our very government, our nation needs those Christians who will be the light of the world.   We as Christians cannot claim all the privileges and then refuse all the duties.

 “Do not be afraid nor dismayed ....., for the battle is not yours, but God’s.  No matter what battle you face in life, it is not God's design nor His will that we fail!  

The  ability to make our own decisions is an incredible and exciting power that we have each been entrusted with by God and for which we have an obligation, not only to God, but for our own well-being, to be good stewards of.  Each decision we make, as we fight life's battles, carry certain outcomes that are either good or bad.  God's choice is that we succeed and enjoy our time here on earth.  

Average person makes 35000 decisions per day.  Each decision we face is in part, what makes up life’s battles that we each must fight and win if we are to prosper and enjoy our time here on earth.