Battles

  God Who Is Isaiah 48:9 But for my own sake I will be patient. People will praise me for not becoming angry and destroying you. Humans need God in our lives and working in us. This is not said because we need God to save us from the punishment of our sin which our God does but because we as humans are lost without God. We are told that God breathes His spirit into us and that we are created in His image. How can we even image that we are not deeply connected to the God of creation? When we reject the God who created us we reject the very core of who we are. We need God just to exist with any degree of wisdom and direction for our lives. I don’t want to talk about being lost because we reject the source of life that is God and so end up in sin but I want to speak just about the basic process of living and how we need God in our lives every day if we are to make sense of life and to get through it. The fact is that we as humans were built to be servants of God. From this w...

   God Knows Isaiah 48:4 I knew you were stubborn; your neck was like an iron muscle, and your head was like bronze.     In Isaiah chapter forty five verse twenty-three God tells us that one day everyone will bow before God.  This is then repeated in Paul’s letter to the Romans in chapter fourteen verse eleven.  Often we take the authority of God as no more then mere suggestions and we can if we want take or leave what God has to say as we please.  I understand how this happens because God does not force Himself on us.  Over and over God warns us about sin and offers a different path but God never forces us to obey Him.  We can choose the destruction that sin brings and as much as it breaks God’s heart He will not stop us from making that choice.  But if we are serious about that fact that God is King of Kings then we need to know that bowing before God means we subject ourselves to God’s power and authority and we need to begin to live ...