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A Question a Day From Rory Pt. 2

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RORY OVER AT A GUY CALLED A BLOKE HAS ASKED SOME REALLY GOOD QUESTIONS THIS WEEK.

I am taking one a day to task and seeing where the questions lead me.

Here is today’s question:

What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?

This one is actually pretty easy. I would regret not fully following Christ, not being His child and servant and I would regret not having Him in my life.

I thought once I could make it without Jesus. I thought I could do it on my own. I sent Him away. The darkness was terrible. The emptiness was profound. The sorrow was heavier than anything I could bear.

I cried out to Him my repentance and He had mercy on me! He erased my guilt shame and regrets. Today I am His and He is mine and I will never let Him go again!

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Jesus said, “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” Rev. 3:20

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Morning Direction From Scripture 4-2-19

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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and grieved him in the wasteland!
41 Again and again they put God to the test;
    they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember his power—
    the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43 the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,
    his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44 He turned their river into blood;
    they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
    and frogs that devastated them.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
    their produce to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
    and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52 But he brought his people out like a flock;
    he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
    but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
    to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55 He drove out nations before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes. Psalm 78:40-55

Has God ever settled you?

A Question a Day From Rory

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RORY FROM A GUY CALLED A BLOKE HAS ASKED SOME REAL THOUGHT PROVOKERS THIS WEEK. 

I thought I might answer 1 of these a day and see where it gets me.

Here is question number 1

Is there anything that you wish you had spent more time doing five years ago?

Yes absolutely! I wish I had focused more on exercising and my weight loss five years ago. It really is true what they say about losing weight after 50 and now I have to get in shape for my son’s wedding in a year!

 

God gave me a verse from the psalms this year. Psalm 144: 1

Praise be to the Lord my Rock,
    who trains my hands for war,
    my fingers for battle.

I guess a part of that battle is going to be the battle of the bulge.

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It may be later…but it is not too late.

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Evening Devotional 4-1-19

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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and grieved him in the wasteland!
41 Again and again they put God to the test;
    they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember his power—
    the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43 the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,
    his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44 He turned their river into blood;
    they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
    and frogs that devastated them.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
    their produce to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
    and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52 But he brought his people out like a flock;
    he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
    but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
    to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55 He drove out nations before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes. Psalm 78: 40-55

Why does the wasteland cause us to forget God?

Mid Afternoon Meditation 3-29-19

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When the Lord heard them, he was furious;
    his fire broke out against Jacob,
    and his wrath rose against Israel,
22 for they did not believe in God
    or trust in his deliverance.
23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above
    and opened the doors of the heavens;
24 he rained down manna for the people to eat,
    he gave them the grain of heaven.
25 Human beings ate the bread of angels;
    he sent them all the food they could eat.
26 He let loose the east wind from the heavens
    and by his power made the south wind blow.
27 He rained meat down on them like dust,
    birds like sand on the seashore.
28 He made them come down inside their camp,
    all around their tents.
29 They ate till they were gorged—
    he had given them what they craved.
30 But before they turned from what they craved,
    even while the food was still in their mouths,
31 God’s anger rose against them;
    he put to death the sturdiest among them,
    cutting down the young men of Israel.

32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;
    in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
33 So he ended their days in futility
    and their years in terror.
34 Whenever God slew them, they would seek him;
    they eagerly turned to him again.
35 They remembered that God was their Rock,
    that God Most High was their Redeemer.
36 But then they would flatter him with their mouths,
    lying to him with their tongues;
37 their hearts were not loyal to him,
    they were not faithful to his covenant.
38 Yet he was merciful;
    he forgave their iniquities
    and did not destroy them.
Time after time he restrained his anger
    and did not stir up his full wrath.
39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
    a passing breeze that does not return. Psalm 78: 21-39

Talk to me about the difference between God’s judgment and mercy.

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