"Defend your clan, even with your life." - Warrior code, Warrior cats novel series. Also, if you don't like that I post Christian blogs, then please either do not subscribe/watch me or complain.
Matthew 8:6-13 and Luke 7:1-10 tell the story of a sick-Centurion's slave (or servant) being healed by Jesus without Him even seeing the sick person.
Don't wait until you hear of people dying of starvation and poverty to get up and offer what you can. Cash may help a homeless person on the street for a while, but donating food, water, flashlight batteries and bug spray to churches and organizations that help such people can also do much good. A man or woman on the street needs water to live, after all, as do all of us, and flashlights (especially the heavy ones) are good for seeing at night as well as for self defense, while bug spray keeps
Unless you play Shogun 2 or some other Total War game, this blog probably won't make much sense. I apologize.
In the book of 1 Kings, King Solomon, in the first ten chapters, seems to be a good and capable ruler, one leading a prosperous kingdom. Chapter Eleven thus seems surprising; Solomon falls to pagan worship, leading to the one living God dividing the kingdom in the time of Solomon's son, Rehoboam, and the raising of adversaries to Solomon during his lifetime (1 Kings 11:14-40). How could this have happened without warning?
It didn't.
Intercession
In Exodus 32:11-14 and Numbers 14:13-19, Moses intercedes with God for Israel's sins. God has threatened to destroy the people, and said He would a great nation of Moses alone. Each time, Moses begs God to forgive the people; his argument (in the first two) goes like this;
In Chapter 7 of the book of Joshua, a soldier named Achan steals some of the treasures of Jericho. It had been commanded of Israel that they would either destroy with fire what they could or, if the material in question (such as gold or silver) could not be destroyed by fire, it would be given into God's treasury (6:18, 24). Achan stole a mantle (NIV translation says "robe"), 200 shekels of silver and a bar of gold (7:21), and hid them in his tent. Angered by this theft, God removed His
One of my Christian professors once said that they were a skeptic about God. He continued, saying that he was skeptic about God in the sense of us - humans - ever being able to know God exhaustively. There is no shame in saying, "I don't know," regarding God if we cannot know the concept in question, or in admitting that we can't know it completely. Even with eternity to know God, those who are saved will never know everything about God; there's always going to be something new.
In 2 Kings 18-19, 2 Chronicles 32, and Isaiah 36-37, King Sennacherib of Assyrian invades Judah. Given that King Hezekiah of Judah had rebelled and stopped paying tribute (2 Kings 18:7), this was not surprising; the Assyrians were brutal in dealing with rebelling peoples, dealing cruelly with war captives and deporting rebellious nations in an effort to kill future rebellion and destroy their national identity. It may be that Hezekiah rebelled, at least in part if not in whole, because
In Chapter 4 of Charles S. Stanley's book, "When the Enemy strikes," the author relates a story to the reader. A pastor teaching a group of children had one strong boy come up to the platform. He then told the boy to break the string, which he easily did.
7:37 and beyond;
To paraphrase a meme;
HMS Thunderchild; teaching Martian [invaders] to respect the Royal Navy since 1897.
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