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We need to put the best people on the horses and don’t apologize for it.”
Warren Wiersbe
I have to ask you – who have you placed as your “experts” in life? Your “ruler who sits on the horse,” (Ecc 10:6&7) who is ready to lead you into battle? Are they leading you in the right hand life of Christ or in the left hand life of folly? How can you know? The Bible. It is the preserved Word of God that does not change, no matter the era or point in history.
When faced with people who think following the truth and wisdom of the Bible say that’s “old fashioned” or irrelevant today, all you really need to do is read through the entire book of Ecclesiastes to see Solomon’s study of life in his age. We are no different. We want what we want and we want it now. Preferably served with a slice of fun and merriment.
If you want to rejoice in the “right hand” life (by the way, the word “sinister” comes from the Latin word meaning “on the left hand”… sorry again lefties), what do we need to do?
Look to and at Jesus like we do our cell phones. When we abide in Him, we experience abundance.”
Pastor Ryan Paulson
When I heard this a few weeks ago at church it really hit home. I carry my phone around in my back pocket throughout my small home. I can hear the phone ring from any room in my house. Yet I keep it close. I look at it even when it hasn’t rung or chimed in a while just to make sure I haven’t missed a call or text.
“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.” Psalm 27:4
That’s how we need to place God – right in our back pocket. Right in front of our face. Not in a drawer we pull out in times of trouble or a couple times a year. We dust off our Bibles, we sign up for Bible study (and actually do the work and attend), we find a church that is biblically based, not wishy washy. We commune — not on-line in a faceless, non-participatory way — with other Christians to help bolster us and them. We make God our expert, our Lord and our Holy King.
“If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.” Ecclesiastes 10:10
Do you need to sharpen up your edge so that you can cut through the lies of this life? A knife so sharp we can spot the people we should and shouldn’t allow to guide us in the right handed life?
It’s time to learn that the way we’ve always done “life” may not be working out so great for us. We are weak and feel so much rejection from the left hand way of the world. It’s time to step up and rejoice! To enjoy a life of strength and wisdom and acceptance given to us freely by God. The God we put squarely in the center of lives, riding us onward into victory.
"For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;he will lift me high upon a rock. 6And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the Lord." Psalm 27:5 & 6
So appreciative of things you have shared in these two posts! They parallel much of my first 20 years of life and then some!! Mostly lefthanded stuff. Even after the LORD got a hold of me in a special way in 1971, those left handed things still had a hold and were a part of my life way too many years. Was I saved? Not from this stuff…despite having some very personal times with the LORD and learning about Him, the drive for acceptance and love was still working. In 2013 something changed as I came to understand the Kingdom and who I was a child of the KING…and that freed me from the need. Sometime after that I did choose to be rebaptized, though I had been baptized as an adult at least 2 other times…just never actually laying down my self life..never dying with Christ or resurrecting with Him. Once that was done and confirmed in baptism…there was so much more freedom to grow “right handedly.”
Thanks for all you share Kristine!!
What a great testimony!