Rescued Junk Similar Me

God re-purposes our lives for His glory...

The Hungarians schedule periodic alternative upwardly of larger trash items when people tin build clean out attics in addition to storerooms in addition to position large piles of junk on the curbside. 

When nosotros lived inward Budapest, I enjoyed these "junking days." 

I genuinely constitute unopen to existent "treasures"and re-purposed in addition to enjoyed them inward my home. I similar things retrieved from their 'former life.'

Some mightiness intend it's miserable to salve junk, precisely non God.

He willingly humbled Himself to salve "junk" similar me from the pile of unbelief.

Even though all of us turned away in addition to became "worthless" (Romans 3:12), God "gave upwardly his divine privileges; he took the humble seat of a slave ... in addition to died a criminal’s decease on a cross"  in lodge to salve us (Philippians 2:6-8).

I'm then grateful He picked me upwardly from that trash pile in addition to re-purposed me inward His service. How nearly you? 

God-Approved Boasting

I was a jump-rope champion inwards seventh degree gym. I won a water-safety verse contender that same year.(1) My boss inwards high schoolhouse gave me a plaque maxim I was 1 of his best waitresses. 

Pretty paltry awards, aren't they?

I don't accept much to boast virtually inwards worldly terms. I'm non expert at sports, as well as my homemaking career was satisfying only non award-winning. 

Maybe that's why Jeremiah 9:23-24 is 1 of my favorite passages. It offers anyone a jeopardy to boast virtually the best of the best: 

"Thus says the LORD, 'Let non a wise homo boast of his wisdom, as well as allow non the mighty homo boast of his might, allow non a rich homo boast of his riches; only allow him who boasts boast of this, that he understands as well as knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, judge as well as righteousness on earth; for I please inwards these things,' declares the LORD."(2)

May this endure my boast as well as yours. 
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(1)  Want to bespeak heed my award-winning seventh degree water-safety poem? 
While swimming inwards your favorite pools, 
Be certain to follow security rules. 
And if you lot follow every one, 
You're swimming volition endure extra fun.
(2) Paul quotes this passage inwards 2 Corinthians 10:17. 

Did Paul Write Role Of The Bible?

Todd was a seeker, but 1 solar daytime he challenged a Scriptural regulation I shared alongside his wife. 

When I gave him the reference, he said, "Well, that was simply Paul's betoken of view, non God's." 

I explained that Paul wasn't writing his words when he wrote the Epistles, he was writing God's. 

Todd was really confused, but to a greater extent than or less people role Todd's declaration to ignore passages they don't like. I've really heard Christians say Paul was young or solely had partial noesis when he wrote something! 

It's truthful that Paul's words weren't perfect; but the Epistles are non Paul's words. 

In 2 Peter 3:16, Peter said that Paul's letters "contain to a greater extent than or less things that are difficult to understand, which ignorant as well as unstable people distort, every bit they produce the other Scriptures..." 

What a comfort to know that the Bible was written past times men who "spoke from God every bit they were carried along past times the Holy Spirit" (2 Peter 1:21).

See too 2 Timothy 3:16.

High Five, Jeremiah!

When I transcend to heaven, I desire to give Jeremiah a hug or a high 5 or whatever you lot practise inwards sky to give thank you lot mortal for their witness. 

Jeremiah spoke God's difficult truths when virtually of those who called themselves God's prophets were speaking soft, comforting words (Jeremiah 14:13-14). 

Jeremiah 20:8-9 is a passage that makes me desire to cry in addition to cheer at the same time: 

"I am ridiculed all 24-hour interval long; everyone mocks me. Whenever I speak, I cry out proclaiming violence in addition to destruction. So the give-and-take of the Lord has brought me insult in addition to reproach all 24-hour interval long. But if I say, 'I volition non call his give-and-take or utter anymore inwards his name,' his give-and-take is inwards my pump similar a fire, a burn downward near upward inwards my bones. I am weary of asset it in; indeed, I cannot." 

May nosotros convey such devotion to God's Word equally this prophet who was beaten, imprisoned in addition to rejected for it. 
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Our Divine Translator - Can 16:13

The Holy Spirit teaches, counsels together with reminds us of God's Words...

You ask a Translator! And together with then exercise I.

When I give seminars inwards Budapest, Hungary, my favorite translator is my friend Edina. 

Since she’s Hungarian, she knows Hungarian linguistic communication together with culture. But she’s too lived together with taught schoolhouse inwards America together with then she’s fluent inwards English linguistic communication together with has a proficient cognition of American culture. 

In addition, she’s a Christian, together with then she understands the Christian concepts I share. 

Good translation is a complex mixture of culture, grammer together with bailiwick matter. It’s far to a greater extent than than but knowing vocabulary. 

That's why nosotros ask a Divine Translator. The Holy 

Edina Translating for terminal year's Blog workshop

Spirit knows our linguistic communication together with God's linguistic communication (2 Corinthians 2:10-16), together with then He makes Christ's ways known to us (John 16:13), counsels, teaches together with reminds us (John 14:26). 

We’re born “foreigners” to God’s ways because nosotros accept a fallen human nature. We must depend on the Spirit who understands our civilization but Who’s fluent inwards the “culture” together with Words of God. 

If you'd similar to report the Holy Spirit a chip more, banking concern jibe out this week's Bite Size Bible Study HERE. And delight pray for side past times side month's blogging workshop--that God volition role it to heighten upwards Hungarian Christian bloggers to spread God's Word inwards Hungarian on the internet.

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