My Walk monday – Fear 101

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Well here it goes after I Promised yesterday a verse by verse look
at fear-It’s amazing thatthe first mention of fear is right after the
flood! It is found in Genesis 9:2 (note this will be in the KJV until I
get a new ESV!) Genesis 9:2And the FEAR
of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, and
upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and
upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Hmmm, I see a few things here.

  • Funny how we (humans) are the very first thing “feared” in the Bible. NOT GOD. Perhaps that is why the flood happened!
  • there was no mention of fear prior to this verse….even after the
    fall. Fear was not a result of the fall! (very interesting to me since
    we Christians leand ourselves to blaming all unpleasant thngs to the
    fall)
  • in verse three it refers to men eating meat…despite the fact men had been wearing furs for clothing since the fall

Okay so a few questions…

  • why after the flood and why not after the fall
  • what is the difference between killing an animal for clothing and killing an animal for food
  • Why hasn’t the fear of God been mentioned to this point

Okay so do you have any thoughts i would love to hear them!

Simple womans daybook

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 For Today…July 6, 2009 Outside my window… Sunshine…Blessed
sunshine I am thinking… a beautiful and PEACEFUL morning is so hard
to come by these days. I am soaking up every minute of it! From the
learning rooms… NOTHING! I am thankful for… a great husband who is
growing in his walk…I am so thanful that he is NOT one of those men
that thinks because he is a pastor he has it all figured out and that he
has arrived From the kitchen… hopefully some yummy cookies, bread
from the new bread machine and whatever i choose for dinner I am
wearing… pinkie purple satiny PJ’s hair back and bare feet! I am
reading… Prayer by Philip Yancey, Disciplines of the Home by Anne
Ortlund and A Beth Moore Bible Study…Along with various Bible passages
having to do with fear… I am hoping… to accomplish a big surprise
for hubby while he is away this morning I am creating… a cool
surprise for hubby while he takes Tornado for some medical tests…It
promises to be fun and I will have lady bugs help!!! I am praying…
for Tornado’s tests to be fine and for strength and courage for my
hubby as he faces what seems like an impossible task…Shepherding a
flock of sinners!…It’s only impossible without God. And we have a
great flock! Around the house… learning VBS tunes….Kitchen work.
craft room is disrepair and various other sundry things! One of my
favorite things… my garden as it grows….GRASS and all! A few plans
for the rest of the week… Hmm I have learned as a pastor’s wife..No
plans make for an easier time when plans get changed….it doesn’t mean I
don’t have A PLAN! Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you…  Litt weasel.JPG

Programmed to Fear

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Normally on Sundays I put up the Be Still Sundays badge or I just don’t
blog but I was convicted this morning as I sat in Church. (I love
when that Happens because hubby is the PASTOR!) But I found myself
squirming a little as he spoke about how our country is been and ill be
in the future. But I have been programmed to become uncomfortable when
things that are true are said yo start to FEAR what might happen.
Somethings that have been threatened to churches in the past is that
they might loose their tax free status. That is huge for a church
because then a church becomes a business and most churches cannot afford
those kinds of taxes. But then I began to think on a much smaller
scale…. My home I have been programmed to fear what goes on in my
home too. Such as the form of discipline that I choose to use with my
children. The result: FEAR of loosing my children to a sometimes
brutal system when in reality my home was WAY MORE LOVING! So here is
what I am going to do about this fear! I have a plan. I am going to
study fear in the Bible. I am going to use the concordance and EVERY
day I am going to post one verse and we’ll talk about it! So together
we can learn what kind of role it SHOULD play in our every day lives
and I hardly think it is the way i have been applying it! Just a few
thoughts!Have a great Sunday!

Thanksful Thursday-Wetness

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If
you did not read Tuesdays post thenyou don’t know that we had a bit of a
tragedy when we returned home from being a away for two weeks on
vacation. We had a flood the last week we were gone. Not just a small
flood eithr….Our automatic Ice maker in our freezer has a flexi tube
that runs into the floor behind the fridge. Apparently due to Vibration
it rubbed a hole right into the flexi tube and we had a CONSTANT stream
of water for who knows how long. So there was an inch and a half of
water in the kitchen and most of the water had run down through the
floor/ basement ceilieng…Soaked the basement floor , bubbled brand new
4 month old paint on the walls, broke some drop tiles in the basement
bathroon and the floor literally squished when you walked on it! Not
to mention the musty smell that ad over taken the whole house! But
through all of this I have fuound quite a few things to be thankful for:
So here they are in no particular order

  • Hubby wasn’t away by himself when it happened and I was left home alone to deal with all the mess
  • it wasn’t a fire! What a tragedy that would have been to get a
    call or come home to no house or any of our stuff which leads me to..
  • we only lost one thing and we were trying to decided whether or not to get ride of it anyway!
  • It wasn’t that wya for the two full weeks…we would have had serious mold problem and much much more work to do on the house
  • that the carpets are mostly dry now in the basement and all the wet in the ceiling has been removed
  • That it wasn’t sewage in our basement…two pastors ago a problem
    with town sewer caused sewage to back up into the parsonage and well it
    wasn’t pretty and the pastor’s family had to vacate the house for a
    while since the smell was so bad!
  • No one was hurt
  • it’s an easy fix

So what makes you thankful?