Thursday ~ April 26, 2012

Thursday ~ April 26, 2012

Ezra 7:10


For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

Seek. Do. Teach. This was the verse God used to set the direction for my life on December 5, 2011. I was sitting in my living room, wondering what it was that God wanted from my life while reading my Bible and begging to hear from God. It was one of those days where I did the "open-bless me" days, basically just open the Bible wherever and pray for God to speak to me. So I started to read the Book of Ezra. But it wasn’t until chapter seven, verse ten that those words had life and fire breathed into them. I am convinced, however, that while God spoke to me in a singular way that morning, those words penned so long ago put forth a universal model for Christian living.

There exists a natural flow in a believer’s life from salvation. When God saves us we areawakened to his majesty and Jesus’ beautiful grace, this draws us to him. We have a deep desire to really know him rather than simply knowing about him. We are lovingly convicted of sinful patterns in our lives and repent; that is literally to turn around and go the other way. We’re also possessed of a drive to tell everyone of the transformation in our hearts, minds and lives! This flow, which Ezra summarized wonderfully, should exist in us for our entire lives. We also should “prepare [our] hearts to seek the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and judgements in Israel”.

Purpose yourself to study the Bible, live out its truth and teach others to do the same.

We will be doing a couple day study on the Seek.Do.Teach. spoke about in Ezra