Facebook...

So..sometimes facebook can really be a good thing...very convicting for me. This morning I got on facebook and decided to make a "my year in status" on facebook and go the the first status I had made THIS month. It said, "It's the 1st of December and what perfect beginning to a month of committment to reading, memorizing, meditating, and studying God's Word!" I looked at that and was like, wait, did I really write that?! Oops! Totally forgot all about that "committment" and in fact, this month has been all BUT that. =< It was one of those feeling when you had made someone very special a big promise and totally forgot all about it...

This morning I decided to pick up reading in my Bible where I had left off last night. (Last night I was in Philippians reading through chapter one. I was focusing on verse 27 which says, "Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ..." Huge challenge to me becuase my "conduct" (thoughts, actions, and words) has been anything but glorifying to God.
The next verse "and not in any way terrified by your adversaries.." was pretty cool too and it reminded me of Jeremiah 1:8 when God was telling Jeremiah that he was to be a prophet for Him and Jeremiah was coming up with reasons why he shouldn't be. God told him, "be not afraid of their faces" and then in verse 9 that He had put His words in Jeremiah's mouth... --that was just a bonus, now back to what I was originally saying...)
This morning, I picked up reading in chapters 2 and 3. Now I am one who likes to write in my Bible, and 3:13-15, 20 have a few underlines. Just the underlined portion reads, "forgetting those things which are behind, reaching forward, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us, mature, have this mind, for our citizenship is in heaven." Now to you, that probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense reading it like that, but to me, thats what I was impressed with as some point in the past and again today. See, I am reminded that my past sins is just that, my past. I have asked forgivness of God and those around me and its time to move on. "Forgetting what is behind" It is now time to be "reaching forward" for that goal of glorifying God. And then verse 15 reminds me to be mature, and strive for a Christlike mind while realizing that this world is not my home, but Heaven is.

One of the best ways I know to challenge others to be in God's Word is to share what I have learned and then ask, what about you? So I ask now, what about you? What have you learned from your time TODAY in God's Word?