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Living By Intent, Not Opportunity

June 20, 2011 by Fritz

“…also in the midst of the garden … the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” – Genesis 2:9

My mother-in-law decided to quit smoking and did it!

Mom Frazer - 1978 Cumberland Falls, KY

I thought her method was strange and I’m not sure I can recommend it to all but I understand it, now — she kept a pack of cigarettes on the shelf where she could always see it and remember she quit by intent not opportunity.

Why does God allow temptation? Why not remove bad things and bad people where they can no longer influence, no longer corrupt?

It may have something to do with God wanting us to live by intentions, on purpose — choosing to do right rather than just not having the opportunity to do wrong.

Sound Bite: Living by intent is true freedom!
Prayer: Father, help me to live for You because I choose to do so, not just because I don’t have opportunity to do otherwise. Amen.

– fritz@langgang.com
See also: Circumstances and Committments – June 5, 2011

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George Washington Faith

June 19, 2011 by Fritz

George Washington

I believe in George Washington. That is, I believe he was a real person, our first president, and did many good and heroic things. I even heard of someone who had the actual hatchet George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree — it had been through three new handles and two new heads but they said it was the real thing!

But I never knew George Washington — only what I was told.

I used to have “George Washington Faith” in Christ.

I considered myself a Christian. I believed God existed, that Jesus died on a cross and walked out of the tomb, and would some day judge the world. I prayed, tried not to do bad things, sometimes went to church and owned a Bible but I never had met God, personally — didn’t even know I could. I lived for myself and as I saw fit, and had an excuse for everything.

Then came the day, around two in the morning as I recall, when I saw I needed more — that God expected more. He wanted me so I gave him “me” and discovered what the Bible really meant about being a believer!

Any demon can believe facts,

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. – James 2:19

Faith is more — it’s knowing the person.

— fritz@langgang.com

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Bread From Heaven

June 18, 2011 by Fritz

“Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. [I am] the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.” – Jesus (John 6:35b, 49-50)

They all knew about manna — their ancestors were hungry and God nourished them with “bread” from heaven. It was God’s miracle through Moses, so different they called it, “Manna”, which literally means, “What is it?!”

When Jesus’ audience asked him for a miracle like Moses gave, he said he was the miracle itself.

Like manna was given by God to satisfy hunger, Jesus satisfies the gnawing hunger for something more. Unlike Moses’ manna which sustained a short while, eventually going stale, and breading worms, God’s true “living” bread is always fresh, satisfies for ever, and gives unending life.

Of course, they had problems with metaphors.

Sound Bite: Jesus is not the miracle worker, he is the miracle itself.
Prayer: Jesus, don’t just give me bread, be my bread.

– fritz@langgang.com
See also: “What He Is, Not What He Does” – June 9, 2011

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