~An internet study~

  So I blogged again, within like 24 hours of eachother! Don't get your hopes up just yet...I'm usually free on Wednesday nights, hopefully I will continue though. Its nice blogging.

  Well I just wanted to quickly share a few verses from my bible study online tonight. I'm at my Grandmas so I forgot my bible. SO i did an online study. Anyways, these verses caught me off guard. From Luke 18! :)

   Often times we don't know how to Repent. But Repentance is a key part of our lives that never EVER stops. I was reading these verses and I just was blown away by the examples here. You want to know how to repent? God tells us here.
   ....He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ vs.13
  He would not even look up to heaven he was ashamed. He beat his breast begging for mercy. Is this how we Repent? Do we have the urgent need to be contrite before God? WE NEED TO HAVE THIS PASSION in our REPENTANCE. I'm telling you, this is how we do it. Literally! Never look at a passage and think 'that isn't for today. no one does that today'. The man was chosen for his humble repentant spirit. Will we be? 

    ⁷ And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night?  
  
  This is another example of Repentance. Pay attention this is VERY clear. GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE WILL CRY!OUT!TO!HIM!DAY!AND!NIGHT! Is that us? He meant this literally and since we probably don't do this there IS SOMETHING WRONG. And let me tell you this, it would be most shameful if we realized this truth,  and we realized that we can and HAVE to change,  WHEN the door was already shut. THE BIBLE CAN'T BE MORE CLEARER! If we aren't repenting DAY AND NIGHT there is something wrong. WE have to fix it. WE have to urge ourselves forward and really think about this. Because let me tell you, it will be a cold, cruel, and very alone world, knowing that you realized what life was about, what life's requirements were, what your sole purpose in living was...when it was to late. Yes. REPENTANCE is a requirement. Its a relationship. Its HUMILITY. That is Repentance. Thats what we need. Thats what could make the difference between eternal life and death. 
    
     Lastly, I want to close with this verse.  
  ....However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” vs.7 

  This should shake us and make us tremble. Why? Guys, that our Heavenly Father would doubt us should leave us humiliated. Its so DEEPLY true. If Jesus came to earth, seeking faith of HIS standard, would he find it? Its a question we can't answer. It's up to you and God to answer that. Would you have the faith of GOD'S STANDARDS? I don't know. I don't have that faith. I want it. I'm desperately trying to get it. WANT it WITH ME. WANT THAT KIND OF FAITH. We can have nothing short of it. And as the question was asked in this passage. "Then who can be saved?"

     Ponder it with me. It's worth thinking about. It's more important to think about if you haven't thought about it. 

   Hope YOUR day is awesome and may everything you do be for his glory! :D 

~Hannah