30 Days of Prayer and Meditation on Ephesians 6:10-20

Chapter 4:  Who is Protected?

30 Days of Prayer and Meditation on Ephesians 6:10-20

Chapter 3:  The Armor and Pleasing God

30 Days of Prayer and Meditation on Ephesians 6:10-20

Chapter 2:  How Jesus Fulfills Each Piece of the Armor

30 Days of Prayer and Meditation on Ephesians 6:10-20

Chapter 1:  Why Put on the Full Armor of God

30 Days of Prayer and Meditation on Ephesians 6:10-20

Introduction

The dog really loved chasing and killing chickens, when he could get hold of them. He loved laying there watching them, literally drooling over them. I couldn't talk him out of it. I set up an electric fence. His first (and last) interaction with it was taking hold of one of the insulators to chew on it. He got lit up pretty good...inside the mouth. He hasn’t gone near the chickens since then.

I was thinking how God tries to warn us away from sin. He can tell us over and over. He warns us so much. But eventually He has to give us hard lessons to make us listen.

God your Creator is trying to get your attention.

What will it take for you to listen?

What will it take for you to repent and return to the Creator?

Earthquakes?
Floods?
Fires?
Pandemic?
Race riots?
War destroying your country?
Famine?
Stars falling from Heaven?
Fire and hail raining down, mixed with blood?
Seas becoming blood?
Fresh water poisoned?
Sun and moon darkened?
Plague of sores?
Rivers turned to blood?
100 lb hailstones?
Scorching heat?

I started raising chickens. Who knew that my sweet dog would return to pure wolf when chickens were around? The chickens don't seem to be real brainiacs, so sometimes they leave their enclosure. I was thinking, "Don't you know there is death waiting, drooling outside of this fence?" This got me to musing about the fence: the fence is just like Jesus. Stay inside the fence and there is life, and life abundantly. Outside the fence/Jesus is only ravenous wolves and death. Go into the fence and stay in!

Truth is quite narrow. It is true that 1+1=2. All other answers are false. There can be millions of wrong answers and there is only one right answer.

Similarly, Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Jesus is the only way to life. He’s the only right answer.

Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby. For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.

2000 years ago, we had the most precious thing to ever come into this earth in our reach. What did we do with it? We killed him. Jesus came down to earth, healed the sick, made the lame able to walk again, gave sight to the blind, freed men from the hold of demons. Jesus who “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.