APRIL 7, 2017

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” 
― Émile Zola

JUDGES 20-21

25In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.(21:25)

LUKE 11:1-28

9“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

11“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for^f a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

JOURNAL 

Again the stories in Judges are just bizarre. The Benjamites go to war after they rape and kill the wife of a Levite...all because the all the Israelite tribes wanted to discipline the men responsible. In the end thousands are killed on each side as well as all the Benjamite women. These are some of the stories in the Bible that are not talked about or preached about. They are disturbing and makes me wonder why...yet I go back to the fact that Israel was without a king and this was the result. 

The gift of God is the Holy Spirit...when we ask for things God will grant something greater than anything we ask and that is his presence within our heart and mind. 

4There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.

1 CORINTHIANS 12:4-6