Month: January 2017

I became inspired to write this sharing because throughout my lifetime, from a youngster to the present time, I have seen people worshiping God in their own way: in many forms and fashions and with many different Churches.  What I have found troubling is that so many of these people turn right around and blame God for causing negative things to happen to people.  Actually I find anyone blaming bad things on God bothersome.

As a student of the scriptures, I know that a person can’t go any further than what they’ve been taught: and what they’ve been taught is often a result of wrong teaching of the Bible and, or, making things up.  And making things up is  not an honest approach to studying the Scriptures.  One thing that I’ve learned as I’ve studied God’s Word through the years is that, ‘God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.’ 1 John 1:5 (KJV)  This is a wonderful truth to take through life as one works the Scriptures, because the Bible clearly declares that God is love and in Him is no darkness at all.’

Why would Proverbs 3:5,6, tell us to ‘Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths’, if there actually was darkness in God?  It is very tiring to hear people in general blame things on God that the Devil has been doing since Genesis.  The Scriptures teach us that one of the tricks of the adversary  is to inspire people to blame God for doing evil as well as good.  If the Bible is correct, this simply cannot be true.

Before the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, it was possible, that if a person failed to believe God’s Word, they could receive the consequences of their unbelief.  This could come in the form of God’s allowing the adversary to have his way with them because they did not believe Him (God).  This is shown in the Hebrew idiom of -‘permission’ -: and it has confused many people through the years because they have not learned how to rightly-divide God’s Word!

John 3:16 tells us that, ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.’  God so loved!  We’re talking about spiritual matters and those who blame evil things and the misfortunes of people on God, don’t understand that life is spiritual; neither do they usually care.

God wishes all men to ‘be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth’ – 1 Tim 2:4 (KJV) – even knowing that all men do not care to be saved; this takes tremendous love on God’s part.  Our Heavenly Father is a loving and wonderful God, who cares for His people and wants them to look to Him in all things.

How wonderful it is to know that the love of God and the goodness of God are so richly available to anyone who wishes to make Jesus Christ lord in their life and believe that God has raised Him from the dead.  The goodness of God really is available to us today.

I sure am having a good time with these funglimpses.  Thanks for reading!

Recently, many of us around the county and probably in certain parts of the world, were brought to remembrance of the 100^th birthday of a man named Victor Paul Wierwille. Dr. Wierwille, as we knew him, became interested in the Scriptures at an early age, and by the time he got into young adulthood, had dedicated his life to learning a working knowledge of God and His wonderful Word, and then teaching it to others.

As time went on, his Biblical study took on the theme of, ‘Power For Abundant Living,’ inspired by John 10:9,10. Over the years, primarily, from 1969 – 1983, many thousands of people of all ages, came to be inspired and blessed by the refreshing and loving approach to the Scriptures that Dr. Wierwille presented.

We were and still are encouraged to work the Bible ourselves and to make it our own, as directed in 11 Timothy 2:15 ‘ Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.’ (KJV).

I learned that God loves me and wants the best for me: 1 John 4:7,8 (KJV). That was very new to me as I hadn’t been raised in a Church that taught that. I found that for the first time in my life, I enjoyed being around people who loved God and who wanted to learn to work the Scriptures for themselves.

As time has gone on, over the past forty- two years, I have developed a great appreciation for the things of God and what my lord and saviour, Jesus Christ, went through to help us (me) get to this point.

Ephesians 6:10 tells us ‘to… be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.’ Without someone to show this to me and to open it up to me, I never would have learned that I could be strong in the Lord. What a great comfort that is!

God has given us His Word, and not to be a prop:, but to be taken seriously so that we can learn to love Him and to give Him our attention and to learn to receive His love. 1 John 4:7,8

I understand the principle of teaching one’s self: but we all need our teachers and instructors, expecially so when it comes to spiritual matters.   I am very thankful for the life of Victor Paul Wierwille, who rose up a long time ago and made the commitment to learn God’s Word so that he could teach it to others.

I am also very thankful for the men and women who have risen up over the years and in our day and time to teach God’s Word and to stay faithful to the Family of God and to the Household of God. Maybe today! So, until then, I will continue to have FunGlimpses! Thanks for reading!