The more I read my Bible the more I am adjusting and readjusting the way I think, the way I process, the way I speak, the way I believe. The reason being is because I don’t think the Hebrews thought, I don’t believe like they believed and I do not see what they saw, but I want to. Therefore, I have to adjust the lense of my life to match the Bible, I am not altering the Bible to match my experiences, culture or expectations.

Yahweh walked with the nation of Israel as a people and whether they were worshipping idols, marrying the wrong people, or grumbling and complaining, the Bible does not leave out the sins they committed or the challenges they faced in the telling of their story. This alone doesn’t make me want to sin, it makes me want to know the God of the Bible who made a covenant with a people who though were far from perfect, He kept walking with them, teaching them, correcting them, forgiving them and conforming them into His image.

One way they thought that we struggle to think like is in the area of God wanting us to be favored, successful, excellent, producers. I was reading Psalm 90 this morning and it said, “Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!” They weren’t looking to escape they wanted to be established. They did not want to be raptured, they wanted to rule and reign on earth. If we don’t have an establish and reign mindset, we will not ask for these things to happen for us. They thought long term, generational, but we think about only us and our short life span, oh how our mindsets need to adjust to the Bible’s way of thinking. The world is not ending, we are not going anywhere, so it is time we start speaking and praying Lord, favor us and establish the work of our hands!!!!