🌄Since The Day We Heard👂

Sidewalk Verse For The Day 

Psalms 119:140 (KJV) Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.  

Colossians 1:9 (KJV) For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

The Apostle in his writing to those at Colosse tells them that since the day we heard  about you we continue to pray for you. Wow, wouldn't you like to go to your mailbox, pick up a letter, open it and read words like that? Paul says “since the day we heard” it’s not just Paul that is praying but “we” that’s more than just The Apostle Paul. What were this group of people praying for? In the next verse we read that they were praying for those at Colosse to be filled with the Knowledge of God’s will for them and that they would have wisdom and spiritual understanding. But Paul and his group that were praying didn’t stop there. They  prayed that they would continue in their walk with the Lord and be fruitful in their walk. Paul and his praying group goes on and not just prays for their knowledge and wisdom in God’s will but that their knowledge would increase in God. Why does The Apostle Paul want their knowledge to increase? Because knowledge gives strength and patience and joyfulness. It all boils down to knowing who God is. The year 1973 I had just finished up a 4 year enlistment with the USAF I had been discharged 25 August 1972. From August to April I had gotten my life in a real mess. I could blame it on the military where I was sent, what I experienced, what I saw, what I did; but that wasn’t my real problem. My real problem was I didn’t know God. Therefore I didn’t have God’s strength nor the patience nor the joy that only God can give. Like most I was looking in the wrong places. Nightclubs, alcohol and drugs but all those increased my troubles and problems. I finally went to Church and on that day in April 1973 my life changed forever or as I like to say for eternity. On that day I asked for help from the only one that could give me help, God. Wow, what a day that was never to be forgotten. The day God gave a young man hope and assurance of heaven. From that day until this day I have been prayed for, taught God’s Word from the Bible, I have learned to walk with the Lord on a daily basis. Perfect, I’m not but I have been strengthened by the knowledge from God and therefore I have joy in my life. Problems? Oh yeah I have them! Sorrows? Yes I have them too along with disappointment and heartbreak. My loved ones pass away and I experience grief. I know that’s part of life but it is still not easy and it still hurts. At the end of the day I can still be thankful for all that my Heavenly Father has given me.  It’s like anything else worth having; it's a learning process. Two times in the Bible you will find this phrase “I have learned.”

Genesis 30:27 (KJV) And Laban said unto him,(Jacob)

 I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.

Philippians 4:11 (KJV) Not that I(Paul) speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. This past weekend my nephew gave me a very small doll that has written across its breast Jesus ❤️You. The more I thought about that. I said this to myself “if that little doll reminded me of how much Jesus loves me. Wouldn’t it do the same for someone else? It’s nice to be reminded of how much God loves you and I, don’t you think? Just another leaning moment.