Reading from Saturday, October 9

Hey gang. Not feelin too great tonight, so forgive me if this post if half hearted.

Reading for October 9
Jeremiah 12:1-14:10
Pretty much a summary of the first fourteen chapters of Jeremiah:

¹⁰ This is what the LORD says about this people:
       "They greatly love to wander;
       they do not restrain their feet.
       So the LORD does not accept them;
       he will now remember their wickedness
       and punish them for their sins."

1 Thessalonians 1:1-2:8
New book.

I think this is something a lot of Christians who came to faith in a radical way can attest to:

⁴For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, ⁵because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction.

 I have written about my conversion to faith on this blog before.  You can read that post here, but here's the good parts:

I was weeping. Like best friend just died, full out bawling. My hands also went completely numb and I distinctly remember the feeling in my thumbs. It was as if an invisible force was pulling them back as far as they would go. I honestly had no control over them. I had chills and was shaking all over. So in defense of my fragile faith, the night I came to believe I was not faking anything to fit in with my peers. In fact, the opposite happened - people were a little weirded out by me after that night, seeing what happened. It could have been a subconscious mental crutch that created that rush of emotion so I could look all super Christian, or it could have been God, or the Holy Spirit filling my body. I will say that I haven't experienced anything remotely similar before that night, nor have I since...

The gospel certainly came with power to me that night. Does anyone else have a similar story or something interesting about something like that in their life? Not necessarily a religious thing, just a point where you were so overcome with emotion that you began to lose control over some things in your body. 

Psalm 79:1-13
This is interesting. Now we see the psalmist trying asking God to defend his own name:

⁹ Help us, O God our Savior,
       for the glory of your name;
       deliver us and forgive our sins
       for your name's sake.

Back in Isaiah, we saw God doing things for himself - "for my own sake" is how he put it. But now we see a person trying to convince God to do something for his on sake. Strange. What's the motivation there? 

Proverbs 24:30-34

 ³⁰ I went past the field of the sluggard,
       past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
 ³¹ thorns had come up everywhere,
       the ground was covered with weeds,
       and the stone wall was in ruins.
 ³² I applied my heart to what I observed
       and learned a lesson from what I saw:
 ³³ A little sleep, a little slumber,
       a little folding of the hands to rest-
 ³⁴ and poverty will come on you like a bandit
       and scarcity like an armed man.

Can only manage one post tonight. Sleepy.

Nite.