Finishing Well

     I love the concept of manna; "I will feed you, I will take care of your body, I will provide all you need. But.....you are responsible for picking it up and cooking it."      His Word - our Bible - is our manna today. It indeed provides all we need: Phillipians 4:19, and my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.      It has given us power: 2 Timothy 1:7, for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.      It tells us when we fall short: 2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for re proof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.      Indeed it contains everything: 2 Peter 1:3-4 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you

     Oops, we have forgotten who God is and decided we want to be God instead. We like the love and grace parts, when we need Him, and put Him on a shelf in a box when we are fine. A little box on a back shelf collecting dust. After all, this is America, the land of the free - bounty - self-sufficiency. How is that wrong, it's all about me and my rights, right?      But God is Sovereign and Holy and my response should be obedience. Sovereignty means possessing ultimate power, absolute authority, unlimited, unrestricted. God has the right to do whatever He wants. See Psalm 115:3      There was a problem then and a problem now according to Judges 17:6, in those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes. The book was Judges - God will be the ultimate Judge according to what we do with His authority. Psalm 96: 13...for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with truth.      One of His comma