Psalms 139:16

In Numbers 22 we read that there arose a king- Balak- who felt threatened by the people of God. So he asked a prophet-Balaam- to curse God's special people. The story goes that even after the king, Balak, sent many prestigous people with lots of big, bulging bags filled with wealth to try to convince Balaam to curse God's people, Balaam wouldn't budge-God had told the prophet that they were a people who God was going to bless, no matter who stood against them. After the second attempt, we read that God told Balaam to "arise and go with them, but only the word which I speak to you- that you shall do" (Num. 22:20) So Balaam gets up and goes. However, in the very next verse it says "God's anger was aroused" against Balaam. God sent an angel to blockade his path. When finally God open his eyes, God says to him "I have come out to stand against you because your way is perverse" (Num. 22:32) Wait. What? Didn't God tell Balaam to go? Wasn...

The Bible talks about these heroes of faith. those who succeed time and time again in standing up, speaking out about this faith we called so casually "Christianity". I've been brought up going to one church service to another. And some days, I get callous. My heart is hard. And I forget what Uzziah also failed to remember -- that I worship a Living and Almighty God. Christ died. Christ rose again in 3 days. Blood stained a cross on Calvary. The tomb, where Jesus Christ once laid is empty today. I don't live for an ideology. A philosophy. A tradition. A religion. I live for a Living and Almighty God. Hebrews 11 speaks of an Abel who gave God a sacrifice. And his worship to God cost him his life. Though dead, he speaks. Enoch walked. This guy walked with God when everyone else walked and talked about what happened on such and such show this week. how so and so's hair looks. this and that. But Enoch walked with God. Then there's the famous Abraham. Abraham mad...