Guard the Lords teaching like the Pupil of your eye...

The pupil is the variable-sized, black circular opening in the center of the iris that regulates the amount of light that enters the eye. It appears black because most of the light entering the pupil is absorbed by the tissues inside the eye.

Proverbs 7:1-5
My son, keep my words,
store up my commands with you.
Obey my commands, and live;
guard my teaching like the pupil of your eye.
Bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister";
call understanding you kinswoman;
so that they can keep you from unknown women,
from loose women with their seductive talk

When I thought about how I protect my eye, I thought about throwing my arms up, covering my eyes with my hands, blinking. I thought that it is a natural action to want to protect my pupil, that which monitors the amount of light that gets into my eye ball. If I didn't not protect it as I have, I might be blind right now or have a distorted vision. We are told to protect God's teaching in a similar way, when someone or something tries to poke our eye out, which we see reality with, we block it, similary when some one tries to contradict the Lords teaching or stand firm against it we must shield the blow, the hit, the attack. Though if you allow the hit, and let your guard down you will surely be taken over by a lie and blinded, but it is the Lord who gives sight and restores sight, and we should ask him to reveal to us if we are blinded by lies or if we are in need of healing, because we have strayed from His teaching, from Him who gives us site. And if we are seeing clearly he gives discernment, and would allow us to be alert if He is willing.

The Lord's teaching is how we see reality, reality how Gods sees it and if we are to let lies/false teachings come into our vision, our view of reality will be distorted, or gone. We will be then relying on lies to get around because we aren't seeing things as they Truly are.

Lord please reveal to me if anything has distorted or blinded me, and if it has I know you are the Almighty and if you are willing, will you please heal me that I may guard your teaching, and obey it. Amen.

His Command...

Proverbs 1:8-9
My son, heed the discipline of your father,
and do not abandon the teaching of your mother;
they will be a garland to grace your head,
a medal of honor for your neck

Proverbs 6:20-23
"My son, obey your father's command,
and don't abandon your mother's teaching
Bind them always on your heart,
tie them around your neck.
When you walk, they will lead you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
and when you wake up, they will talk with you.
For the mitzvah is a lamp, Torah is light,
and reproofs that discipline are the way to life

Psalm 119:143-144
Trouble and distress have overtaken me,
but your mitzvot are my delight.
Your instruction is righteous forever;
give me understanding, and I will live

(Mitzvah is the jewish word for command, Mitzvot is it's plural version)
(Torah literally means teaching but is usually translated as Law)

I have been in great distress lately having many due dates with my school as well as trying to be a blessing as a husband and a father, while trying to keep up with middle school ministry and other roles things I do. Through the Lord I felt successful for a while but recently I have not been submitting as much and I have seen that this is when I sin, Satin may attack me and I let it slide, something will irritate me and I will handle it my own way instead of submitting to the Lord Jesus in every instance of the day. I grow sometimes numb and miserable not knowing why, then I realize I have been in robot mode doing my own worldly thing and the Lord reveals to me, He blesses me with repentance away from sin, he rebukes me but encourages me in His Command, His Law, His Way Of righteousness that He has plotted out for me. I have been troubled not so much feeling alone but growing tired of the burden of this life, sometimes I try to take back the burden I once surrendered and I drain my self trying to take on the world solo. I know that I can do nothing and the Lord as been patient with me, I realize that it is only in him that I can do anything, but at the same time this isn't enough. It is a good start but I must apply this and truly rely on him not just know the truth but walk in the truth, apply the truth, become the truth by letting it be lived out through me and submitting to the Father.

Jesus tells us not to call anyone father but the FATHER in HEAVEN, and though the first two proverbs can be taken literally and will benefit when taken literally as applying to your worldly parents, but we also know God's Word speaks to us on several levels. I am looking at the spiritual meaning to these first two verses, He is our "spiritual father" the Church our "mother." We are to obey the Father, God'sCommand as well as His son Jesus because Jesus and the Father are One and also One with the Holy Spirit. But we are also not to forget the things that we have learned in the world from the Lord, we are to use them while first most keeping His commands "My son, obey your father's command,
and don't abandon your mother's teaching" So Apply our Father, God's Word and what he Commands us in our personal relationship with him, but at the same time we don't abandon what we have learned from the Bride of Christ, our mother, The Church, Christ's body for if we are Christ's Bride then we are one with Him and He with us. By applying this word we will benefit greatly and will know th e Lords Guidance, Protection, and Company. He will lead you in a way that is truly living, many think they are living but are not, for Christ is life, and unless you know Christ and His Commands, speak of Christ and His Commands, act of Christ and His Commands you have not been truly living.


Lord please allow me to do your will and not my own, I desire a heart that will be submissive to You and not to the flesh, Lord I ask you to remind me each day that You are my Heavenly Father, and that I would hear you and not forget. I ask Lord that you would use the things That I have learned and am learning in the world for Your Glory. You are The One, the one who my heart desires to please, I delight in the Law of Your Word, I delight in the Son who was perfect from birth, I delight in the day He's returning to earth. Hallelujah. Amen.

Husbands...

1 peter 3:7

"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers."

This seems to be a weakness of mine, being considerate, and treating my wife w/ respect as the weaker partner. I tend to treat my wife conditionaly upon how she behaves and acts, instead of submitting to the Lord and letting Him pour His unconditioinal love through me. She is an equal heir with me of the Gift of Gods Grace and of Life, and Him allowing us to enter into His Kingdom and Glory, a sister/ sibling, a companion, she is loved the same by the Lord, Receives the Same Grace, Is not favored above or below me in the Lords eyes, but the Lord Loves us both unmeasurably, and unmeasurably the same. We are called to love our neighbor as ourselves, and this encompasses submitting burdens/weaknesses of each other, the weaker partner we should submit to the Lord when we discover weakness and He is Strong in them. For it is the Lord who heals and enstrengthens not man. How can a broken pot fix itself or a House make itself more sturdy? (It is the builder, the Lord who heals and strengthens as he chooses)

It is not my witty mind or my righteous and high thought (that I am tempted to think I've achieved somtimes), that the Lord's love is some how "achieved." It is not by my "better" way which I can be tempted to think is the only way, the right way, and the good way all the time. If I allow my self to believe this I am deceived. For Jesus is The Way and in Him is the answer, cause, and reason for what is to be thought, said, and lived out.

I should hold my wife in the esteem that She is a child of The Most High and is unconditionally and imeasurably precious to Him, (just as I am) By treating her unfairly and lowly my actions display that I do not know this truth and therefore praying in deception my prayers are hindered, If I really knew the Truth and really believed in the Truth that she is my sister, my sibling, my equal heir (receiving the exact same inhertiance from God, unmeasurable) then my actions would be likewise and my prayers in Truth will be upright. I long for my mind to be renewed by the Truh Jesus, Please give me eyes that see my Wife as an equal heir and may my actions display that to her and may her heart receive the Truth of the Truth acting through me. Amen.