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I find that I need to write things down to remember. All things. Dates and notes take up a lot of space on my desk. I wonder if one day I'll have writers cramp from all the note taking I do? Haha. I crack myself up.

So yesterday I'm sitting in church.....trying to pay attention. I helped tend to a situation and came back in the middle of the sermon. I try to take notes when I hear sermons......but I was behind in the message already. Then I was distracted some more with nail polish. Oh my....I had a sweet little girl paint my nails and it was flaking off. I couldn't take it. I had to pick it and pick it some more. The girl next to me whispered "what are you doing Tammy"? I told her since I clean the church it'll be my mess to clean up anyway. I had a nice amount of flaked, pink polish on the floor. Ok, back to the point.

Once I got back to reality and could pay attention better, I made some notes. The biggest thing I pulled out of the great message I heard is this.....
There are 3 things required to be a complete Christian.
1. Christians need doctrinal truths. We have to know God through His Word and have right truths about Him. We need right theology (which I am loving the more I study) about God.
2.  Christians need a character that matches what we know about God. We can't claim to know God and live in ways that are opposite to Scripture.
3. We are motivated by God to DO for Him what we learn about Him. Our character matches the doing. For example.....we are to pray for those who offended us and treat us not so nice. The Word tells us we need to do this and if our character matches what we know about God we will do what we are supposed to whether we feel like it or not. (That was a mouthful....haha...but truth)

We can not read the Bible all we want but in the end how can we be called Christians if we don't know what the Word says? And if our whole character and being rests on the knowledge of what's in the Word, how can we not want to know all we can? I am just as guilty as the next person. I read And study but never feel like it's enough. Like some of my time is spent doing stupid things rather than important things for God. Ive got a lot to learn.

All this came at the end of the message from 1 Corinthians 4:14-21
Verse 20 tells us that the kingdom of God does not consist of talk but of power. My pastor told us that real power of God is found in human weakness. That we cannot do anything of our own accord, but only through God, and we find strength when we are weak. This should make us find humility in Gods power.

Once I could not focus on nail polish or my sons eating or how often I heard talk of Timothy and wondering if he liked to be called Tim instead.....I could pick out good points. I am thankful for good teaching and right truths for our growth as a body of believers. God is good......always good. ❤️