I will deal with him....

Our Daily Bread
"No!  He's mine!" says the hero in many action movies when the bad guy shows up during the climax of the movie!  hahaHA!  The bad guy is in big trouble now!

Well, I didn't remember John saying something like this about Diotrephes in 3 John 1.  He called him out in his letter!  John gave specific instructions for the other followers to ignore him. John said "He's mine!  I will deal with him the next time I am in town".  Wow!

I think we all know folks that like that in our churches.  They want to be first.  They want to be recognized all the time.  They have to run things and be catered to.  These can be the folks that outsiders complain about!  What are we do to?  Look at Romans 12:12-21. In short, do the good things you know you are to do.  Don't let those folks drag you down.  Don't fall into the human nature trap of treating them like they treated you.  Don't be tempted like Galatians 6:1 warns!

Lord, thank you for helping us see ourselves.  Help us see ourselves serving you and treating others as you would have us treat them.

Teaching Tuesday
The first lessons in my new Bible study class were interesting.  We started with a community lesson where all the folks in the class, regardless of what year they are in, participate.  I then started on the Year 1 lesson about the Old Testament.  It told about the history of how the "canonical" version of the Old Testament was created.  I learned about how the Old Testament was stories passed on mainly by word of mouth in stories and songs.  It was finally written down, collected together into the "official" or canonized books that we have today.  Along the way, the original Hebrew was translated into Greek, which was the official language of the known world at one point in history.  Today, the Bible is translated into more languages than you can imagine!

I might post part of the community lesson, which is coming up with a photo journal of your life.  I am thinking of pictures to put in it.  It will be interesting.

How about you?  Have you thought the Bible and how it came to us?  Have you thought about the people that have helped form who you are today?

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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit - Romans 15:13