Foolish Things Ministries

It's a dangerous thing to compare your walk with the Lord to someone else's walk. It's so easy to look down on someone who's not doing the things you do, as wrong, not enough, or even bad.
We think everyone should be doing what we are doing and walking like we are walking. But the comparison isn't and should never be us to them, but us to Jesus.
First, ask yourself, 'am I walking like Jesus walked? am I preaching what He preached? am I living like He lived? do I have signs and wonders? Do I have authority to cast out demons and heal the sick? Have I laid down my life for the gospel? Have I paid the price?'
If the answer to any of these things is no, then stop in your tracks, and quit looking at what your brother or sister is doing.
When we compare ourselves to our neighbor it's so easy to become self-righteous, but when we compare ourselves to God, we become humbled.
Re-read the words in red today, and compare your life to that!

The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ 13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Shabbat Shalom ✌🕇🕎🌈

The dead know nothing.

Dying to self is the hardest journey one will ever undertake.
Dying to self requires a constant 'not my will, but Yours be done.'
Ecclesiastes says 'the dead know nothing' .... meaning that the process of dying to self, should leave you in a state of 'knowing nothing'.... for example...
A dead person has no opinion about this world, because the person is dead to this world. (The world isn't changed by your opinions, but by your example)
A dead person has no earthly desires, because they are dead to the earth, and all that is in it.
A dead person doesn't have dreams and goals, because those are for the living. Why does a dead person need a goal?
A dead person dosen't vote, (unless they are buried in California, or Michigan 😆) and dosen't entangle himself with the affairs of this world.
A dead person doesn't get 💉 because what thought does a dead man have on protecting it's own life?
A dead person dosen't live for themselves because.... "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20

If we want to overcome this world, we must die to everything that keeps us attached to it.
Know nothing... become dead, so that you may truly LIVE🕎✝️🕎✝️🕎
Shabbat Shalom ♡