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A Crowned Thorn

What is the value of a thorn in our Christian journey? First, we must identify what a thorn is. According to the Dictionary one definition describes a thorn as “a source of continual annoyance or trouble”. A thorn can cause an immediate pain from its puncture or it can cause constant irritation and distress. Thorns that appear as a source of trouble are usually not welcomed companions on our daily quest. But the thorns we encounter are useful despite their irritations and disruptions. Thorns come to challenge and to strengthen your faith, your character, and your witness as a child of God. Thorns are the mechanism from which you gain more than you lose. Thorns are the pathway to reaching higher heights and deeper depths of sanctification and glory. With each thorn that attaches itself to your life, you become more and more like Christ. You become an overcomer of the thing that came to irritate or to disrupt your growth, but it, in turn, propels you into greater achievement in holy livi...
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Google or God?





Are you a knowledge seeker?  Do you love the love of learning? What is your go to source of information? Today information is readily available to those who seek it out. Anytime and anywhere we can have access to an abundance of information and that in and of itself is not a bad thing.  We live in a time where access and abundance is what we expect while living in this modern world. But as we walk this life out we must be careful and honest with ourselves about the level of influence we are under daily from sources like Google and social media.  We must confront the degree in which we are accustomed to and gravitate more towards social sources for information and entertainment more than we seek out and deliberate on the things of God.  
There is a fine line between feeding our natural curiosities with feeding our spiritual souls.  We can inadvertently suffer the consequences of acquiring and relying on the abundance of worldly knowledge for it can impair and influence our spiritual fortitude in Christ if we are not careful.  Google is great but it is not God.  We must be discerning to always obtain knowledge but analyze it through a spiritual lens. We must examine and evaluate what we are putting on the inside and be keenly aware that the more we increase our level of awareness and value on worldly news, statistics, history, beliefs, and commentaries we can run the risk of not seeking and or considering  what God thinks.   It is imperative that we seek God in all of our ways and acknowledge Him and He will inform and direct us but it takes discipline. We must never seek information at the expense of excluding God.
Journal Entry: Admit your struggle with the volume of knowledge you are consuming from the world. Discuss how worldly knowledge is impacting your spiritual thoughts, beliefs, and actions. Be specific and seek God’s direction on how to yearn more of what God says and less on what the world says.


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