Favorite Bible Verses

Just wanted to start with something simple. I have one I wanted to start with, it’s Isaiah 65 17-25. In my copy of “The Message Remix” version of the Bible, it starts like this:

“New Heavens and a New Earth”

“Pay close attention now:

I’m creating new heavens and a new earth.

All the earlier troubles, chaos, and pain

are things of the past, to be forgotten.

Look ahead with joy.”

Anticipate what I’m creating:

I’ll create Jerusalem as sheer joy,

take delight in my people:

No more sounds of weeping in the city,

no more cries of anguish;

No more babies dying in the cradle,

or old people who don’t enjoy a full lifetime;

One-hundredth birthdays will be considered normal -

anything less will seem like a cheat.

They’ll build houses

and move in.

They’ll plant fields

and eat what they grow.

No more building a hous

that some outsider takes over,

No more planting fields

that some enemy confiscates,

For my people will be as long-lived as trees,

my chosen ones will have satisfaction in their work.

They won’t work and have nothing come of it,

they won’t have children snatched out from under them.

For they themselves are plantings blessed by GOD,

with their children and grandchildren likewise GOD-blessed.

Before they call out, I’ll answer.

Before they’ve finished speaking, I’ll have heard.

Wolf and lamb will graze the same meadow,

lion and ox eat straw from the same trough,

but snakes – they’ll get a diet of dirt!

Neither animal nor human will hurt or kill

anywhere on my Holy Mountain,” says GOD.

I think the most important part of this (to me), or what sort of stands out as a central message is

“Look ahead with joy.”

That’s such a great message from God to us, that the future is bright for those of us who walk with God in faith. That no matter what trials and tribulations we may have now, that we are with God and he will be with us always – and that he has a plan for us.

Next up is Psalms, I have been exploring them recently on my own and it turns out that a close friend and brother in Christ Tim Hart has also been, and a Psalm from King David was the topic of the message last Sunday at my church Trinity Baptist in Kelowna! Weird no? There seems to be a draw to read the Psalms right now in me and those around me, and I can see why. They are all great.

If you don’t have a Bible, but have a computer (obviously), then you can go to http://www.biblegateway.com and read almost any version of the Bible for free. Like I said I use “The Message Remix” version. There is a similar “Message” on there, but it’s not the same. I presume it’s an older edition(?)

I hope someone finds this inspirational and we can start sharing some favorites together.

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