forgive me if I sneeze during this post.

The past few days have been interesting ones.
And right now I find myself in bed with intense body aches, cramps, nasal congestion, and body chills. It is that time of the year when people begin to find their immune systems take a nose dive. So forgive me if I misspell something, or if my words make no sense.

this morning I was reading two chapter in Proverbs, and I came across as always something that kind of spoke to me. Something very interesting is that if you look at your Bible, the set up structure takes a turn. The first nine chapters of the book are set up much like we see the rest of the Bible. However, the next chapters the structure looks different. Almost as if they are set up like as a poem, or as a song. Chapter 11 and 12 are short sentences that again almost look like a poem. The language as well turns more into a poem form as well. Chapters 11 and 12 really touched me because they again, display what life with wisdom in your heart look like.

"Good people are guided by their honesty; treacherous people are destroyed by their dishonesty.
Riches won't help on the day of judgement, but right living is a safeguard against death."

There are many people who claim they are followers of Christ, because they are good people. They give their money away, they help others, they try not to lie and stay away from trouble. Many people live my that their whole life and claim that because they are good people they have a relationship with the Lord.
However, if you read further on in Proverbs, you will soon discover that being a "good person" is not good enough.

"the godliness of good people rescues them, the ambition of the treacherous people traps them.
When the wicked die, their hopes their hopes all perish, for they rely on their own feeble strength.
God rescues the the godly from danger, but he lets the wicked fall into trouble."

something that I have learned is that people who like to say they are Christians because they are good people, they are keeping the focus on themselves. They are only focused on what they do, and how they act to people and what they say. Everything is about the self. When a true follower of Christ lives a life that is not about the self. They live a life that is for Christ and to be his disciple.
And what does it mean to be a disciple? Well I am reading a book that goes in depth about being a true follower of Christ, but what I have learned throughout the book is really just how living on this world is not for ourselves. Nothing has to do with us, it all has to do with the Lord and living a true live dedicated to HIM.
we do not let the things of the world control us, we repent our sins, we follow his word and study his word.
it is a simple thing to say, but following this is very difficult. We are surrounded by a world of lust, greed, hatred. Our physical body is a follower of the world, however our spirit is in a battle with going up and being with the Lord, when our bodies are going down to the ground.
We all have our sins, and it is important for us to fight against it, to take a stand as difficult as it may be. We need to be firm and fight against the things that are not of God.
There is so much more than being a good person, we need to be right with God, we need to have our mind set on things above.
Proverbs is a good chapter that addresses this to me.
Today is Sunday, and it is the Lords day. Take some time to not focus on yourself. We are nothing without HIM, we are pathetic creatures who deserve nothing but to be in the pits of hell. We are saved because of HIM. Everything is about HIM.