THE GREATEST ABILITY?

THE GREATER ABILITY?

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

   Deuteronomy [ESV] 7:9-11 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today. [Ps.36:5; Isa.11:5

   1Corinthians 4:1-2 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

   Hebrews 6:17-20 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

   Hebrews 12:1-3 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

  I am extremely conscious of heritage; to leave a legacy of proper honorable tradition. This did not begin with homeschooling our two youngest grandchildren, but certainly increased and facilitated its work in word and deed. It began with family ethics, then Boy Scouts, others, and after trusting Christ at age 27, trustworthiness realized as a theme in the Word living (Jn.1:1; Rev.19:13) and written (The Bible.)

  One of the things that the children “just love” about homeschooling is that even during off time they are still in school. (Something they explain to their acquaintances that exclaim “Oh my, I wish I was homeschooled!”) 

   Not long ago while in out of school but in school a question arose: “What is the greatest ability?”

  Discussion involved further questions: Does the greatest ability involve intelligence? No. Education? No. Talents and skills? No. Physical prowess and strength, particularly the athletic kind? No. Leadership? No. Plus a few more that I can’t recall.

  Faithful dependability is inseparable from godliness!

  It was finally decided that the greatest ability is dependability and that other abilities are undergirded by this ability.

  I pray that you too benefited from another one our informal homeschool sessions.

  (Class is still in session if you wish to enter the room.) 

EBB4 (May 17, 2010)

PS. Hmm…  Biblically thinking, what is the second greatest ability, Availability?