Daily writing prompt

Do you think humans will ever colonize Mars? What would life there actually look like?

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Jesus lived a lifestyle of obedience. He how the Scriptures instructed Him to and obeyed the voice of the Heavenly Father. We can too. To do the Word is to build your life on the rock. To merely examine, analyze, and investigate the Bible is to build on sand. (Matthew 7:24-27)

The lure of religious knowledge is often deceptive and can easily puff us up with pride (1 Corinthians 8:1) and cause us to think that we understand God and have no need to experience Him. No matter how high you climb in the tree of knowledge, mere information about God can never heal or satisfy a human heart the way that personal surrender to and obedient interaction with God does. (Psalm 46:10)

Faith without a firm foundation in life-changing experience and obedience to God, is only theory. (James 2:26) It is informative yet not transformative. (2 Corinthians 5:17) It is hearing about God yet seldom hearing and doing (James 1:22) what the Spirit says within you. (John 16:13)

People can, and frequently do, forget what they hear or read about God, but when they humbly do the Word, Divine revelation flows (John 7:37-39) directly from God to them and causes them to hunger and thirst for God. (Matthew 5:6) They begin to seek Him and His righteousness with all their heart. (Matthew 6:33) The only way to truly learn the Bible is by training yourself to do what it says throughout each day. (Luke 11:28)

Speculating about God and analyzing Scripture to make it fit your speculations (2 Peter 3:14-16) is subjective. Although God is beyond our human ability to measure, truly experiencing His presence, power, and reality is the most objective part of my life. An intimate, heart-to-heart relationship with the Creator (Genesis 1:1) is my firm foundation. (John 3:16)

Learn to let God empower you to speak, “not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.” (1 Corinthian 2:13) Let the Holy Spirit “guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.” (John 16:13) Set aside your will and your own interpretation of things so that you will be able to allow God the Holy Spirit to carry you along. (2 Peter 1:20-21)

Lean not to your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5-6) Ask God to give you wisdom (James 1:5) and revelation. (1 Corinthians 2:9-10) Be directly led God’s Spirit. (Romans 8:28)