Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

This I confess because it applies to me and what happened to me. If it should in any way be a similitude of another’s life, it is not meant to point a finger.

The Lord has worked miracles in my life. I am not talking about your everyday blessings, I am talking super natural events that could only have been rendered by God. My attitude should have been gratitude and in some small part it was but the bulk of my emotions leaned towards feeling special. I took it to mean that God not only loved me but more than others around me.

I began to treat others like I was special and that they were something less. I was not humble. I looked down on others that just didn’t get it. This went on for a number of years until I realized my prayer life was bleak, tasteless, and meaningless. That was the first sign that I saw there was something wrong. How I treated others was still not a consideration. My prayer life however was all about me and I had no one to blame but myself.

The air of superiority was losing its shine. Then one day someone stood up to me and said what I needed to hear from a fellow Christian. “Don’t talk to me like that.” Nothing kills the air of superiority faster than seeing the pain I had caused another.

Causing pain was the old man who was supposedly dead and I had to admit, he wasn’t dead enough. This whole issue of dying to self had been vanity run amok. I had convinced myself I had been crucified with Christ and perhaps I had but where was the resurrected life I was supposed to be living?

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

My guess is that you do not need the address or bible version to recognize this quote is John 3:16 KJV. Even those who do not read the bible have seen this enough times to know the quote. I have seen fans at football games holding up sings with just the reference John 3:16.

Yesterday I intentionally gave quotes without the attached addresses. According to charlesasullivan.com the Old Testament scrolls did not contain references to chapters and verses. Our modern day bibles do contain those helpful quotation locations.

Any writer with any degree of respect for the author will give reference to the source of the quote for two reasons. One to have the quote read in its entirety by any reader that wants to assure themselves that the quote is used in context properly. The second reason is perhaps even more important, to see for yourself what God might have to say in the surrounding scriptures.

“Walk with Me” LPV was used yesterday and no one should be familiar with a quote from the LPV. I said it and I am quoting myself. Interpret the LPV anyway you like, it is nothing more than me offering my opinion. How much weight that carries is up to you. I am not important enough to quote but how I came to that conclusion might be. God speaks to me through the bible and He speaks to you in the same manner.

Where I quoted the KJV without addresses, do you recognize the quotes? Would you know where to go to validate my assertions? Would it matter if in the quotes the Lord spoke to you because those verses are written on your heart? That is old school. That is how the ancient scrolls were rehearsed.

Deuteronomy 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

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