Who Is To Blame?

Hello Beloved,

I want to talk to you about blame.. Have you ever  been blamed or blamed someone for something?
I am in a Bible study right now , and the lesson for this day was called " The Blame Game".   I thought
it had some really interesting things in it... I sure did learn from this lesson today.  I hope you can too..
Let's start with with what the lesson started with okay?
I want to set the stage so to speak okay?
Adam is in the garden and has been told by God that he can eat of any of the trees
in the garden except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil . ( Genesis 2: 17)
In Genesis 2: 21-25  God causes Adam to go into a deep sleep and He takes ones of his ribs and makes
woman.  So now we can go to Genesis 3: and see Who is to blame.
It starts out that the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said to the woman, " Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Well, we all know the story and how the woman ate the fruit and gave some to her husband , and this is how
we had sin enter into our lives.. Are we in agreement with this?  Okay, moving forward.
 If we read now in Genesis 3: 3-7 (NIV) , we will get to the point of blame.
"  Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.  Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day,  and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.  But the Lord God called to the man, "" Where are you?"" He answered ""I heard you in the garden , and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
Now, we can start asking the question of   WHO IS TO BLAME ?
When we are reading it , it sounds like Eve should be blamed , don't you think?  Or should we really blame
that old serpent?  What about Adam?  Who is to blame? 
In the study I am doing it starts out with this...  Eve was listening to that old serpent.. Now, just listening is not wrong BUT when you listen to a lie and then you start to dwell on it, then you start to believe it, and then you act upon it...And this is what leads us onto the path of bondage..  ie...  Eve listened to the serpent tell her that she would not die, that she would be like a god , knowing good and evil... LISTENING was not the problem .  She looked at the tree and saw it was pretty and she could become wise and she gave her husband some of it to eat too..  So , she listened , she dwelt a moment and she believed what was told to her by that old serpent and acted upon it..  That was the fall , right?  Or was it?
So , now are we blaming the serpent for the lies or Eve for listening to them?    Well here is something I picked up  in the lesson ..   " God didn't ask them what someone else had done to make them sin;
He held them accountable for their own behavior.  Regardless of what had influenced them to make that choice, it was still THEIR choice."  So pointing fingers at others will keep us in bondage
and guilt.. Freedom comes when we take responsibility for ourselves and the choice that we make..
So, when someone is telling you lies, you do not have to listen to them , but if you do , don't dwell on them and please don't act on them... Remember to be free is to take responsibility for our own choice.
Well , remember to smile , you never know who is looking and might need it today.. God Bless!!
tenderly with arms wrapped about you........ your sister in Christ Jesus, vickie

Daniel The Prophet

Hello Beloved,

I have been studying the book of Daniel in the Bible.  I had recently heard something that I just could
not agree with, so I started digging to find the answer.
2 Timothy 2: 15.  "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
I will now show you what I have learned along the way.. If you see something you don't agree with please, at the bottom of the entry is a comment line, so tell me what and why and I will research it some more. thanks.  I want to give you a little background history here..
I am going to start with King David.   King David was born about 1040 BC and he died about 970 BC.
This would have made him 70 years of age when he died... He became King at 30 years of age and he
was King for 40 years.( 2 Samuel 5:4, 1 Kings 2:10-11)  King David had a son called Daniel or Chileab with his third wife Abigail. ( 2 Samuel 3:3, 1 Chronicles 3:1)
Now lets move on to the book of Daniel.
Daniel was born about 622 BC,  so when he was taken along with Hananiah( Shadrach), Mishael ( Meshach), Azariah ( Abed-nego) he would have been about 17 years of age.  So, I don't believe it was
possible for this Daniel to be the son of King David and Abigail. I am not saying it is not possible that Daniel
was a descendant of King David and Abigail , just that it was not a direct son ship.
Daniel 1:1.
" In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it."
Jehoiakim( Jehoiachim) his birth name was Eliakim. He was installed as king of Judah in about 608 BC.
So his third year would have been about 605 BC.  He ruled for about 11 years.
Daniel 1:3 
" And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the masters of the eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the  princes. ( nobility)
In all of the research material I searched I could not find Daniel's lineage.  So I have to just take what I  see in Daniel 1: and know that he was of noble birth.

I found so much out about this period of history and it was all very interesting ... I started out trying to see
if what I had heard was correct... I believe I have now found my answer..  I hope you find this interesting
enough to look and see if I am correct .  Please DO NOT EVER JUST SIT AND TAKE FOR GRANTED WHAT SOMEONE SAYS,  SEARCH IT OUT FOR YOURSELF.
Smile:  it is a free gift from God for you to share and you are at your most beautiful  when you do...
tenderly with arms around you.  vickie

Psalm 23

Hello Beloved,

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. ( He leads me and he is my caregiver)
He makes me to lie down in green pastures: ( this is where I grow)
He leads me beside the still waters. ( peace)
He restores my soul:   ( saved me)
He leads ( shows me) me in the path of righteousness for His name sake.( Jesus)
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death  ( trials)
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;  ( He is always there)
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. ( support)
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies, ( covenant)
Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over ( pouring out blessings and overflow)
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life;  ( blessings)
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.  ( living with Jesus for eternity)

Remember to smile, it is a free gift  from God for you to share with all that you meet.
tenderly with arms wrapped about you. your sister in Christ, vickie