Sometimes it's easy for us to bring up the things of God at a poker table. A moment of online frustration inspired one this week....
stingray74: the card gods are not with me today
Dealer: flopblogger [Me] wins Main Pot ($160)
Me: Don't trust them. Trust the one true God.
stingray74: maybe thats my prob
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one." So says Deuteronomy 6:4. The idea of a group of "card gods" is a nice way of explaining a bad day. But the Bible says they don't exist. The chat continues, and things turn around....
Dealer: stingray74 wins Main Pot ($860) with Two pair, aces and threes
Me: there ya go
Me: very good
stingray74: thanx man
stingray74: now im gonna ask jesus for help
Me: Always a good idea.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning." That's how the book of John begins -- and from there, John explains that Word "became flesh and made his dwelling among us" (John 1:14).
He did that in the person of Jesus Christ. Now the resurrected Jesus "speaks to the Father in our defense" when we sin (I John 2:1). In fact, verse two calls Christ "the atoning sacrifice for our sins...." when we appeal to God in prayer. Have you appealed to that heavenly attorney lately?
There's more to this discussion. We'll continue it in a future post.
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