One of the hardest things I do for our Becker Bible Studies ministry is write this blog. When I have something to say, and I prepare to write, my stomach starts churning and my normally confident bearing becomes insecure.
I am very, very private. My family, friends and students are all mostly the same way. We live life like normal people, and don't participate much in the "in your face" religious practices that are popular today. When we praise God in worship, or bring God our tears, we do it within the confines of our home. Nobody sees, because it is nobodies business.
Each of us have an intense, joyful relationships with the LORD GOD and Jesus Christ through the moving of the Holy Spirit, but unless He moves us to speak about it with each other, we don't. Instead, we gather often and share fellowship, and uphold each other, and study the Word of God, and participate in life, and caution each other when tough times are approaching.
So my nature is very, very quiet, and not one to share my deeper thoughts and beliefs. And so I write a blog...a written tool that moves me out of my comfort zone every time.
I wish that the Internet was such that you could take me at my word that I'm a good and righteous Christian, and you should listen to the things I have to say. I wish I could have my friends and students stand before you and pronounce my integrity and love of God to you, and witness my true intentions of guiding Christian students to study the Word of God.
But the nature of the Internet allows anyone to write anything, trick everyone, and prosper from it. And then if that is not enough to allow the faithful to be misled, we have the movement of false teachers and false prophets propagating their filth and trickery using this worldly medium.
So I write my personal thoughts down, and share them with you. I don't like sharing them, but I do it so you can know me deeply, and have a degree of confidence that I'm the real deal.
Which brings me to the purpose of writing today. I had a woman write me the other day and tell me that when she reads my things, that she is not "uplifted" and "filled with the joy of Jesus Christ". It was a sincere letter, from a truthful Christian sister, and it has caused me to think about this blog, and our ministry, and the bigger scheme of all things that will soon be brought to an end when our King Jesus Christ comes to Judgment.
The LORD GOD and Jesus Christ have not tasked me with uplifting or making joyful noise unto Them or my Christian brothers and sisters. My work is to teach everyone with ears able to hear, that are brought in my presence, and to feed hungry Christians the Word of God, allowing them to move from the basic doctrines of faith to the deeper mysteries contained within His Word.
It is these deeper things within His Word, that is going to give endurance to our struggles in these End Times. Other ministries might well be tasked with giving joy and praise, with guiding worshipers into heightened places of ecstasy, but it is not the job I have been given.
I am who I am, and my family and friends are who they are. We struggle daily with big deal problems, confront wickedness when it attempts to enter into our presence, search Scriptures often to figure out how to handle the newest surge of problems, lose loved ones left and right when they walk away from their Christian foundation, face persecution and taunting from a world that wants us silenced, and are attacked often by the fringe beliefs of the Christian confused as we try to bring them back to the fold with good solid study of the Word of God.
Life is not much fun. But I have got to tell you.....when I'm within the protection of my home, with my family and friends gathered around me, I bask in the joy and love emitting from our walk with Jesus Christ. When I cry under the load of burdens, I feel them lifted immediately from my shoulders by a loving and kind God that helps me walk the way He Wills. Natural life may well "suck" but my Spiritual Life is "Awesome" and it is "Well with my Soul!" Praise Be to God!
So I hope that the words that I write in this blog do not discourage faith, but rather encourage the faithful that they are not alone in this messed up world. I want other Christians to know that it is not always about joy and singing, and that real pain comes to natural life when one chooses to love Jesus Christ over all others. And I want my readers to know me enough, that they can trust my guidings, and be led to the places that God Wills them to walk.
I am grateful that others have a joyful ministry that inspires and upholds. But as for the ministry of Becker Bible Studies, it's gonna stay true to what I know, with prayers to God that hungry Christians can find their portion of nourishment, even if I get in the way.
David "Bucker" Becker
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes [shall be] they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.” (Matthew 10:34-42 av)
I am very, very private. My family, friends and students are all mostly the same way. We live life like normal people, and don't participate much in the "in your face" religious practices that are popular today. When we praise God in worship, or bring God our tears, we do it within the confines of our home. Nobody sees, because it is nobodies business.
Each of us have an intense, joyful relationships with the LORD GOD and Jesus Christ through the moving of the Holy Spirit, but unless He moves us to speak about it with each other, we don't. Instead, we gather often and share fellowship, and uphold each other, and study the Word of God, and participate in life, and caution each other when tough times are approaching.
So my nature is very, very quiet, and not one to share my deeper thoughts and beliefs. And so I write a blog...a written tool that moves me out of my comfort zone every time.
I wish that the Internet was such that you could take me at my word that I'm a good and righteous Christian, and you should listen to the things I have to say. I wish I could have my friends and students stand before you and pronounce my integrity and love of God to you, and witness my true intentions of guiding Christian students to study the Word of God.
But the nature of the Internet allows anyone to write anything, trick everyone, and prosper from it. And then if that is not enough to allow the faithful to be misled, we have the movement of false teachers and false prophets propagating their filth and trickery using this worldly medium.
So I write my personal thoughts down, and share them with you. I don't like sharing them, but I do it so you can know me deeply, and have a degree of confidence that I'm the real deal.
Which brings me to the purpose of writing today. I had a woman write me the other day and tell me that when she reads my things, that she is not "uplifted" and "filled with the joy of Jesus Christ". It was a sincere letter, from a truthful Christian sister, and it has caused me to think about this blog, and our ministry, and the bigger scheme of all things that will soon be brought to an end when our King Jesus Christ comes to Judgment.
The LORD GOD and Jesus Christ have not tasked me with uplifting or making joyful noise unto Them or my Christian brothers and sisters. My work is to teach everyone with ears able to hear, that are brought in my presence, and to feed hungry Christians the Word of God, allowing them to move from the basic doctrines of faith to the deeper mysteries contained within His Word.
It is these deeper things within His Word, that is going to give endurance to our struggles in these End Times. Other ministries might well be tasked with giving joy and praise, with guiding worshipers into heightened places of ecstasy, but it is not the job I have been given.
I am who I am, and my family and friends are who they are. We struggle daily with big deal problems, confront wickedness when it attempts to enter into our presence, search Scriptures often to figure out how to handle the newest surge of problems, lose loved ones left and right when they walk away from their Christian foundation, face persecution and taunting from a world that wants us silenced, and are attacked often by the fringe beliefs of the Christian confused as we try to bring them back to the fold with good solid study of the Word of God.
Life is not much fun. But I have got to tell you.....when I'm within the protection of my home, with my family and friends gathered around me, I bask in the joy and love emitting from our walk with Jesus Christ. When I cry under the load of burdens, I feel them lifted immediately from my shoulders by a loving and kind God that helps me walk the way He Wills. Natural life may well "suck" but my Spiritual Life is "Awesome" and it is "Well with my Soul!" Praise Be to God!
So I hope that the words that I write in this blog do not discourage faith, but rather encourage the faithful that they are not alone in this messed up world. I want other Christians to know that it is not always about joy and singing, and that real pain comes to natural life when one chooses to love Jesus Christ over all others. And I want my readers to know me enough, that they can trust my guidings, and be led to the places that God Wills them to walk.
I am grateful that others have a joyful ministry that inspires and upholds. But as for the ministry of Becker Bible Studies, it's gonna stay true to what I know, with prayers to God that hungry Christians can find their portion of nourishment, even if I get in the way.
David "Bucker" Becker
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes [shall be] they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.” (Matthew 10:34-42 av)
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