Orange Moon Tuesday, February 24, 2026. “Learning… Doing”

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe

"Learning… Doing"   

   The Bible answers all the questions that matter.  

   "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law" (Deuteronomy 29:29).

    "May do all the words of this law" can be defined in broader Scriptural terms as responding to truth regarding the beginning of relationship with God, walking in its light, life, and power, and effectually functioning in this present world to fulfill both Heavenly and earthly responsibilities to God and man.  If we desire knowledge regarding these matters, consistently opening the Bible will progressively provide all the answers we need.  Conversely, if we seek mere mental understanding of God and truth - knowledge for the sake of knowledge - our search will be futile at best, and deceiving at worst.

   "Learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law" (Deuteronomy 31:12).

    Believers learn in order to do.  Again, all inquirers asking questions in this context of faith and faithfulness will find answers.  We may require patient waiting on God's timing to reveal, and His preparing us to respond.  However, our Heavenly Father will shine His light on the path of righteousness as we seek to walk thereon.   He does not illuminate those who merely seek to think lofty thoughts, even if the contemplations are sought in the Scriptures.  God rather opens the Book to those who realize its intensely practical reason for existence...

    "This is the way.  Walk ye in it" (Isaiah 30:21).  

    Certainly, great, glorious, and utterly fascinating wonders await our hearts and minds in God's Word.  All, however, are meant to find their way into our hands and feet as reading, pondering, and seeking leads to learning for the purpose of doing.

"Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving our own selves."

(James 1:22)

Weekly Memory Verse 

    "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 

(I John 5:4)

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Orange Moon Monday, February 23, 2026 "Faith: Beginning, Continuing"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe

"Faith: Beginning, Continuing"   

   Until we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, we were unaware of the power of God to spiritually birth us into relationship and fellowship with Himself.

    "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).

    After believing, we must discover the same power whereby we walk with God in faith and obedience.  Those "saved through faith" must learn to "live by faith" (Ephesians 2:8; Romans 1:17).  Unlike the new birth, provided as a one time, eternally abiding gift of grace, walking with our Lord involves a step by step trust of believing.  We must grow in the knowledge of God and the understanding of His truth in order  to meet by faith the challenges of life, as led and empowered by the Holy Spirit.  We trust a person to the degree we know them.  Thus, we must seek to increasingly discover who our Lord is and how He acts in order to realize "the power that worketh in us" as His "exceeding, abundantly above all we ask or think'' measure of grace.  Thereby, we realize our walk with God to be no less the result of grace received through faith than was our spiritual birth provided by Him (Ephesians 3:20).

    "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. (Colossians 2:6-7). 

    The beginning of our relationship with God resulted from the truth that "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Romans 10:17).  By His written Word, the Bible, the Lord communicated His living Word, the Lord Jesus, to our hearts.  We believed and thereby entered into relationship with God.  Faith still comes by hearing, and hearing continues by the Word of God.  We avail ourselves of the Scriptures in order to better know the Lord and understand His truth.  This equips us in times of temptation and challenge to overcome sin, fear, and despair by trusting and submitting to God.  "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith" (I John 5:4).  The matter involves growth and maturing, which again results from "increasing in the knowledge of God" whereby we more and more trust Him because we more and more know Him (Colossians 1:10).

    We were born and born again for this sublime knowledge of the most winsome of beings.  Whatever this day holds of its busyness, responsibility, and privilege, let us seek to live our lives trusting in whatever we have discovered of God and His truth.  Let us also realize that to whatever extent we have known Him, the journey has just begun.  When this day ends and we close our eyes upon it, no greater sense of satisfaction will bless our hearts than the knowledge that we have sought to know our Lord better and trust Him more.  Such grace and truth can be found in His Word, by His Spirit, through His people, in His world, and along the pathways of providence whereupon God purposes to meet us and further us in the faith that began and continues our relationship with Him.

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit."

(Romans 15:13)

Weekly Memory Verse 

    As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 

(Colossians 2:6-7). 

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