Study Desk

You just keep on keeping on. Keep on riding for him and everything will be fine, but not easy. Only then will you get what you've been promised.

My cowboys will ride by faith, but I won't tolerate anyone who drinks from my well and turns his back on me."

But we aren't like the ones who've turned their backs on the Lord. They will suffer for their actions. We are the faithful. We will be saved.

But what ol' Abe was really waiting on was a city with foundations that would last forever built by God's own hands.

All of them died, but they died with God's promise of a better life on their lips. They didn't get it in their lifetime, but they got to see it and it made them glad. They knew they were just day hands on this earth and that their home was in the next life.

But no, they set their eyes on something bigger and better that was just over the final hill—their forever home in heaven. And it is there that God is waiting on his hands. He ain't ashamed to call them his crew and he has something amazing waiting on them.

Cowboys who were thought dead even rode back to the gals who were waiting on them. But not everyone fared so well. Some were killed because they wouldn't turn their backs on God. They could have lived, but they chose to receive the reward that's waiting in the next life instead of the continued pain of this one.

Sure, your struggle with sin is rough, but in reality, it is just a little crow-hop compared to the broncs others have rode.

Our earthly fathers tried to discipline us and do a good job. But God's discipline is always perfect and always right and always good for us. This is how he teaches us to be holy.

No one likes a butt chewin' while it's happening, but if we will listen and do what God says we will be riding better than we were the day before.

Later, he wanted his dad to bless him, but he was rejected because of that one stupid choice. Not even the bitter tears could take back what he'd willfully done.

God's voice shook the earth when he spoke from Mount Sinai. But now God speaks of another promise, "Once more I will shake the earth with my voice, but also that of heaven."

Under the old code, priests brought the blood into the Holy Place, but left the bodies outside.

But don't forget about being smart in the ways of God. If you lack the knack of wisdom, just ask the Boss for it and he'll give it to ya.

But them rich folks better have a humble air about 'em because they ain't no different in the grand scheme of things than any other blade of grass by the pond.

We all go the bad way, not because of anything God does or doesn't do, but just because we have a natural desire for the wrong ways.

But the cowboy who focuses on what God says, and doesn't go off and forget it, he will be looked after favorably.

If someone thinks he is followin' the right trail, but shoots his mouth off at every occasion, he has lied to himself and he may be sittin' tall in the saddle, but he ain't got a horse to ride or an honest leg to stand on.

But you've been lookin' down your nose at those less fortunate. Are they the ones takin' people to court and makin' life hard for people or is it the rich?

But if you uphold the highest standard in the Good Book, "Take care of your neighbor as good as you take care of yourself," you are ridin' the right trail.