Study Desk

Marriage should be held in the highest regard. The marital bed must be kept pure. It is just the husband and wife and no one else. God will judge those who are immoral and those who cheat on a marriage.

Because of all this, we should offer a sacrifice of continuing thankfulness to God. We should steel ourselves to ride for him every single day.

Ride hard, help others, and share what you have. These are the kinds of sacrifices that make God smile.

Listen to those who God has appointed to lead you. Do what they say to do. They are held accountable to God for your guidance. Their work should be rewarding so don't make things hard on them. They shouldn't be filled with sorrow for their great works. Nothing good will come from you treating them ill.

Pray for us. We hold our heads high and live the lives God has commanded us to.

I pray that the God of peace, who raised Jesus from the dead, the great cowboy, the originator of the new code,

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.

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.

If someone just listens to something from God and doesn't act on it, it's like lookin' at your own reflection and then ridin' off and forgettin' what you look like.

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

And the good words from the Good Book were proven true when it said, "Abraham trusted God with his faith and actions and this made him right in the Boss's eyes," and he was called the Boss's pard.

A cowboy is made right with God by putting his faith to work, not just by talkin' about it.

We pray to God with one side and then turn right around and talk crap about those who were made in his very image.

Did you think God was just listening to himself talk when he said, "The spirit I gave you don't take kindly to fence jumpers"?

But the Boss is above and beyond generous. That's why the Good Book says, "God shuns the proud, but always makes a spot for the humble."

Don't stab other cowboys in the back. Anyone who speaks against a fellow cowboy speaks against what God has to say. If you speak against what God has to say then you are placing yourself above Him.

But no, you've got everything figured out and you're expecting God just to go along with whatever you want to do. There ain't nothin' right about doing things that way.

Shoot! Even Elijah was just a cowboy like us and he prayed God would stove-up the rains and it didn't rain for three and a half years.

Then he hit his knees and prayed and God turned the water back on. Them dry pastures drank deeply and grew once again.

God planned all along to make y'all his cowboys, his holy people, which is the work of the Holy Ghost. God wanted y'all to ride for him and him alone and to be washed in the blood of his Son's sacrifice.May your ride with God be filled with grace and peace.