Three favorite scriptures: blog meme fun!

The fact is, I’m a truly a rookie blogger, and now you know because I was tagged in my first blog meme and I had to google “meme” to figure out what I might be getting myself into.  I had no idea this was such a prolific blogging practice until I started paying attention to those buttons, and badges on everyone’s sidebars.  Game on …

So here I go:

Amanda, at Little Steps Along The Way, has tagged me in a stimulating—and my first—blog meme.  The theme is "Three Favorite Scripture Verses."  The rules are:

1. Write a post on your three favorite verses from the Bible and why you like them.

2. Link back to this post.

3. In your post, tag three other bloggers to carry this theme forward, link to you and tag additional bloggers.

I’m tagging:

Kristen @ Three in the nest

Bonnie @ The Koala Bear Writer

Mary @ Three Turkeys 

It’s purely coincidental that this is a meme consisting of three scriptures, and two of the three bloggers I tagged have the word “three” in their titles.  Too bad Bonnie didn’t have three stuffed koala bears that went everywhere with her when she was a kid!  She may have named her blog, The Three Bears—oh, that title is already taken, isn’t it?  Anyway … on with the meme.

Number one

Mathew 24:36

No one knows the day or the hour…

Reason: Rapture Humor! I couldn’t help myself … sometimes, we just have to laugh!

Number two

Matthew 7:7-8

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks, receives; he who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks the door will be opened.

Reason: I’m a firm believer that I reap what I sow.   Sometimes, I find myself trying to reap without sowing—but, that doesn’t usually work out too well.  I’ve learned that my actions will come back to me, for good or bad.  If I want a relationship with God—like other connections—I must “seek it.”  Ask, seek, and knock! 

Number three

Numbers 6:24-26

May the LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD let his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD look upon you kindly and give you peace.

Reason: You may not know, but the Hebrew word for peace is shalom.  In modern Israel, it’s quite popular, and commonly used as a greeting by just about every Tom, Dick, and Harry!  In the Bible, shalom means much more.  It refers to safety and security from hardships and threats.  It includes inner harmony and balance of life.  But, perhaps most of all shalom, means “completeness” or “wholeness.”  We often refer to someone being at home in their own skin, or maybe that they have it all together.  We could say that person has shalom.  It’s being who God intended us to be.  

Shalom, friends!