Study To Show Yourselves

While Brian and I were staying at Cavendish Beach, PEI, we visited Avonlea, the Village of Anne of Green Gables. I loved going back in time to envision what it was must have been like living in the turn of the twentieth century. If we had visited the village during the summer when it is tourist season, we would have seen actors and actresses bring the small town to life.

This is a picture of the main street of Avonlea. I loved the small white picket fences that border the walkways and the different homes and buildings in Avonlea. The flower gardens were beautiful!

Lucy Montgomery (the author of Anne of Green Gables) actually attended this Presbyterian church. The church building was later relocated to Avonlea village.

Of course they didn't have washing machines in those days — just a washing board and a clothes line.

They also didn't have flush toilets.

If I lived in those days, I would have definitely been a school teacher.

I loved seeing the inside of this school. I have always enjoyed learning!

Even though I loved all the subjects in school, the most important book to study is the Bible. God says we are to study the Scriptures thoroughly and teach the Word of God accurately to others. It also says we should, so that there can be no cause for shame, live a life that is pleasing to God. Otherwise our words are meaningless and our lives become a poor testimony of God to others, causing people to despise and resent God.

"Study to show yourself approved to God,

a workman that needs not to be ashamed,

rightly dividing the Word of Truth."

2 Timothy 2:15

We are all sinners who may fall into temptation at times, but a true Christian will feel remorse for their sins, repent, and return to their walk with God and live with holiness. God lovingly forgives and strengthens us to live for Him. A hypocrite will proclaim Christ, but continue to live in sin, feeling no conviction or having no desire to change. When a hyprocrite is caught, his/her first reaction is denial. When he/she can no longer deny his/her sin because of the mounting evidence against him/her, then he/she resorts to false humility.

Let us all be diligent to study the Word of God correctly and with a earnest heart. Let us have a strong desire to live a life that is honourable and pleasing to God.