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Posted on 05/31/2014 9:32:56 PM PDT by JustAmy
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Good Morning, LUV W!
Thank You for the beautiful tulips!
You’re welcome! Thought we needed a bit of cheerfulness this morning. :)
Oh My, Yes.
Read: Jeremiah 17:5-10
People who live in Cherrapunji, India, have developed a unique way to get across the many rivers and streams in their land. They grow bridges from the roots of rubber trees. These “living bridges” take between 10 to 15 years to mature, but once they are established, they are extremely stable and last for hundreds of years.
The Bible compares a person who trusts in God to “a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river” (Jer. 17:8). Because its roots are well-nourished, this tree survives soaring temperatures. And during drought it continues to yield fruit.
Like a firmly rooted tree, people who rely on God have a sense of stability and vitality despite the worst circumstances. In contrast, people who place their trust in other humans often live with a sense of instability. The Bible compares them to desert shrubs that are frequently malnourished and stand alone (v.6). So it is with the spiritual lives of people who forsake God.
Where are our roots? Are we rooted in Jesus? (Col. 2:7). Are we a bridge that leads others to Him? If we know Christ, we can testify to this truth: Blessed are those who trust in the Lord (Jer. 17:7).
Suppression of Christianity is occurring in America enforced by our government daily. Who would or could image the armed services would deny freedom of Chaplin's to pray and console our soldiers on the battle front? We accept controls and ever increasing controls on our faith at all levels. Graduations, sporting games, daily creative writings and free speech suppressed as well in classes. Of course a teacher must have ability to maintain order and discuss what is considered to be differing (points of view) beliefs. How to reason thoughtfully, rather than blindly accepting untruth. God forbid America be deceived and led into apostasy. America's history is being taught in schools in intentionally eschewed/deceptive ways that teach lies. How are students to know this?
GOD BLESS AMERICA. FORGIVE US OUR DAILY SINS AND LEAD US IN THE WAY ETERNAL WITH THEE LORD. AMEN. MOO
Goodnight, and God Bless.
Always lovely to see your sweet good night graphics, Miss Kitty! (((hugs)))
Read: Psalm 102:18-28
My grandfather loved to tell stories, and I loved to listen. Papaw had two kinds of tales. “Whoppers” were stories with a whiff of truth, but which changed with each new telling. “Adventures” were stories that really happened, and the facts never changed when retold. One day my grandfather told a story that just seemed too far-fetched to be true. “Whopper,” I declared, but my grandfather insisted it was true. Although his telling never varied, I simply couldn’t believe it, it was that unusual.
Then one day, while I was listening to a radio program, I heard the announcer tell a story that confirmed the truth of my grandfather’s tale. My grandfather’s “whopper” suddenly became an “adventure.” It was a moving moment of remembrance that made him even more trustworthy in my eyes.
When the psalmist wrote about the unchanging nature of God (102:27), he was offering this same comfort—the trustworthiness of God—to us. The idea is repeated in Hebrews 13:8 with these words, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” This can lift our hearts above our daily trials to remind us that an unchanging, trustworthy God rules over even the chaos of a changing world.
(((((Hugs and Blessings)))))
Read: Isaiah 49:1-6
Often I meet with people who serve in what they think are seemingly small ways in small places. They are frequently discouraged by loneliness, feeling that their acts of service are insignificant. When I hear them speak, I think of one of the angels in C. S. Lewis’ book Out of the Silent Planet. He said: “My people have a law never to speak of sizes or numbers to you. . . . It makes you do reverence to nothings and pass by what is really great.”
Sometimes culture says bigger is better—that size is the truest measure of success. It takes a strong person to resist that trend, especially if he or she is laboring in a small place. But we must not “pass by what is really great.”
It’s not that numbers aren’t important (after all, the apostles counted their converts; see Acts 2:41). Numbers represent living people with eternal needs. We should all work and pray for large numbers of people to enter the kingdom, but numbers mustn’t be the basis for self-esteem.
God doesn’t call us to find fulfillment in the amount of work we do for Him, or the number of people who are a part of that work, but in faithfully doing our work for His sake. Serving our great God with His strength in a small way is not a stepping-stone to greatness—it is greatness.
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Good afternoon Meg! Thank you my FRiend.
I have to run out and work today,
Need to paint a mixer so it;s dry tomorrow..
Read: John 4:7-15
Although 70 percent of the world is covered by water, less than 1 percent of it is drinkable by humans. Water conservation and sanitation are crucial matters in many parts of the world, as all life depends on having sanitary water.
Jesus went out of His way to introduce a lost woman to another kind of life-giving water. He deliberately chose to go to a town in Samaria, a place where no respectable rabbi would set foot. There, He told this woman about “living water.” Those who drink of it, He said, “will never thirst.” It will “become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14).
The living water is Jesus Himself. Those who receive Him have eternal life (v.14). But the living water He provides also serves another function. Jesus said of those who receive it: “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (7:38). The living water that refreshes us is to refresh others also.
As fresh-water distribution is uneven in the world, so too is the distribution of living water. Many people do not know followers of Jesus who really care about them. It is our privilege to share Him. Christ is, after all, the living water for whom people are thirsting.
We seem careless of our drinkable waters. The same way we are careless to a large degree of our faith being taught in our churches. It is VITAL to wise up and take God's Word as truth.
It seems we are following in the actions and foot steps of Europe. Even the formerly most Christian nations have completely deserted and empty churches,/ cathedrals, apparently the people no longer honor the LORD or His commandments. The last days are near and we are aimlessly wandering about making decisions on same sex marriage, some are demanding abortions, etc., and many politically correct ideas. GOD forgive us.
Is it the medias? The TV programing, the lack of teachings within the homes, not understanding or reading the HOLY WORD? We can not teach what we do not know. SATAN is alive and active and has drawn many to him. MOO AMERICA is on the precipice and might not be able to recover the damage currently occurring. Astronomical debts. loss of effective armed forces. Literally printing money 87 million a day, or is it more and has been happening for a couple of years? We are headed for a huge crash. Get a food supply in storage. PRAY FOR GOD'S HELP AND PRAY FOR EVIL TO NOT BE ALLOWED TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLE.
FATHER GOD, WE PRAY FOR A MIRACLE TO SAVE America, FROM COLLASPE. WE THANK THEE AND TURN TO THEE IN FAITH AND REPENTANCE, IN JESUS NAME, AMEN.
THIS IS Not FAR FROM OCCURRING. WAKE up! BLOCK THE ENEMIES OF America, AND RESTORE US TO OBEYING THY WORD, FORGIVE OUR SINS LORD, IN JESUS NAME AMEN.
Heartfelt Amens to your Prayer.
Read: Psalm 32:1-7
While I was talking with a gifted pianist, she asked me if I played any musical instruments. When I responded, “I play the radio,” she laughed and asked if I had ever wanted to play any instrument. My embarrassed answer was, “I took piano lessons as a boy but gave it up.” Now, in my adult years, I regret not continuing with the piano. I love music and wish I could play today. That conversation was a fresh reminder to me that life is often constituted by the choices we make—and some of them produce regret.
Some choices produce much more serious and painful regrets. King David discovered this when he chose to sleep with another man’s wife and then killed that man. He described the guilt that filled him as devastating, saying, “When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer” (Ps. 32:3-4). But David acknowledged and confessed his sin to God and found forgiveness (v.5).
It is only from God that we can receive the grace of forgiveness when our choices have produced painful regrets. And only in Him do we find the wisdom to make better choices.
Amen, sir!
Thank you, Rus, for that beautiful—NEEDED—lesson from God’s Word!
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