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Posted on 01/31/2013 9:39:40 PM PST by JustAmy
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What a lovely breakfast and setting. Do you have my lunch ready yet? I made vegetable beef soup yesterday and it is so good. I’m going to call Barry to see if he can run by and pick up some to take home. I put it in canning jars ‘cause they’re easy to place in fridge! If he doesn’t get to pick up the soup, I will put some of it in the freezer and keep some out for me to eat! I don’t tire of soup too much.
It was so cold this morning but has warmed up some. Its not summer weather but better than 20 this morning!!
What matters most is the working together for the health, strength, and good of the whole body, What is true for the body, and the person, is good for the whole society., church, government.
God has blessed us with a wonderful instruction book for knowing Him, for living a good life, directions for how to handle every situation. Most do not read it, and do not know the what and how the Holy Bible tells us to live our life and how to honor God and to love our fellow man. It is complete, and it is WAY........ under read.
Thou art a wonderful God, righteous, full of tender mercies, compassion, grace, truth. Forgive us LORD we know not what we do. Forgive us our sins fill us with thy Holy Spirit to give us understanding and the urge to seek Thee and do Thy Will in Jesus name, amen.
When you buy a nice piece of jewelry, it is often tucked into a setting of black- or dark-colored velvet. I think it’s designed that way so that your attention is immediately drawn to the beauty of the jewelry. If the packaging were highly decorated, it would compete with the beauty of the treasure.
It reminds me of Paul’s comments about the ministry of Jesus through us, when he said, “We have this treasure in jars of clay” (2 Cor. 4:7 niv). It’s easy to forget that we are the packaging and His work is the treasure. So we adorn our jars of clay, taking credit for the things we do to serve Christ. We seek to bring glory to ourselves when we’ve forgiven someone, or shown mercy, or given generously. The problem is, when we start seeking affirmation and praise for good deeds, we compete with the brilliance of the treasure of God working through us.
When we do things for Christ, it’s not about us but about His glory. The less obvious we are, the more brilliant He becomes. Which is why, Paul says, the treasure has been put in jars of clay so that God would be the one to be glorified. Besides, since when are jars of clay significant? It’s what’s inside that counts!
Read: 2 Corinthians 4:7-15
Amen! I’ve missed these! (((hugs)))
I missed posting them. Back soon.
I'm So Glad FR and Amy's Place is Back!!
(((((Blessings to All FRiends)))))
(((((Hugs and Blessings!)))))
Your welcome! It’s been torture not being able to post!
Thank you, jaycee.
Yum..I would love some of your soup..I am enjoying soup I made and kept in the freezer..15 bean soup..I added more veges than the recipe on the package called for and it is GOOD.
When I got back to post FR was dead!
I miissed your Daily Bread, Rus..Amen
(((HUGS and Blessings))) To You. Kitty
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The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was launched in 1977, is on the outer edge of our solar system more than 10 billion miles away. In February 1990, when Voyager 1 was almost 4 billion miles from us, scientists turned its camera toward Earth and took some pictures that revealed our planet as an almost imperceptible blue dot on a vast sea of empty space.
In the immense reaches of our universe, Earth is just a minuscule speck. On this seemingly insignificant pebble in the ocean of galactic objects live more than seven billion people.
If this makes you feel insignificant, God has some good news. Tucked into one of David’s psalms is a rhetorical question that can allow you to step out into the night air, look up at the sky, and rejoice. Psalm 8:3-5 tells us that we are superstars in God’s eyes: “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, . . . what is man that You are mindful of him? . . . You have crowned him with glory and honor.” Soak that in! God—who spoke into existence a universe so vast that the Hubble telescope hasn’t found the end of it—created you, and He cares deeply for you. He cared enough to ask Jesus to leave heaven to die for you.
Look up in wonder at God’s creation and praise Him that He crowned you with glory through His Son Jesus.
Read: Psalm 8
“It’s easy to forget that we are the packaging and His work is the treasure. So we adorn our jars of clay, taking credit for the things we do to serve Christ.”
In this life we are indeed tender and perishable. Do we set our jars on a shelf, out of the activity of the day, or do we place our jar in the middle of it all?
How the jar is decorated or not is totally unimportant, do not hide our jar in the corner, do not allow our jar to become polluted, keep it pure. ...
" it is what is inside that counts." Walk with the LORD everyday, in Jesus name and for his sake. Amen.
This is a very lovely writing, geo. Thank you for these sweet words.
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Hi All !
Missed ya!
What a cute, mysterious kitty. I think he needs a big hug to put a smile on that face.....LOL!
I love this kitty!
(((Hugs)))
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