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The Song of Our Lives

Oct 9, 2015

The Lord God is my strength and my song. —nlt Isaiah 12:2

Everyone touched by a piece of music hears it differently. The composer hears it in the chamber of his imagination. The audience hears it with their senses and emotions. The members of the orchestra hear most clearly the sound of the instruments closest to them.

In a sense, we are the members of God’s orchestra. Often we hear only the music closest to us. Because we don’t hear a balanced work, we are like Job who cried as he suffered: “Now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them” (Job 30:9).

Job recalled how princes and officials had respected him. His life was “awash in cream, and the rocks gushed olive oil for me” (29:6 nlt). But now, he had become the target of mockers. “My harp plays sad music,” he lamented (30:31 nlt). Yet there was much, much more to the symphony. Job simply couldn’t hear the whole song.

Maybe today you can hear only the sad notes of your own violin. Don’t lose heart. Every detail in your life is part of God’s composition. Or perhaps you are listening to a cheerful flute. Praise God for it and share your joy with someone else.

God’s masterpiece of redemption is the symphony we are playing, and ultimately everything will work together for His good purposes. God is the composer of our lives. His song is perfect, and we can trust Him.

Lord, help me to trust You, especially when my life seems discordant and out of tune. I thank You because I’m part of Your symphony and Your song is perfect.

Faith in God’s goodness puts a song in the heart.

Insight:

Job’s world had been turned upside down, having lost his wealth (1:14-17), his family (1:18-19), and his health (2:7). Even as he reached an impasse with his three friends while trying to unravel the real reasons for his suffering and pain (chs. 3–31), Job was trying to come to terms with the consequences of his physical and financial losses. Spiritually, he felt that God had abandoned him (29:1-5); emotionally, he was deprived of happiness and enjoyment (29:5-6); and socially, he had lost his standing, power, respect, and honor (30:1-9). Despite his many questions, Job proclaimed his trust in the sovereign God (42:1-6). Sim Kay Tee

Amen.

Amen to this beautiful reminder!

Maybe today you can hear only the sad notes of your own violin. Don’t lose heart.

Every good promise of the Lord has been fulfilled...not one has failed. Joshua 23:14

~Good Morning To Amy's Place~

~Wear Red On Friday To Support
Our Troops~

I Wish You A Wonderful Weekend
Busy day with 3 cats to the vet.

Good morning Meg!

TOO CUTE!!!

Happy Friday!

And May You Be Blessed!

((((HUGS))))

ML/LTOS

HAPPY FRIDAY TO
AMY'S PLACE!

Clan MacNessa wishes a Happy Friday to All!!

Wearing Red to support our Troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world!

Red Friday, at Amy's Place
to support our troops!

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!

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Thank you, Dear Meg! I Love your Cute #164.
That Baby is Adorable!

(((((Hugs and Blessings)))))

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(((((Goodnight, and God Bless)))))

My Dog's My Boss

Each day when it's anighing three
Old Dick looks at the clock,
Then proudly brings my stick to me
To mind me of our walk.
And in his doggy rapture he
Does everything but talk.

But since I lack his zip and zest
My old bones often tire;
And so I ventured to suggest
Today we hug the fire.
But with what wailing he expressed
The death of his desire!

He gazed at me with eyes of woe
As if to say: 'Old boy,
You mustn't lose your grip, you know,
Let us with laughing joy,
On heath and hill six miles or so
Our legs and lungs employ.'

And then his bark was stilled to a sigh
He flopped upon the floor;
But such a soft old mug am I
I threw awide the door;
So gaily, though the wind was high
We hiked across the moor.
Robert William Service

Happy Dogurday, Caturday and Bunnyday!

Happy Pup/Caturday!

And may you enjoy every minute of it!

(((((HUGS)))))

ML/LTOS

Silky and Sassy

An Anxious Caturday at My House
My eldest kitty Silky is still at the vet's as she showed bad signs in blood work yesterday
and has lost weight.
Hoping antibiotics and IVs help her. We don't know the source of the problem yet.
My younger kitties did not wake me to be fed this morning...reflecting my mood.
Thanking God my daughter is here.
Good News ...Amy's tubes are out she can talk and drink liquids.

Love this!

Beautiful kitties, MEG! I’m so sorry to hear that Silky isn’t feeling well. Please keep us posted.

It’s a relief to hear that Amy is progressing well enough to have her tubes removed.

Thank you, MEG!

Thank you, trish...I adore her. and so do my younger kitties. My daughter rescued her about 11 years ago.
The picture is of her cuddling a rescued kitten...not her own. My daughter’s house must have had a sign on it...Kitties in trouble...Go Here.

What a sweet kitty! Some animals are so motherly. It’s beautiful.

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Love Comes First

Oct 10, 2015

We love [God] because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19

One evening my friend showed me one of the three decorative plaques that would be part of a wall arrangement in her living room. “See, I’ve already got Love,” she said, holding up the plaque with the word written on it. “Faith and Hope are on order.”

So Love comes first, I thought. Faith and Hope soon follow!

Love did come first. In fact, it originated with God. First John 4:19 reminds us that “We love [God] because he first loved us.” God’s love, described in 1 Corinthians 13 (known as the “love chapter”), explains a characteristic of real love when it says, “Love never fails” (v. 8).

Faith and hope are essential to the believer. It is only because we are justified by faith that “we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 5:1). And hope is described in Hebrews 6 as “an anchor for the soul, firm and secure” (v. 19).

One day we will have no need of faith and hope. Faith will become sight and our hope will be realized when we see our Savior face to face. But love is eternal, for love is of God and God is love (1 John 4:7-8). “Now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love”—it’s first and last (1 Cor. 13:13).

Thank You, Lord, for Your faithful love and for the love of family and friends. Please help me find ways to show Your love to others today.

We love because God first loved us.

Insight:

John’s gospel carries the themes of light (1:5; 8:12) and truth (1:14; 18:38) throughout his record of Christ’s earthly ministry. In 1 John, he revisits both of those themes (1:5-6). Today’s reading focuses primarily on the character of God’s great love. Bill Crowder