Should have known. :)

Rock on!

Thank you for our Beautiful New Thread, Dear Amy!
(((((Hugs & Blessings)))))

Woo hoo! You have Heat!
It’s an unusual 15 degrees here this morning ...I am thankful for a working heater!

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Breathtaking Glory

January 3, 2018

Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor. 1 Chronicles 29:11

One of the pleasures of a trip to Europe is visiting the grand cathedrals that dot the landscape. They are breathtakingly beautiful as they soar toward the heavens. The architecture, art, and symbolism found in these amazing buildings present a spellbinding experience of wonder and magnificence.

As I thought about the fact that these structures were built to reflect God’s magnificence and His all-surpassing splendor, I wondered how we could possibly recapture in our hearts and minds a similar feeling of God’s grandeur and be reminded again of His greatness.

One way we can do that is to look beyond man’s grand, regal structures and contemplate the greatness of what God Himself has created. Take one look at a starry night sky and think of God’s power as He spoke the universe into existence. Hold a newborn baby in your arms and thank God for the miracle of life itself. Look at the snow-covered mountains of Alaska or the majestic Atlantic Ocean teeming with millions of God-designed creatures and imagine the power that makes that ecosystem work.

Mankind is not wrong to reach for the sky with structures that are intended to point us to God. But our truest admiration should be reserved for God Himself as we say to Him, “Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor” (1 Chronicles 29:11).

Lord, You do take our breath away with Your greatness. Thank You for reminding us of Your grandeur in Your world and in Your Word.

God alone is worthy of our worship.

INSIGHT

David’s prayer in 1 Chronicles 29 paints a beautiful portrait of a powerful and generous God. While these sentiments—God is everlasting, everything belongs to Him, and He strengthens His people—are all undoubtedly true, David isn’t just praying a random prayer. First Chronicles 29 is about the people giving resources and materials to the building of the temple. David’s prayer follows a listing of the resources people donated to the “building fund”—gold, silver, precious jewels, bronze, wood. We see a striking similarity between the descriptions of the building materials and the descriptions of God in that both are written in terms that inspire awe. The temple materials, both in amount and in type, would have been something to behold. Similarly, David describes God in terms that inspire awestruck reverence at His glory. Could it be that the writer was attempting to make the point that the house should reflect the occupant? The temple was where God resided among His people. Shouldn’t it reflect His glory? Today God’s Spirit dwells in believers.

Knowing that you are the temple of God’s Spirit, how can you reflect His glory?

Happy Warm Fuzzy Wednesday
To Amy's Place

"We Just Love Hanging Out Together"

"Woo hoo! You have Heat!"

Yes. Thank you, dinosaurs, for sequestering all those nasty carbon compounds. If you hadn't done that, you would have been doomed.

Oh, wait.

Good Morning

AMEN!
Thank you for starting our day off right every day, Rus

*Grin*

Happy Warm and Fuzzy Wednesday!

Getting Ready For the First Big Blizzard of 2018.

HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR!

((((HUGS))))

ML/LTOS

So I heard...Stay safe!!
We were colder than Boston this early morning...but we get a break...We’ll rise above freezing this afternoon.

This morning, it was a balmy 29 degrees, but Penny KNOWS something is up. She refused even a bacon treat, and I could barely get her to walk to the mailbox with me.

But I told her it was the first FReepathon of 2018, and we HAD to get that check in the MAIL before the BIG BLIZZARD!

((((HOW’S THAT for virtue signaling? hahahaha)))

We FReepathoners appeciate you!
It was 15 here this morning...Brrrrr

For seven days, it’s been in single digits. Poor Penny! She will NOT wear boots.

People SURE are strange,
They want to be at the front seat of a Bus,
be at the back of Church,

and be the Center of attention.

Happy REALLY Warm & Fuzzy
Wednesday!

O Happy Day...Suns out and we are at 53 degrees!.
It was officially 14 this morning!
We'll be back in the deep freeze at night but our
freezing days are gone for awhile.
Thank you for coming by with your cute graphics,
ML and LUV.
Stay safe and warm everyone.

So true!!

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What Do the Experts Say?

January 4, 2018

These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. John 5:39–40

Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby writes of the “uncanny ability of experts to get things hopelessly, cataclysmically wrong.” A quick glance at recent history shows he’s right. The great inventor Thomas Edison, for instance, once declared that talking movies would never replace silent films. And in 1928, Henry Ford declared, “People are becoming too intelligent ever to have another war.” Countless other predictions by “experts” have missed the mark badly. Genius obviously has its limits.

Only one Person is completely reliable, and He had strong words for some so-called experts. The religious leaders of Jesus’s day claimed to have the truth. These scholars and theologians thought they knew what the promised Messiah would be like when He arrived.

Jesus cautioned them, “You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.” Then He pointed out how they were missing the heart of the matter. “These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life” (John 5:39–40).

As another new year gets underway, we’ll hear predictions ranging from the terrifying to the wildly optimistic. Many of them will be stated with a great deal of confidence and authority. Don’t be alarmed. Our confidence remains in the One at the very heart of the Scriptures. He has a firm grip on us and on our future.

Father, whenever we are troubled or alarmed, help us to seek You. We commit this coming year and all it holds to You.

Knowing the future is uncertain; knowing the One who holds the future is a sure thing.

INSIGHT

An Old Testament example of “experts” who missed the mark is the account of the “wise men” in the book of Daniel. King Nebuchadnezzar ordered them to explain his dreams, but these experts admitted, “No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among humans” (2:11). However, God enabled Daniel to explain the dreams, and he told the king: “No wise man . . . can explain . . . the mystery. . . , but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries” (vv. 27–28). The king’s experts were right to say no one can reveal mysteries except God, but they were clearly wrong that God does “not live among humans” (v. 11). The Scriptures tell us, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14).

How does knowing Jesus is God and lives in us through the Spirit give you confidence in this world of uncertainty?

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