The devil loves to get me off balance. Yes, I need to be motivated by relationship, good intentions, and good attitude/ but on the other hand I need to have relationship, good attitude and good intentions backed up by habits tools and efforts that lead to that end. There is an old but practical saying,” […]
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Unconditional Surrender!
When I decided to quit being at war with God, (like a commander surrendering the city to an invader) I wanted to know what were the terms of surrender. How about I give him 10% of my income and the rest his mine to use, however I want? How about I give him Sunday morning […]
The Lord gives and he takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord! Job 1:22 Now, come on, be real! Is that the first thing you think of when you have lost something very very important to your happiness? It sure is not what I think of, “Blessed be the name of the Lord”. […]
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LONELINESS
There was emotional pain in the garden of Eden even before any sin had occurred! Adam looked around at and worked at naming all the animals two by two but there was just one like himself. God looked at this and said that the condition was not good. Genesis 2:18 All fulfillment comes from […]
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OOPS
Getting comfortable with imperfection In my last blog, I misspelled charity as cherity. I guess I could blame my spell-check because it doesn’t look at the title. The error did make me think of my fear of trying, of reaching out to share with others yet being afraid of doing things so poorly that they are not […]
No I’m not talking about forgiveness per se. Just talking about the very real human tendency to have to retake lesson 101 over again, especially when it comes to taking our hands off the wheel of our life and resting in our Lord’s driving skills He is invisible after all! Allegory: ( A lady fell over […]
Elijah was used by God to call down fire from heaven and defeat the slave-priests of Baal, but then he burned out whining that he was the only one left and might as well die. Works? Then God leads him off to sleep eat and hang out in a cave for a while. Climb off […]
For I am his master-creation, created in Christ Jesus unto good works. I am bought with a price. Having sold myself off cheaply, I have been redeemed at the Devil’s pawn shop where I had been priced as worthless and scheduled to be dumped into the dumpster in the alley out back. But! I have been […]
One of the reasons brilliant fools say in their heart, “there is no designer.” is that, if there is a designer then his designed things must be used according to the way he designed them or they will cause trouble and not work right. If your car is designed to run on vegetable oil then […]
What’s there to be grateful for? Would you be grateful for what I’ve been through? Gratitude is not a reasoned response to how good my present condition is making me feel. I am commanded to be grateful always FOR everything! Ephesians 5:20 Gratitude is the act of worship that: sees beyond my present or past […]
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