Tuesday, December 31, 2019

2020 Resolutions


On Making Resolutions
The turning of the calendar page toward a new year is always a great opportunity take stock of our lives and attempt to make positive adjustments.

Leaving a year of victories and losses behind, we all hope for a happier, healthier, more successful and less dramatic year ahead.

And so, as sure as the calendar turns from December to January, most of us will resolve to do some things differently to put us in a position to thrive in 2020.

Most of the common resolutions you have probably considered in past new year’s plans: lose weight, eat healthier, give up a bad habit, be a better person, etc.

As you consider this year’s promises to self, I’d like you to ponder the following:

          *Make daily time with God a high priority by praying and meditating on His Word
      *Be filled with the Spirit every day
         *Suit up with the Armor of God before leaving home
        *Try to see souls as God sees them, as loved and going to spend eternity in one of two places
         *Seek first His kingdom in every aspect
        *Attend His house every time the doors are open 
         *Carry out the Golden Rule, doing to others as you’d have them do to you
         *Be guided by the question, “What would Jesus do?”

By all means, in 2020, prosper, be healthy, love others, do right, bless and be blessed.

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Throne-Stable-Cross-Tomb-Throne



It began on the throne, the plan of salvation
The Son would be sent, to redeem the creation.
Then to a manger of hay, a crude makeshift cradle
God condescended, to a lowly stable.
From there to a cross, a gruesome, painful death
“Father, forgive them!” and He breathed His last breath.
From there to a grave, a cave’s cold stone table
With Him our sins were buried, when we were unable.
But then He arose, death’s power was undone
As He ascended on High, to regain Heaven’s throne.
On that throne, He ever intercedes
To save us, and keep us, and meet all our needs.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The Lord's Self Described Character and Job Description - Ex 34

Exodus 34:5  And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6  And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7  Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. 

1. YHWH, Jehovah - The self existent, eternal. Repeated for emphasis!
2. God, El - Almighty.
3. Merciful
4. Gracious
5. Longsuffering
6. Abundant in Goodness
7. Abundant in Truth
8. Keeping Mercy
9. Forgiving Iniquity & Transgression & Sin
10. Just
And for good measure:
11. Jealous, 14. (He demands allegiance)

Moses' reaction: 8  And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.