“God is love”
We have no influence upon Gods love. “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly”. We have no more control over Gods love than the wetness of water, or the blueness of sky. The writer did not say, “God is sometimes love”, or “God is conditional love”. Instead he asked “what can separate us from the love of Christ?” No, God’s feelings of charity towards us transcend our actions. If our actions altered Gods devotion to us, then God would not be love, but human, for this is human love.
God loved us when we were unlovable.
You can not earn or dis-qualify yourself from it.
God is love.
LM
Friday, September 14, 2012
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Carving a God out of my own imagination
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Self deception is so easily accomplished, because we all want to believe our feelings are right.
God may not share my feelings about his children.
"Shall we call fire down from heaven?"
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Self deception is so easily accomplished, because we all want to believe our feelings are right.
God may not share my feelings about his children.
"Shall we call fire down from heaven?"
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Monday, September 3, 2012
Every man dies alone
In the garden, Jesus facing, the death of the cross, prayed,
“if it is possible let this cup pass from me.”
He later chastised his followers because, they could not sense the magnitude of the moment, and help carry any of his sorrow.
While He prayed - they slept.
This picture shows us, one of the harshest facts of life.
When you die, you will die alone.
Death is the one constants in living for God.
For he only uses broken and humbled vessels, so death must continually visit our lives.
In the natural when death visits your frame, the room may be full of friends and family, but you’ll face death alone.
In many of life’s situations, the death of a dream, a relationship, a friendship, a hope, you may be surrounded by many who love, care and feel for you, but you’ll have to face this death alone as
well.
“Can you not watch with me forone hour?”
I have often felt like shouting the same at those I love in my times of suffering. But if God has
allowed a death to enter your life, don’t charge those around you falsely. When you come out of your time of sorrow they will be there to share the joy of the resurrection.
Remember this fact; "when you die you will die alone."
Jesus said;” I will never leave you or forsake you”,
Only God can walk with you, in your time of sorrow, and He is always enough.
lm.
I wrote this in 2004 for the church bulletin ... little did I know the import of these words upon my life.
“if it is possible let this cup pass from me.”
He later chastised his followers because, they could not sense the magnitude of the moment, and help carry any of his sorrow.
While He prayed - they slept.
This picture shows us, one of the harshest facts of life.
When you die, you will die alone.
Death is the one constants in living for God.
For he only uses broken and humbled vessels, so death must continually visit our lives.
In the natural when death visits your frame, the room may be full of friends and family, but you’ll face death alone.
In many of life’s situations, the death of a dream, a relationship, a friendship, a hope, you may be surrounded by many who love, care and feel for you, but you’ll have to face this death alone as
well.
“Can you not watch with me forone hour?”
I have often felt like shouting the same at those I love in my times of suffering. But if God has
allowed a death to enter your life, don’t charge those around you falsely. When you come out of your time of sorrow they will be there to share the joy of the resurrection.
Remember this fact; "when you die you will die alone."
Jesus said;” I will never leave you or forsake you”,
Only God can walk with you, in your time of sorrow, and He is always enough.
lm.
I wrote this in 2004 for the church bulletin ... little did I know the import of these words upon my life.
God has never used anyone who wasnt busy.
Anybody that God has ever used was already busy or God would have never called them
If you want to get something done find a busy person, and it will get done.
The idle never have time to do anything.
When God called :
Moses tending his herds
Gideon was busy thrashing wheat by the wine press
Saul looking for the lost beast
David was busy watching his father’s sheep
Elisha was busy plowing w/12 oxen
Nemiah was busy bearing the kings wine cup
Peter and Andrew were busy casting a net into the sea
James and john were busy mending their nets
Mathew was busy collecting taxes
Saul was busy persecuting the church
Only thing these men had in common was they were busy when God called them.
There is no room in Gods work for lazy people.
Faithful
Moses- “faithful in all my house” Num.12:7
Ballams donkey “Haven’t I carried you faithfully”
• God never used them if first they hadn’t been faithful”
God looking for faithful men
• 1 Cor. 4:2 “required in stewards that a man be found faithful”
• 2 Tim 2:2 “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to Faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
• 1 Cor. 4:17 “for this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son,
and faithful in the lord
• 1 Tim 1:12 “And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry;”
o Number 1 requirement is faithfulness
o “he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much”
o “ his Lord said unto him, well done good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things”
“If you want more or to do more, be faithful with what you’ve gotten”
“What so ever your hands find to do, do with all your heart”
Busy, faithful men and woman are what God is looking for.
LM
If you want to get something done find a busy person, and it will get done.
The idle never have time to do anything.
When God called :
Moses tending his herds
Gideon was busy thrashing wheat by the wine press
Saul looking for the lost beast
David was busy watching his father’s sheep
Elisha was busy plowing w/12 oxen
Nemiah was busy bearing the kings wine cup
Peter and Andrew were busy casting a net into the sea
James and john were busy mending their nets
Mathew was busy collecting taxes
Saul was busy persecuting the church
Only thing these men had in common was they were busy when God called them.
There is no room in Gods work for lazy people.
Faithful
Moses- “faithful in all my house” Num.12:7
Ballams donkey “Haven’t I carried you faithfully”
• God never used them if first they hadn’t been faithful”
God looking for faithful men
• 1 Cor. 4:2 “required in stewards that a man be found faithful”
• 2 Tim 2:2 “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to Faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
• 1 Cor. 4:17 “for this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son,
and faithful in the lord
• 1 Tim 1:12 “And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry;”
o Number 1 requirement is faithfulness
o “he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much”
o “ his Lord said unto him, well done good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things”
“If you want more or to do more, be faithful with what you’ve gotten”
“What so ever your hands find to do, do with all your heart”
Busy, faithful men and woman are what God is looking for.
LM
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