I have learned much about myself from the game of racquetball. In fact, I have learned a great deal over the years about all aspects of life and living on the racquetball court. Here are some of the more important lessons that have come from the court: Read more
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55:8-11)
This is a very packed passage and I pray you find all the meaning in it for your own life, as I unfold the meaning of it in my own life. I truly enjoy how the beginning starts. God’s thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways. Sometimes this is difficult to understand. Like Ralph Waldo Emerson says, “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” We would all rather follow the trail that more footsteps have been on, the one that looks a little easier.
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Today is not an ordinary day. No, today almost 2000 years ago, one man was executed for a crime he did not commit. On the calendar it is recognized as “Good Friday,” but I started to think about this why do we call it good friday? There wasn’t anything good that happened on that day. On that day, Jesus Christ was brought before the crowds that He healed, He taught, He loved, and shared His life with. He never once pleaded His case, He simply took on the sins of the world. He stood there as a sinless man and took on every sin of men and women before Him and the ones who would come after Him. Then He was whipped, crowned with thorns, led up a hill, and hung on a cross. I haven’t seen anything good yet! In fact, the people of Jesus day were probably losing hope, not knowing that He was about to follow through on every prophecy in the Old Testament.
All I really needed to know I learned in KINDERGARTEN “Genesis”
I’ve been studying Genesis a lot lately and I continue to be amazed at what I find there. I have studied it many times before, but God always finds a way to help me experience it in a new way. I’m starting to get the feeling like this could be a book that sets you up for life. Kind of like that old saying, “All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten.” Yes, I feel it is very important to know the whole Bible and allow all of it to impact your daily life with the Lord. Please don’t misunderstand me.
I simply want to draw some truths from Genesis to show you how exciting God’s Word can be. It is vibrant, living, and active in our daily lives, if we allow it to be. Sometimes we tend to make God’s Word complicated and forget to draw the meaning from it for our lives. God wants us to seek His Truth, so we can be renewed daily in Him. I pray you will take the time to read Genesis with me, at your own pace, as we embark on a journey to walk out God’s Word.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because GOD IS LOVE.
This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that HE LOVED US and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us. (1 John 4:7-12, 19)
God’s LOVE…
It’s amazing and awe inspiring. We have yet to understand it. Yet, we so often leave it in the dust to search after our own dreams and our desires. I want to learn to juggle the things that are important and lose the things that have no importance.