He answered, ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” (Luke 10:27)
ETERNAL INK
(The actual account of a dream)
by Craig F. Pitts
I dreamed I was in heaven
Where an angel kept God’s book.
He was writing so intently
I just had to take a look.
It was not, at first, his writing
That made me stop and think
But the fluid in the bottle
That was marked ETERNAL INK.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8)
What’s God doing in your life?
It’s Monday again and it’s time to reflect on God’s faithfulness. How did you see God come through for you this last week? How was God faithful to you? Did God show you something new? I would enjoy hearing how God is working in your life. Drop me a line!
By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew. (Proverbs 3:19-20)
I absolutely love this above passage. It portrays a depth of God that we will never fully comprehend. It’s saying that God used wisdom to lay the foundations of the earth. He did not merely lay them down. He didn’t just say let the water be here and the grass here and the sky here and oh while I’m at it, let me create some animals and maybe some human beings. No, he thought through what He was doing. He knew beforehand every single tree He would create, every animal, every fish of the sea, every fruit, every thing that we see, God took time to think through His creation. It wasn’t happenstance! God cared so much about us before we were even here that He took His time placing what we would enjoy on this earth. That’s truly amazing! I’ll never be able to comprehend that! Especially when I tend to take it for granted more often than not.
…Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight paths for him. (Luke 3:4)
Have you ever had to wait for something? Did it take a lot of patience? Was it worth the wait? If you are anything like me, you have had to wait for a great many things. Maybe you are even waiting for something now. What does your life resemble when you’re waiting? I can honestly say that at times I do well with the waiting game and at times I fail miserably. I probably fail more times than I care to admit. My time is just a little different from God’s. That’s why I’m really enjoying this next passage of Scripture we are going to go through together.
Let’s take a look at four different people who were waiting for the coming Messiah. What did their lives look like as they waited?
…for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity. (Proverbs 24:16)
I’ve been hearing many stories lately of people who have been stumbling. This verse reminds me that it doesn’t matter how many times you stumble or how many times you fall down… What matters is how many times you get back up again? If you fall down 5 times, get back up 6. If you fall 9 times, get back up 10. Never let anything keep you down!
I’m kind of looking at this like a football game. How many guys have fumbled the ball? The answer is too many to count. Does the team kick the player while he’s down? Do they argue over why he fumbled the ball? Do they talk about how bad he screwed up? No, they go on with the game. They are a team and the only way they can win the game is together. We as Christians are part of a bigger team. God’s team. We all fumble the ball once in a while. We all stumble and fall. It’s okay, we can and should be able to count on each other. Stay in the game. Keep your eyes on the end zone! Do not let the enemy defeat you or keep you down! One fumble never lost a game!