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Funny How Things Work

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on February 9, 2009
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about being thankful for all of God’s mercies to us. I mentioned just being able to take another breath was one of the things I was thankful for, as even that is from the Lord. Well, last week we got an up close and personal experience in learning to be thankful for all things, and yes, especially for breathing. My son was having some difficulty with a cold that he just couldn’t shake, so I took him to the doctor’s office to see what was going on. After two breathing treatments in the office we were sent to the hospital because they felt he was not getting enough oxygen into his little blood system. If you looked at him, he looked fine!

We are back home now and he is doing great after all the wonderful assistance of the doctors, nurses and medications–and the Lord’s blessing. Wow! Do I ever take so many of the Lord’s mercies for granted. So, yes, even our every breath is something to give thanks for. How many other things do I take for granted? I am ashamed to show you the list, so I won’t. But it really got me thinking about how I ought to trust God with every fiber (not to mention all He has done for me already in Christ Jesus) of my being and truly give thanks for everything.

So, I am practicing to be thankful this week (and everyday of the rest of my life) for all things that come from my Heavenly Father (which is everything, I might add). Especially paying attention to those little things that go unnoticed.

I was reminded yesterday morning during our family worship another thing I take for granted, a husband that prays for me. A simple prayer, “Lord, thank you for my wife, Please bless her in her day with the children.” My God cares about me, and He has blessed me with a husband who cares for me, and my soul.  The Lord has really made me sensitive and opened my eyes to all the great things I have to be thankful for and this is just another one. There are so many things I overlook.

How about you? What are the “simple” things the Lord is teaching you to be thankful for today?

Monday Meditation

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on January 19, 2009
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“Prayer is one of the outstanding privileges of the Christian life.” A.W. Pink

Redeem the Time

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on January 12, 2009
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I was reading to my children this morning from a little magazine for children called, The Friendly companion. The issue we were reading pertained to the subject of ‘Time.’ This is a subject we are always thinking about, but maybe not always from the right perspective. I think we all wish for more time, but how often do we just waste the time we have? I have to be honest and say I can be guilty of this. By not using our time to the best of our advantage we really are just wasting our time. In conjunction with last week’s post on God’s mercies to us, this really made me think about how if I was more thankful for my time I would use it in a more God honoring way and not just to please self, especially as I realize that this time I have really has been given to me.

How precious time is! Once it is gone, it is just plain gone, you can not take it up again. The writer used an excellent illustration to really drive this home. Two young ladies were given fortunes and no longer under parental supervision, they spent all their time on self indulgence, living their life to the full in pleasure, thinking all the while that, “Tomorrow would be as today, and much more abundant.” They had no time for religion, or rather, thinking they had plenty of time for that later, they were young after all. But that was when they were both in good health. Affliction soon came, and these were their last words, “It is now too late!” and “A world of wealth for an inch of time.”  His point? How few in this life seem really to know the value of time; those leaving time for eternity seem most to understand its importance.

Christ is the the one “possession” worth spending our time on, he is the true treasure and riches we need. Those that are seeking Him are the ones that are able to rightly set value upon time, because they can say, “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Minding religion and the word of God is not a waste of our time causing us to loose out on pleasure, in all actuality this is gaining true and real pleasure.

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:15,16

Just a thought for my meditation today!

Poor Lonely Blog

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on January 5, 2009
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No…I didn’t fall off of the face of the Earth. I have just been away. Between our family being sick and just plain life, I have not had a whole lot of time, nor desire to blog. So I am here, and I hope to get back into the swing of things soon.

We were encouraged from the pulpit yesterday to take some time to think on the mercies God has on us–lost or saved–for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. In the midst of the business of this life, we so often over look the daily mercies God has poured out on us. It ought not to be this way! God’s people are to be a thankful people. Thankful and obedient to the God who has made us, not demanding and ungrateful.

One thing that comes to my mind very quickly is my breath. Even being able to breathe is a mercy. Every single breath I take has been given to me by God. How thankful and humble I ought to be! We have a tendency to think that He owes us these things. It is such a simple thing and I know I over look this, and so much more in my life, that I ought to be thankful to our living God for.

Just a quick meditation for today. This is what I am thinking on. How about you? What things are you thankful for in your life today?

True Religion

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on September 8, 2008
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Obedience

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:26, 27

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:15, 16

The above picture is a part of what I get to see out my window in the morning while I am eating my breakfast and meditating over God’s word. This is one of my favorite flowers, Obedience. I have to wait all year long to see this beauty, but I enjoy the wait and look forward to its appearance with great anticipation. I was musing over the sermons I had heard yesterday while looking out my window at these interesting flowers. The scripture passages above that were expounded yesterday have really struck a cord in my heart.

We all have an idea of what we think proper obedience is, but does it line up with the scriptures? As born again Christians our ideas must always be lined up with the word of God and not our own thinking. Then action must follow, or obedience. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:  Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.  Ephesians 2:8, 9

We were encouraged yesterday to think of ourselves and not our neighbors in these matters. And I wanted to pass that along to you today too! How easy is it to notice the sin in others and then just casually overlook our own, or to quickly justify why we should not have to be as obedient as the scripture lays forth. Let us examine our own heart and motives in these things. It was interesting to me that the passage in James pointed out that this man “who thinks he is religious” has deceived his own self because he has a lack of obedience to the commandments of God; and therefore ultimately showing a lack of grace working in him.

Don’t let this man be one of us! Let us take time today to think over our walk in Christ Jesus.

This was a needful meditation for me today. I pray that it will benefit you as well.