Reflections from December 2019

If I am growing weary in well-doing, it's because I'm relying on the wrong set of "spiritual muscles."  My own.
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The great thing about sitting around and talking to my favorite "old people" is that their souls are so young.  Full of Jesus.  If your children--and even you--do not know the old saints in your ministry, they are incredibly poor spiritually.  Why is it again, that we have Sunday school classes with a nice sprinkling of the elderly saints who know so much about what it means to follow and trust in Jesus?
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Believe God is omnipotent?  Then why haven't you prayed to Him about the situation you're facing?
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Did you number your day today?  Did you count it all joy?
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You do not wait on the Lord by sitting on your hands.  You wait on the Lord by using your hands to serve others.
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You cannot--dare not--measure God's goodness with material things.
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He cares!  Oh, yes!!!  He cares!!!
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The timing is His work.  The faithfulness until the right time is ours.
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Is your security resting on His love?  "More secure is no one ever than the loved one of the Father."  Who is your rock?  Your fortress?  Your strong tower?  Who is your "shelter in the time of storm?"  All other security is sinking sand.
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The angelic response to the birth of the Christ-child, the Savior  was "Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace to men of good will!"  Be their echo.
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My father raised me to be a gentileman.  For the sake of courtesy, yes.  But also because in a culture where men do not honor women in the smallest ways, they grow up to dishonor women in every way.
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He did not come to save the world from evil empires (that will be next time).  He came to save sinners from their sins.
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"Your life is hid in Christ."

"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus."

Your sins, iniquities, and transgressions He has nailed to His cross. Debt--paid in full.

He has taken all your sins and cast them into the bottomless sea of His loving forgetfulness. "I will remember their sins no more."

How must I respond to such infinite mercy, infinite grace and infinite love? Only one way:

"O Love that will not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee; I give Thee back the life I owe, that in Thy ocean's depths its flow may richer, fuller be."