In Second Corinthians 3:18, Paul reminds we are to have an open face, beholding the glory of The Lord !!!!We of course do this with an open face to Him, another words a veil is removed by confessing our sins, so we can look into His Face ,and be changed into the same image as The Spirit of the Lord!!!! SELAH!!!!! So I guess it would be correct to say,if we keep our eyes upon Jesus and look into His face and keep the veil of sin out of our way, we will become more like Him!!! That should be what we want. So let’s work on that this week and increase the percentage of our time with Him instead of on ourselves !!! Enjoy Your Monday :-) FOCUS UPON HIS FACE !!!!!
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In Matthew 23, Jesus asked quite a question to the scribes and Pharisees, He asked them “ what is greater, the gold in The Temple,or The Temple, in which the gold was sanctified”. I look at it this way, The Temple was the dwelling place of God here on earth!!! The highest honor that anyone could’ve had was that their gold was used in that dwelling place of The Heavenly Father!!! It wasn’t the gold, that was worth so much, it was the place in which it was used. Here’s a quick thought for the day, your personal connection with The Cross at Calvary, is worth far more than anything you’ll ever own. Your prepaid reservation into The Kingdom, cannot be bought, it’s a free gift, paid for by something much more precious than gold, Christ’s Blood!!! Any billionaire today that doesn’t know Christ in a personal way, won’t be able to buy their way into Heaven on Judgement Day,but the theif, on the right side of Christ, on that Good Friday, is there today!!!! Have a great Lord’s Day!!
The Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 10:9, that we are first to confess The Lord Jesus as our savior,with our mouth, and that He was born in Bethlehem!!! And that He was none other than God, manifest in the flesh. (By the way if you’re worshiping somewhere that doesn’t believe that Christ is God, get the heck out of there) Don’t waste your time listening to anybody that does not believe in the deity of The Lord Jesus,because without that, you don’t have a plan of salvation . Secondly, we have to believe of course, that Christ died on The Cross for our sins, but also that God raised Him from the dead. Christ was our substitute, the sacrifice for our sins. So Paul is trying to tell us that the incarnation was first, and then His resurrection was 33 years later, guaranteed!!!! I remember that beautiful little book I had when I was going to Sunday School, it didn’t say much with words, didn’t need to, just had the different colors of black, red and white!!! That little book told us first, we are sinners, second,to trust Jesus and believe He died on the cross, thirdly,to confess our sins, That is how we have absolute hope, through personal salvation. Paul talked very strongly to the Romans, because he wanted them to get it right, when you read the book of Romans,you will understand Paul was in a heavyweight fight!!! And he hung in there, toe to toe against Satan, to tell of his falseness and deceit, and to preach the TRUTHFULLNESS OF OUR SAVIOUR !!!! Have a good Saturday
“Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of THE CROSS” For those of us who were around in 1976, I’m sure you will remember the young lady from Romania that got a perfect 10 at the Olympics. A feat that is not been duplicated since in that event!!! When God created heaven and earth it was perfect, it was without sin, it was exactly what God was capable of doing, and that is perfection!!! Didn’t last very long, not very long at all. Why did that first family sin and even comit murder? Perfection is exactly that, it means, to do something exactly right. God gave us the ability to be perfect and follow Him!! If the world would’ve been blameless till the day I was born, I would of
messed that up for sure :-) So when God used a plan of mercy and forgiveness, because we couldn’t accomplish perfection, at least He didn’t throw us off the bus. Now to some this means free reign on your own thoughts and how you wanna live your life,because we do have unlimited mercy and forgiveness. If you’d like to be as miserable as Adam and their family was,go ahead and continue in sin and then when you reach that 70×7 verse you’ll get the idea :-) Let’s all try this upcoming weekend to get a 10 in God‘s eyes, in the way were living our life :-) Have A Great Friday !!!! Here’s a cute little pop quiz for you :-) Did Cain kill Abel or did Abel kill Cain :-) One more little question, what was the tree called that Eve ate from, If you got both of these right you will be able to go to recess :-) I have no clue as to why the prophet Isaiah penned this in his 49th chapter!!! It’s about being a good parent!! Isaiah Quoted God as saying,how can parents forget their children and not care for them. If Isaiah could take a look ahead to 2019, I can’t imagine what he would write today. I’m sure the illustration here is this, God will never forget us, even when we wander from Him !!! But to forget you’re a parent and not be what you should be to your children, look out. I wake up every day knowing nine precious grandchildren roll the famous title of “Grandpa “ off their lips,for me there is nothing that means more to me than that. God doesn’t kick you out of the club when you wander, if you have a child, that you think is doing the same, you might want to check yourself first, then hit your knees!!!
Remember the cute little sayings “monkey see, monkey do” & “kids don’t fall too far from the family tree” Kids are a precious gift from God !!! Give them extra hugs today and enjoy your Thursday !!!! As a believer, I realize that I am in listed in The Lords Army. When I was in the regular army, back in 1970, while in basic training, you received uniforms, equipment, and a weapon. Back then it was an M-16. The Lords Army also passes out a uniform,and weapon, but here’s the key, you have to wear all of it, every day. There’s days in my life especially lately, that I feel I’ve gone AWOL, that of course means,absent without leave. Let’s just say you got in big time trouble if you tried that in the regular army. But when I KNOW I’ve let Jesus Christ down, I can’t explain how that rips the inner soul, because it does. God gives us great instructions through His manual, The Word, and an unbelievable arsenal of weapons !!! The Word has to be read, memorized,and tucked into our hearts. So today before I get my marching orders I’m gonna ask Jesus to please keep me close to Him and fully dressed to do battle for my Savior!!! I’ve said this before there’s not a more miserable person on earth than a backslidden Christian. Sorry for the upbeat daily thought :-) but it’s good to be real with yourself, put on God‘s armor today and keep an eye on the devil,he looks for just one part of that uniform to be off and makes his move!!! I remember the cute little chorus I learned in Sunday School “ I am in the Lords Army, I am in the Lords Army” yes you are Ken, SO LIVE IT !!!! Have a great Wednesday!!!
Just a quick little thought for you today, Did you know the difference between a wise man, and a fool,in the book of Proverbs, is that a wise man will listen and hear The Word Of God, and a fool wont!!! You could put it this way, wise children listen to their parents, wise young people obey the scripture and practice moral purity, a fool will do their own thing!! Wise old people ,Like me, :-), judge everything on whether it’s pleasing to The Lord or not !!! Fools do as they please to please themselves !!! Next time somebody calls you a fool, throw Proverbs 1:5 in their face, should shut them up for a little bit :-) OH!!! One more thing, a fool will become it’s own worst enemy !!!!
You have a great day !!!! I enjoy the old show “Perry Mason” each night at 11:30 cause I can’t sleep anyway, and it’s on one of the three channels I can get!! Perry always wins :-) Reminds me of the cute little cartoon, a plaintiff pulling the head of a cow, the defendant pulling his tail, and there’s the attorney right in the middle, milking it :-) You know that we have the best defense lawyer in the world, Jesus, He will plead our case before His Heavenly Father, for those of us who believe, and unlike lawyers today, there will be no charge!! Christ has already paid our debts and our bill through His Blood on The Cross!!!When I watch Perry. I can’t help but think of the court of three that I will be in someday, Jesus, My Heavenly Father, and me!!! heavenly father, and me. Nobody else in Christ will lay it gods feet what I did for him while here on earth
I’d like to take today and just wish my youngest son, Kristopher, and his beautiful wife, Alexandra, A very Happy First Year Anniversary!!!. They gave me the absolute honor and privilege a year ago to do their ceremony, and it was beautiful. I can’t believe a year has passed since that day, it was a day just like today, beautiful out,bright sunny, just fun, absolute fun. Do you know when we honor God and put Him where He should be in our lives we can have a sunny 84° feeling even when it’s cloudy and not so nice, can’t we!!! . My prayers for Kris and Al this last year,have been that they focus on keeping Jesus right in the middle, it will help. that’s good news for all of us , even us old single folk!!! Once again Happy Anniversary,Kris and Al, I love you,and thanks for the privilege last year to do this. Have a great Lord’s Day everybody
When people go by my headquarters today and see me working on snowplows on a 80° Friday, I’m sure they will get a chuckle out of it. It sure beats hooking them up and testing them out in 5° snowing sideways weather :-) Another words preparing way down the road, it does help. The day Christ returns the world‘s going to know it’s Him, you have till that day or your last breath to ask Him into your life!!! Once everybody sees His glorious, unbelievable return, they’re all going to want to be a part of it , Unfortunately you don’t get to join the party as it’s happening, you have to be ready. Go ahead people laugh at me in this 80° day :-) BUT!!!!’ I will be ready when it does snow. I’m sorry I won’t be able to help those left behind the day of Christ’s return, but if anybody pulls into the shop today and wants to chat, I got a perfect way to go into a story about being ready, and I’m not talking about winter !!! :-) Have a great Friday
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