So today IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN. But that is the color Jennifer has picked for us. Actually she picked it several days ago but once again I have fallen behind. So green it is. Click the capitalized link to see how many other matches there are to this simple (or not) shade.
God has challenged me to begin creating a culture of worship using Lillie-Put as a tool. To that end I have created 7 recurring posts dedicated to the subject of worship and praise
SACRED SUNDAYS
MAGNIFICATION MONDAYS
TEHILLAH TUESDAYS
WORSHIP WEDNESDAYS
THANKFUL THURSDAYS
FAITHFUL FRIDAYS
AND SHOUTIN’ SATURDAYS
Magnification Mondays are based on bringing worship that magnifies or makes large the name of Jesus Christ. If you have a song that makes Jesus name great feel free to share it in the comments section.
But it was the Lord ’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord ’s good plan will prosper in his hands.
Isaiah 53:10 NLT
http://bible.com/116/isa.53.10.NLT
Have you considered what God’s good plan cost Jesus? What will God’s good plan cost you?
I thought for this one I should come up with something Valentino but this is what kept coming to mind.
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After seven days the Lord gave me a message. He said, 17 “Son of man, I have appointed you as a watchman for Israel. Whenever you receive a message from me, warn people immediately. 18 If I warn the wicked, saying, ‘You are under the penalty of death,’ but you fail to deliver the warning, they will die in their sins. And I will hold you responsible for their deaths. 19 If you warn them and they refuse to repent and keep on sinning, they will die in their sins. But you will have saved yourself because you obeyed me.
20 “If righteous people turn away from their righteous behavior and ignore the obstacles I put in their way, they will die. And if you do not warn them, they will die in their sins. None of their righteous acts will be remembered, and I will hold you responsible for their deaths. 21 But if you warn righteous people not to sin and they listen to you and do not sin, they will live, and you will have saved yourself, too.” Ezek. 3: 16-21
“Unhappiness is caused by believing that something
is missing that we need to be happy.”
Gina Lake
I have learned through the coursing of years that just about everything you have can be taken away: People, businesses, jobs, money, marriages, relationships, houses, lands, opportunities, education, they all come and go like the wind, blowing like a hurricane one minute dead calm the next.
Now I would never imply that the things in the list above are not important or are not to be desired. However staking life’s happiness on any of these things is not only certain ruin, it is idolatry. The people around you were never meant to be your fulfillment. Your job is not supposed to be your source. Your relationships, even your marriage, are not supposed to be your completion. Guess what. Your spouse cannot complete you. Husbands you are the head of your wives.Wives you are the help mate of your husbands, but only God completes them.
There is only ONE whose loss should make us unhappy. Strangely, in spite of the God shaped hole in our lives, many of us seem to be perfectly fine skipping through life without the ONE TRUE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS. We curse our luck at not winning the lottery. We throw fits if we lose our job or the girl friend cheats on us. Yet we never even consider that none of these things could ever make us truly happy anyway. All the while God sits back just waiting for us to believe that He is the One thing missing that we need to be happy. For those of us who have come to know that truth, well, life just can’t keep us down anymore.
What about you? Do you believe that God is the one thing missing? Have you found Jesus yet? If not what are you going to do about that?
This post is written in response to PATRICIA’S IN OTHER WORDS CHALLENGE.
Quote:“I have learned that success is to be measured – not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”
Born to a slave on April 5, 1856, Booker Taliaferro Washington’s life had little promise early on. In Franklin County, Virginia, as in most states prior to the Civil War, the child of a slave became a slave. Booker’s mother, Jane, worked as a cook for plantation owner James Burroughs. His father was an unknown white man, most likely from a nearby plantation. Booker and his mother lived in a one-room log cabin with a large fireplace, which also served as the plantation’s kitchen.
At an early age, Booker went to work carrying sacks of grain to the plantation’s mill. Toting 100-pound sacks was hard work for a small boy, and he was…
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WHAT IS GOD DARING YOU TO DREAM? WHAT IS GOD CALLING YOU TO RISK?
The devotion I chose for this morning’s prayer team meeting at church was from Joel 2:12-13. It led me to ask the question, “What would God have you mourn for?“
The private devotional I am reading is David Nasser’s, A Call To Die. Today I read Day 12, “Death…. and Your Good Clothes”. I underlined several phrases in the lesson but the one that caught my attention above all the others was this… “How do we decide what needs to be discarded and what needs to be worn? The answer is found in another question. What breaks the heart of God?” p.126
Two very similar questions. I think God would have us mourn for the things in this world which break His heart.
Tonight in Bible study we came up with a list of things which break His heart.
Human pride which keeps us from obeying God’s commands.
Our refusal to take the time to pray.
Life’s distractions that keep us from God’s presence.
Fear.
Unwillingness to let go of false security to embrace the only real security there is in life.
I think all of these break the heart of God. What would you add?
This week Ailsa has asked us to TAKE OFF OUR MASKS AND DISPLAY THEM FOR THE WORLD TO SEE.
Click the underlined link to see a world of masks at Ailsa’s site.
Here are mine with a few quotes thrown in for good measure:
Youth Pastor Garb
“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
― André Berthiaume
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“Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Know
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“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society
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