Sunday, August 31, 2014

Roll With It


“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 55:8-9

When nothing thing makes sense, roll with it because God has it all under control.

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Be A Cheerful Giver


Now this I say; he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 9:6-7

We hear this scripture attached to the idea of financially supporting a church, but that is not all that it implies.  Even if we do not offer much in the way of financial support for the Kingdom of God, we can cheerfully work for God by ministering to those who are hurting. 

We are called be a cheerful giver, and that implies more than opening up our wallets.  It involves opening up our hearts. 

Friday, August 29, 2014

Slaves of Righteousness


For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

What then?  Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?  May it never be!

Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Romans 6:14-19

Thursday, August 28, 2014

The Lord Has Compassion

As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Just as a father has compassion on his children,
So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
For He Himself knows our frame;
He is mindful that we are but dust.

Psalm 103:12-14

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Whoever Will

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved. 

Romans 10:11-13

The Bible is clear on this point:  Jesus came for everyone.  God does not refuse anyone who comes to Him.

Ask Jesus to come into your life today.  He is waiting for you.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Get to Work

Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life….

Philippians 2:14-16

The Apostle Paul understood that it is human nature to complain, but he also understood that serving God requires that whatever task is set out for us to do that we needed to get it done.

So, let us be quiet and get to work.