God Values You

Jesus said,

“Are not five sparrows sold for two cents?  Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.  Indeed the very hairs of your head are all numbered.  Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.” 

Luke 12:6-7

Do The Right Thing

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

James 4:17

How God Leads Us

…Do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? 

Romans 2:4

Maybe this says something about how we should treat others.  

The Blessings Go On and On

For in this case the saying is true, “One sows and another reaps.”

John 4:37

We do not to go about the work of God to become wealthy.  We do the work of God because we want people to know Jesus and to have a better life.  The work of God involves both preaching the Gospel and meeting the physical needs of people. 

Several years ago, our neighbor’s daughter was struggling to take care of her children.  I gave my neighbor a bag of clothes my daughter had outgrown for her granddaughter, Heaven, who was starting kindergarten and needed clothes.

A few days later my neighbor told me that Heaven was overwhelmed by the gift of those clothes.  She said Heaven told everyone “Sara Mills is my best friend.”  Heaven never met my daughter but she understood that someone cared for her. 

Many of the clothes in that bag were hand me downs my daughter received from an older friend.  My daughter was blessed by those clothes and then Heaven was blessed by those clothes. 

We sow and another reaps, then another sows and another reaps, and the blessings go on and on. 

Revive Me

Teach me to do Your will,

For You are my God;

Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

…. O Lord, revive me.

Psalm 143:10-11

Humble In Service

Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.  Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.  Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross.

For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 

Philippians 2:1-10