Archive for January, 2024
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
Isaiah 60:1, ESV
The Light of the world has come to us, and when we believe in His grace and salvation, His light grows in and through us.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2, ESV
We can’t truly know the eternal love of God with our fallen hearts and minds until we learn what it means to love Him with all of our heart, soul, and mind. The Holy Spirit is the one who renews and transforms our minds. Seek God and let him change you to love God.
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
Psalm 143:10, ESV
God wants what is best for us, being good and love. He gives us His Word and Holy Spirit to help us do what is good and loving.
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 119:11, ESV
God’s Law is based on His character, who He is. When we truly take in His Word by the power of the Holy Spirit, it will change our character, our inner-selves, to be more like our holy and righteous God.
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
James 1:25, ESV
God’s Law is not a set of arbitrary rules but based on His character, so He came as one of us to perfectly obey.
Now He helps us by His Holy Spirit to love in Christ’s obedience when we believe in His death and resurrection.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1, ESV
We see an eternal, All-powerful, personal, loving God from the very beginning. He didn’t need to create us, but He did. Perfectly. And He has a plan.
Trust in Him.
This is a heartfelt and heart-wrenching view of grief at the holidays that I think many could find encouragement and even the beginnings of healing from.
Let us pray for all grieving at this time (whenever you read this or it comes to mind!)
Daniel
https://www.cowboybobsorensen.com/2023/12/our-last-christmas-gift-exchange.html?m=1
Quite a bit of this, I admit, I just copied and pasted! I changed and added what was needed.
Did you know more stuff happened this year? (*sarcasm)
On some positive notes, my Youth Group grew much bigger, and the Instructional Assistant (one step below professor, but I still teach … but mostly grade work and keep students on task) for Christian Worldview at Grand Canyon University job is proving fruitful n many ways. A big one is that I personally have gotten to lead several people to faith in Christ and help others grow deeper in their faith, as well as helping some who had been antagonistic to religion in general and Christianity in particular be more open-minded. That is pretty cool.
I also restarted seminary this past autumn.
Overall, we had a good year.
And God is still good and in control.
This next year will definitely be … 2024.
In any event, may you receive an abundance of bunches of blessings this year. And though life may take some effort to trudge through, fall on the promises of God, this year and always.
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Numbers 6:24-26 ESV
In His Love,
Daniel
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11, ESV
God has planned every day of history, and He has planned on our full redemption. He has come and is coming again, and we all have a desire for eternal life.
Seek God now, and find eternal life in Christ.
a simple man of God 