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Just read it. It says it all about how important our relationship with God should be.
You are able to see
into my inmost being
You know what i cling to
what i harbor inside
be my Lord and Savior
the thing i keep inside
be the first thought
be the final thought
be everything i think of
ever present in my life
my God
my Friend
my Lord
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12 Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end …
Hebrews 3:12-14, NASB
This will be short and sweet today.
Relationships are very important. The Bible is all about God’s desire for relationships with us through His Son!
Therefore, I encourage you today to encourage each other.
Call your friends and family to tell them you love them.
Share Christ with family and friends who may not know Him.
Lift each other up in prayer, and tell those for whom you pray that you are praying for them!
Be with friends (“in spirit” if need be) who need friends: an ear, a shoulder, a helping hand.
Just love those who are close to you!
Take the time today to show those who are close to you that you care!
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God really, really, really loves us. Did you know that?
We should thank Him for that on a regular basis.
Please enjoy.
thank You for Your love
for giving me meaning
thank You for compassion
for wanting me as i was
thank You for Life
for sending down Your Son
thank You for loving me
for loving the unlovable
the unloved
me
thank You for Your love
Make sure you read David’s wise words on Proverbs 26:23 at Proverbial Thought!
Here is another look at who we are, this time through the lyrics of David Crowder.
Consider the following passages:
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:73 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
Matthew 13:3-943 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. 45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Luke 6:43-45
God created us from the earth, and we are frequently referred to as soil or plants (which grow from soil).
Earth is soil which can support life.
Dirt, on the other hand, is misplaced soil. While things can grow from dirt, usually all you get are weeds or weak plants.
Only with soil do you get strong plants which are capable of producing good fruit. Good fruit are good deeds, good speech, and praise of God.
Weak plants and weeds do not give good fruit. Any good deeds from people like this are tainted by pride or do not have lasting or good results. There is a lack of, if any, praise to God.
And the thing that needs to be remembered is that only God by the grace shown through work of the crucified Christ and through the power of the Holy Spirit can make us clean soil, fertile soil capable of growth and good fruit.
Listen to David Crowder and his band worship God for His creation and grace. Read the lyrics, and I pray grow in some understanding of just how much our God has done for us out of His love for us.
Wholly Yours by David Crowder Band
I am full of earth
You are heaven’s worth
I am stained with dirt, prone to depravity
You are everything that is bright and clean
The antonym of me
You are divinity
But a certain sign of grace is this
From a broken earth flowers come up
Pushing through the dirtYou are holy, holy, holy
All heaven cries “Holy, holy God”
You are holy, holy, holy
I wanna be holy like You areYou are everything that is bright and clean
And You’re covering me with Your majesty
And the truest sign of grace was this
From wounded hands redemption fell down
Liberating manYou are holy, holy, holy
All heaven cries “Holy, holy God”
You are holy, holy, holy
I want to be holy like You areBut the harder I try the more clearly can I feel
The depth of our fall and the weight of it all
And so this might could be the most impossible thing
Your grandness in me making me cleanGlory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
You are holy, holy, holy
All heaven cries “Holy, holy God”
You are holy, holy, holy
I want to be holy, holy GodSo here I am, all of me
Finally everything
Wholly, wholly, wholly
I am wholly, wholly, wholly
I am wholly, wholly, wholly YoursI am wholly Yours
I am full of earth and dirt and You
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Perhaps you have heard that time happens in cycles. Everyone goes through cycles. The earth goes through cycles. Our lives go through cycles. The writer of Ecclesiastes pointed this out 3000 years ago (and chapter 3 was made into a song by “The Byrds” in 1965!)
One of the cycles that is evident throughout history is God doing something amazing, people glorifying Him, and then people falling away from God. This happens in many ways, and the most prevalent in the past 2000 years is focusing too much on rules and regulations within the Church/Judaism.
Therefore, we must always go back to the beginning: GOD. In Jesus Christ, the firstfruits of the new righteousness (1 Corinthians 15), we always have a fresh start. May we seek Him first and always.
there is a new thing
God is doing something new
He is going back to the beginning
starting with what looks old
God is sick of the religion
that proliferates His Body
the new thing now needs to come
to bring us back to God
it is time to abandon
everything that gets in the way
it is time to turn to the Son
and His grace and peace
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Did you know God loves you?
It is so true.
How much?
Here are a couple of examples:
See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
Matthew 6:28-30, NIVBut God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
Romans 5:8-10, NIV
If we were to compare ourselves to plants, it is as though we are flowers. Not just any flowers, but weeds. Due to our sin, we are out of place and only take away from our environment. A weed is a plant out of context. Our sin puts us out of context with God, and all we are able to do ultimately is cause harm.
Something that is quite amazing, though, is that in the hands of an innocent child weeds can become beautiful flowers.
What is more amazing is that, though we are not worth much on our own and out of context, when we turn to God and trust Him, we look like beautiful flowers being presented to Him by His Son who has redeemed us. For at the end of the age, Jesus Christ will return to take His redeemed weeds to the Father:
I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
Revelation 14:14-16, NIV
This is what Five Iron Frenzy is singing about in this song “Dandelions”.
Dandelions
In a field of yellow flowers
underneath the sun
bluest eyes that spark with lightning
boy with shoes undone.
He is young
so full of hope
reveling in tiny dreams
filling up his arms with flowers
right for giving any queen.
Running to her beaming bright
while cradling his prize.
A flickering of yellow light
within his mother’s eyes.
She holds them to her heart
keeping them where they’ll be safe
clasped within her very marrow
dandelions in a vase.
{chorus 1}
She sees love where
anyone else would see weeds.
all hope is found.
Here is everything he needs.
Fathomless your endless mercy
weight I could not lift.
Where do I fit in this puzzle
what good are these gifts?
Not a martyr, or a saint
scarcely can I struggle through.
All that I have ever wanted
was to give my best to you.
{chorus 2}
Lord, search my heart
create in me something clean.
Dandelions
you see flowers in these weeds.
Gently lifting hands to heaven
softened by the sweetest hush
a Father sings over His children
loving them so very much.
More than words could warrant
deeper than the darkest blue
more than sacrifice could merit
Lord, I give my heart to You.
{chorus 2}
Lord, search my heart,
Create in me something clean.
Dandelions
You see flowers in these weeds.
Gently lifting hands to heaven,
Softened by the sweetest hush,
A Father sings over his children,
Loving them so very much.
More than words could warrant,
Deeper than the darkest blue,
More than sacrifice could merit,
Lord, I give my heart to you.
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God loves us in amazing ways. That is the entire point of this poem. It is a brief look at how much God loves us.
how much does God love us
just how much does the One True God love us
He created not just a plant
or solar system
or galaxy
but a universe
how much does He love His prized creation
He never gave up
sent messengers
forgot our sins
sacrificed His Son
how deep does His love truly extend
He left paradise
became one of us
redeemed us
made us His holy children
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Pursuing Happiness
I am sure will be happy to hear (er … read) that this post will not be too long today!
That being said, the video below is about seven minutes long.
WARNING: There are a few non-child-friendly words in the video. I discovered the video through a politically left-leaning (read: liberal) website (because every now and then, both sides come up with some good stuff!)
Watch the video, and then we shall continue.
Do you know why I found this video so interesting?
Firstly, it is always inspiring seeing people do things that make them happy!
Secondly, this study revealed something … THAT THE BIBLE HAS BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG!
Here are a few examples (NIV):
Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
Psalm 95:2Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
Psalm 100:4Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:19-20Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Philippians 4:6So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:6-7
Obviously, being thankful is important. Again, I only listed a few occasions of the Bible talking about being thankful.
If our fallen world keeps finding biblical truths (outside of the Bible), how much more should we be in our Bibles and applying those truths in our lives?
Here is a fun activity for you: open up the Bible app on your mobile device or go to www.biblegateway.com, and do a search for “thanks”, “thankful”, “thankfulness”, or “thanksgiving”, and just read some (or all) of the passages you find.
Then read more!
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An interesting fact, all of the poems in WW&SS this month were all written on October 3, 2007! (Next week’s, too!)
I have had many friends who have experienced life altering physical problems, whether they be birth defects, accidents, or illnesses that caused these issues.
Most of these friends have refused to give in to their physical limitations, and they fully trust in the redemption purchased through Jesus Christ to make their lives something incredible!
May we realize how much sin has impaired us all and fall on the grace and power of Christ!
invalids and redeemed
imagine being useless
a complete invalid
not going anywhere
wondering if you should live
but someone comes along
to help you live your life
practically killing himself
to show you are worth the time
even being useless
you are on a new team
there is someone who took you
and made your life redeemed
realize you are useless
sin has destroyed you
spiritually dead
without having a clue
but Someone came along
His name is Jesus Christ
He came down from heaven
literally giving His life
and then He rose again
made you forgiven and clean
embraced in His nail scarred hands
He has called you redeemed
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Jesus is the Truth of God. Our lives are interrupted, changed, and empowered by the Truth.
There are so many references in the Bible to what the Truth does for and to our lives.
Let the Truth change you!
(Also, this is the poem I first posted when I began using the headline “Weekend Words & Sunday Stanzas” almost two and a half years ago!)
Your Truth permeates my being
i cannot help but to think
about Your Word day and night
for i know it is good and right
Your Truth sets captives free
souls saved from going into the deep
it is by the power of Your Word
to cut loose sin like a sword
Your Truth cuts through to the marrow
and comforts me in my sorrow
by Your Word all things were made
and by grace through faith we are saved
a simple man of God 