Unfortunately, it is more common to hear the question “It’s okay if I stumble, right?” – instead of the question “How can I walk without stumbling?”
You see, one is not only admitting past defeat, but expecting defeat in the future as well. While the other is seeking victory for their lives.
Today is about victory.
Today is about miracles.
Today is about life.
Today is about Jesus Christ.
John 11:25-26 ESV
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Today is about love. Not the worldly, soap opera, lust in a poor disguise – but that faithful and forever kind of love. That love that sacrifices self for others. That love that is patient, kind, good, and forgiving. That kind of love that knows joy and faithfulness evermore on times of pain and struggle and suffering.
Yes, today is about love.
Am I serving, or looking to be served? Am I asking to receive without giving praise and honor and tithe and offering and service unto others and worship to the Lord?
Matthew 20:25-28 ESV
But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Death can be a real challenge for us to deal with in our lives. Whether it is dealing with the absence of a loved one or the reality of our own departure.
Isaiah 25:8 NLT
He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord will wipe away all tears. He will remove forever all insults and mockery against his land and people. The Lord has spoken!
Sometimes I see people so angry at one another, or being so hateful to each other that it makes me want to hand out leather straps to them and say –
Here, strike me for their offenses. Get rid of your anger, it is killing you. If it will help you be rid of those demons in your life, I’m willing to take the stripes.
A flock of sheep with a protective Lion amongst them doesn’t need to be afraid of a wolf in sheep’s clothing – but a defenseless goat wandering alone is an easy meal.
Romans 8:13 AMP
For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.
I really like this blog. Great breakdown into Read, Relate, React, Respond. Obviously this person has a lot more experience at this than I do. I don’t want to copy exactly what they are going, but I can definitely learn from their example and improve on my own posts in the future.
I wait quietly before God, for my victory comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will never be shaken.
(Psalm 62:1-2)
Read: Numbers 28:16-29:40, Luke 3:23-38, Psalm 62:1-12, Proverbs 11:18-19
Reelate: In a short time after the death of Muhammad, Islam spread like wildfire. During the next three centuries two thirds of Christendom had fallen and it looked like they were completely unstoppable. Then the Christians pushed back. In what has become known as the Crusades, the European world attempted to put a halt to the advance of Islam and possibly regain what had been lost. They failed. Wave after wave of “Christians” landed on the shores of the Near East but one by one bastions like Jerusalem, Edessa, Acre, and ultimately even Constantinople fell. This was as much because of the duplicity of those supposedly defending Christendom as it was from the ever mounting atrocities…
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Yep, I feel like a noisy gong.
Yep, I read these posts of mine and wonder how much bigger of a hypocrite I look like every day.
Harold J. Ballinger 