Saturday... Was it really worth it?

Saturday... As some look back on this what they would call a very meaningful week they are wondering after giving great amounts of time, effort and money, they may be wondering, was it really worth it?

Solomon who was the son of King David in the Bible and who also became the King in Jerusalem after looking back on his wealth, his wisdom, his hard work, his accomplishments came to a conclusion and he wrote a book in the OT called Ecclesiastes. He started it by saying in 1:2 (NLT) "Everything is meaningless... completely meaningless." What? After living your life, becoming the wealthiest person at the time, the wisest man who ever lived, having everything you thought you wanted you came to the conclusion that all of it was meaningless?

Now here is the key, if we are doing all that we do for the wrong reasons, with the wrong purpose and for the wrong person, then it is meaningless.

Someone said that the great frustration in life is to find after climbing the ladder of success and getting to the top that it was against the wrong wall. That is meaningless.

Now the Palmist in Psalm 67 knows what real worth and meaning is. Verses 1 and 2 (NIV), "May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us-so that your ways may be know on earth, your salvations among nations."

Verses 3 - 5, "May the people praise you, God; may all the people praise you. May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples with equity and guide the nations of the earth. May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you."

This is where our worth comes from, our meaning comes from. Verse 6, "The land yields its harvest; God, our God blesses us. May God bless us still, so that all the ends of the earth will fear him." That is why we are here, that is the right wall, that is Who we are doing all this for and that is really worth it! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit?

Nehemiah 6:16b (NLT), "They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit? Over in the Old Testament in the book of Nehemiah it tells of a major task that through the leadership of Nehemiah was accomplished. The walls of Jerusalem had been torn down and God had laid it on Nehemiah to build those walls back up. It was definitely an almost impossible task but Nehemiah 6:15-16 says, "So on October 2 the wall was finished - just fifty-two days after we had begun. When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Now, we so many times want to take credit for doing the impossible. It would make such a difference for us. But I wonder what would happen through us if God got the credit? Psalm 96 tells us what we are to do. Verses 2-3 says, "Sing to the LORD; praise his name. ...

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Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

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