Monday... He never will, He never will.

I love reading the Bible. It has so much to say to us. 2 Thessalonians 3:5 (NLT) has a prayer for us. Paul who loved the people in Thessalonica wrote and prayed this prayer "May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God the patient endurance that comes from Christ." That is what the Bible, God's Word is all about. I love reading the Bible and I hope you do too. If you do then that is an answer to this prayer. That is where we find a full understanding and expression of God's love and patient endurance and find Christ and then live it out in out lives each day. Such good life changing things to see.

And then there is verse 3. In The MESSAGE it says, "But the Master never lets us down. He'll stick by you and protect you from evil." He will never let us down. But what about the pandemic? But He will never let us down. But what about my needs. But He will never let us down. But of course there is a part that we play in all of this.

Here in this chapter in verse 10 it says, "Even while we were with you, we gave you this command. 'Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.' " There is a part in all of this that we must do. We don't just wait for God to take care of us. We need to find work, we need to do what we need to protect ourselves in this pandemic, we need to be wise. But in all of this, the Master will never let us down and He will stick with us and protect us from evil.

Now He does say this in verses 6-9, "Our orders - backed up by the Master, Jesus - are to refuse to have anything to do with those among you who are lazy and refuse to work the way we taught you. Don't permit them to freeload on the rest. We showed you how to pull your weight when we were with you so get on with it. We didn't sit around on our hands expecting others to take care of us. In fact, we worked our fingers to the bone, up half the night moonlighting so you wouldn't be burdened with taking care of us. And it wasn't because we didn't have the right to your support; we did. We simply wanted to provide an example of diligence, hoping it would prove contagious." Now that is good stuff.

But I have faith. Yes but you still need to get into God's Word to grow, you still need to be diligent in your work, in your doing what you need to do to stay healthy during this pandemic, and if you are then it will encourage others.

The Master will never let us down, we are the ones who let Him down. He will stick by us and will protect us from evil if we follow Him and stay away from evil. He will never force His way on us but He will be close and will make a difference if we reach out to Him and do our part. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Monday... He did it by Himself

Isaiah 44:24b (AMP), "I am the Lord, Maker of all things. Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself." Monday... He did it by Himself. Many have a tendency to think very highly of themselves and what they can do. Oh we do have great ability but we are not the source. Yes it is important to have self-confidence but we are limited. The prophet Isaiah in 44:9-10 (NLT) says, "How foolish are those who manufacture idols. These prized objects are really worthless. The people who worship idols don't know this, so they are all put to shame. Who but a fool would make his own god - an idol that cannot help him one bit?" Now later in verse 24 (AMP) he writes, "For the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb says, 'I am the Lord, Maker of all things, Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself.'" I love that. "By Myself." Now we do need confidence but we are foolish to ma...

Wednesday... It didn't just happen.

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Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do

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