Monday... I'm doing my best.

Monday... I'm doing my best. Do you ever say that?

The Psalmist in 101:2 (MSG) says, "I'm finding my way down the road of right living," now that's a good thing to say "but how long before you show up?" and then it says, "I'm doing the best I can, and I'm doing it at home, where it counts."

And that is a good thing to do and say. Someone has said that our weakest Christian link is at home. We do pretty well around our Christian' friends but at home, that is another story. So saying, "I'm doing the best I can, at home, where it counts" is something that we all wish we could say and need to say, isn't it?

I find that spending that time at the beginning of our day, cultivating our relationship with God can make such a difference in our relationships especially at home where it counts. How we react in our car going to church and coming home from church has such a strong influence on whether those in the car want to have a relationship with God. That is where it counts.

How a husband treats his wife, how a wife treats her husband and how parents treats their kids shows if their relationship with God is real. It shows if you are doing the best you can where it really counts.

The NLT says, "I will be careful to lead a blameless life - when will you come to help me? I will live a life of integrity in my own home."

So are you saying today, "I'm finding my way down the road of right living and I'm doing the best I can, at home, where it counts? By the way humbling yourself and asking for forgiveness from your husband, your wife and your kids when you need to ask it goes a long way. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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

Psalm 8:3-4 (NLT), "When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?" Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do. No, not the fact that I can go out my front door and look out at night at the marvels of the sky. I can do that and it is amazing and it takes my breath away each time I see it. Yes, that is a fact but the reality of who did that and the wisdom and the faith that I have to believe that and to marvel that the one who did that cares about me makes such a difference in how I live my life. Yes, God really does. That is so wonderful for us to believe. And that is why faith and wisdom are so important. Now whatever belief you have at how that marvel happened must also be believed through faith. And the sad thing to me is that more and more people have been taught that there is no God and therefore he did not have a h...

Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but...

Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but... We each one have our own way of explaining what we are going through, don't we? Some of us are maximisers, other are minimizers and neither one is better. We each one are different and we see what we are facing differently but no matter what it is and how you see it and describe it, God can handle it! Now the writer of Psalm 46 shows the extremes. In verse 1 he states the basic reality and then he moves on into our fears and he maximizes them to make sure we really understand. Here is what Psalm 46:1-3 (NLT) says, "God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea. Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge!" So what do you fear? The Amplified Bible says verse 1 this way, "God is our refuge and strength [mighty and impenetrable], a very presen...

Wednesday... It didn't just happen.

Psalm 16;10 (NLT), "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave." Wednesday... It didn't just happen. We are headed into a weekend of deep emotion. One that we really really love was killed and it didn't just happen. David in Psalm 16:10 (NLT) writes of this happening. He says about God, "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave." We read over in the Gospels at the beginning of the New Testament in the Bible of the life of God's Son who came to earth to be our sacrifice so that our soul would not be left among the dead. Jesus came so that we wouldn't have to be buried at death and just left there. But he also shares that Jesus who was going to be killed as a sacrifice for our sins would not have to rot in a grave. David many generations before foretold this and that is what happened. Now that had to be a God thing. We can guess a lot about our future and we d...

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