Saturday... Accept this gift. Yes accept it.

It is so easy to lament over lost opportunities. Paul writing to the church of Corinth says in 6:1 (NLT), "As God's partners, we beg you not to accept this marvelous gift of kindness and then ignore it." The NIV puts it this way, "As God's co-workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain."

Our God is such a good God. Each morning we need to wake up with a thankful heart for all that God has done and is doing for us and through us.

Now over in Psalm 137:1 (NLT) it says, "Beside the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept as we thought about Jerusalem." You see, God had given his Children, chance after chance to follow Him but now they have been captured and their home Jerusalem had been destroyed.

God gives us so much each day and we really need to be thankful. Again Paul says in 2 Corinthians 6:1-2, "As God's partners, we beg you not to accept this marvelous gift of God's kindness and then ignore it. For God says, 'At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you.' (Isaiah 49:8) Indeed the 'right time' is now. Today is the day of salvation."

God is so good to us. Over and over God is so good to us. If we stop and think about what we have gone through in these past few years we can see how God has been so kind to us. Even in our despair and in our griping He continued ti give us over and over His grace, His unmerited favor. As Isaiah reminded his people, God heard them and He helped them and the same has been true of us.

And as the NIV puts it, "As God's co-workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain." Nothing that has happened did not first go through God's grace to turn it from something bad into something that can be good if we realize it was for our good and thank Him for it and let Him use it.

So let's not waist what God is doing in our lives. Verses 1 & 2 in the NIRV says, "We work together with God. So we are asking you not to receive God's grace and then do nothing with it. He says, 'When I had mercy on you, I heard you. On the day I saved you, I helped you.' (Isaiah 49:8) I tell you, now is the time God has mercy. Now is the day He saves." 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...

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...

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...

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