Wednesday... It really is a beautiful sight.

Does doing something everyday get to the place that it loses meaning? I guess it can but still thank you, God for the good night's rest and moving and working in my life yesterday and now for the opportunity of a new day and with you at my side. Thank you, thank you so much. Also, I just checked in to Aspire Coffee Shop for the 406th time where I have spent time in your word and sharing uplifting thoughts out to others. Thank you so much for the desire and the privilege of fulfilling this commitment. Thanks for the opportunity.

Look at what the prophet Isaiah writes in 52:7 (NIRV), "What a beautiful sight it is to see messengers coming with good news! How beautiful to see them coming down from the mountains with a message of peace! How wonderful it is when they bring good news that we are saved! How wonderful when they say to Zion, 'Your God rules!'"

Now that is a tremendous privilege, isn't it? The world wants us to spread bad news. We constantly feed on bad news but what a difference if we hear the bad news and then put a good news spin on it. We have been saved. We are not lost. That is such good news, isn't it?

That is the opportunity that God has given each one of us who have been saved. So stop and thank him for that. "How wonderful it is when they bring good news that we are saved." Thank him for that, reveal in that. We are no longer lost. We have been saved.

I'm also reading over in the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible. What an unbelievable picture of what is ahead for those who have been saved. In chapter 4:1-3 (NLT) it says, "Then I looked, I saw a door standing open in heaven, and the same voice I had heard before spoke to me like a trumpet blast. The voice said, 'Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this.' And instantly I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne in heaven and someone sitting on it. The one sitting on the throne was as brilliant as gemstones - like jasper and carnelian. And the glow of an emerald circled his throne like a rainbow."

You understand that those who are lost will be thrown into an eternal fire but we who are saved have something that is way beyond anything that we can ever image. Now I think that is really, really good news!

Look at this. Psalm 112:4 says, "Light shines in the darkness for the godly. They are generous, compassionate, and righteous." And then verses 7-9, "They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust in the Lord to care for them. They are confident and fearless and can face their foes generously forever. They will have influence and honor."

Again, "What a beautiful sight it is to see messengers coming with good news! How beautiful to see them coming down from the mountains with a message of peace! How wonderful it is when they bring good news that we are saved! How wonderful when they say to Zion, 'Your God rules!'"

Thank you so much, God, for the tremendous privilege of being a messenger coming with good news. It really is! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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. ...

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 ...

Thursday... Yet, now this is true.

Colossians 1:22a (NLT), "Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body." Thursday... Yet, now this is true. Now Paul a prisoner in Rome is writing a letter to a church in Colossae. And in Colossians 1:21 (MSG) he says, "Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds" The NLT says "This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated by your evil thoughts and actions." And that is where so many in this world live today. They are blowing it and they don't know what to do. Yes, they are hostile in their minds and they are engaging in evil deeds but there is Good News. Now Paul in verses 19-20 sets the stage for an answer to those who don't want to live that way. He says, "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and earth b...

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