Tuesday.... We can be so critical and maybe blow it.

Especially with people who are different than we are. Especially when they see things different than we do.

Proverbs 20:3 (NLT) says, "Avoiding a fight is a mark of honor; only fools insist on quarreling."

And then verse 29 says, "The glory of the young is their strength; the gray hairs of experience is the splendor of the old." But they drive so fast, so slow. But they look down on me, they don't understand, they don't appreciate me.

Yes there are some things where we can get way off track and we need to stop and really listen to the other side especially when it's the Good News about what God has done through Jesus his Son. There are some things where we need to stop and listen. But how it is said goes a long way in how it is received.

Now in the new church that was coming into existence after Jesus resurrection and his going back to heaven there was a major disagreement between the Jews and the Gentiles. Yes, there has been a problem between these two going all the way back to Abraham and his two sons. Now one side was saying we've always done it this way but the other side was seeing it a different way and they were right. They were right because something happened to change the way they used to do and now what they are to do.

Yes, life can be so complicated, can't it? So it really is wise to stop and listen and see life from a different perspective. There may be something to learn.

The problem was, the Jews had lived and follow a certain law. Yes, it was a law from God but something happened that changed everything. God sent his Son to earth to change it all through his teaching, his life, his perspective and then his death and resurrection. His coming and death and resurrection changed everything.

Paul in Galatians 3:3-4 says, "How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort? Have you experienced so much for nothing? Surely is was not in vain, was it?" Yes, we have so much to learn. And just because we have always done it one way doesn't mean it is right. Maybe we need to stop quarreling and stop and listen no matter if they are young or old, if they are different from us. Maybe we need to change. Maybe the way we are doing it isn't working.

Verse 5 says, "I ask you again, does God give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you because you obey the law? Of course not! It is because you believe the message you heard about Christ."

The Amplified Bible says, "So then, does He who supplies you with HIs [marvelous Holy] Spirit and works miracles among you, do it as a result of the works of the Law [which you perform] or because you [believe confidently in the message which you] heard with faith?"

Maybe we need to stop quarreling and start listening. Yes, something happened that changed the world. Jesus came to earth and he change it all. And that message of His salvation may come to us through someone young or old and maybe we need to listen. It really is Good News. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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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