Today's Beginning

Psalm 127:1 (NLT), "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good." Friday... So who gets the credit? We do so much and we need the credit. It seems that our worth is attached to what we do. But Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived says in Psalm 127:1, "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good." Yes, he understood this. Now we give him credit for building the first Temple of God. It took seven year for it to be built and it happened during his reign over Israel. Now his father, King David wanted to be the one to build the first Temple but because he was a man of war God didn't allow him to build it and he was a man after God's own heart. He was a great King, the second King of Israel and it seems that he should have been the one to build it, but he didn't. Now it is so important in our li...

Monday... But what could we really do?   We too many times start our work week without spending time with God and doing it alone. We had a good weekend of leisure and now we are ready to head into a new work week. We are ready. Or maybe we're not.  Psalm 127:1-2 (MSG) says, "If God doesn't build the house, the builders only build shacks. If God doesn't guard the city, the night watchman might as well nap. It's useless to rise early and go to bed late, and work your worried fingers to the bone. Don't you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves?"  God has set up life for us to enjoy and make a difference each and every day. But we need Him. We really need Him. When we do life on our own we are always worn out. It seems that what we do is useless. But He wants to work through us and in us and with us. What could we really do if we did what we do with Him involved in our lives? We build shacks  He wants to build so much more. We work worried, He wants us ...