Tuesday’s postA Little Coloramused me as I recently labeled myself a black and white girl. I like black and white! Even though bold sunsets and landscapes bursting bright with color delight my eyes and thrill my soul, still I’m a black and white girl. Shall I explain?
Life is pretty much black and white for me; naturally there are exceptions but over all it’s black and white for me. Not much gray.
In this culture of political correctness and certain demands for tolerance – that gives me a chuckle. Know why? Because the one demanding tolerance is exhibiting no tolerance by the very act of demanding tolerance. I told you. Life is pretty much black and white to me.
There’s right and there’s wrong. There’s sin. There’s righteousness. Take your pick. And I do. I wish I could say I always pick white (Righteousness) but I don’t. Scripture is true.
9 “The heart is more deceitful than anything else and mortally sick. Who can fathom it? Jeremiah 17:9 (CJB)
In GOD’s economy, a black heart is not what you want. A mortally sick soul that chooses evil over good is deadly. But that’s the black and white of it. We are either in Christ or we are not. (See Romans 8:8-10. ClickHERE.) Daily, moment by moment we either choose to sin or not to sin. It’s that black and white. And what’s sin and what’s not sin? Well, that’s black and white for me too. The answers are in the BOOK. It’s all there laid out for us to read, learn and heed.
What can I say this black and white girl is so very grateful for the red, red blood of Jesus. Because of this Living Savior, because of His Spirit within more and more I can choose right over wrong.
Yep this girl likes the starkness of black and white looking through RED because it makes choices a whole lot easier!
Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie Your Prayer requests welcomed
This morning assured me again that my practice of consistently listening only to Christian music is a good choice for me. Lyrics often drift gently through my mind as I am stirring in the mornings. This morning a song came barging its way; it was a song I had heard a week earlier as I was traveling with others (not a sin glamorizing tune, just not one on my steady diet list) even so I quickly shewed it away countering it with Blessed Assurance Jesus is mine oh what a foretaste of glory divine. Ah so much better. :)
Here, take a listen! It just might make your day. :)
Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie Your Prayer requests welcomed
A brief word this morning; I am back in my familiar place after a long for me absence. My reading text this morning was the Gospel According to Mark and I am here with this word for families, even if your family is just two.
This particular scene in the Text is a nasty one. The Torah teachers have accused JESUS of being a devil. He attempts to reason with them, but they want no part of it. His warning is this:25 and if a household is divided against itself, that household can’t survive. [source]
Let us heed the warning Families! Large or small or very small be NOT divided one against another. Come together, reason together. Talk out those disagreements in love and kindness with one another; be not divided! Eat together. Cook together. Laugh together. Play together – catch in the front yard – with prayer you CAN find together activities for the WHOLE family! Tackle obstacles together and if you have been doing it alone for a while, give yourselves a needed learning curve. Rome was not built in a day and getting your house in order won’t be either. :)
Walk together even when you are in your respective out of the home places.
And for J and me today it’s taxes! :)
Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie Your Prayer requests welcomed
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My reading text this morning was the Gospel According to Mark and I am here with this word for families, even if your family is just two. 