Father GOD, thank You for the week we have hopefully more than survived. We hope we have well served You. We hope we have pleased You. You have pleased us with life, forgiveness, mercy, and grace. With people we love and who love us. With air to breathe, water to refresh us, and clean the grime from our hands and feet. And that’s only for starters.
You know the days that are coming. Days of anything but peace and anything but joy. Forgive us. Come LORD JESUS and rescue the captives. Come and retrieve the earth from the clutches of the evil one and restore it to its original beauty. Come, LORD, and bring judgment and redemption to not just the planet but we the people here on this sod. We long for Your Return. For the Sky to break open and reveal You in Your Majesty as King of Kings and LORD of Lords. We long for You to ride across the horizon and speak the Word that will silence all Your enemies and bring Your People to unanimous rejoicing with Your timely Glorious Appearance.
But until then, Father, help us to keep on singing, keep on proclaiming Your Gospel and loving You and each other with all our beings. Amen and amen in the Merits of JESUS, Your Holy and Perfect Son, our Savior and LORD.
Monthly Archives: December 2023
Clichés
Is this month speeding by for you too?
Two weeks and this month, this year, will be done — in the books.
Are you making plans for 2024?
Are you thinking you want to do better in 2024 than you did in 2023?
Me too!
Watch after family and friends better. Pay more attention to my calendar. Bring my thoughts captive more. Study more. Read more. Are you thinking about those things too?
That’s what we do at the end of one year leading into a new one, right?
And that’s not bad. It’s good to reflect. Visions and plans are good too.
What does the Bible say?
People perish where there is no vision. Proverbs 29:18
What else does the Bible say about our plans?
Proverbs 16:9 “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.” source
Don’t miss the verses before and after. We will surely need them in 2024.
We need them now.
Depending on the circles in which you read or listen you may be getting wind that 2024 may hold some rougher times than did 2023. Perhaps they are right. Perhaps not.
But on this, we can hang our hat, take it to the bank, and other clichés we hear or say, GOD will NOT forsake His Children.
Psalm 37:25 New American Standard Bible 1995
25 I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken Or his descendants begging bread. source
25 I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken Or his descendants begging bread. source
LORD willing and I make it to the new year, I’m taking this with me, how about you?
Wait, before I close — who are the righteous who can rest on this promise?
Kathie
Mingled Mulling
I’ve been mulling this over.
Perhaps with a bit of hesitation mingled with the mulling.
I don’t like offending people.
You see, I reared my Girls without the deception of the fat-bellied usurper but with marriages and births, he has infiltrated my family. See my dilemma?
As I said, I don’t like to offend people, be they family, friends, or strangers. I also find it horribly distasteful to offend the TRUTH.
So here are my choices: run the risk of offending people or offend The ONE Who LOVES us.
Hands down TRUTH wins.
John 14:6 Complete Jewish Bible
6 Yeshua said, “I AM the Way — and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through me. source
6 Yeshua said, “I AM the Way — and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through me. source
