Good Morning.
I have a picture and some words.
Be careful who you listen to. Let us have the courage to reject the counsel or conversations of a friend, co-worker, or even family when they speak words that we have not confirmed as truth.
See my note: Wars start with words.
Perhaps you will read 2 Samuel 10 and see for yourself what I am saying here: confirm for yourself.
We should always do that. Confirm the Truth.
Just an update.
I am continuing to read from Genesis to maps. It continues to be the most happy read for me. I have attempted multiple times to read the Bible through, one book after another in successive order as preserved for us, and this is the first time I have reached 2 Samuel. This is a sweet journey for me. I urge you not to wait till you are as old as I am to take this journey yourself.
Some days will be sweeter than others but all days reading The Word are better.
David.
He asked questions of The LORD and The LORD answered.
He went in and sat before The LORD.
I made a note in the margin: teach me how to come and sit before You.
The Bible.
We are so fortunate to have it! To have it and to have the ability to read! What a glorious privilege! Let us not squander or ignore these magnificent gifts for trivial amusements.
I may not tarry long here.
It’s been full around our house, not much time for coming to this screen, so I am here, I think, just to say hello and perhaps a quick word.
The New does not wear off with GOD.
I searched for a web link that would speak to “the new wearing off” and the closest I could come was “the bloom is off the rose”. Perhaps “the new has worn off” is an old West Tennessee saying. Even so, I suspect you know what I mean.
How many of you know that when HOLY SPIRIT makes an impression on you, He does it in a vernacular that you are familiar with? For me sometimes that’s West Tennessee’s old sayings.
A morning or two ago I was thinking in relationships sometimes ‘the new wears off’ and our souls are not as happy with someone as we were. By the way that is a dangerous place to be and we should seek healing from the LORD right away.
So, as I was mulling these things over Father GOD came to mind and I was deeply impressed that He wanted me to know that with Him the new does not wear off. He loves me just as deep and wide as He did/does the day I said Yes to His Son JESUS. John 16: 27 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God. source
And perhaps it’s a stretch, it sure has stretched me in a good way, 2 Corinthians 5:17 says: 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (KJV)
The new does not wear off for The Father, He loves His Own, today, tomorrow, and forever. He loves you just as much today as He did the day you said YES to JESUS.
Ooops, a little longer than I thought; hope you don’t mind.
