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Ordinary Days

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I am appreciating an earlier morning thought from Jesus Calling by Sarah Young.

“Each day is an important part of that journey.”

 

I’m thinking this ordinary Wednesday or Thursday or any day is an important day.

Today it’s sunny; tomorrow it may rain. Red and white is swaying gently from the gable.  A sturdy water oak extends her sheltering shadow as far as she can. Butterflies dart, rest and dart again from leaf to stem to blade. Life: it’s going on out there. 

It’s going on in here too. 

1 Corinthians 6:19-20  (NLT)

19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the 
Holy Spirit,  who lives in you and was given to you by God?
 You do not belong to  yourself, 
20 for God bought you with a high price. 
So you must honor God with your body.

I watched a documentary yesterday, Monarch Butterflies. Every stage, every day is important. (And some of those days, she’s a real worm!) Each is needed to bring the Monarch to the beauty we appreciate. (Albeit, since yesterday those wormy days and dark in the cocoon days are wildly interesting with charms of their own.  You are tracking this with me, right?) 

Today is important. Submitting this ordinary  day, moment by moment, to the Lordship of our King brings us to our own unique beauty, ordinary day by ordinary day. As in each of the Monarch’s stages of being, we are not yet what we will be, but who we are today must not be wasted or thought little of  – every second given to Him is making us extraordinarily beautiful in our own ordinary way. :)

Which led me to this!:

4 You are as beautiful as Tirtzah, my love,
as lovely as Yerushalayim,
but formidable as an army
marching under banners. source

Jerusalem. Do you know of any place on earth more loved by GOD than Jerusalem? Me either. And formidable?! Could it be DADDY GOD is using this ordinary day to make us formidable in His Kingdom? Formidable as an army marching under banners. I don’t even know what all that means! but I’m thinking it has got to be good!

Did you click and see what Tirtzah means?  Oh yes! On this ordinary day I am Tirtzah! And you my sisters (brothers) are too!

Until then ~ ~ ~ Kathie 
The Blood of Jesus is Enough

 

NO SIN GOES UNPUNISHED.
EITHER WE BEAR IT OR JESUS DOES FOR US; AND WE GET TO CHOOSE WHO DOES THE BEARING. 

Christian Living, Romans

Barometers

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Romans 15:13 (CJB)

13 May God, the source of hope, fill you completely with joy and shalom as you continue trusting, so that by the power of the Ruach HaKodesh you may overflow with hope.

Just a brief thought this morning, I think.

The first twelve verses of Romans 15 utilize passages from the Tanakh to lay a foundation for faith for we Gentiles.  Paul’s earnest desire for these Gentiles, for this Gentile, for all peoples of the earth, was (is) that we live in hope through trusting.

Read the verse again, please. May God, THE source of hope. Not a source of hope but THE source of hope. And what does this God of hope want for us? He wants us to be FILLED with joy and peace.

How can that be for us in this volatile chaotic 21st Century? How was it for them in their hostile, threatening martyrdom reality?

Trust.

Trusting that Yeshua, Jesus the Christ, was/is the Messiah, the Savior of mankind. Trusting that He is GOD and that He is not just a good God but that He is THE GOOD GOD. Trusting that when death came quickly or slowly that He was still good. Trusting that when beatings and hunger and want were the day’s fare that He was still good. Trusting that when respite came He was still just as good.

Trust. And the more we trust the more filled we are with His joy and His peace. How? The precious Holy Spirit. He is our promise. He is our earnest. He is the One who delivers, instills, and seals that joy and peace in us, as long as we keep trusting. When the trust wanes, so do the joy and the peace.

Joy and peace: great barometers! They let us know with complete accuracy what is our trust level at any given moment of the day.

Nope! Don’t go there!  No condemnation, just encouragement to keep on trusting and keep on experiencing those fillings of joy and peace. When we do, being filled will become more of the norm than not — that’s my hope. More of the norm than not. :)

Until then ~ ~ ~ Kathie 
The Blood of Jesus is Enough

Christian Living

Umpteenth

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It’s not too late to finish those projects you started. Even if it has been years since you first began and even if you laid it aside months, many months ago, you can still pick it up again and complete it. See? img_8578  Look at that date. Yes, you read it right. February 26, 2010.  I started that 90 day journal six (6) plus years ago. And so I picked it up again today, September 9, 2016, img_8579from August 31, 2015. So where do we start again for the umpteenth time? Well, where we left off seems reasonable, right? :)

So do you have a book you started reading or perhaps writing, some scrap-booking you began for your children, any good and noble thing you set aside for whatever reason – like distractions? Would you allow me to encourage you to start again with my confession of taking 6 plus years and counting to complete a 90 day journal? If you’ll check on me, I’ll check on you. :)

CJB

So let us not grow weary of doing what is good; 
for if we don’t give up, we will in due time 
reap the harvest. Galatians 6:9

Until then ~ ~ ~ Kathie 

Christian Living

Days Not Known

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Morning meditation

Acts 4:33

33 With great power the emissaries continued testifying to the 
resurrection of the Lord Yeshua, 
and they were all held in high regard.

The resurrection was a big deal! The fact that Yeshua Who many of them had seen die, was alive again! 

He in His resurrection took hold of them and with the coming of the Holy Spirit to indwell them they were charged with boldness and spoke with authority and power! 

Do you ever long for days you have not yet known? Me too, this morning. 

Until then ~  ~ ~ Kathie