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Road to Health

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This week I heard an exceedingly good sermon. It’s title is Don’t Waste Your Health by Louie Giglio.

And just now I read

Proverbs 14:30 (NLT)  30 A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body;  jealousy is like cancer in the bones.  source 

This causes me to think that keeping my heart at peace with GOD is an essential component on this road to wasting not my health.

To all who are willing please click the Don’t Waste Your Health link above, watch and dialogue with me later, either by contact page or comment on this page if the comment is not too personal for public consumption.

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Nary a Hiccup

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Glorify.

John 17 (TLV) 17 Yeshua spoke these things; then, lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so the Son may glorify You.  source 

A simple definition: To make glorious, or cause so to appear

So as I see this JESUS was asking the Father to cause it to be so that JESUS would appear (to the world, to us) as Who He really is. 
And why did He want to do that?
Could it be so He would be enabled to cause the Father to appear as He is, you think?

Now.

Does not the Word say we, you and I, are to bring glory to GOD?

1 Corinthians 10:31 (NKJV) 31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.  source 

There it is in orange and white.

So everything you and I do  – e v e r y t h i n g – even our eating and drinking, day-to-day stuff we have to do to live in this world stuff, all of it we are to do in such a way that we make GOD known doing it!

Now how in the world are we going to do that?! 

Perhaps we should follow JESUS example; after-all He did get the job done without nary a hiccup! 

This wordier definition of glorify helps me understand. I hope it will you too.

A wordier definition: To glorify God is to extol His attributes—His holiness, faithfulness, mercy, grace, love, majesty, sovereignty, power, and omniscience, to name a few—rehearsing them over and over in our minds and telling others about the singular nature of the salvation only He offers.

This is a lot to think on and I think it will take some practice (a lot of practice) but I think I need to. tws-signature

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In Us and Through Us

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So here I am thinking of the Text about being content and I go looking for it.

For the life of me I did not remember it is smack dab in the middle of that chapter; that it followed that verse.

Hebrews 13.

5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 6 So we may boldly say:
“The Lord is my helper;
I will not fear.
What can man do to me?”  source

Do you know what comes before verse 5?
An admonishment to LET brotherly love continue.
To forget not to be nice to strangers, they might be angels.
To remember the prisoners.
And then —- MARRIAGE.

Well! Where is non covetous conduct more needed than in marriage?  Where would contentment be more needed than marriage? Where would more problems be solved by contentment than in marriage?  And where the greater need for His promise: I will never leave you nor forsake you than in our marriages!?

So! In all these things, brotherly and sisterly relationships; strangers and folks in bondage, AND in our marriages, in all these things, HE is our Helper!  In all these things, with all these people, HE will not forsake us, so let us be content while He works on all these things in us and through us!

 Well, I did not expect that. But I like it!smiley-face-3

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