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Respectively

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Perhaps it’s a rogue thought, yet I am moved to write.

“I divided time into days and nights, so that you would have manageable portions of life to handle.” 
From Jesus Calling for July 15 – Sarah Young

This is not an endorsement of the book or the author – rather a springboard for a thought.

The day is for work (and play), respectively; the night is for sleep and rest.
And what is rest anyway?

Quiet; repose; a state free from motion or disturbance; a state of reconciliation to God.  source 

What have we done?

Lights are powerful enough to keep the work day or play day going well into the dark.
Added to the lights are toys of every sort. Even when the body reclines, the mind continues to spin. And so under the cover of night with its artificial light much evil thrives; be it just the evil of bodies, souls, and minds who refuse to oblige The Maker of the Day and the Night, respectfully.

Selah  ~ ~ ~ Kathie

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Milk Toast

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I asked ABBA a question this morning; we are still discussing it.

ABBA, have we as Western people made You into a milk-toast God – a God Who is no longer Just or capable of being angry at sin or sinners?

Isn’t it true that healthy people separate themselves from close fellowship with others who do them harm? Is GOD not smart enough to do that too? Perhaps a few verses related to fellowship would shed some light. Click HERE.

Why would we want a GOD that does not punish (or at the least warn and correct folks committing) sin? Why would we want a GOD Who is all love, the sappy kind that says “oh any thing you want to do is fine with me; I’ll even stand here and applaud as you do what I have revealed in My Word is deadly for you?” What kind of soul wants that kind of GOD? What kind of parent does that to their children? What kind of society does that to itself? 

Has the Western society at large come to the place its people want no GOD or perhaps a GOD that bows to the people instead of the people bowing to Him in love and obedience? 

Thoughts? Answers?

And if you will visit the LOFT with me today. The Loft

GOD has made The Way ~ ~ ~ Kathie
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Just Saying

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Matthew Henry. I often read his writings when I am preparing for Sunday School.

About Acts 6 He opined this: “The preachers were beaten, threatened, and abused, and yet the people received their doctrine, invited, no doubt, thereto by their wonderful patience and cheerfulness under their trials, which convinced men that they were borne up and carried on by a better spirit than their own.“

Henry, M. (1994). Matthew Henry’s commentary on the whole 
Bible:Complete and unabridged in one volume (2086). 
Peabody: Hendrickson.

Immediately I was convicted. “Patience and cheerfulness under their trials” convinced others to believe their doctrine.

Patience and cheerfulness under trial. 

Should I, should we, draw from this that our complaining, negative talking, irritated, bellyaching about our trials (or should I say our daily inconveniences in comparison) are leading others to disbelieve our doctrine?   

Perhaps we would better serve our fellow man if we chose to either fully identify with JESUS and give Him praise even in our trials; or tell no one that we are Christians. 

It’s a bonus day! :)

Kathie