Memories. I’m giving thanks for memories. And the gray matter that holds them for me. :) You know what they say: “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
I have particularly thought of my Momma this evening. We attended a wedding. There was music. She loved music. She had a natural rhythm.
Memories. Treasure them. And mind your mind.
Romans 8:5-8 King James Version
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. source
As I sit before this screen, I think I shall be brief — time will tell. 🙂
Matthew 7:13 & 14 Complete Jewish Bible
13 “Go in through the narrow gate; for the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the road broad, and many travel it; 14 but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it. source
What is a gate? And can we go through a gate?
Actually, we don’t, we go through the OPENING the gate provides. A gate is a BOUNDRY. It’s a line drawn that we cannot cross UNLESS the gate opens for us.
So. Gate openings.
We have one in our backyard. And it is a narrow one. Someone wants a riding lawnmower. The thing is it can’t be just any riding lawnmower. The proposed lawnmower cannot exceed a prescribed size. The dimensions must be just so and if not even if the gate is open the lawnmower will not go through.
The GATE of SALVATION is OPEN for EVERYONEbut similar to the lawnmower, the prescribed conditions must be met or there is NO ENTRY allowed.
GOD has a prescription for LIFE, Life that we can have (enter, if you please) through the NARROW GATE addressed inMatthew 7:13 and 14.
What is GOD’s prescribed gate to LIFE? Do you know? Do you want to know?
Are you willing to look until you find the lawnmower with the right dimensions to fit through the gate?
It is so natural to want to pay people back for the wrong they do to us. So natural. What’s interesting about it though is the natural yearning to pay them back does not pay them back — it enslaves us. These present days are abundantly filled with opportunities to yearn to make people pay. All kinds of opportunities. Like when you order a product that costs too much and takes too long to deliver – such opportunities seem to be on the rise. Or cutting you off in traffic. Or social media digs. Or rejecting you without knowing the circumstances and refusing to hear. Or. . . The list is ENDLESS!
We have two choices we can choose from.
We can choose the natural. Or choose to TRUST GOD with the hurt and yes the injustice of it.
We can choose to believe that GOD is good. We can choose to believe that HE loves us. We can choose to believe that HE has said Vengeance is Mine (HIS) and I (HE) will repay.See Romans 12:19
WE CAN choose to believe HE is faithful and HE will exact exactly the proper justice at exactly the right time.
And don’t you think it is interesting that in the natural we want justice for the wrong done to us but when THE HOLY GOD who is perfect exacts justice on us for what we have done, we think that’s unfair? ‘Natural’ is a keyword here.
So, to live free. To live in peace, we must step up to godly supernatural living. We can’t do it in the natural. But IN CHRIST we can. It takes practice. And with practice, we get better and better, more and more successful at it.
Just a making-up-the-bed thought.
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EVERY abortion is an attempt to KILL a baby (certainly not safe for the baby) AND EVERY abortion strikes a blow to the soul of the mother that will sooner or later (without Divine Intervention) destroy her (not safe for her either). Romans 6:23
There are NO SAFE ABORTIONS.
To every woman that advocates the ‘product of conception’is a vegetable, a mass of cells, etc., please don’t share that with any little boy or little girl that you actually do let live to Term.
Let them think you always loved them, that they were always precious to you from the moment you knew he or she had been conceived.
GOD knew them and loved them from day 1; from the very moment, your partner’s sperm fertilized your egg. Yes, at that moment your DNA and his DNA comingled and a unique, never to be repeated, ONE FLESH became real (alive).
The Bible tells us the blood of Abel cried out to GOD when his brother Cain killed him with a rock. Genesis 4 The blood of 60 million-plus Babies is being heard. HE will give those Babies justice one day.
AndHE will forgive every mother who has aborted her baby IFshe will repent.1 John 1:9
I would to GOD that women and men would believe Science AND the BIBLE and let their Babies live. Psalm 139:13-18
Babies cannot choose their parents. But Mothers and Daddies given the opportunity will choose that baby you did not want.
There are NO SAFE ABORTIONS.
Why? Why this post when it is so controversial? Why when there are so many arguments, so many who are hell-bent on keeping a legal right to kill their babies?
Because if I can cause just ONE woman, just ONE man to stop and think, to stop and consider GOD, this post is worth it to me.
We are glad you are here; stay a while, look around, and be encouraged. We estimate there to be over 3,000 posts here at The White Stone Blog. Please know my hope is ALWAYS to help and NEVER harm. I have voiced many opinions and thoughts here since 2007 and by now I MAY NOT EVEN AGREE with all of them and some of my grammar and punctuation likely needs editing. But this is changeless: JESUS is our ONLY Savior and Hope. Do you KNOW Him?
Good morning.
