When is spring?

I was reading this morning in Acts 14:17, “Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”

I don’t know about you but I will be “filled with joy” when spring arrives. Here in Tennessee we have 4 seasons and this year the winter has been long and cold and snowy and …. did I mention long? It must be the global warming (oops! sorry, climate change).

I am reminded that our seasons are for a reason and that as long as this world as we know it lasts we will have seasons with cold, mild and warm weather. As you can probably tell, I am not too worried about all the talk in the news and from our liberal left about climate change. I am just antsy about the coming of spring.

This morning as my wife and I went for our run the wind was still cold when the wind was in our face but all we had to do is get out of the wind and the sun was warm and pleasant. Spring can’t be too far away. It will not be long and we will be wishing for cooler weather when we are sweating in the heat of summer. Go figure.

So for those of you who are getting cabin fever like myself, it want be long! We will be planting our gardens and mowing the yard in no time. Spring has got to be just right around the corner.

Blessings,

alight

The Cross

"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." —Luke 9:23

I tell you the truth, I lie not, I come after Jesus. Where else would I go? Who else can save me? No one but Jesus! But do I deny myself and do I take up my cross daily? That is the question that I ask all the time.

And the answer to that question is… not always. I have so many things in this life to distract me like my job, my family, my hobbies. Then when I have time to sit down and it is finally quiet and I have time to think, I realize what a fool I can be.

Jesus gave His all for me and for you. He came into this world and lived a perfect life and went to the cross and died that we would not have to. He took our sins upon Himself and carried them away, never to be remembered again.

O the old rugged cross, with all the grief and shame it symbolizes is so precious to me. It is a reminder of how much Jesus loved the Father and how much He loved me.

“Father, forgive me when I am lazy or busy doing other things. I pray, I beg that You will remind me daily to deny myself and take up my cross and follow Jesus.”

Amen

Let us come boldly to the throne of grace.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16

This morning I was doing my reading from the book of Hebrews and when I came across this very familiar verse I just had to stop and ponder on it for a while. I must admit that I try to keep up with the news. Not just in this country but all over the world. It is a wonder that I am not depressed all the time with all the bad news that I hear.

But in stead of taking a pill for depression I am constantly reminded that there is also Good News. Good News just like I read this morning. We can come boldly to our Maker and find help in these troubled times. The only time that I find myself not coming boldly to the throne of grace is when I feel that I have disappointed the Lord of grace.

My daily prayers are filled with, "Lord, led me into Your perfect will" and " Revive me and draw me closer to Your side". I have never considered myself to have reached that prefect place in God's will and I'm sure that I will not in this life but that is the place I want to be. So, I must press on and continue daily to get to that place.

Let us come boldly every day to the place where we can find help, the throne of grace so that we can find mercy when we fall short and help in these troubled times. We can always count on the Lord to provide that help that we will all need in these last days.

Blessings,

alight

What A Difference

“But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” What a difference is the acceptable sacrifice that pleases our God compared to the sacrifice that pleases a Muslim’s god.


As I read the head lines this morning at all the road side bombs and suicide bombing I think back to Hebrews 13 and some say we (the Christians and Muslims) have the same God. I don’t think so!


For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him shall not parish but have everlasting life. That is the God I serve. He did not attract me by the sword but by His great love. John 3:16

I do not work for Him because I am hoping that someday my good works will out weigh my bad works. No, I work for the Lord because “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10

I praise the Lord God Almighty (the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ) that I was born in the USA and not Saudi Arabia. I look forward to the day that I get to go to my next Home and I will not get there by a bomb strapped around my body but by the Word of the Lord saying, “Come up hither.”

As I end my prayers every night,

Come Lord Jesus!

alight