I looked in the mirror

As the mirror looked back at me this morning, a short sigh passed my lips. Was this me? Was this old fellow, with advancing wrinkles, really a true reflection of the me looking on? The mirror seems so unkind because it can only reflect the truth that it sees. Truth. The mirror speaks truth in the present. The mirror also reminds us of the truth of the past.

The rear-view mirror alerts us of things past that could be a future or present problem if not corrected. A glance in the rear-view mirror can save us a lot of heartache as we avoid mistakes of yesteryear. Strangely, things seem to look different, viewed through the rear-view mirror!

The morning will bring a fresh start. God heralds this new day with His artistry in the morning clouds. Reds and oranges, yellows and sapphire blues, silvers and golds in all kinds of hues. Our Lord gives us each day brand new, ever fresh, never the same nor repeated from the beginning of time. Each day fulfills His promise, His grace, His love.

The morrow will reveal the newness of the year. Yet another fresh start. A God given opportunity to learn from the reflection of the past. To grasp the weight the gift God offers to each and everyone of you. The chance to leave the past in the past. To clear your path in the present. To light your path in the future to a place of peace and joy and love that cannot be fully comprehended by our limited human minds. This wonderful gift is yours, won't you ask for it?

(Rom 10:9, 10) that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

Start your year from a place of strength, of love, of peace, of joy, by welcoming into your hearts our Creator, our Lord, our King, Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Almighty God, Amen.

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE THIS YEAR?

I looked in the mirror

As the mirror looked back at me this morning, a short sigh passed my lips. Was this me? Was this old fellow, with advancing wrinkles, really a true reflection of the me looking on? The mirror seems so unkind because it can only reflect the truth that it sees. Truth. The mirror speaks truth in the present. The mirror also reminds us of the truth of the past.

The rear-view mirror alerts us of things past that could be a future or present problem if not corrected. A glance in the rear-view mirror can save us a lot of heartache as we avoid mistakes of yesteryear. Strangely, things seem to look different, viewed through the rear-view mirror!

The morning will bring a fresh start. God heralds this new day with His artistry in the morning clouds. Reds and oranges, yellows and sapphire blues, silvers and golds in all kinds of hues. Our Lord gives us each day brand new, ever fresh, never the same nor repeated from the beginning of time. Each day fulfills His promise, His grace, His love.

The morrow will reveal the newness of the year. Yet another fresh start. A God given opportunity to learn from the reflection of the past. To grasp the weight the gift God offers to each and everyone of you. The chance to leave the past in the past. To clear your path in the present. To light your path in the future to a place of peace and joy and love that cannot be fully comprehended by our limited human minds. This wonderful gift is yours, won't you ask for it?

(Rom 10:9, 10) that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

Start your year from a place of strength, of love, of peace, of joy, by welcoming into your hearts our Creator, our Lord, our King, Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Almighty God, Amen.

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE THIS YEAR?

(Luk 2:11) for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Merry CHRISTmas

Shalom Hannukah, May the Temple be restored, Amen.

(Luk 2:11) for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Merry CHRISTmas

Shalom Hannukah, May the Temple be restored, Amen.

Birth Pains

As each day passes, it seems that we are thrust forward yet another step towards extreme violence and hatred all around the globe. Never in my lifetime has there been such vulgarity in the public square.

We celebrate the most wonderful birth in our earthly history this month. The Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, the very Son of God. The Light of the world arriving to make right that which man caused to go horribly wrong. The door-opened to sin and to death and the planting of the seed from which today's hatred is being harvested. The hate-filled crop has grown like weeds and our earth is rapidly being consumed by the thorns and thistles of anger, pride, selfishness, God-less-ness and carnal horror.

I truly recommend that you spend time each and every day in the Word. Make it a practice to read and learn the Bible. In His word you will find comfort. Comfort in knowing that the Almighty is absolutely in-charge and events are moving forward just as they are described and forecast in Scripture.

Turn off the TV. Unplug the Twitter, deactivate the Facebook and poke your nose into the living history and prophesy of God's Word.

"Your sun will no longer set, Nor will your moon wane; For you will have the LORD for an everlasting light, And the days of your mourning will be over.

"These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. "For this reason, they are before the throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them. "They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

(Isa 60:20) (Joh 16:33) (Rom 8:22, 23) (2Co 5:4) (Rev 7:14-17)sbagster

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?

PERHAPS YOU SHOULD START............

Birth Pains

As each day passes, it seems that we are thrust forward yet another step towards extreme violence and hatred all around the globe. Never in my lifetime has there been such vulgarity in the public square.

We celebrate the most wonderful birth in our earthly history this month. The Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, the very Son of God. The Light of the world arriving to make right that which man caused to go horribly wrong. The door-opened to sin and to death and the planting of the seed from which today's hatred is being harvested. The hate-filled crop has grown like weeds and our earth is rapidly being consumed by the thorns and thistles of anger, pride, selfishness, God-less-ness and carnal horror.

I truly recommend that you spend time each and every day in the Word. Make it a practice to read and learn the Bible. In His word you will find comfort. Comfort in knowing that the Almighty is absolutely in-charge and events are moving forward just as they are described and forecast in Scripture.

Turn off the TV. Unplug the Twitter, deactivate the Facebook and poke your nose into the living history and prophesy of God's Word.

"Your sun will no longer set, Nor will your moon wane; For you will have the LORD for an everlasting light, And the days of your mourning will be over.

"These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. "For this reason, they are before the throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them. "They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

(Isa 60:20) (Joh 16:33) (Rom 8:22, 23) (2Co 5:4) (Rev 7:14-17)sbagster

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?

PERHAPS YOU SHOULD START............

Show me your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths

Moses said to the LORD, "See, You say to me, 'Bring up this people!' But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me. Moreover, You have said, 'I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.'; "Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people."; And He said, "My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest." – He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the sons of Israel.

He leads the humble in justice, And He teaches the humble His way; Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the way he should choose. – Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. – You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever. I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way, But the foolishness of fools is deceit.

(Psa 24:4) (Exo 33:12-14) (Psa 103:7) (Psa 25:9) (Psa 25:12) (Pro 3:5,6) (Psa 16:11) (Psa 32:8) (Pro 14:8) sbagster

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?