I have never told my children that if they play around my car or the stove I am going to kill them. I have lovingly warned them that the car or stove could harm them. It could even kill them! They needed to grow to a certain level of maturity or “of full age” before I could let them experience the full benefit of these wonderful tools without my loving supervision. I believe that is similar to the tree of…
The Bible starts out by telling us about the beginning of time as we know it. “In the beginning, God created (Genesis 1:1).” Paradise. God created (Genesis 1:1) the heaven and earth and everything beautiful and pleasurable for a life of bliss (Genesis 2:8) and dominion (Genesis 1:28) (law: absolute ownership). Everything He has just spent days creating, God calls, “good (Genesis 1:25)” until He creates man and woman (Genesis 1:27) in His own image. Then everything He has made…
Dear Lord, thank You for loving us. You are our Daddy, Abba, Father. We love you so much, Father, and we thank You that we can come boldly before Your throne of GRACE. IT WILL NOT BE LATE. Beauty fills the earth, wonder fills our mind—The work of your hands so patiently designed. Though the world may change, you remain the same.You patiently wait to make it new again. [Hab 2:3 KJV] 3 For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at…
Dear Lord, thank you for loving us. You are our Daddy, Abba, Father. We love you so much, Father, and we thank you that we can come boldly before Your throne of GRACE. IT ALL BELONGS TO YOU. My heart, my mind, my soul belongs to You. My love, my life, it all belongs to You. [Pro 23:26 KJV] 26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. [Pro 4:23 KJV] 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence;…
Throughout the Bible we are warned about people who boast in themselves with their words but fall short in action. We are also warned not to be those people because talk is cheap!
How can you freely give as you have freely received if you believe that it is evil to believe God? Sounds a little stupid. Doesn’t it?
I was a hypocrite. One foot was in grace and mercy and the goodness of God that leads to repentance. But I had the other foot and both hands bound in trying to please God with my own dead works and self-righteousness.
Then I learned that those who truly fear the Lord don’t accuse Him of evil.
God is love (1 John 4:8, 16). The Bible says, “But now faith, hope, [and] love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. – 1Co 13:13 NASB20” KJV translates “agape” as charity (1 Corinthians 13:13). Charity and love are both the act of giving and then expecting or demanding nothing in return. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. – Jhn 15:13 KJV For God so loved…
Dear Lord, thank you for loving us. You are our Daddy, Abba, Father. We love you so much, Father, and we thank you that we can come boldly before your throne of GRACE. THIS IS CHRISTMAS. What is Christmas without Christ? Remember how the story goes. God’s gift was wrapped in swaddling clothes beneath the star, one great and holy night. The shepherds heard the angels sing. The wise man brought an offering. Peace on Earth began in Bethlehem. [Luk 2:6-7 KJV] 6…
A reward has got to be one of the greatest motivators ever! Would you call every good and perfect gift a reward (James 1:17)? I do! Why is it impossible to please God without faith? But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. – Heb 11:6 KJV Because God is a rewarder! It pleases God to…