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Self Limiting

Self Limiting   For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:14)   In nature most living things are defined as “self limiting.”  Through genetics...

An Adoring Bride

An Adoring Bride Adapted from my Bible reading journal, August 2, 2024 Acts 21:19-20 And when he [Paul] had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.  And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord . . . Glorifying the Lord...

The Journey Is Too Great

And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him [Elijah], and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.  (I Kings 19:7) Sometimes the journey is too great, the way too long.  Elijah had just seen a stunning victory and conquest...

Consider

Consider Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them… Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of...

Use What You Have — Shamgar’s Ox Goad

March 9, 2024 Use What You Have Judges 3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel. “What is that in thine hand?” The Lord once asked Moses (Exodus 4:2).  It was...

Continue

Acts 26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue . . .  We're in this together -- quitting is not an option! The note written in my Bible held my attention; where did I hear or read it?  The note didn’t say, and I couldn’t...

Now Lord?

Luke 24:21 “But we had trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel.” The disciples were downcast.  Because their expectation wasn’t met in the manner which they thought it should have been, they totally missed the better thing, the bigger purpose which the Lord had for them. ...

Again

My Bible, my journal, and a cup of tea. My favorite way to start the day. Tuesday July 9, 2022 . . . I will also surely bring thee up again . . . Genesis 46:4 Again — I like that word. I know this is...

Weight of Glory

From Bible reading journal, dated Thursday, February 9, 2012 Baomahun, Sierra Leone The beautiful glory of the sunrise, viewed from the veranda where I used to sit for my morning Bible reading and journal writing. II Corinthians 4:17  For our light affliction, which is but for...

As a Sparrow Alone

Prologue  Stephen has always called me a bird brain.  I can only laugh and acknowledge that he’s correct; I am just a little bit obsessed with birds.  To me, they are the most marvelous of God’s creatures.  There is so much to be learned from birds, and the Lord often...