Life is about more than just making choices, it’s about where those choices are taking you and who those choices tend to prefer. Will they lead you to greener pastures, or will they make your life one of bitterness and remorse? The freedom to choose can be considered a blessing, but it can also become a curse. Left alone you will most often do what is right, but when the tempter is parked at your door, will you choose to follow him instead of doing what is righteous and good? God has given you the ability to know right from [Read More…]
Interesting Concept … Even though I must be busy in my service to the Lord, if I am to accomplish His will in my life, I must learn to wait upon Him. My every thought and motivation must come from Him. “And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:3-4). The difficulties in life come from [Read More…]
One would think that problems come before solutions; but, after a moment’s reflection, that may not be the case. When we think about life, from the very beginning we are sure to think about our problems. “Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7). Life in and of itself is never simple and easy; and, we as mortal beings do not make things any easier. Coming up with solutions to our problems, many times, only seems to leave us more perplexed and dumbfounded; we create more problems than we solve. The only solution that [Read More…]
Whether I am saved and I tell the world about its wonderful God, the One who created it all; or, being lost, I warn them about my empty, unfulfilled life, my recommendation would be the same. Whether I am saved or lost, He is still the best option. Trusting in Him gives my soul true meaning and purpose; it gives me eternal prosperity and the blessed hope of a better day. Without Him I was full of doubt and despair, I was alone and afraid. I had no peace or security, nothing to hold on to, nothing good to [Read More…]
Excerpts from my unpublished book, “Life in perspective… PART ONE PREFACE I am not supposed to be here, but I am. You might consider this an unusual, even bizarre, beginning but let me explain. Life with its twists and turns, up’s and down’s, uncertainties and frailties has been granted to all of us; and it becomes our duty, yes, even our responsibility, to treat it with respect and reverence. We have been placed here for a purpose, and, unlike the belief of many, that purpose is not to fulfill our evil desires or to revel in the disobedience of [Read More…]
IT’S ALL GOD! I started writing 6/11/2006, approximately 5 months after the death of my mother; I was 63 years old. Why I began to write, I do not really know. I felt something inside of me telling me that I had to do something with my life and not to just sit and let it waste away. I often thought and believed that life had a purpose, and that it was our responsibility to leave things better than the way we found them. So much of life is lived only for the moment; and, as we reflect upon what [Read More…]
Y O U, a word that describes the total sum of whom and what you are. YOU can be profound or ordinary. YOU can be amazingly complex or basically simple. No matter what Y O U happens to be, YOU are important and unique. The term, YOU, can be made up of one, just you alone; or you and the selfish, self-seeking part of you; or it will be made up of many parts: YOU and your personal beliefs and convictions; YOU and your ability and desire to love and to be useful; YOU and your personal, all-powerful, all-loving [Read More…]
Greetings Dear Friend, Have you ever had a time in your life when you felt there was something you just had to do? You feel inadequate about how to accomplish it, constantly telling yourself that there is a real purpose for doing it while knowing that you could not put your time to accomplish anything more enlightening and beneficial. The harder you try to convince yourself that it would be too difficult and serve no real purpose, the deeper you feel that it should be done and you are made to feel unfulfilled or ashamed for not attempting it. You [Read More…]
There is nothing wrong with wanting the best or wanting to have it all, the problem arises when we are left to define or determine just what “good” is, or just what the “best” happens to be. The necessity or need for God can never be over-estimated or over-rated. I know that in my own strength I will never possess the right or power to become God; and, I know that being made a man in His image, my highest goal or dream must be to become “like” Him, with His motives and aspirations. To be truly blessed must become [Read More…]
It amazes me how we as individuals are so willing to do those things that this world demands when it is not willing and cannot give to us anything that is lasting or is of true importance. Being obligated to this world holds no true merit, while the selling of your soul will bring God’s judgment. Sin has blinded our eyes to the things of God and has caused us to choose those things that are not profitable. When we consider what God wants to give us, we immediately dismiss it as being too intrusive and demanding. We refuse to [Read More…]