A Question For Today!

Ecclesiastes 12:13 says, "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."

In regard to the duties of man according to Ecclesiastes 12:13:

1. Proverbs 8:13 says, "The fear of the Lord is to hate evil:" An excellent measurement, determining if we fear God, is just how much do we hate evil.

2. Matthew 22:36-40 says, "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Keeping God's commandments deals with, loving God and our neighbor as ourselves. To many people's dismay, love will be the measurement.

Let's ask ourselves how we are doing in this regard? Do we hate evil, thus fearing God? Are we full of love for God and others?

Everybody be medium!

Chuck Swindoll told the story of a group of neighborhood boys who built a clubhouse out of cardboard. They then decided to have some rules and came up with three:
1. nobody act big
2. nobody act small
3. everybody act medium

Wouldn't it be wonderful if everybody lived life that way. Everybody would be honest, accepting, loving, caring, simple, etc. I'm not sure what you might think of this idea, but I'd like to suggest that we all be medium. Well, if we don't see everybody arrive at that place here on earth, we will see those who enter the gates of heaven, arriving, just being medium. How sweet that will be. See you there?

Awesome Our Lord!

Green the grass. Ripe the bud. Yellow the flower. Blue the sky. Beautiful the butterfly. Risen the Lord! Just how wonderfully awesome is our Lord?

Let's Pray!

When Edward Hale was chaplain of the U.S. Senate, someone asked him, "Do you pray for the senators, Dr Hale?" He replied, "No, I look at the senators and pray for the country." Shall we join in with this approach. Let's pray for our country that we as a nation might turn once again to God. We live in difficult times. Difficult to us, but certainly not to God. Let's Pray!

No Rock Is Going To Do My Praising!

On the Easter just before he died, D. William Sangster painfully printed a short note to his daughter. A deeply spiritual Methodist, he had been spearheading a renewal movement in the British Isles after World War II. Then his ministry, except for prayer, was ended by a disease which progressively paralyzed his body, even his vocal chords. But the last Resurrection Sunday he spent on earth, still able to move his fingers, he wrote: "How terrible to wake up on Easter and have no voice to shout, 'He is risen!' Far worse, to have a voice and not want to shout."
As Jesus rode the little donkey and came to the descent of the mount of Olives, the multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen. They said, "Blessed be the King that comes in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest." Some of the Pharisees from among the crowd told the Master to rebuke his disciples. Jesus answered saying, "I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out." Join me with your voice in shouting, "He is risen!"

God Of The Living!

Luke 20:38, "For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living..." As this spring snow falls, it reminds me that my sins are washed as white as snow, through the shed blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is alive and all of creation will bow their knee unto him. We Christians have chosen to do it in the now, but it will come to pass that those who have refused God's son as their Lord and Savior will bow. Scripture tells us in Philippians 2:10-11, "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Would you consider bowing to Christ as Savior and Lord? If you do, you will be with the multitudes who will praise Him throughout eternity.

It's Hot!

Someone has said, "Each generation has to find out for itself that the stove is hot." We knew a family whose youngest child was an energized young boy who was into many things. One day his mother found him sitting on one of the stove burners, which he had somehow figured out how to turn on. It was a good thing that he had on a thick diaper. Why is it that we have to experience for ourselves just what will burn us and what won't. There is something that will burn us, and I hope that we don't think we have to experience it for ourselves. That place is Hell! Have a blessed weekend.