The only problem is, that usually happens at the end of your life. It usually takes people a lifetime of searching to realize that everything that ever mattered has no real value in the world. All that time wasted; for nothing. Time that never grows back discarded in a quest that was meaningless from the start.
Write these commandments that I’ve given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed [...]
I find it utterly amazing that we can make people. As I watched it happen, the birth of our first grandchild, I was humbled and completely broken down when I realized that we make people.
This is Noah. He is our first grandchild. Isn’t he cute? But this post ins’t about Noah…
We seem to think because we don’t know the end date, there is no date. This is a trap, a deceit set so we take our time.
It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.
So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered, “but he is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.” So he sent and had him brought in. He was ruddy, with a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the LORD [...]
Eli asked, “What happened, my son?”
The man who brought the news replied, “Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair [...]
In the midst of all this, Samuel, a boy dressed in a priestly linen tunic, served God. Additionally, every year his mother would make him a little robe cut to his size and bring it to him when she and her husband came for the annual sacrifice. Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, [...]
Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, which some have professed and in so doing have wandered from the faith. 1 Timothy 6:20 NIV
Our children watch everything we do. I’m not just [...]
