While in the Going.


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When I am gone from this Place of Testing.  There will be a few left here who will miss me.  That is the case for most all people.  And I think of what I would like to leave them with (as a last and lasting thought).  It needs to be said that Jesus is able to lead anyone into a life worth living.  Hope is the only thing men have to lean on in both times of trouble and times of prosperity or peace.  This hope, if it is founded firm in the Lord Jesus, will carry anyone through anything.  This is my last word to leave with the ones who continue on in this Place of Testing.  Remember how I lived among you.  I stumbled and clawed my way through this place.  But in the end I found, or more accurately said: was shown) the Lord Jesus.  This is how you should search your way through.  Listen to Him.  Do what He says you should do.  He will lead the willing.  And remember, cowards have no part in the kingdom of God.  Strengthen yourself for His sake!  Eat what you’re given.  And share what you can.  Be His.  This will be enough.

 

By His Grace.

A Nature of Truth


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We all struggle to become something.  Some gather to themselves everything they can lay their grubby little hands on; cash, fame, power, a place in society or family, wisdom, godliness (or the lack thereof), and the like.  But at the end of our gathering we realize something grand and fearsome.  Truth is.

Truth is not something we become.  We’re either in it or we’re not in it.  Regardless how we work to accomplish what we wish to be, we’ll always find ourselves in a “becoming” stage.  But truth is not like that.  It was, is, and will be absolute and complete.  This ponderous realization has given me pause to consider the greatness of God and His desire for all men to seek and find His truth.

Consider one petal of a flower.  Look at it’s beauty and count them.  Now multiply your count and consideration to include every flower petal in the world, and that from the time of creation.  Truth is.  God is.  Righteousness of God remains.

By His Grace.

Also see: Daily Leadership Thought #143 – Honesty Shouldn’t Be Optional « Ed Robinson’s Blog
edrobinson.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/daily-leaders…