The Frustrated Parent


Tie your shoes.
……
Did you tie your shoes?
….
Yes.
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Your shoes are untied. Tie your shoes.
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Ok.

(20 minutes later)

Tie your shoes.
……
Did you tie your shoes?
….
Yes.
…….
Your shoes are untied. Tie your shoes.
….
Ok.

(20 minutes later)

Tie your shoes.
……
Did you tie your shoes?
….
Yes.
…….
Your shoes are untied. Tie your shoes.
….
Ok.

(20 minutes later)

——-__. When will we learn to do what we are told?  Disobedience is not relegated to the toddlers.

Dedicated to What?


Question of the day:

When you left your pillow this morning was it to seek your own will and the will of others, or was it to seek the will of the One who made you.

(As our day begins it is also likely to end.  How many days then?  Is there a day coming when this will change?  When?)

Legs


It was the legs of men that carried them to a great assembly.  There they violently required the crucifixion of God’s Holy One.

It was the legs of men that carried them to the place of crucifixion.  There they hated him with utter contempt and violence.

It was the legs of men that carried them to their home while Jesus was delivered to the grave.  Those same legs carried them all their days, until they too went to the grave.

Your legs have carried you to this day!  Will they carry you into holy faith?  Or will you command your legs to take you to the place of unbelief; where you will certainly join those who railed at the mutilated flesh of God’s holy son?

This is the day to beg for mercy.  You are not promised tomorrow.

This is the day to serve the Living God with holy legs of faith in his promise.

Where are your legs taking you now?  Where will your legs find themselves when the Holy One of God returns?

No Easy Task


Provoking thought of the “Day”:

At the risk of offending millions, (How is that a surprise from me?):
I do not need the counsel of people.  But I ABSOLUTELY need the counsel of God.

People’s advise may or may not be right.  God’s is never wrong.

But here’s where people often have difficulty.  They turn to people before they turn to God for the advise they need so desperately.  When we do that we’re likely to get a handful of opinion mixed in varying degrees with “truth”.  Isn’t that where gossip comes from?

And here’s the offence.  I have found that people don’t go to God for His advise, simply because it’s easier to ask someone else.  It’s so easy to rely on the things of this world.  It’s no easy task to trust in faith.

Go Down Death


Every day brings more beauty.  Every day brings another reason to try afresh.

Wintley Phipps has allowed us a glimpse into a faith that is rare.  Come listen to him.  Come be encouraged.  Come and learn to fear the One who made you.  Come and learn what love is.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=gQYrF2g_48o

The Fire of Reality


Are people supposed to be happy?  Then why is there such an onslaught of sadness about us?  Explain that.

Is pleasure the purpose of life?  Or is it simply a means of escape from a forced reality check?

If we let ourselves be happy, does that take away death, sickness, disappointment, and the like?

If we wrap our days in pleasure, does that lessen reality?

Blessed is the one who finds the will to enter the fire of reality and remain there.