What is God Doing for You?

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What are You Doing for God?

From Romans 4:1 What then are we to say was gained by Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness." 4Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due. 5 But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness. 13 For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation. 16 For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, 17 as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations")—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

"Father Abraham had many sons, and daughters too; Many sons had Father Abraham. I am of one of them, and so are you; and we keep marching on..." It is a song I have known forever. It is a song that my children know and one that was sung to keep kids awake, or was it adults working with kids? because of the hand motions and leg motions and head motions. The song is about the man called by the Bible the father of faith. It was Abraham's willingness to trust God that gave him that title. Before he took that first step towards the land promised him, it was his faith that blessed him. Faith, not works, was the source of Abraham's faithfulness. Abraham fit right into what God was doing, not the other way around. You've seen the saying, "Don't ask God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God is doing; it's already blessed." Abraham already had a life and he was comfortable in it; then God came and showed Abraham what life could be if he would only leave behind what he was already doing to step into the faith realm of the unknown. I love verse 3 of this passage in The Message version: "What we read in Scripture is, 'Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own.'"

God is already doing something for you, once you find it and enter into it, you will be blessed. You must have the faith to trust God and enter into what God is doing rather than trying to get God to enter into what you're doing only for yourself. Later in verse 5, same version, "That trusting-Him-to-do-it is what gets you set right before God, by God. Sheer gift." What marvelous gifts have you passed on because you thought your work was more important than God's? Existence gets in the way of living and we usually don't realize it. We set before us a to-do list and follow it so closely that we lose sight of what God is doing for us and the doors that God may be opening for us and we keep walking the hallway of familiarity and routine, the black and white realm of everyday life and we miss out on the full color of adventure and joy that awaits us in God.

The way to a discovery faith is to build on whatever faith you have now. Pray and ask for a deeper faith. Read God's Word and put yourself in each story. Are you blessing God or are you content just seeking blessings for yourself? See what great blessings await those who seek to bless the Lord. You can with faith.

PRAYER: Loving God, open to me the doors of blessing You and Yours. I've walked this same hallway for so long that I need to know what You are doing for me instead of wondering if what I'm doing is enough. Guide me to be a blessing to You and Yours. This I pray in faith, like Father Abraham, in the One who showed us how, Jesus my Lord, amen.

Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!

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Obedience

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Staying on Track with God requires our Obedience

From Exodus 19:5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.

Humility begins with obedience. We humans have always suffered from the innate disobedience we were built with, but God understands and God forgives. To journey toward a deeper understanding of ourselves and our need for God during these 40 days requires our knowing that we need to be obedient to God. Obedience requires love. If we love God, we will do as the passage from Exodus says, we will obey God fully and keep God's covenant; our reward is to become God's treasured possession.

Obedience means knowing that we do not have all the answers, but God does. Obedience requires trust. There is no one in whom we can place more trust than God.

Journey well by starting with obedience. Several times in the Bible we read and as a result, also sing, "Here I am, Lord; Is it I, Lord?" Send me to where Thou wilt.

PRAYER: Lord, strengthen my life by making me humble before You. Guide me to deeper obedience I pray. Amen.

Have a great and blessed day in the Lord.

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Ever Worn Sand Paper Underwear?

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The Devil Made Me Do It!

And That's Just one of Many Excuses I Have!

From Genesis 2: 5 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die." From Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, "You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?" 2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; 3 but God said, "You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.' " 4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die; 5 for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

Here it is Day Two of Lent and I have already sinned. Have you? What's your excuse? I'm sure you have plenty! Adam sure did! This passage starts with the positive and beautiful story of God placing the man in the garden of Eden, which means paradise, and giving him a positive command: Eat wherever you want, but of that one tree, the one of knowledge of good and evil, not so much, or no for us older folks. Because if you do, God said, You will die. The man, Adam as we discover is his name later on, roamed around this paradise setting and enjoyed God, enjoyed the trees, the lush vegetation that we, I, associate with paradise and was overall, pretty, pretty, happy. Between that passage in chapter two and chapter three, Adam undergoes rib surgery and is presented with a nice fulfillment of that rib, that was named Eve. (It's funny because just last night I was listening to Kenny Chesney singing "I Want My Rib Back.") I'm sure this match was wonderful, the two enjoyed God, enjoyed the garden, enjoyed learning from each other what things were, and one day, I'm almost positive, Adam showed Eve the tree. Yes, that tree. It might have been Adam who told Eve, "We shouldn't even touch it!" And Eve learned that lesson well because now in this setting where the walking, talking snake is tempting them, she tells him about the tree in response to the tempter's negative question about God's positive command. The snake is wily, like the coyote, and says, "You will not die!" Hmm, thinks Adam. Hmm, thinks Eve. "God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." Notice the two fear death without it ever being explained, at least not on the pages of the Bible thus far. And they are tempted by the thought of becoming like God. The woman, the scripture says, "saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate." Notice the name apple does not appear anywhere, yet today's picture and our human interpretation for this fruit has always been the apple. But also notice that "she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate." Yikes! Now their eyes are open, they know the difference between good and evil, or so they think and the very first judgment they make is that being naked is bad. What do they do? The sew together sand paper underwear!

This is a great story and you thought the Bible was boring. What makes it even more funny is that that's you, and that's me in this story. Oh sure, we haven't worn sand paper underwear, or at least I haven't, but we sure have tried to cover up our sins with some doozies of excuses. We have sinned against God and we seek the nearest person or thing and point at them. We're good at blaming others and not taking responsibility for our own actions. If you ever were a child, you learned that easily. And especially when you had siblings, you could blame them. And now if you're married, you can blame your spouse. But Lent is a journey toward self-discovery and reflection and the lesson to learn is that we sin on our own. It is that honesty that leads us to confess, "Lord, I am a sinner, and I have sinned against You and against others, forgive me." If nothing else Lent helps us come to terms with needing to ask forgiveness of our sins and getting right with God and with others. The Cross, after all, was the place where our sins were nailed and Christ paid for them, but we have to turn them over to Jesus.

PRAYER: LORD, I have many excuses, but none of them are true. I am a sinner and I have sinned in many ways against You and against others. I confess. I need Your forgiveness, and I need to walk away from my sinfulness. Help me journey with a clean heart these forty days. This I pray in Christ Jesus' precious and powerful name, amen.

Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!

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Ash Wednesday

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The Journey Starts Now

From Matthew 6:1 "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 "So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 5 "And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 6 But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 16 "And whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show others that they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18 so that your fasting may be seen not by others but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 19"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Today will be an interesting day for those who have never seen people with smudges of something on their foreheads. Think back to your first recollection of either receiving the smudge or seeing someone with it. The smudge that I'm referring to is the outward symbol of some traditions of receiving ash on the forehead as a reminder of where we came and where we are headed as humans with human bodies. To receive the ash, a person may have said to us, "You are dust and to dust you will return," as a reminder of our mortality. But it is the start of a forty day journey to reconnect with the eternal. Jesus' message was all about reconnecting with God and God's love and sharing that love with one another. Jesus knew that we were made to serve God and God's people. Our piety was not so much a holier than thou practice as it was a helping one another practice. The giving of alms was sharing with those less fortunate from the blessings we had. Our prayer life is not so much about how good we can pray but rather to know the good of God that is ours by connecting with God through prayer. The emphasis by Jesus is the inward blessing we are receiving by our faithfulness. There are those who do strive for the limelight and seek attention, but Jesus said if attention is all you want, then attention is all you'll get.

For some faith traditions, fasting is the giving up of something special and/or nourishing. For many years, our Catholic brothers and sisters observed meat free Fridays as well as giving up those things that were special, candy and chocolate for some, sodas for others. True fasting is the giving up of physical nourishment so that our spirits may be nourished by something we take up in its place, like a time of prayer. I remember the first time I learned about fasting and I decided on my own (inward, remember?), I was in high school. I was determined to fast that supper after school. I did not check with my mom nor my dad, I simply went home and knelt by my bed. I shared a room with my three brothers and kneeling was a form of punishment for my dad, so to see me on my knees my brothers thought I had done something wrong and dad had me there thinking about what I had done. So, they were cool about that. But then it was time for Dad to come home and my mother started supper. I'm in prayer, still on my knees, when the first waft of that meal made its demonic way into my room. It was like the cartoons of my childhood where the aroma floated in heavenly form from the stove, down the small hallway, under my door, and straight into my nostrils the aroma of my favorite meal, tacos! I felt a tinge of regret for having chosen the wrong day but quickly repented and centered again on what I was doing and kept praying. Mom always timed supper with my Dad's arrival so that he went straight to the table and we were all expected there with him, all five of his children. Minus one, Lord knows where he was. Mom knew. "Did you call your brother?" No one had, they thought I was being punished. So mom goes down the hall and opens the door. "Supper's ready! I made tacos." Uh, what do I do? What do I say? "Um, I'm not hungry?" Those of you who know me know that I seldom go through hunger. My mom was straight old school Mexican; the bigger you were, the healthier you were. "Are you sick?" she asked in Spanish. No, I'm not eating tonight. "Why not?" I finally had to go outward and I told her, "Mom, I'm fasting." By now, my dad was there a little upset that his dinner was growing cold because of my absence. I told them I felt the need to fast and they left. I felt bad inside for my attempt to be inward in my fast was now outward. I kept praying, feeling a failure, but in thinking back, it was a little after that first fast that God spoke to my heart about entering the ministry.

If you so choose this Lenten time to give up something, replace it with a spiritual discipline to make it a true fast. Every time you would normally have that coffee that you gave up, spend time praying or reading a passage of scripture. Nourish your soul while denying your body. Fasting is also a time of petition with God and Jesus fasted when He knew He was going to face situations and challenges that needed His complete focus and attention. In the same way, our petitions are made stronger by our reliance more on the spiritual than the physical. If you have been praying for the illness of a loved one, fast as well for a meal; instead of a huge supper, have a huge prayer time of praying, reading, singing, and praising God. Your devotion during that time blesses your heart and mind and you are better able to understand and accept just where you are and what you and your loved one are facing. And sometimes, God works in ways that make us marvel and wonder; but we're called to not make sense of unexpected things, but to make praise of that which may come. We will more deeply understand that that which we may face here is temporal; the greater thing Jesus said is that which awaits us in heaven. Our heart should be connected to the heavenly storehouse so that while here, we have glimpses of the glory of God as revealed through Jesus Christ and we will see it through.

PRAYER: LOVING GOD, these first steps of a forty day journey I tremble and may walk slowly, but with Your loving arms around me I can move ever forward and ever upward in my attitude and my gratitude. Thank You for allowing me to connect with You and to focus on that which is eternal and better for me. I may not fully understand all things now, but I trust and love You. I pray this prayer of faith in Christ Jesus' precious and powerful name, amen.

Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!

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Obedience or Disobedience? Life or Death?

Paul's Take on Life in Christ Jesus

From Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned— 13 sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no law. 14 Yet death exercised dominion from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one who was to come. 15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died through the one man's trespass, much more surely have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many. 16 And the free gift is not like the effect of the one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brings justification. 17 If, because of the one man's trespass, death exercised dominion through that one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness exercise dominion in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. 18 Therefore just as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man's act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all. 19 For just as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.

We are preparing a journey in which we will try to face our sins and focus on the One who delivered us from them. The Apostle Paul in his gospel, The Letter to the Romans, attempts to help us understand sin and more importantly, He who conquered it. The Hebrew understanding of sin was that it was introduced by Adam and Eve's disobedience to God. The introduction of sin brought in death, and death like an out of control terminal disease, spread to all humanity. And through their scriptural understanding of sin, from Adam to Moses, sin claimed all lives. It was not until Moses received the law did humanity understand sin and its terrible consequences. But Jesus introduced us to the grace of God and the free gift of salvation from sin. Paul calls this justification; being made acceptable in the face of unacceptability. The gift of Christ superseded the "gift" of Adam. Adam's gift made many sinners; Christ' gift allows for many to become righteous.

Sin is missing the mark or falling short of where we know God would have us be. It is a blot on our hearts and spirits that should not be there, yet by our wrong choices or failure to obey God we have allowed sin to come into our lives. The journey of Lent is a time to reflect on our needing God and God's gift of Jesus Christ to remove our sin and replace it with life and peace. Sin that grows brings guilt and shame. Christ came to lift us up from there to a place of hope and more importantly a place of life in abundance.

All of us have sinned, as Paul states earlier in his gospel, but because of Jesus Christ, all can be made clean of sin. We do not have to stay in our sin; Christ offers us a change of address. We do not have to live with guilt, we can turn that over to Him and Jesus will give us new life free from guilt and free from shame. Christ takes our burdens and lightens our load. The way towards God is made clearer and on we journey.

We're hardest on ourselves than God. When we ask for forgiveness, we receive it. We sometimes don't take that seriously and the memory of that sin stays with us to torture and torment us for as long as we want. But we don't have to want that; we have to want freedom from heavy, burdensome memories and receive the true freedom that brings us joy from above. Ask and receive that today.

PRAYER: Thank You, Loving God for being more ready to forgive us than we are to ourselves. Let all those who ask for freedom from sin receive it along with Your peace and hope. Help us prepare for a journey that will lead us away from sin and temptation to a life of peace and love. This is our prayer, lifted up in faith in Christ Jesus our Lord, amen.

Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!

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Tempted, But Made Strong

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How Would You Fare?

From Matthew 4: 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. 3 The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread." 4 But he answered, "It is written, "One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.' " 5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6saying to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, "He will command his angels concerning you,' and "On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.' " 7 Jesus said to him, "Again it is written, "Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' " 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; 9 and he said to him, "All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me." 10 Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan! for it is written, "Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.' " 11 Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.

We're tempted everyday and in every way. And starting this Wednesday with Ash Wednesday, we will enter into a period of fasting for forty days that we call Lent. It is based on Jesus' own example of fasting for the same amount of time in the wilderness. This passage says that Jesus was "led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil." The writer already knew the story and its outcome so he could call it that. For forty days and forty nights, Jesus fasted from food. As is the intent of fasting, we give up physical nourishment for spiritual nourishment. We lose physical strength but gain spiritual strength. Our fasting will not be like Jesus, and I don't recommend one go that long a period of time without eating because of the harm it might potentially do to your body; our fasting is to give up something meaningful and nourishing to us as a fast. It is to show ourselves that through God and God's strength we can live without that which we have given up. Some give up chocolate, others give up sodas, some give up meat, some give up meat on Fridays, and the list varies from person to person, but the intent is the same, during Lent we seek closeness to God and strength in our spirits to better understand Jesus' journey to the cross and His resurrection.

Jesus' journey led him to an encounter with "the tempter," the one Jesus would later call "the thief" and "the father of lies." This tempter challenged Jesus on several levels starting with Jesus' physical need. The devil knew that Jesus was famished after having eaten nothing for forty days and so the challenge was to prove He was the Son of God by changing the stones around Him into bread. The stones in that area look like the loaves of bread common to that time. Jesus responds with scripture, "One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God." Challenge over, and then comes the second. The tempter takes Jesus to Jerusalem, the holy city and places Him on the highest point of the Temple and challenges Jesus on a emotional level; "Throw yourself down if you trust God and are indeed God's Son!" And this time the tempter used scripture, "For it is written, 'He will command His angels concerning you,' and 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.'" Jesus again uses God's Word to reply, "Do not put the Lord your God to the test." Second challenge over. The third and final challenge is the devil taking Jesus to a very high mountain "and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor," and said, "All these I will give You, if you will fall down and worship me." This one is on the spiritual level; worship me instead of God and I will give you the world. Jesus replies, "Away with you, Satan! for it is written, 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him.'" And Satan went away. Luke's version has a clever ending for he adds, "until a more opportune time." This passage ends with angels coming to serve Jesus.

What are your temptations, and how do you respond? In other words, what is it worth to you to leave the way and presence of God to receive what you believe the temptation is offering you? The answer is honestly nothing is worth leaving God. In God we have all we need and more, yet the tempter brings to us something we believe is the answer or solution to our needs and worries. We rationalize and believe that getting out of debt justifies an action that is illegal, immoral, or hurtful to others. Don't you know we're great rationalizers? But in the end it comes to our humbling ourselves before God and asking God to be the One who gives us strength to resist and to stay strong. That is the purpose of the Lenten Journey that begins this week.

Stay strong. Two words. Two sometimes difficult words, but worth the continuing journey with God.

PRAYER: LOVING GOD, bless me with wisdom, courage, and strength. Help me know that in Jesus is the model of submission and strength. Grand me the mind of Christ to know how to approach and resist all the temptations that come my way. This I pray in Christ Jesus, amen.

Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!

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Best Be Right with God

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No Better Place to Be Than Taking Refuge with God.

From Psalm 2: 1 Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and his anointed, saying, 3 "Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast their cords from us." 4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision. 5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, 6 "I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill." 7 I will tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to me, "You are my son; today I have begotten you. 8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." 10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. 11 Serve the Lord with fear, with trembling 12 kiss his feet, or he will be angry, and you will perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Happy are all who take refuge in him.

This psalm at first reading made me think of the saying and Broadway play, "Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with God." Yet, sometimes we find ourselves trying to box with God only to discover that our arms are indeed too short. The psalmist knew that sometimes people, even nations find themselves thinking they are greater than God and God's purposes for His creation only to discover their arms are too short as well. I think, as did the psalmist, that God laughs when we think we have the answer or the plan and we got it on our own. There is no plan greater than the plan of trying to get us all to form a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. The starting point was the passage from the gospel that spoke of Jesus' Transfiguration where God declares that Jesus is His Son sent with a holy mission, and through Jesus we find that which we need for our lives. Our sole job is, and here's another song title, "Trust and Obey." God stands with us and walks with us, relying on us to do our part in getting His message to all. And when times seem rougher we can find no better place in which to hide than in God.

The human experience is a tough one at times. This past Sunday the preacher shared how a young man had made his plans to end his life and simply went to church to say goodbye to God. He sat on the last row and sat next to an elderly lady who noticed the young man was not doing well. She said, "You look sad young man, but you know it's going to be alright." She then did what the young man did not expect, she put her arm around him and continued to assure him that whatever he was facing was going to be okay. The young man thanked the woman and then waited to talk to the pastor to share how he had already laid out his guns on his bed, a tarp on the floor to minimize the mess the bullet would cause, and wrote his farewell letter to his mother, only to discover that because of this lady's hug and kind words, life was worth living. Nothing should ever convince us that life would be better if we ended it. Nothing can ever convince that life is lived best through self-medication or vices and habits that we think get rid of pain or experiences; we only discover that we are deeper than we thought because of the solutions and remedies we sought. Jesus told us that His enemy came only to "steal, kill, and destroy." (Jn 10:10). He came so that we might have life and that in abundance.

You can try to hide in things of this world, but you'll be discovered. Hide in God and you'll be blessed. It's your choice.

PRAYER: Loving God, for warm embraces and kind words, we are thankful. Help us to share those with those we think are in need. Grant to us that spirit that shares life and life in abundance. This we ask in Christ Jesus' precious and powerful name, amen.

Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!

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