Category: Soul note to self

Trusting

Our Faithful God

Oh, don’t we all need a big heap of God’s love today? Just to wrap us up tightly and carry us over the rough spots that come along. All the things hoped for seem to transfer to the back burner while things not hoped for, nor even asked for, come a calling.

Yeah, the enemy can throw some pretty difficult stuff into our pathway and it keeps us on our toes for sure and makes us wonder how we’ll make it through. But remember, our faithful God is so faithful and walks the same road with us. He’s rich in mercy! He’s compassionate in care and perfect in love. His eye is on you and You are highly favoured in His economy. He heals! He mends! He repairs, and He protects and that’s what we need today for sure. Just one big heap of it all to take its place right in our midst and give us a springboard to propel us on for His glory!

So, beautiful one, whatever has you down ~ whatever has come a calling that wasn’t asked for, you might not realize it yet, but it’s been perfected just for you and customized just for your needs today. He’s got it. Enjoy God’s faithfulness through it and let Him direct your path. Be blessed under His divine protection through the testing time and watch His miracles unfold.

“God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation.”

James 1: 12

“The grasslands of the wilderness become a lush pasture and the hillsides blossom with joy.”

Psalm 65: 12

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Be Blessed: The Beauty of Giving Without Expectation

So freely given!
So freely give! 

❤

Be Blessed

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An Eye for an Eye

Yeah, I know, so often don’t we just want to rip through those who have shoved us under the bus for no reason? Ahh, Just to settle the score would make us feel so much better wouldn’t it? It would just make everything so right in our own eyes to give back what we were given? Just do what they did, only maybe find a bigger bus to shove them under. Sadly, that’s the way of the world and the thinking behind so much violence that happens around us today.

Jesus condemned that practice of personal retaliation when He stood on the Mount of Beatitudes, a hill in Northern Israel on the Korazim Plateau, and preached to the twelve apostles, and as Matthew 4 states, ‘A great multitude of people’. He preached to a large crowd of listeners to guide them in a life of discipline based on a new law; a law of love, even to our enemies, rather a law of retribution.
He spoke to them and to us today when he preached the words in Matthew 5: 38 -42,

“You have heard that it was said, ” An Eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.”

Now, Jesus wasn’t talking about harsh, evil, and abusive behavior here. The ‘slap on the cheek’ is a figure of speech, to simply portray letting the offense go! However, harsh, evil, and abusive behaviour is the work of darkness and Jesus condemns it in Ephesians 5: 11-13. Emotional and physically abusive treatment calls for clear thinking and immediate action. Make sure to seek help if you find yourself in such a dark place. You are not to blame for the treatment you receive. Rather, you are so very valuable in God’s eyes and He places you above that kind of wicked and disorderly conduct.

Ahh yes, and back to the simple offense, as much as we feel the need to lash out, being obsessed with retaliation will only make us bitter! It will eat away all the good, hiding deep within our soul and eventually, it will destroy us.

Perhaps, as the season of Advent approaches an appropriate preparation for our own hearts, would be to simply forgive the hurt, let it go, and let the healing begin, so that the Love that was born that night long ago, can rise up within our soul and bring us the peace that our Saviour brings. What a transforming Advent prep for us to consider before the fun, family festivities begin.

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The Light of the World

John 8:12,
“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

Sixteen gold bowls were filled with oil and lit during the Festival of Shelters. Jesus stood beneath them in the inner courts of the temple, in a section known as the Treasury, John 8:20 and said that He was now the source of the Light.

The Light of Jesus brings salvation, not just to Israel, but to us, the world, regardless of who we are, race or location. As Christ Ones abiding in His words, in obedience to His perspective and guidance we will not only walk in His beautiful light, we ‘become’ as light reflecting the radiance of Christ in our character.
Philippians 2:14,15.

Let’s be honest and ask ourselves a point-blank question. Is our light shining? Is it radiantly obvious in our actions? In our behaviours? In our countenance? Is it shining forth to light up the dark corners for others or do the batteries weaken somewhat as life happens and takes us with it? Yeah, maybe we need to recharge before the God of our salvation and the Christ who stood under the sixteen golden bowls of oil, lighting the temple and point-blank stated in John 8:12,

“I am the light of the world. If you follow Me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.”

Philippians 2:14,
“Do everything without complaining and arguing. So that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives, as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.

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