A SHORT MEDITATION

Images courtesy of:www.Pixabay.com

Many years ago, before you were ever born,

I used to hear the expression:

"He/She is so heavenly minded that He/She is

no earthly good."

Now I have lived for over eighty three years.

During those years I have attended many churches

because of living in different places.

Do you know what?

NEVER  once have a met a Christian like that.

However,

I have met dozens of Christians who are

"So earthly minded that they are no heavenly good."

"If then you have been raised with Christ,

seek the things that are above, where Christ

is, seated at the right hand of God.  Set

your minds on things that are above, not

on things that are on earth."

(Colossians 3:1,2 RSV)

TODAY'S QUOTE

Images courtesy of:www.Pixabay.com

"When a man makes alliance with the Almighty,

giants look like grasshoppers."

-Vance Havner

THANKSGIVING

Images courtesy of:www.Pixabay.com 

"Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,

and pay your vows to the Most High:

and call upon me in the day of trouble;

I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

(Psalms 50:14,15 RSV)

BEWARE OF BARGAINS

Yep!

That's a tie.

It's a poor photo, but a nice tie.

I confess, I admit and I apologize, that there was a time

in my life when it was proper for me to wear a white

shirt and tie every day.  Sorry about that.

But then, I did one of the smartest things in my life.

I wanted off of the merry-go-round of that life style.

So I moved to the hills more than forty years ago.

And, yes, this culture does not require a tie.  Even

on Sunday.  If you see someone coming with a tie

on - WATCH OUT.

It is true that a tie is proper once in a while.  So I 

might wear a tie once or twice a year, maybe.

Now I have a wife who tries to take good [That's,

GOOD.] care of her husband.  Also, she cannot

pass up a bargain - even here in the hills.

The result was that over the years she had accumulated

about seventy five ties for me.  AND, I DON'T EVEN

WEAR TIES.

Where is the bargain in that?

God told us;

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures

on earth, where moth and rust consume

and where thieves break in and steal, but

lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,

where neither month nor rust consumes

and where thieves do not bread in and

steal.  For where your treasure is, there

will you heart be also.

(Matthew 6:19-21 RSV)

"He who believes in him is not condemned;

he who does not believe is condemned already,

because he has not believed in the name of the

only Son of God."

(John 3:18 RSV)

A SHORT MEDITATION

Images courtesy of:www.Pixabay.com

"Oh, how I love they law!

It is my meditation all the day."

(Psalms 119:97 RSV)

Old age

Most of you kids, - that's someone under about seventy

years old - will not under stand what I am talking about.

Go talk to your grandparents, they will tell you.  BUT,

this old age stuff is not all that "Golden years" thing.  In

fact even the Holy Scriptures give us a different picture.

"Remember also your creator in the days of your youth,

before the evil days come,"(Ecclesiastes 12:1 RSV)

Instead our cry becomes,

"Do not cast me off in the time of old age;

forsake me not when my strength is spent."

(Psalms 71:9 RSV)

But there is a promise that I cling to.

"The righteous flourish like the palm tree,

and grow like a cedar in Lebanon...

They still bring forth fruit in old age,

the are ever full of sap and green,"

(Psalms 92:12 & 14 RSV)

The key is "The righteous...", that is,

do what is right in God's sight.

Getting old?

Get acquainted with God.

Grab his hand and live with him,

then you will have enough strength

and vitality to be useful even in old

age.

TODAY'S QUOTE

Images courtesy of: www.Pixabay.com

" A thousand times over the centuries the death knell

of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession

formed, the flowers ordered, the inscription placed

on the tomb stone and the eulogy written but somehow

the corpse never stays put."

-Bernard Ramm