YOUR BURDEN OR CARE

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by

that Carpenter can mankind be remade"

- Desiderius Erasmus

HAVE YOU COUNTED THE COST?????????

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HAVE YOU COUNTED THE COST?

I mean, really counted the cost?

The best thing on earth a person can do is turn

to Jesus Christ and accept him as one's LORD

and savior.  Become his disciple and follow Christ.

The results are out of this world, and forever.

BUT,

it is astounding the promises being made by

many in an effort to draw people to the very

God who made them.  They are promised health,

wealth and wisdom.  You know, instant prosperity

or healing.  Money in the mail and all wishes fulfilled.

The people who make these wild promises most likely

are after a following so they can become popular, or

your money.  But what ever the case, they are either

misinformed by not believing what God himself said,

or out right lying.

What did Jesus himself say about it?

Jesus taught us that as followers of him we will be

hated and have persecution.

See how you like his statement in Luke 14:33

"So then, none of you can be My disciple

who does not give up all his own possessions."

Is it worth it?

Yes, of course, every dime and every pain.

Turn off the stupid TV or Facebook or put

down the latest "Christian" book and see what

the cost is and the reward that Christ promises,

 in his word - the Holy Bible -not what someone 

after your money says.

PATH TO REST

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Rest.  Real rest for my body, mind and soul.

Especially this time of the year.

The merchants are hounding you to get your money.

Your family is pushing you to keep up with the season.

And the politicians are screaming at you because they

want you to help them in their folly.

And all we want is real rest through and through.

I don't know about you, but I am sick of new fangled,

complicated gadgets that are more difficult to use and

less reliable in addition.  It seems that anytime I let

my computer be "updated" I'm further behind.

Location and peace and quiet help.  But we need

something that goes deeper than that.  Yet most of

us have turned aside from the real source of rest.

Like the nation of Israel of old, we have gone our

own ways, and we are paying the price for it.

God's recommendation to them is valid for us today.

"Thus says the LORD,

'Stand by the ways and see and ask for

the ancient paths,  Where the good way is,

and walk in it;

And you will find rest for your souls."

(Jeremiah 6:16 NASB)  

Do you want REST, real REST.

Turn from the way you are going now and 

go to Jesus Christ.  He said,

"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden,

and I will give you rest.  Take My yoke upon you

and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble

in heart, and YOU WILL FINED REST FOR YOUR

SOULS.  for My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

(Matthew 11:28-30 NASB)  

TODAY'S PROMISE

"My flesh and my heart may fail,

But God is the strength of my heart

and my portion forever."

(Psalms 73:26 NASB)   

WHY GOD? WHY?

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My son was an outstanding Christian.

He helped build the church he attended.

He taught one of the Sunday school classes.

He had helped many of the the people in 

his community.  In fact, they were considering

naming the street he lived on after him.

But, in the prime of life he was killed in

an auto accident.

Linda was a personal friend.  She had not

always lived for God.  But when she did 

turn to the living God she went all out in 

living for him.

But when Linda was around forty years old,

cancer got her, despite all the praying we 

did.

WHY GOD?  WHY?

I do not pretend to know the answer,

but perhaps there is a clue in

ISAIAH 57:1,2

"The righteous man perishes, and no man
takes it to heart;
And devout men are taken away, while 
no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from 
evil, He enters into peace;"

God knows the future just as well as the
present.  Is it possible that God in his
mercy some times takes a way a righteous
person because he sees that in some way
the Devil might destroy that person later
in life?

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"When I came to see that Jesus Christ had died

for me, it didn't seem hard to give up all for Him.

It seemed just common, ordinary honesty."

- C.T. Studd