"THIS IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HAS MADE: WE WILL REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT." Psalm 118:24 My brother died last Lord's Day, shortly before midnight. Our heavenly Father had done much in the last six months to bring him to this final moment. We, as the family, had...
A rainbow is a symbol of God's grace. We don't usually find one if we are looking for one. They come with no planning on our part. This one appeared while the sky was still very cloudy. And only then, through a small sweep of the sky between the trees. Had I not...
Give me not a god, a god that I control. Don’t give me a god that I can mold. I need GOD, the REAL GOD, who knows more than I know. Give me GOD, THE LIVING GOD, who’s free to come and go. GOD, Himself, who created Life, and all living things--- GOD, who...
How the photographer got this close to the scene I do not understand. I only know what I see in the picture. And it reminds me of the words of the Psalmist who experienced the wings of God's grace. "He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the...
God's glory, and mother nature, are complimentary. More than this, nature is a reflection of the glory of God, the Father. And yet in this visible world the natural man only sees and knows the mother. Within three days I have encountered this phenomenon from the...
*OUR OWN LITTLE WORLDS On this planet earth many of us are living within our own little worlds---wombs that we think are protecting us from the rest of the world. In essence we have imprisoned ourselves. Before birth a baby is cradled, fed, and cared for naturally. ...
"And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. We hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." Isaiah 53: 2-3 Who can SEE what is heavenly? Who can experience the supernatural beauty of that which is above...
Have you been outside today? HAVE YOU BEEN OUTSIDE YOURSELF? OUTSIDE YOUR OWN LITTLE WORLD? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Go outside, look up ~ What do you see? Clouds? WHAT SURROUNDS THE CLOUDS? GRACE!!!!! GRACE is in the air. GRACE is in the wind; in the sun. GOD IS...
To sum up our meditation of Jesus' revelation of the Father---"our Father" of grace and glory---John's recollections are used last. John was "the disciple that Jesus loved." Being closer to John than any other man on earth Jesus perhaps made more of an impact on him...