Hold On

Often the going gets tough, and the way unclear. You wonder if what you are doing is worth it, at all. Fears show up at every turn. You question it all.

But let's wait a minute. In the end, after all, is not God the judge, the end of all things? Do we not have access to him in prayer? He hears the cry of the honest, and all those who call upon him in truth.

The Lord is merciful, willing to pardon, and to restore. He is not willing that any should perish. He is our God, our love. In times of trouble, let's trust in God. The prayer of the righteous is his delight.

He is a father, and his joy is to help his children. There's nothing too hard for God. The way may seem hard, and fearful, but God is greater than all that.

Yet, what if we fail. Does that diminish God? I don't think so. God is still God, and forever he is. There none beside him, and there never will be. But if we fail, yet is God merciful, and will pick us up.

Some will say, "In failure, we then should give up on God." But give up and turn to what? There's no hope anywhere else. In God alone is hope, and mercy. He will not always chide. Let's turn to him in prayer, for he hears us, and will help.

Oh God! Hear us, and make our confession true, for in You we have put our trust. Though we fall, yet will you lift us up. You'll have mercy upon us.

And what if we have sinned? The blood of Jesus is our mercy, and in him we live. You are our God, and that forever. Be strong for us, and show us the way in which we should walk, and lead us to good.

We are your praise on the earth, and in You through us is your name magnified. Thank you.

Let's hold on.
  

Ingredients On Fire

Unless the ingredients are on fire, they will not cook. 

Doesn't it cry—wisdom, that is---when we are cooking? That it is only by putting the ingredients into one one single pot, mixing them, turning the fire on, and then stirring it that we prepare food?

This is the same thing with our life's work. A few talents, put into one single kind of focus, combined, and then applied diligently in work, leads to food, bread.

Let's cook. 

One of us passed

In memory of the passing of one of our own, Dr. Myles Munroe and wife, Ms. Ruth Ann Munroe, and their flight company.

I was shocked to hear this yesterday. This was a man of God of no little stature. But the Lord knows.

A huge loss to us all in the Kingdom. But the Kingdom marches on, for we all are in his place to keep the fire that is Jesus Christ burning to the ends of the earth. 

As in him we live, move, and have our being, also in him we die, rest. May our folks rest in Him. Amen.

Write, And The Pencil

Write it down. You got something you want to do? Write it down. What is the topic? It doesn't have to be perfect. Just write it down. Do you want to start a small group ? Write down everything that comes to your mind about it. You can delete the bad stuff later. But when your mind's hot, ideas flow and come to you. Catch them all. Strike the hammer while the iron is hot, the old saying goes.


Why? Because there will come a time when your motivation wanes, and then you'll not feel as fired up, and ideas don't come to you as readily. This is not the time to try remembering what came to you when you were feeling good. A short pencil is better than a long memory, and strike the hammer while the iron is hot.


I Use A Pencil: The Experimenter's tool


Yeah, a pencil gives me freedom to experiment. A pencil is great for what's at it's butt---the eraser. We are not at the commitment stage yet, so let's feel free to try things out---check if a sentence is good or not, and use the eraser if not. A pen puts an indelible mark on the work, and makes changes messy---not time for that yet. On the bus, at the gas station, on the flight, I can quickly pull out a pencil and be off to writing.

Let's write.