Meet Shaggy. When we first moved to our property, he greeted us in our front yard with nervous barking. When we tried to approach him, he skittishly ran away from us. We quickly realized he was homeless and starving. His hip bones visibly protruded beneath his matted fur. I began putting big bowls of dry dog food mixed with Alpo and dog treats out for him every day.
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Our ending matters much more than our beginning. Stay close to God, beloved. Work hard not to fall away from Him as you grow older. Your days are numbered here on this earth. END STRONG!
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God doesn’t instruct us to praise Him because He has some sort of egotistical need to be praised. He tells us to praise Him because of what it does to US. Praising God completes us and heals us. The Holy Spirit inhabits our PRAISE. It is where He LIVES and manifests Himself in our lives.
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But the BEST of all, are those of us who feed our souls through our relationship with Jesus Christ. We have a wonderful guide in His Holy Word that no one else has. We have the Holy Spirit, God Himself, living within us, communing directly with our souls. We are the most blessed humans ever to walk the earth!
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This is only one kind of fear that Scriptures command of us and that is ‘fear of the LORD.’ When we fear the LORD, we understand His great power and authority; we understand our own smallness compared to Him. When we also glimpse His unconditional love and care for us, we can be completely free from fear. We can rest content. Troubles will not effect our peace and joy.
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Having a relationship with God gives meaning to this life. Without God, we are just soulless animals, doomed to live a directionless, pain-filled life that ends in pointless death. This is true even for people who amass great wealth, fame, or power in this life. As the saying goes, ‘You can’t take it with you!’
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God sees the eternal picture. He understands what it means that our souls are eternal. We can’t understand this yet but our little 75 or so years here are just the tiniest blip on the entire timeline of our existence. How does a couple of decades of suffering here compare to a million plus years of paradise? THIS is why it sometimes feels to us as if God’s justice is taking too long. We can only see the tiniest part. But God sees the BIG picture!
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What is the most powerful thing you can think of? The ocean? A hurricane? God is far more powerful than any of these. God created them all!
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How silly I was to ever have misgivings about this property. How did I not instantly recognize how thoroughly it would grab my heart. I feel ashamed for doubting God. He forgives me… How He delighted to bring us here. He is smiling.
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The Corinthian church was similar to many churches today. They were very worldly minded, arrogant about their wealth and power. Paul exhorted them to focus on Christ rather than on physical things. He wanted to shift them over from earthly views to eternal vision.
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