Israel had been decimated by Assyrian armies… Judah’s elite (including Daniel and his three Hebrew friends) had been deported to Babylon… The temple was obliterated, the walls of the city flattened. (Jeremiah Study Bible Notes)
Yet amid the devastation, the writer of Lamentations says,
“Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”” Lamentations 3:21-24
In His Love, Cindy
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“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122:6
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The following quote is taken from Tim Challies’ book review of The Prodigal Godby Tim Keller. The book refers to the parable Jesus taught, better known as the Prodigal Son. (Luke 15:11-32) Keller compares the older son to the Pharisees and the younger son to sinners. I highly recommend the book review. It gives us something to think about.
“The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken and marginal avoid church. That can only mean one thing. If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners doesn’t have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did. If our churches aren’t appealing to younger brothers, they must be more full of elder brothers than we’d like to think.” Tim Challies
In His Love, Cindy
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“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122:6
All Scripture is from the NIV unless stated otherwise.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9
Jesus said, “The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” Matthew 23:11-12
A Prison Story
A prisoner talked about the huge impact made on a rough group of fellow prisoners and himself by none other than a nondescript janitor who had worked for years at the prison. This little woman spoke to those hardened men as she held her broom and her words were used by God to pierce their hard hearts with the Gospel.
He said, “Because that janitor, a woman without a title, without a stage – she delivered a sermon that still gets me choked up. She didn’t come to save us. She came to serve. And in doing so, she became the loudest gospel I’d ever heard.”
“That little prison janitor touched toughened hearts through her acts of service. Her stage was a prison meeting room, holding her broom and mop, her dirty bucket of water sitting beside her.” Patty
God loves using the weak things of this world to confound the mighty.
Read Patty’s excellent post, Burping and Serving HERE.
In His Love, Cindy
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“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122:6
All Scripture is from the NIV unless stated otherwise.
Jesus said, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 NIV
In His Love, Cindy
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“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122:6
All Scripture is from the NIV unless stated otherwise.
My son was scheduled for back surgery the next day. Consumed by an irrational fear, I went up for prayer on Sunday morning. Sobbing, I told my pastor that I had never been this afraid.
When I returned to my seat, my heart cried out: Lord, I might give my own life for another person. But, I could never give up my son to die.Never! Never!Never!For a moment, I felt the pain that losing my son would bring.
Suddenly, my focus turned to the Father and the cost to Him. I realized that what the Father did, I could never do. Then I remembered John 3:16.
“For God so loved the world thathe gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 NIV
How did I ever read these words without being deeply moved by the Father’s willingness to sacrifice His only son? How can others read these words and remain indifferent?
This is probably the most famous Bible verse the world has ever heard. You may see it on a sign at a football game, on billboards, on clothes, or on bumper stickers. And if you attend church, you may have heard it hundreds of times.
Only when the fear of losing my own son invaded my emotions did I understand the incomparable cost to the Father. I realized the enormity of the sacrifice God had made by giving His only son.
But there is much more to the story. Not only did Jesus die, He suffered a cruel death.
“They spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him and said, “Prophesy to us, Messiah. Who hit you?” Matthew 26:67-68
“Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.” Matthew 27: 27-31
“When we realize the expense God paid in forgiving our sins, we are immediately humbled by the power of such a display of love.” Jack Hibbs, from his book, LIVING IN THE DAZE OF DECEPTION
Perhaps, we should reflect more often on what the Father did. He gave His only Son for you and me, so great is His love.
P.S. My son’s surgery was a complete success. When he woke up from the anesthesia, he was pain-free for the first time in many months. Thank you, Lord, for answering my prayers.
In His Love, Cindy
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“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122:6
All Scripture is from the NIV unless stated otherwise.
“We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.” Colossians 1:9b-12 NIV
In His Love, Cindy
Before you go, please see my page Who Is Jesus? Hundreds of people have viewed this page! Have you?
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122:6
All Scripture is from the NIV unless stated otherwise.
“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.” Colossians 2:6-7 NIV
Thank you to all those people who, by serving God, have influenced our lives for Christ.
In His Love, Cindy
Before you go, please see my page Who Is Jesus? Hundreds of people have viewed this page! Have you?
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122:6
All Scripture is from the NIV unless stated otherwise.
Devout meditation on the Word is more important to soul-health even than prayer. It is more needful for you to hear God’s words than that God should hear yours, though the one will always lead to the other. — F. B. Meyer
Frederick Brotherton (F.B.) Meyer (1847–1929) was a much-loved English Baptist pastor and evangelist who was also involved in inner-city missions work.
In His Love, Cindy
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“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
“You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.For, “In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.” Hebrews 10:36-37 (emphasis mine) ” Read full chapter
In His Love, Cindy
Before you go, please see my page Who Is Jesus? Hundreds of people have viewed this page! Have you?
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122:6
All Scripture is from the NIV unless stated otherwise.
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