My Wits' End...

Dear Jesus - You are just SO cool!  Thank You for the practicality in Your Word!

So I'm losing my mind.  LOSING it.  I am seriously at my wits' end.  Picked that phrase up from my parents somewhere along the way.  A curiosity overcomes me.  I search for 'wit' in the Bible.  OK, 21 times.  Then I search for 'wits'.  Boom - there it is!

Psalm 107:27

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are 

at their wits' end.

Wowza!  In the BIBLE?!  Oh my.  And I go back up to the top and read all of Psalm 107.  There I am!  It is exactly my condition! 

Oh dear God!  Thank You for this creative way of reminding me that You have all the details - big and small - of my life in Your powerful and loving hands.  Please create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me that I may walk with You and not as a drunken man...

Going to Battle Prayer... Part 1

Dear Jesus - Give us Your strength to do the work You've given us...

Who is on your prayer list?  I mean - who do you pray for?  Maybe there are those in your life that you THINK about praying for, but really - is it more that you wish that God would save them or deliver them from a circumstance?  This describes me for 99% of my life.

However, (hallelujah!) recently the Lord has graciously swept away a lot of the deceptions clouding my mind with respect to praying for those I love.  And now I'm fired up about my list!  Here we go...

Beauty in the Word...

Dear Jesus - You who made each intricate snowflake astoundingly beautiful, approached the creation of Your Word with perfect creativity.  Open our eyes to see You...

Came across the verse below in the Song of Solomon a week or so ago and it triggered a memory of David...  Could it be that even in physical appearance David resembled Jesus?  Could there be ties between this verse and others?

Question: Hell. Why?

Dear Jesus - Speak to us from Your Word...

So - here's a question:  Why hell? 

Variation 1: 'Who' was hell 'created' for?

Variation 2: Did an all-knowing God intend hell as a place for humans?

Answer:

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: Matthew 25:41

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?  Ezekiel 33:11

Hell was never intended for humans.

Thank You Jesus, that when we dig in Your Word we are overwhelmed with the evidences of Your amazing love...

The Lie

Today I'm posting a part of a pamphlet that has blessed my life...

There is a lie out in the universe,
          and in your heart,
          and mine.

                                    A lie ... about God.

The Battle I'm In - Part 4 - Eve & Me...

Dear Jesus - speak to my heart this day of Your unfailing goodness to me.  Cause me to sing them over and over again - those wonderful words of life You speak in Your Word...

Recently, I heard someone describe a 'Columbus' journey like this:  he didn't know where he was going, didn't know where he was when he landed, and didn't know where he'd been when he left!  Of course, all along he THOUGHT he KNEW.  And because he THOUGHT he KNEW, he was COMPELLED to action.  Of course, in the end, he died never knowing the truth about where he'd been.  And this is something I very much have in common with Eve in Chapter 3 of Genesis...   Can you relate?