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Smart Decisions

Posted in Abraham, Bible Characters, Explanations, Faith, God, Trust, tagged on January 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, … So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley … Abram settled in the land of Canaan…

The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes … and there he built an altar to the LORD. — Genesis 13:10=18

We don’t always get the opportunity to make the decisions we want. Sometimes the smartest guys in the room take the best for themselves.

What appears to be an inferior situation, however, turns out to be the best opportunity when God is there.

Abraham was wise enough to know that; Lot was not.

— fritz

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Enjoy, but remember…

Posted in Benefits, Christ, Explanations, Faith, Things, tagged , , on January 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »

…Be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; – 1st Timothy 6:17

“Christ, …is our life” — Colossians 3:4

[All the faithful saints before us] … confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth — Hebrews 11:13

God gives us “richly all things to enjoy”! We must, however, hold them loosely for though they come into our lives, they are NOT our lives — Christ is; we are just passing through, and so are they.

God picks us up, gives us what (and who) we need for as long as we need, then it/they/we move on. Trying to hold too tightly brings worry, fear, and eventual grief.

— fritz

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Slow Checkout Lines and Jesus

Posted in Belief, Bible Characters, Christ, Endurance, Faith, Healing, Jesus, tagged on January 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »

“A man named Jairus besought [Jesus to] come into his house: For he had one only daughter … and she lay a dying.

But as he went the people thronged him. And a woman … came behind him and touched … Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they … said, … the multitude throng thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? … [finally the woman] came trembling, and falling down …

While he yet spake, there cometh one … saying … Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.” — Luke 8:41-49

Whichever line I choose at the store stops. Five people checkout at the next line while I wait with two items for the one person in front of me to get a price check, call an absent manager, have a credit card denied, and/or fill out a return receipt. I don’t know how I do it!

I get impatient though I have nothing important compared to Jairus; his daughter was on her deathbed, Jesus her only hope.

How Jairus heart must have sunk as Jesus was stopped along with the way for a discussion about feelings! How he must have felt such urgency — right up to the point when the bad news came! Too late!

But Jesus is never too late, even if it takes a lifetime of waiting.

Jesus … answered …Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole” — Jesus (Luke 8:50)

— fritz

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