2006
Greetings from Me and My House,
At the close of 2006 I feel I should post something profound, but I have nothing profound to say. It's been a year of much activity, change and growth - much of it internal. Yet, we continue to find that God is God and He does not change. He brings us back around to where He always was/is. He tells us something, we go on for years on that; then He tells us the same thing, and we have deeper understanding and we go on again - ever growing.
My dh and I have been going through all the commands that Jesus gave while He was on earth, memorizing and meditating on them, and applying them. It is amazing how simple they are. Yet man cannot keep them apart from Jesus' own work in our lives.
So I close with profound words, not my own, but God's - 2 of my favorite and most quoted Scriptures in my teaching: "Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole of man." This is how man becomes whole.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." The only way we grow here on this earth is to deny ourselves, laying down our own lives, all self-will and pride - presenting our bodies a living sacrifice; and to renew our minds to think God's thoughts after Him - knowing His will, by emersing ourselves into studying and meditating on His Word.
OK, one more, for this is how He has "given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue." His Word was given that we might in it see His will and His ways for Abundant Life that is only recieved through the transforming grace of Jesus Christ, as we apply His Word in our own lives.
I pray that your 2006 was spent in greater growth in God's will and ways in your life. That you have spent your year wisely, in renewing your mind by God's Word, that you are loving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and your neighbor as yourself to a greater degree than you were in 2005.
SDG,
Lisa
At the close of 2006 I feel I should post something profound, but I have nothing profound to say. It's been a year of much activity, change and growth - much of it internal. Yet, we continue to find that God is God and He does not change. He brings us back around to where He always was/is. He tells us something, we go on for years on that; then He tells us the same thing, and we have deeper understanding and we go on again - ever growing.
My dh and I have been going through all the commands that Jesus gave while He was on earth, memorizing and meditating on them, and applying them. It is amazing how simple they are. Yet man cannot keep them apart from Jesus' own work in our lives.
So I close with profound words, not my own, but God's - 2 of my favorite and most quoted Scriptures in my teaching: "Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole of man." This is how man becomes whole.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." The only way we grow here on this earth is to deny ourselves, laying down our own lives, all self-will and pride - presenting our bodies a living sacrifice; and to renew our minds to think God's thoughts after Him - knowing His will, by emersing ourselves into studying and meditating on His Word.
OK, one more, for this is how He has "given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue." His Word was given that we might in it see His will and His ways for Abundant Life that is only recieved through the transforming grace of Jesus Christ, as we apply His Word in our own lives.
I pray that your 2006 was spent in greater growth in God's will and ways in your life. That you have spent your year wisely, in renewing your mind by God's Word, that you are loving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and your neighbor as yourself to a greater degree than you were in 2005.
SDG,
Lisa
posted by Lisa @Me and My House @ 12/31/2006 07:52:00 AM
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