12/14/2009
My dad was known for his peace sign. He was a bit of a hippie. His greeting was not a wave, but his two fingers in the air. Peace.
John Fehlen spoke on peace yesterday at church. I was convicted a few things in my life. I know I can be contentious at times and not always easy to get along with. I can be sarcastic, rude, and even a bit of an A. But that is not the person I desire to be. And I know that is not honorable to God.
Today in my reading I came across a great verse in Galatians:
“Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.” – Galatians 5:26
I think of my Dad as my greatest role model. In his later years he was a man of incredible peace. He was also generous, kind, loving, and compassionate. He didn’t think of himself first. I don’t think he had a single enemy in the world. Even people who had done him wrong in the past, he forgave.
He had a peace that surpasses understanding. He had the peace of God.
I want to live like that.
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10/31/2008
I have been reading Hosea lately, and I cam just LOVING it! I have read it before, but for some reason this time it is just sinking in so deep. Hosea was told by God to marry a prostitute named Homer — but I just call her “Prosty the Snowman” because it has more or a ring to it. Anyway, even after Hosea marries her, she is completely unfaithful and continues to screw around with any and every guy she can get her hands on. And that is how God chose to illustrate His relationship with His people. WOW! What a slap in the face. When I read that I realized how I go every day living my life totally self-centered and whoring around with the world. I am not faithful to God.
So here I sit in the midst of feeling like a little tramp that is not worthy of any love or forgiveness and then I read this:
“But then I will win her back once again.
I will lead her into the desert
and speak tenderly to her there.
I will return her vineyards to her
and transform the Valley of Trouble into a Gateway of Hope.
She will give herself to me there,
as she did long ago when she was young…”
I can’t even take that in enough! God is saying (in my own words) “Even though you have been living like a whore, I will seduce you once again to love me with all of your heart”. That was such a huge verse for me. I spent a good chunk of the night just thinking about it and begging God to seduce me back to loving Him “as I did long ago when I was young”. That is what I want. I want to be in LOVE with God again!
Conviction City in Grace Country.
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11/05/2007
Wow…tonight was a shocker. I used to have a stack of verses that I had memorized. I hadn’t tested myself in a while, so tonight I took out my little verse holder and gave it a shot. Let’s just say that if I was getting graded I would probably be kicked out of school! I probably remembered about a third of them. So I am making it my goal to start going over those on a regular basis again.
Here are a couple of my favorites that I remembered:
“But I discipline by body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.” - 1 Corinthians 9:27
“You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin.” - Hebrews 12:4
“For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.” – 1 Corinthians 6:20
Good stuff for sure!
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