"But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. (Isaiah 64:8 ESV)"Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?"...
Continuing to focus on how our Heavenly Father’s perspective differs in relation to finite “intelligent” men of this World, today we come to yet another subject (penultimate part of the Series)… Lofty… In the sight of Perfect One, the one who is lowly is the lofty...
We turned a long patch of grass into a flower bed today. We knew the grass would have to be removed in order to have a weed-free bed, and after significant research, we decided on a procedure for removing the grass problem that seemed the easiest and most economical...
One man's junk is another man's treasure. Last Thursday we discovered through my 17-year-overdue basement-cleaning process that what is junk in our own eyes is nothing but a diamond-in-the-rough from God's perspective. He doesn't see us as junk; rather, He sees us for...
Coming to the penultimate part of our series on the similarities between Christ the Bridegroom and His bride, the church, today we shall focus on two more areas where we find stark similarities... Persecution... If the Bridegroom was subjected to the persecution of...
In the concluding part of our Series on the similarities between Christ the Bridegroom and the church, His bride, today we come to fourmore areas where we find stark similarities... Transformation... It is the kind of trials and tribulations which the Bridegroom...
"You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you." (John 15:3 NIV) As an avid gardener (in season), I enjoy all the Bible references comparing human life to plant form. I can picture God's words as seeds falling amongst stones or weeds and not...
One of the major projects I tackled as soon as I retired was clearing out over 18 years of accumulated junk from our home. Everything had to be gone through in order to determine if we would keep it or not. Although this took time, the real work actually was in the...
Last Saturday I told the story of how I had cleared 18 years of accumulated "junk" out of my basement, my garage, the cupboards, and even the dark recesses of the closets. This was a big job of itself, but the real work came in disposing of all that junk. From this...
Hubby and I agreed to get a brief video done. So I reached for my purse. "Wait a minute," I said, "let me put on some lipstick before you begin. Why can't I toss vanity out the window? But dare I say that we all have a trace of that from time to time. Some of us are...