Order & Harmony
This is one of our home’s rooms. We try to maintain tidiness in our home.Because Beth & I do better with order. Order helps us to concentrate and to work better in a better frame of mind. Disorder eventually gets us “off of our game”.
1 Corinthians 14:33 …
“… for God is not a God of confusion but of peace …”
Whatever your particular style is, you can be most grateful that your God is perfectly orderly. He very rarely sources chaos. (The Tower of Babel judgment & Romans 1’s judgment of “giving” idolaters “over to” multiplied sins being two exceptions).
So whether you like your house organized or less than organized, take encouragement in your God’s bent toward order & harmony. These are what He has for you in your forever relationship with Him as His child!
Regrets
4 Porta-Potties can really put a damper on a hot air balloon ride.Fixating on your regrets will really trip up your walk with Christ.
“Brethren,I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
(Philippians 3:13-14)
If you have regrets, you are not alone. We all do.
After confessing your sins, accept God’s forgiveness. (1 John 1:9) And go forward with confidence and joy.
Cut loose your Porta-Potties. Enjoy the hot air balloon ride with Jesus!
IT’S NOT ALWAYS OBVIOUS
The Bible warns us about spending a lot of time with some people. “Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.” (1 Corinthians 15:33)
A good apple which is long enough with bad apples in the same barrel, goes bad.
Or …
“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” (Matthew 7:6)
The boy in the picture is wearing construction cones. These cones tell motorists to steer clear of construction zones.
Often “bad company” people and haters of holy, Gospel truth aren’t as clearly marked!
Ask the Lord for discernment. He will show you when it’s time to steer around dangerous people.
THE EYE IN THE SKY
This cloud formation is rather amazing. Reminds me of 2 Chronicles 16:9A:“For the eyes of the Lord move to & fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.”
Your God is everywhere. And, in love, His eye is always on you.
Make sure that your heart is 100% loyal to your Saviour. Then He will strongly support you. And His ever-watchful eye will reassure you where ever you are.
TAKE ATTENDANCE!
Ever since New Testament times bad guys have snuck into local churches. Maybe you had to look twice to see the fox?GRAB AN INSTRUMENT & START PLAYING
This guy is talented but he’s also exhausted.1/7th-Time Lordship
Number 1
I am a car license plate watcher.This is a cool one!
No pun intended!
Who or what is #1 in your life?
God is zealous to be #1 to you!
“Then God spoke all these words, saying,
‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.”
1 Peter 3:15
“… but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence …”
Making the Lord #1 in your life is a personal choice which has to be re-confirmed moment to moment.
You can call that process reverence.
With Jesus’ love for you,
Pastor Rob Elliott
1. Ask your self ‘typically, what do I think about when I am free to think about anything at all?’
2. Note how you feel when the offering plate comes to you in the worship service?
NIGHT FISHING
What a difference 59 years make!This was the NYC skyline Easter weekend 1956.
We are now in the end times. Our religious freedoms are steadily declining.
We must increasingly be about Heaven’s business!
Christian, you are Christ’s ambassador!
Let down your net for a catch! (Luke 5:1-8)
Jesus made this clear when He said:
“As long as it is day, we must do the work of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.” (John 9:4)
I’M MAD
This is a 5000 square-foot house. It sits on a large ocean front lot at the eastern edge of the city of Nassau, Bahamas.
This is someone’s property. You don’t have to live in a house for it to be property which you own.
Even if it is not a private homeowner’s due to a possible foreclosure, it is someone’s property. Perhaps a bank’s or a deceased person’s estate’s.
Of course God is not against individuals owning property either in the Old or the New Testaments.
I believe that this kind of ugly disrespect makes God mad too.
WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) bracelets used to remind believers to check their behavior against their Lord’s.
That’s fine and dandy. But John 2:13-16 is in the biblical record!
“And the Passover of the Jews wasn’t hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers seated.
And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and overturned their tables; and to those who were selling the doves He said, ‘Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house the house of merchandise’ “.
As scourge was a weapon. It inflicted pain.
WWJD? Sometimes get extremely & righteously angry!
With Jesus’ Love,
Pastor Rob Elliott