In The Middle Of Eternity - Thoughful Tuesdays

It is the Thoughtful Tuesday today.

There are many people who have been close to God and have given us good thoughts to meditate on.

God's Word gives us many verses we need to pray about.

Today is dedicated to those thoughts, ideas, verses and words that make us think and make us want to be closer to God.

Here are today's thoughts!

Here I sit in the middle of eternity.  This wheelchair has helped me sit still.  I’ve observed with curiosity the way we Christians grasp for the future, as if the present didn’t quite satisfy.  How we, in spiritual fits and starts, scrape and scratch our way along, often missing the best of life while looking the other way, preoccupied with shaping our future.  In my least consistent moments I too try to wrest the future out of his hands.  Or worse, I sink back into the past and rest on long-ago laurels  But God is most concerned with the choices I make now.  God, standing silently and invisibly and presently with us in the middle of eternity, is interested in a certain kind of change.  He brings us choices through which we never-endingly change, fresh and new into his likeness.

Joni Eareckson Tada

For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

1 Chronicles 16:26
The King James Version

This post is part of the Thoughtful Tuesdays series.

Giving Is True Having - Thoughtful Tuesdays

It is the Thoughtful Tuesday today.

There are many people who have been close to God and have given us good thoughts to meditate on.

God's Word gives us many verses we need to pray about.

Today is dedicated to those thoughts, ideas, verses and words that make us think and make us want to be closer to God.

Here are today's thoughts!

 

All men are tempted.  There is no man that lives that cannot be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Henry Ward Beecher

 

 

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.  To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Proverbs 21:2-3
The English Standard Version

 

 

 This post is part of the Thoughtful Tuesdays series.

 

 

Everyday Happiness - Thoughtful Tuesdays

 

It is the Thoughtful Tuesday today.

There are many people who have been close to God and have given us good thoughts to meditate on.

God's Word gives us many verses we need to pray about.

Today is dedicated to those thoughts, ideas, verses and words that make us think and make us want to be closer to God.

Here are today's thoughts!

 

 

Of all marvelous things, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man.

Charles C. Colton

 This post is part of the Thoughtful Tuesdays series.

 

Mocking The Poor Is Mocking The God - Thoughtful Tuesdays

 
It is the Thoughtful Tuesday today.

There are many people who have been close to God and have given us good thoughts to meditate on.

God's Word gives us many verses we need to pray about.

Today is dedicated to those thoughts, ideas, verses and words that make us think and make us want to be closer to God.

Here are today's thoughts!

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Thomas Merton

Mocking the poor is mocking the God who made them.  He will punish those who rejoice at others’ misfortunes.

Proverbs 17:5
The Living Bible

 

This post is part of Thoughtful Tuesday series. 

Word Of God Is At Work In Those Who Believe - Prayer Monday

God’s Word works in our lives.

But how much more it works in our prayers!

“There are only three classes of people in the world today: those who are afraid, those who do not know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.”

Unknown preacher

Using Scripture in our prayer underscores that we desire to search out God’s heart in a matter.

And that we seek to know His will.

“And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe”. 1 Thess. 2:13

We may have many requests that we would like to be filled.

But are they according to God’s Word?

If we read the Scripture and seek God’s heart and His wishes.

Are they the same as our heart’s desires?

God’s way is always the best.

And we need to read His Word and pray to know His mind.

So that His will can be revealed to us.

And also that we can wish the same thing He wishes for us.

“Dear God, show me Your will in Your Word. I know that I have many desires. Many of them are very good desires but they are not according to Your will. They are not the best for me. Teach me Your Word and Your will, show me Your heart, so I can desire what you desire for me. Let me submit to You! Amen!”

 This message is part of the Prayer Monday series.