Are the Ears Connected to the Heart?

 

I found the above on Pinterest this morning and had to share it with you today. It brings home a simple truth about God. 

If we want God's heart, we must learn to listen to Him.

Let's take a look at some of the things He says about the heart:

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: Ezekiel 11:19

I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart. Jeremiah 24:7

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life  Proverbs 4:23

These are just a few verses about the kind of heart that God wants us to have. What are some that He wants us to be aware of and avoid. We will look at a few of those on tomorrows post. 

Thanks for coming by today, Friends. May your day be a blessing to you and to those around you!

What I Have to Look Forward to

 

What are some things that you have looked forward to in your life? For me as a young person, it had been greatly getting to my high school graduation. A time when I could then go off on my own. By that time, I had become engaged to my now husband, and so I looked forward to having a family, a home, and then later at time of retirement.

Yesterday, I talked about just passing through this life and going on to my home in Heaven. I wanted to say a bit more about it today.

Considering that I am at the time of retirement now, what have I to look forward to now. Sickness? No way. Death? Well not so much but I am not afraid of death. Life?

Wait, what? Life?

Well ok, more like Heaven. Because that is what Heaven means to me. A new life in fact. One of no more tears. No more sadness. But being with Jesus and all those who wait for me there. 

And there is more as is discussed by author Joshua Moore. And I encourage you to check out his site; 7 Things to Look Forward to in Heaven.   

There is so much to look forward to Heaven. The Bible has much to say about it. And when you get to be my age, which is not young I can assure you, if you don't give heaven much thought as a young person, you may as you begin to age.

My dad was in his 80s when he passed and he said to his doctor one day at an appointment that I had gone to with him, "I am ready to go. I know where I am going. But it's leaving her that makes me sad." He meant me. How sad that made me that day. As it did him thinking about it. He passed just a few short weeks later. 

The apostle Paul felt that way in his life. He said he was between the two. Wanting to stay, and yet having the desire to be with Christ which was the better of the two. Philippians 1;21-23

I am no apostle Paul, but I can surely understand how my dad felt that day in the doctor's office. I don't look forward to the day that I will say goodbye to my loved ones here on earth.

But I do look forward to what and who waits for me at Heaven's gates. And knowing that at least some of my loved ones left behind will join me one day. But, even thinking about it, makes me long for that time in a way. 

Does it you?

Thanks for coming by and thanks for hanging in there with me while I wasn't here, my Friends. God bless you!

This World is Not My Home....

Many years ago, when I was a teenager, my dad and others would sing a song called: This World is Not My Home. 

As I sit watching the morning light rising up over my little patch of the world, I recall some of it. "I am just passing through. If heavens not my home, Oh Lord what will I do?"  And I think back to all the years that have gone by. Those early years that as I grew, I didn't really contemplate where life might take me.

Just trying to find my way and struggling as many young people do. And then later, meeting my husband and thinking ahead about how much fun it would be to settle down and have a family. Of course, I had no realistic idea of doing that, because after all it was going to be fun playing house. 

But then, once married, the babies started coming but so did the bills and drinking problems. It wasn't long that I realized that this so-called playing house, wasn't fun at all.

Years later after getting serious with the God that I met as a child, life did get better. We had four beautiful children and I am so thankful for that.  No matter what we had gone through, God had been there. Sometimes it didn't feel like He was. But He was.

 I am thankful to have woken up this morning to appreciate another day in His world. He gives us rest at night, but He also breathes His life into us each day to get us up and do those things He wants us to do.

But one day that will stop for each of us. For this world isn't our home. We are just passing through. My dad singing that song so many years ago bring a new kind of memory today, because it means I am so much closer to getting there and I sometime wonder how many more stops Lord? How many more stops do I make before I reach my for real home. How many? 

Now lest you think I am wanting to hasten my trip or cut this one short, don't worry. I am just waiting for God's timing. 

And in the mean time? 

I am glad that I can truthfully say, heaven is my home. And because of what Jesus did for me so many eons ago, on the cross, I can travel through the rest of my life having the peace of God, that I will get there. To my home in heaven, where I will reside with Jesus and my family that have already arrived at their own destinations, forever.

Can you say that as well? I hope and pray so. God's arms are open wide. Waiting for all that will , to come to Him. All we have to do is accept His invite. 

Thanks for coming by today, Friends. Have a blessed day

No Longer Could a Grave Hold Him!

 

 

From somewhere beneath the earth, came a rumble. An earthquake so great was only the beginning of that wonderful morning, when the Son of God, would prove to the world that no tomb could hold him.

Did Jesus calmy get up and exit the dark place that had He had been placed in, just three short days ago?

No, I don't believe so. I imagine that He burst forth from that place just as mighty as the earthquake itself had in that few moments before. For it was the victory of the Saviour who had shed His blood, and he was about to show it to the world!

It has been such a sight that even the soldiers that were outside guarding the tomb, "did shake and become as dead men" the bible says. 

Jesus had just done the possible. He had justified his own death in the sight of His Father. And to a sin ridden world.

The horribly bloody cross had now become an object of beauty. Jesus had allowed His blood to turn around the events of the days before, to show us what it really had meant. 

How good is God?

He had so loved the world,

That He gave His only begotten Son,

that whosoever believeth on Him,

should not perish,

but have everlasting Life.

John 3:16

That is how Great God is. And today, as we celebrate this truth of the gospel, we can be all so thankful that we are a part of it.

Even thousands of years later.

Hello, Friends. thanks for being patient with me as I struggled with my heath these last few weeks. I am so thankful that I am doing well and if you prayed for me, thank you!

May God bless and keep you today as every day

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He's coming!

 

"He's coming! He's coming!" shouts a small child excitedly. "Who's coming!" asks his mother, knowing full well who the child means. "The Easter Bunny, the Easter Bunny is coming! " 

Ah yes, the Easter Bunny is just a few short weeks off. And children can't wait to wake up and find the wonderful treats that morning, that he has sure to leave.

The ones that still believe in him, that is. 

I don't have a new blog about Easter to send to you today. But I actually do have one. 

Please forgive me if I cheat a little and reprint one from another blog. that I had done in December of 2019. Actually, that one starts off with Christmas. But I had asked the question of why I put the Christmas and Easter together, that time. 

And the answer had been, because we can't have one without the other.

So, forgive me for today, for printing the same story with a bit of a different slant to it, to remind us of how important these holidays are to those of that know Jesus. 

Read on:

Isn't it ironic that while we celebrate the birth of Christ this month, that we bring a Christmas tree into our homes and decorate it with beautiful ornaments? And we put pretty packages filled with things we want to give others, underneath them.

 And yet, the birth of the baby whose birth we celebrate grew up to hang on a tree for our sins. How ugly it was, that he was killed in such a gruesome way, with his life's blood running down the cross.

His friends and family may have gathered underneath watching him die. Or perhaps nearby.  Not understanding why fully. It was truly a sad day for them. No wrapped gifts under that tree.

There was surely nothing pretty about it if we look at that aspect of it. But, when we reflect on why he did it, it becomes something that is beautiful. He gave us a gift, not wrapped up with pretty bows, but something more meaningful to be sure. Something that would never die. Something whereby we could live forever.

Why do I put the two of those together? The birth and the death of Jesus Christ, during this month? Because we can't have one without the other. And more importantly then those really, is the fact, that death did not hold him. These three events all go together whenever we think on Jesus and why he came to earth as a babe in a manger in a barn. And that is what is beautiful, during the Christmas and Easter Seasons of our celebrations.

And so while you are enjoying this season, and preparing for the Easter Bunnys visit to your home this year, remember the tree that held Jesus with the nails in his hands, and be ever thankful that he was willing to do that for you and me. Because... he didn't have to.

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Thanks for coming by, Friends. Have a wonderful and blessed evening. 

Hello Friends😍

I can't be here today. But I will be back tomorrow

 Good bless!

God's Word....

.. .....really speaks to us during those times we choose to listen. Did you hear what He said to you today? Did you bother to open His word to find out? What is He saying to you today?

I must confess. There have been days recently that life has made it hard for me to get in there and meditate on God. 

Oopps. That isn't right. It is an excuse.

Was I just too lazy to do it?

Maybe. But then I have been too pre-occupied at times with problems within our extended family. 

Is that a good enough excuse? A fair assessment?

Probably not.

 Forgive me, Lord Jesus. Help me to trust in you. Help me forgive. Help me to put you first. And thank you that I have access to you when there are so many that don't.  Amen.

Thanks for coming today, Friends. God ble