Growing Up

Time flies.  It's now 5.28 in the morning, and I've just finished cutting my fingernails and toe nails.  It seems that everytime I cut my toe nails I get reflective about time.  I would contemplate on how it's finally time to cut them again (so my socks would have a longer lifespan), and I'd try to remember how long it's been since I last cut them.

But it's true, time really flies.  Not until you're in your twenties and maybe lived on your own, that suddenly the first of each month became more significant.  "Oh it's the first of the month already?"  That means rent is due, credit card statement in two weeks, student loans, some bills.  Ay it's all part of growing up they say.

So new year is coming.  Help me LORD, for growing up is hard.  But you're a constant in my life, from the day I was born till my days of old.

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

James 4:13-17

Since we talked about growing up, I shall leave you with this wonderful Narnia song. :)

History of High Risers

Turn Back

"Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out."

Acts 3:19

Thesaurus: to turn, change

Let Him transform ur life.

Afflicted much?

My finger nails are growing so fast.  Is it time to cut them already?  Then it's time to get a haircut, then the toe nails are getting a little long -I'm afraid I'll greatly reduce the life expectancy of my socks if I don't do anything about this.

Oh how time flies, and how life goes on.  From the human nature side of things, reminding you: you're still living, then there are paychecks to expect bi-monthly and rents to pay.  Is July really almost over?

It's a beautiful Sunday in IL, too bad I have to work today.  I hope the Word of God written in the Bible has a part in your life this week.

"How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!  Through Thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep Thy righteous judgments. I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word. Accept, I urge Thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me Thy judgments."

Psalms 119:103-108

Awake

Yes He Can

Reject

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee: ... seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” “There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.” Hosea 4:6, 1, 2.

Smile!

Pray without Ceasing

I love praying in a really dark room, so dark that when you open your eyes while praying, you can't tell difference. :)

Flee

"The wicked flee when no man pursueth."

Proverbs 28:1

Filthy Rags

"Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. 

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life."

Titus 3:1-8

What a wonderful passage, right? Our righteousness = filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6).

"All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away."

Sober Minds

"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this pressent world."

Titus 2:11,12

Lost

"Men are creatures of habit," the quote says.  And I am one creature, distracted.  Even as I am now attempting to write this entry.

I'm trying to get into the groove of living in Illinois again; of studying, of working, but my life has not been what one would call exemplary.  My use of time, and money, and time (I have a lot of time in my hands) and energy... how do I find the power to mold myself to a better form. I can't.

LORD, please show me the way back to that straight and narrow road.

"The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin." Proverbs 5:22

Psalm 27:1,14

What a beautiful song...

Adek

Trial Times

"It is in the time of temptation and trial that you are to measure the degree of your faith in God, and to estimate the stability of your Christian character."

Youth's Instructor Oct. 2, 1902

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