It's Time

>> Thursday, January 31, 2008

Imagine for a moment that someone has established for you a very unusual bank account. Each morning he has agreed to deposit $86,400. At the end of each day whatever you have not spent will be forfeited. Would you not be diligent to see to it that every penny of that account was withdrawn and properly spent? Would you allow any of it to expire unredeemed? You have such an account. For God has given you 86,400 precious and irreplaceable seconds in this day. Whatever is not used will expire and can never be reclaimed. Seize each moment therefore and invest it wisely.
--Rick Grubbs


It’s Time

Who heard the first? Who’ll hear the last?
A clock mysteriously beats on past.
No mouth, no tongue, no word it speaks
For all we need are warning beats.

It screams, it cries! It begs, it pleads!
But only listening ears it feeds
For ticks and beats and dongs and chimes
Mean nought to those who love the times.

Its language beats, “Work! Pray! Fast! Weep!”
The cause of fruit that time should reap.
“It’s time… it’s time,” its echoes cry,
“To count your days before they die.”
--E.H.S.

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Living For Jesus

>> Thursday, January 24, 2008

Living for Jesus, a life that is true,
Striving to please Him in all that I do;
Yielding allegiance, glad hearted and free,
This is the pathway of blessing for me.

O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to Thee,
For Thou, in Thy atonement, didst give Thyself for me.
I own no other Master, my heart shall be Thy throne.
My life I give, henceforth to live, O Christ, for Thee alone.

Living for Jesus Who died in my place,
Bearing on Calvary my sin and disgrace;
Such love constrains me to answer His call,
Follow His leading and give Him my all.

Living for Jesus, wherever I am,
Doing each duty in His holy Name;
Willing to suffer affliction and loss,
Deeming each trial a part of my cross.

Living for Jesus through earth’s little while,
My dearest treasure, the light of His smile;
Seeking the lost ones He died to redeem,
Bringing the weary to find rest in Him.

--Thomas O. Chisholm, 1917



"For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said..."


Acts 17:28

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A Lesson Learned from Ezekiel

>> Tuesday, January 22, 2008

This morning I was finishing my journey through the book of Ezekiel, attempting to draw insights or applications of faith for a school project... this quickly became a frustrating project as chapter after chapter I'm reading exactly how the temple should be built: "And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits..." (Ezekiel 41:2). How do you draw applications of faith from such a seemingly odd decision to draw out such a subject? What is the purpose in going on for chapters about how the temple should look? Why didn't God choose to instead lengthen topics more relevant to our day, such as abortion? My dad helped me.

I was looking to draw wisdom from the words, not the purpose. The way the Bible is proportioned is perfect, because we know God is perfect. Therefore we have faith in God's design, His space and His time, His articulation and His tedious detail. We may have our own plans for when we should marry, or just how long a certain struggle in our life should endure. God has His own plans and they will take precedent over our will and best judgement. He may spend several chapters of our lives on one theme, when we would've spent a verse. He may write a verse on one situation, when we would've spent a book. God is above our thinking and above our understanding; understanding this, we trust in Him and His choice of time.

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"
(Eccl. 3:1)

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

(Romans 8:28)

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Make, Watch or Wonder?

>> Sunday, January 20, 2008


"There are three kinds of people. Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened."

--Mike Walsh

...Which one are you?

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The LORD Builds

>> Monday, January 14, 2008



"Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it:..."


Psalm 127:1a







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