God doesn’t hold back the good

Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: The LORD will give grace and glory: No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Can you believe this verse. God is our sun, our life giver. He is our shield or protector. He gives us grace meaning that He loves us when we do not deserve it. He gives us glory. He is good to us.

The sweetest part of this verse seems to be that He will just give us any and everything as we are His. He will not withhold good things from us. We think He is holding out but to think that is to believe a lie of the devil.

Here you see what God, Himself, said about His character and how He treats us.

RevAG

Send Them Away

Musing Through Matthew- Send Them Away

Let us muse again today from Matt 14:15 and the theme of Jesus the King. 

The multitude has been with them all day and night is coming quickly. They tell the Lord this is a desert place, the time is past, and if we don’t do something these people may starve to death. There suggested remedy was send them away.  I am glad in the midst of this hopeless problem for human solution they did one thing right, they brought it to Jesus. 

In the midst of all our hopeless situations may they find us at Jesus feet.

RevTG.

Daily

Daily

Psalm 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loadeth us with benefits, Even the God of our salvation. Selah.

I love that word, daily. He is the God of our salvation but He didn’t just save us and leave us. He didn’t just meet our needs one time. He meets our needs daily. He does more than just meet our needs. He loads us down. He pours it out on us. He pours out benefits.

He carries us through life. He sustains our life. He is our life. He is involved in our lives on a daily basis. No wonder we love and praise Him.

He is so good we can’t imagine anything else but that.

RevAG

Labor Day

Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.  Eph. 4:28

Thank God for His grace!  The thief can find forgiveness.  He can also find new purpose and meaning for life.  As a forgiven child of God, I am to leave my sins behind and become a productive member of society.  One of the ways we do that is by finding meaningful work to provide for ourselves and those in need.

Today is Labor Day.  An official Labor Day website describes the holiday as “a yearly national tribute to the contribution workers have made to the strength, prosperity and well-being of our country.”

Thank God for His grace and the health and strength to work that we can give back for all He has given to us.

RevDB

God hears and meets needs

Psalm 57:2 I will cry unto God most high; Unto God that performeth all things for me.

We serve a God that you can cry out to in your time of need. He is a God that works in your life. He will do for you what you need done. He is the great, almighty God. He is not a god you made with your hands but the God of all creation.

What is so beautiful in this verse is that He is the One holding you together. He is the One answering your prayer. He is the One meeting your needs.

He is a personal God doing things for me. He is God that I can cry out to in prayer and expect Him to meet my need. Who has a God like the God of Heaven.

RevAG

Our Work

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much. Ec. 5:12

There is something good about doing an honest day’s work.  It brings a sense of accomplishment and adds meaning and purpose to our life.  This is especially true if we enjoy our work.  When they ask the Amish farmer if he didn’t get tired of working so hard, he replied, “It’s not really work if you enjoy what you do.”

Work is not a punishment from God.  Even in the garden before sin, man was giving the task of taking care of God’s creation.  If you are able to get up this morning and go to work, you are a blessed individual.

Work hard and enjoy it.  Then go home to your family and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
RevDB

Christian Vocation

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. Ro. 12:11

Did you know that every Christian is in full time Christian service?  I am not just a Christian on Sunday when I attend Church, but I am a Christian every moment of every day.  Being a Christian is not something I do, it is who I am in Christ.  I may be a good Christian or a bad one, but I am always a Christian.

Whatever vocation a Christian may be in, it is a Christian vocation.  We are to approach our work with zeal as being in service to the Lord.  The world does not see us at church, but at work, on the ball field and in our everyday lives.

The question is not “Do they see a Christian?” but rather, “Do they see a good one?”
REV DB