Several "WOWs"

Good morning all.  I haven't blogged you in a week, and have come up with several "WOWs" for you.  I'm reading the "ians"...Galatians, Ephesians, Philipians, Colossians.  Filled up a bunch of pages during my studies.  I also got some from other sources.  Here they are:

1.  God has NO grandchildren!  You can't be God's child through someone else's faith...YOU have to acknowledge your OWN sins, repent of them to God through Jesus Christ, accept Him as your rescuer or Saviour, and receive in gratitude His gift of grace and salvation to you. (Joyce Meyer)

2.  Write your plans out, then let God have the eraser! (Our Daily Bread) Psalms says basically the same thing - commit your plans to God and let Him take control.  My favorite verse comes from Proverbs..."Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understandings.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."

3.  Each day you have the choice of showing up for life...or just existing and waiting to die.  Did you know that many suffering, lonely people who can't bring themselves to commit suicide and end their life, just give up...and count the days until their death.  Brothers & sisters...this is a slow form of suicide.  Realize this and change your choices.  The most important thing you can do each day is to give YOUR pain & suffering to God, and do something loving for someone else each day.  God blesses that so much.

4.  One final WOW...there is a hymn called "Out of My Bondage, Sorrow, & Night" (page 178, Baptist Hymnal).  In one of the verses it says "...out of my sickness, into Thy health...".  Rejoice...you may be sick, given only a short time to live, or your sickness is chronic and you will live with it for the rest of your life, or your mind is ill...the list goes on.  So why rejoice?  Because Jesus is in perfect health, and this is not about you...it's about Him.  All those awful injuries he suffered on this earth  He has been healed of by His father, God.  WOW!  And remember, remember, remember...when you get to be with the heavenly hosts and the Trinity, you will be completely healed.  People don't realize that death is the perfect healing of a sick body.  REJOICE!!!!