Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Brochure in the Works
There is a new "Missions Brochure," in the works here. Besides giving you a reminder of who we are and what we are doing here, it will also be a way to keep in touch with us and even support the work here. Keep following for more details.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Here I Stand
Micah 5:4 - "And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth."
1 Peter 5:7 - "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." The question seems to be too simple for us to understand. Either we stand in Him, with solid footing and secure hands around us, or we don't. We either cast all our care or we cast none of it. Unless we give Him everything, without holding anything back for ourselves, we rob Him of what He wants, a relationship with us. We got so easily entangled with the "day to day," my job, my relationships, my purpose, etc. that we start worrying. We start thinking, "I can take care of this one myself, I don't need to give this one to God." For a while we can actually convince ourselves this is true, but we all know how it ends, on our knees begging for His help, realizing how foolish we were (and are). In the end, truth always wins. Where we stand and where we feed is so important. It's our security and our fire and this is why we want it from the right source, our everlasting Father. We stand in Him. Our food comes from Him.
I've been thinking about this verse a lot lately; and not just because it's in my favorite book of the Bible (wink, wink). In a world and time with so much going on, so many things going wrong, and our eyes continually being bombarded by new things "we just have to have," it's so comforting to know where we stand. We know the story about the wise man who builds his house upon the rock (Matthew 7), but do we really trust God enough to build AND feed upon The Rock? To often we lean one way or another, but never accepting all God has to offer us in our life.
1 Peter 5:7 - "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." The question seems to be too simple for us to understand. Either we stand in Him, with solid footing and secure hands around us, or we don't. We either cast all our care or we cast none of it. Unless we give Him everything, without holding anything back for ourselves, we rob Him of what He wants, a relationship with us. We got so easily entangled with the "day to day," my job, my relationships, my purpose, etc. that we start worrying. We start thinking, "I can take care of this one myself, I don't need to give this one to God." For a while we can actually convince ourselves this is true, but we all know how it ends, on our knees begging for His help, realizing how foolish we were (and are). In the end, truth always wins. Where we stand and where we feed is so important. It's our security and our fire and this is why we want it from the right source, our everlasting Father. We stand in Him. Our food comes from Him.
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