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Listen and Trust in God
Take ten minutes take and just quietly tell God how much you are counting on him. Listen to him tell you he’ll be there for you. Click here for today’s reading. Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose hope is the LORD. It’s not exacerbating to say we have crises with many of our major institutions. This post is not the place for a major expose, but let me just mention a few to make my point. Business: Enron and the sub-prime mortgage debacle; Media: MSNBC, FOXNews, HuffPost & Daily Caller (Yes, now all sides can be upset, but in my opinion neither of those sources can…
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Hard Work & Sacrifice
At work, school, family there’s always a pecking order. Pick somebody down the food chain from each of us. Today do something to help that person.. Click here for today’s reading. Whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave. Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Being great servants makes a nice holy card, but not in real life. There are the C-suites, seats in Church sanctuaries, inner circle tables at banquets, private banking floors, platinum memberships for…
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Try to Make a Change
Think of your most long-standing and hard to change behavior. Try to figure out how not to do it for one day only – today. Click here for today’s reading. Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds… cease doing evil; learn to do good. Make justice your aim. I am not sure that the adage, “the path to hell is paved with good intentions” is accurate. God’s pretty good at reading our hearts, and if they are in the right place, I think we are in good shape with God. Having said that – good intentions need to be reflected in good actions that put those intentions into practice. This requires the…
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Learning to Forgive
Take 10 minutes to quietly pray and while praying think of one person who has wronged you. Ask God to help you to let go and forgive. Click here for today’s reading. “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful… For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.” So many “religious” roads lead to the same answer: love your neighbor as yourself, do unto others as you would have them do unto you; measure out to others as you want to be measured; forgive us our trespasses as we forgive others. I think you get it. But yet, on the highway, I am kind of happy when…
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Discipline Takes Practice. Keep Going.
Let’s think about our most vexing fault and today – with God’s help – avoid it. And then, try it again tomorrow too. Click here for today’s reading: Ezekiel 18:21-28 Thus says the Lord GOD: If the wicked man turns away from all the sins he committed, if he keeps all my statutes and does what is right and just, he shall surely live, he shall not die. God really does want to save us. He knows that we can be bad. Some of us more than others. Maybe a few (hopefully) deserve to actually be called “wicked.” I’ll leave that designation to God, but God even wants those…