Thursday 8/25/2005
John 6.25-59-I tell you for certain that you won’t live unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man. But if you do eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will have eternal life, and I will raise you to life on the last day.
1 Chronicles 24-the temple duties were divided between all the priests
Zechariah 10-I, the LORD, am the one who sends storm clouds and showers of rain to make fields produce.
Psalm 26.1-8-test my heart and my mind
1 Kings 19.9b-18-What are you doing here, Elijah?
Psalm 105.42-45-So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing
"They won’t get busy until tests roll around."- A statement about a dispensary at LR- Reminds me of Psalm 26- sometimes it takes a little testing to make us know that we depend on God for help and guidance- sometimes it takes a walk through the wilderness of life to understand that we really must love and trust God to save us- God may even send a storm into our lives- confuse us- set us back a little- but in that storm comes his ever-living, ever-loving, ever-lasting water of life- his rain that showers upon us and gives us growth- just as the rain makes the fields produce- sometimes the storms of life make us produce- give us character and endurance- and makes us fit for ministry- makes us priests able to serve him in his kingdom- Jesus gave his very life for us- went through the ultimate storm of life for me and gave his body and blood for me and my sin that I may have everlasting life—I must eat of his flesh and blood and I will also have eternal life on the last day I will be raised—"They won’t bet busy until tests roll around."—but that time may be the best time- when I am tested – I am loved by God – I am given growth, life and am raised to that ministry God sends me to do. I’m ready to go.
Prayer- Lord-thank you for tests- thank you for the caring love you show me in the tests of life- the situations in which you place me- the growth you give- the life you give and thank you most of all for that life you gave me through your Son Jesus. --- Amen
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