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Jan 17th – Day 17 – Failure To Launch
I’m not sure how to articulate my feelings this evening, but I can honestly say if you ever need someone to take the “let’s be friends” speech bullet for you, I’ve been trained to the point of being a Jedi Knight in that category. I figure I’ll keep getting this speech until eventually some lucky gal out there says, “Let’s be more than friends” and I’ll totally have a second stroke in surprise. I figure the second stroke will lessen my right side a little more so I’ll actually break even somehow.
Day 13 – The Stand Not Taken
I’m probably going to catch some flack for this, but I think Rick Warren may need to hire me as his public relations man. I would go so far as to say he’s definitely made life for us Christians a little harder in dealing with people who look at us like we’re crazy. Mind you, changing people’s minds and hearts about most Christians is a challenge in and unto itself, but go with me for a moment.
Rick Warren was recently connected via Rachel Maddow’s cable television program to Uganda and several people who have decided it’s a really great idea (it isn’t if you haven’t guessed that already) to enact a law that makes killing homosexuals awesome (I’m paraphrasing here as this whole thing makes me want to projectile vomit), bans hanging out with them or something and makes it cool to rat out people who homosexual and tattle on those that hang out with them.
Let’s get this out of the way. What. In. The. Wide. World. Of. Sports. Is. Going. On Here. I mean, honestly. I know things in far away countries are different as beliefs that are most definitely not Western in nature have long existed for good and/or bad reasons. There is a reason why gay marriage and homosexuals as a whole continue to struggle against much of this kinds of issues. Mind you, here in the United States we’ve somehow managed to grow towards the “tolerate” marker on the “Wheel of hate” spinner and even in the last ten years started to lean towards “indifferent”.
Day 12 – Numbers 14:17-24 – Resolutions
This chapter and verse is fascinating for several reasons. I’m going to keep on being intrigued with the Old School (aka Old Testament) for probably the rest of my life due to this devotional track I’m bouncing along. One of the things that sticks out to me here is the fact that God continues to express his outright frustration with his people to the point of throwing up his hands (figuratively) and putting most of the current generation in permanent time out (literally). He’s tired of the people complaining, whining and throwing wrenches into the works that he simply tells them they will never see The Promised Land because they’ve been whiny little inconsiderate brats. Figuratively.
When I was growing up (yes Virginia, I did have a childhood) I did my share of what the Israelites did but I learned that despite everything I wasn’t going to get my way no matter how hard I tried to push the will of my parents with my pouting petulant pose. They wouldn’t budge. This is one of the many things my parents did right as I grew up. Considering that I’m (for the moment) a well adjusted late twenties bachelor gives proof that I was raised right. Except for the time my mother let me roll off a changing table in JC Penny…but who’s holding a grudge?
Day 6 – Exodus 33:21-34:7 – Revealing of God
I’m catching up (it’s a good thing that Day 7 is a “rest day” in my devotion book) so that means I’m behind with God which is never something I enjoy being. I’d rather be spending every day with God in a quiet moment where I read His word, seek its meaning for my own life and figure out how to make that all come together.
Sometimes that works, sometimes I fail pretty miserably. I can’t guilt myself too heavily except to get better at making this part of my daily life. So…onwards!
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Day 3 – Genesis 50:15-21 – Joseph’s Brothers
After 15 plus years in Children’s and Youth Ministries as a volunteer you’d think I’d have certain verses down pat and easily pulled from the memory banks. You’d think I’d have all the glorious back story ready to spill forth from my lips and educate the masses. You’d be wrong.
Today’s section is a the latter part of the Joseph story. This is after the brothers show up, find out who he is and have much gnashing of teeth and adjusting of sackcloth (not at the tearing of sackcloth yet) in hopes that Joseph won’t pull out a bazooka and blow them all to smithereens. Which begs the question of what each of us would do in the sandals of Joe? Would you draw and quarter? Or would you kill with kindness?
Daily – 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Oh dang. I am so in trouble for not updating this.
I’m going to return to doing this daily. I swear. For now, here’s wise words on love that I really do…well, love!
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (New International Version) (via biblegateway)
Love
1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Daily – Romans 12:9-21 "Love…"
Today I’m taking on Romans and the subject is Love. The verse is below:
9Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
14Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.[a] Do not be conceited.
17Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. 18If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”[b]says the Lord. 20On the contrary:
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”[c] 21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (via biblegateway, NIV version)
Love is one of those emotions that has been featured in nearly every media we know. Books, movies, radio shows, music, plays, musicals and even reality shows. It is probably the biggest emotional reaction and feeling we know. To be loved and to love someone is something every desires and hungers for every day.
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- @_onmyway_ it was at times. Other times I was in love with all the cowgirls. #acowboyatheart
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