If you look in the mirror, whether you like it or not, that is the way it is. Plastic surgery can help a little, sometimes.
However what is on the inside is a different story. The mirror revealing the true you is seen over a lifetime, and after a lifetime there is no remedy.
Proverbs 27:19
As water reflects the face,
so one’s life reflects the heart
Let’s start working with the help of God to create a better image for the time to come while it is still possible.
Think about it.
Gary
I was crossing the knife-edge on Mount Katahdin in a thunderstorm. Visibility was 30 feet and no place to hunker down. I had to just keep moving and trusting in God whatever happens.
Joshua gave specific instructions to a generation facing tremendous challenges in dangerous situations.
Joshua 1:7
7 “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
This generation of Israelites did exactly that and discovered success.
So can you.
Give it some thought.
Gary
Can you remember being in 4th grade and someone told you a secret known by a few? You felt blessed to be the recipient of some little known information. You thought yourself to be special.
Jesus said exactly that message to his disciples.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.
If you are a believer, you have been given information refused by the world.
Think about it.
Gary
One of my passwords is the name of a teacher that saw something in me that others didn’t see. I thank God for that educator because she was sent to me at the right time in my life.
God has provided each believer with the promise of one who offers divine instruction.
John 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
Don’t give Him a hard time because He has only your interests in mind.
Give it some thought.
Gary
Considering religion and religious figures throughout history, there is just something remarkably different about Jesus. They just don’t get it.
“He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him.
The time will come when He will take His rightful place as the King of Israel. However, in the present dispensation, He is truly saving others as the accusers stated.
Has He saved you yet?
Give it some thought.
Gary
My high school library monitor said to me one day, “Gary, why can’t you be good?” Like many questions asked of me in that day, I didn’t have an answer.
Years later I found the answer in the Word of God.
She should have known that.
Mark 10:18
So He said to him,“Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.
He was perfect which made the right sacrifice for my badness.
Give it some thought.
Gary
Walter Brennon sang “Old Rivers” and it still touches me after all these years.
He’d say, one of these days
I’m gonna climb that mountain
Walk up there amoung the clouds
Where the cotton’s high
And the corn’s a-growin’
And there ain’t no fields to plow.
However in that song, the plan never materialized. How many plans never seem to work out?
This is what the Scriptures have to say about plans.
Proverbs 19:21
There are many plans in a man’s heart,
Nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand.
Give it some thought.
Gary