What Is Your Will In Christ?

Tradition: "an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior" - Merriam Webster  There are all kinds of traditions to be found in the multiplicity of character types and personalities among the throng of humanity. Human traditions - some are amusing, some are mere perfunctory habit, and some are even repugnant, but among all of the possible traditions to be found, there are some that have far more power and importance than we give them credit for ... and losing them - a far higher cost. In a society that seems bent on leaving traditions behind and forging a new way forward, I beg for a moment to consider where the trashing of some former traditions has brought us. Take manners, the consideration of others and courtesy for example. Where did leaving genuine courtesy and politeness behind get us as a human society? It doesn't take too much thought to recognize that the erosion of such simple and easy traditional values have helped generate a s...

 There are times when in discouraged reflection, I wonder whether the words I've ever written or the things I've done have any real worth or value ... but it's then that I'm confronted to admit a humbling truth: MY words aren't  the ones that really matter ...  The LORD's words are those that instigate and perform the work of His Kingdom - bearing light and life to a world in deep peril. They're true and they strike a chord in a heart and call attention to an inner issue of divine importance - a matter to be reconciled. They provoke and speak to the inner soul of a person bringing understanding, healing, unity and discernment. They bring about repentance, sanctification and new life - writing " forgiven" over the old. He might choose to speak them through us on occasion, but the glory of anything He might choose to accomplish whether in words or deed through any of us, still belongs to Him. It's our purpose fulfilling pleasure simply to serve...

A Psalm of David ... "O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you. When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars you set in place — what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority — the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents. O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!" Psalm 8 (NLT) A wise person reserves their highest praise for The King who rules over their future destiny, in part because such respect serves toward saving their own life, but the lack of ...