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God’s Other Plans.

Posted in Bible Characters, God's Calling, God's Plan, Samson on January 28, 2012| Leave a Comment »

[Samson’s] father and mother objected. “Isn’t there even one woman in our tribe or among all the Israelites you could marry?” they asked. “Why must you go to the pagan Philistines to find a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me! She looks good to me.” His father and mother didn’t realize the LORD was at work in this… — Judges 14:3-4

Every parent wants the best for their child — to make right choices, avoid heartache, and have a good life.

Sometimes it just doesn’t happen regardless how much parental love, encouragement, cajoling, even prayer is applied. Sometimes God has something else planned the parents can’t imagine.

Our children are just on loan to us and only for such a short time. We love them, try to help them the best we can, then we pass them on to God and his purposes trusting He knows best and is at work.

— fritz

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Smart Decisions

Posted in Abraham, Bible Characters, Explanations, Faith, God, Trust, tagged on January 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, … So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley … Abram settled in the land of Canaan…

The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes … and there he built an altar to the LORD. — Genesis 13:10=18

We don’t always get the opportunity to make the decisions we want. Sometimes the smartest guys in the room take the best for themselves.

What appears to be an inferior situation, however, turns out to be the best opportunity when God is there.

Abraham was wise enough to know that; Lot was not.

— fritz

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Two (2) Metaphors for Life’s Focus

Posted in Christ, Expectations, Explanations, Followers, Fulfillment, God's Will, Hope, tagged , on December 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field. — Psalm 103:15-18

Ingrained in us is the desire to build/accomplish something permanent — isn’t going to happen! Life is not designed that way.

Only God and his purposes endure.

John the baptizer, in the Bible, uses an additional metaphor:

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly …

He must increase, but I must decrease.” — John 3:29-30

The Best Man at a wedding knows the wedding is not about him and he’s happy with that.

As youth fades don’t be sad at the decrease, recognize your purpose and put the focus on the one whom life is, really, all about — our time comes later (Rev 19:9). Next time something you do, even with the best intentions, fails to produce results you want, offer those efforts, desires, and results as a sacrifice to Christ.

— fritz

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