While reading in the book of Ruth, I found this passage.
Boaz had made a deal, with a closer relative than he, for all that had belonged to Elimelech.
That included the right to marry Ruth the Moabitess. Continue reading →

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; Walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these God will bring you into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh, For childhood and youth are vanity. Eccl 11:9-10
Saturday was quite a day. Continue reading →

Lot did not make a bad choice in choosing a green pastures.
Lot did not make a bad choice in trying to better provide for himself or a family. Continue reading →

Here in lies the difference between sinful living people and those that live for God; the sinful will seem to be more tolerant and accepting of you just the way you are.
I know of non-popular people in high school that hang with the gay crowd because of their ready acceptance of them despite their weight, looks, etc. Continue reading →

Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them; Prov 24:1
Lot’s choice of Sodom and Gomorrah was not a good one.
I think the wickedness of the cities was well known and perhaps Lot thought he could keep his distance or not be affected.
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And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere Continue reading →

“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Luke 11:9-13
I didn’t get out a Morning Thought a few times last week due to some email changes. Continue reading →

Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other. Gen 13:11
I think it’s a mistake to separate.
Families loose their identity when they do. Continue reading →

Donna wasn’t sure how she would explain away the passing of her mother to her own grandchild but as they headed to the funeral home she told David, “Aunt Julie is gone, David.”
The little boy looked at her and asked, “Gone where, grammy?”
Donna’s moment of truth was here.
“You know how Grandma Julie’s house is next to ours but she’s wasn’t living there anymore? She had gone to live at the nursing home but Grandma Julie’s house was still there?”
“Uh-huh”, he said.
“Well, when you see Grandma Julie today, it’s just an empty house. She’s not there. Grandma Julie has gone to live with Jesus now!”
At the funeral home Donna took David up front.
The little fellow stared at Grandma Julie with his grandma.
Then Cindy, one of Julie’s sisters, came up front.
She was one of those women that can’t be pleased by anything and always spoke her mind!
“Why…that doesn’t even look like Julie!” in a voice that would wake the dead.
“Her hair is wrong. Julie never wore her hair like that. What’s wrong with them? Donna, can’t you get them to fix her hair!”
She went on and on but as she did a little voice kept calling out, “Aunt Cindy! Aunt Cindy!”
Finally little David walked over and tugged on Aunt Cindy’s dress.
“Aunt Cindy!” he said, “That’s not really Grandma Julie. That’s just her empty house now. She’s gone to live with Jesus, Aunt Cindy! That’s just her empty house!”
Tears came to Donna’s eyes as she realized that David got it!

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. 2 Cor 5:1-8

He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing. Job 8:21
Linda spent a week and a half in pain, in bed, and on meds.
Though for some a week in bed sounds heavenly, it is torturous when you don’t have the ability to get up and go somewhere else.
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