"EXPLAINATION"

     "Even to your old age and gray hairs

     I am he, I am he who will sustain you

     and I will carry you; I will sustain you

     and I will rescue you."

      Isaiah 46:4

      

     Warren Wiersbe once said, "Nothing is harder to heal than a broken heart shattered by experience that seem so meaningless. But God's people don't live on explainations; God's people live on His promises"

      A grocery list of biblical reason explaining the whys and wherefore behind suffering doesn't always help when you're hurting. What does help are the promises of God. Even though God's. promises are usually devoid of standard Explaination and don't always detail the blue print behind His plan, they do point to the loving character of our God and kind Lord.

      Take Isaiah 46:4. Even for someone bent over with old age and arthritis, God's explaination is simple and powerful, "I Am He, I Am He who will sustain you." God owes us no explainations. He did enough explaining on the cross to show that His Love is sufficient to meet every need.

       Look again at our verse for the day. In one short sentence, God promises that He will rescue, carry, and sustain you. How? At least six times, God uses the personal pronoun to point himself. His promises are signed, sealed, and delivered on the basis of who He is. And He is faithful. He is loving. He resues you and carries you. It's a promises.

       Lord, I don't survive because You roll out in front of me the blueprint behind my painful experiences. I don't live on reason  why. I live on your promises. Draw me to them today and help me to lean on Your loving faithfulness. This will be enough.

"The overcomer at last"

      I wlll Praise You, for You have answered me and become my savation

               Psalm118:21 NKJV

       The story is told of a diamond prospector in Venezuela named Rafael Solano. He was one of many improverished natived and fortune seekers who came to sift through the rock of  dried-up riverbed reputed to have diamonds. No one, however, had had any luck for some time in finding any diamonds in the sand and pebbles. One by one, those who came left the site-- their dreams shattered and their bodies drained.

      Discouraged and exhausted, Solano had just about decided it was time for him to give up too. He had nothing to show for a months of hard work.

      Then Solano stooped down one last time and scooped up a handful of pebbles in his hand, he puljed out one that seemed a little different. He weight it in his other hand. It seems heavy. He measured it and weight it on scale. Could it be?

      Sure enough, Solano had found a diamond in the rough! New York Jewelry dealer Harry Winston paid Solano $200,000 for that stone. When it was cut  and polished, it became known as the Liberator, and it is considered the largest and purest unmined diamond in the world.

      You lay have been plugging away at a project for weeks, even months or year, without seeing much progress. Today may be the day. Don't give up! 

      The scriptured are filled with examples if men and women who, on the verge of disaster or failure, experience God's creative work in their lives. Remind yourself...

       . God's word is true.

       . God's can part the sea

       . God's can heal the incurable

       . God's can provide water from a 

          rock and manna in the wilderness

       . God's can conquer your enemy.

       . God's can still deliver from fiery 

          furnance and the lion den.

          

        Persevere in what He has asked  

you to do today, because your rewards will be more than you can think or imagine!

    Today's Real Diamond is found in 

     Royale! Come and join start seeking

     the reality

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That What friend are for

In his book Quality Friendship, Gary Inrig writes: 

       

      Out of the furnance of war comes many true stories of sacrifcial friendship. One such story tells of two friends in World War 1, who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together, and fought side-by-side in the trenches. During an attack, one of the men was critically wounded in a field filled with barbed wire obstacles, and he was unable to crawl back to his foxhole. The entire area was under a withering enemy crossfire, and it was suicidal to try to reach him. Yet his friend decided to try. Before he could get out of his own trench, his sergeant yanked him back inside and order him not to go. "It's to late. You can't do him any good, and you'll only get yourself killed,"

       A few minutes later, the officer yurned his back, and instantly the man was gone after his friend. A few minutes later, he staggered back, mortally wounded, with his friend, now dead, in his arms. "What a waste," he blurred out. "He's dead and you're dying. It just wasn't worth it."

      With almost his last breath, the dying man rellied, Oh yes, it was, Sarge. When I got to him, the only thing he said was, 'I knew you'd come jim!'"

      One of the marks of true friend us that he is there when there is every reason for him not to be, when to be there is sacrificially costly. As Proverbs17:17 puts it, "A friend loved at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."

Epaphroditus was there for Paul when it was costly, All true friends are. Is that the same mark of commitment and loyalty evident in the way you related to your closed friends? For help in finding out, spend some time thinking through the following questions.

      1. What are the limits of my friendship? Do I use people, or do I lay down mu life for them? How much do I know of sacriificial love?

       2. What is my impact on others? Am I a change agent for godliness in my friend's life? Is he move of a disciple because of me? Am I giving away myself in such a way that God -given needs are being met in his life?

       3.Do I take the risk of openness, or is there a carefully constructed wall around my life that no one can penetrate? Have I ever expressed  verbally  my love and appreciation for my friend and displayed that love by openning up my life to him?

      4.Am I an initiator of love, or am I waiting for others to earn my approval or reach out to me?...

       5. How am I helping my friend realize

his potential in any or every area of life? Is he fruitful because of Me?

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Who Say's You Can't

        I can do all things through Christ

                who strenghten me 

                   Philippians 4:13

       

         You can do anything. That's what Kent  Culler's parents told him as he was growing up. That's what many parents tell their children. But Cullers was born blind. Even so, if a child hears the phrase, You can do anything, often enough, it sinks in. It bear fruit. And itcertainly did in Culler's case.

        

         As a young boy he insisted on climbing trees and riding a bicycle. His father arranged a job transfer to California so he bou could attent a regular school, and Cullers became a straight-A student. He was valedictorian of his high-school class and a national Merit Scholar. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in physics.

        Culler's first love has always been space, so it seems fitting that he found himself employed at NASA. 

As a researcher, one of his jobs to design equipment to help scientist search for sign of intelligent communication in outer space."

       How does a blind man see what others can't? He uses his mind's eye." He also uses his other sense-- perhaps

a little better than most people. Abovr all, he continues to tell homself what his parents taught him early in life: You can do anything.

      The apostle Paul would have added a key  phrase to Culler's parental advice. through christ who gives m strenght. The source of all our ability, energy, and creativity is the Lord Himself. It is He who challenges us to go forward and equips us yo get the task done. It is the Lord working in us to enable us, working through us to empower us, and working on our behalf to enrich us.

      At the same time, the Lord expects us to do two things first, to open ourselves to His presence and power, and second, to get in gear. He calls to believe and do.

      What are you believing today? What are you doing? Activate both your believing and doing, synchronize both with the will of God, and you can't help but be launched to a higher and better position.

    Yes you can!

TOTAL CHANGE

       For all have sinned and fall short

          of the glory of God and are 

            Justified freely by His grace

              Roman3:23-24

       In The Grace of Giving, Stephen Olford gives an account of peter Miller, a Baptist pastor who lived during the American Revolution. He lived in Ephrata

Pennylvania, and enjoyed the friendship of George Washington. 

    Michael Wittman also. lived in Ephrata.

He was an evil-mind man who did all he could to oppose and humiliate the pastor. 

      One  day Michael Wittman was arrested for treason and sentence to die. Peter Miller traveled seventy miles to Philadelpia on foot to plead for the life of the traitor.

"No, Peter," General Washington said, "i

cannot grant you the life of your friend."

"My friend!" exclaimed the old Preacher.

"He's the bitterness enemy I have." "What?" exclaimed Washington. "You've

walked seventy miles to save. the life of an enemy? That puts the matter in a different light. I'll grant your pardon." and he did.

     Peter Miller took Michael Wittman back home to  Ephrata--no longer an enemy but a friend.

     Miller's example of grace and forgiveness flowed from his knowedge of God's sacrifice for the human race. Because God forgave him and sacrificed His Son for Him, he found the grace to sacrifice for his enemy. 

Although most of us know God's grace and love for us is great, sometimes we have to be reminded that His love never fails--even when we do!

     At the Pan American Games, United States diver was asked how he coped with the stress of international diving competation. He replied that he climbed to the board, took a deep breath, and and thought, "Even if I blow this dive, my mother will still love me."

Then he would strive for excellence.

     At the begining of each day, take a deep breath and say, " Even if I blow today, my God will still love me." Then assured of His grace and quickness to forgave, go into the day seeking a perfect score!

The Barometer

       Christian know that it's wrong to

compare, yet our culture has more sociological groupings and coming out on the losing end as we compare our lot in life with other's. And if we have faced tradegy, we often seek a refuge where our Purple Heart medals shine more brightly.

        Peter had the same problem. Jesus had just revealed that Peter would be led to a martyr's death, but not a word had been spoken about John. Obviously, when Peter sized up the situation, John appeared to be getting a better deal."Lord, what about him?" he blurted out.

         Jesus answer was shocking. He allowed no room for deserved indulgence no luxury of self-pity. In effect Jesus said," Look, if it's my will that John lives until I come  again, whatis that to you? what I have planned for John is not of your business. Get your eyes off him and follow me." Rather harsh words for a man facing martyrdom! But the Lord knew the greater devastation of competing and comparing.

   " Envy to the bones" (proverb14.30)

John 21:20-22

"peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following. When Peter saw him, he asked, 'Lord, what about him?' Jesus answered, 'If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me'"

Here's the best antidote for envy I've ever read. Roman 12:2 is the prescription to swallow: Donot conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is his-good, pleasing and perfect will.

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How you Redefine Your Happiness!

          "And we rejoice in the hope 

        of the glory of God. Not only so,

      but we also rejoice in our suffering,

      because we know that suffering

      produces perseverance; character;

      and character, hope."

      Roman 5:2-4

Some people are never going to be happy, 

      I'm not being cynical, because the very folks about whom I'm speaking would agree. They would be the first to say that they are in a dead-end marriage,

 that they see no end to the constant irritation
of  their supervisor at work, that they will never lose those ugly twenty-five

pounds. Life, to them seems to be a never-ending drudgery of the same, sad routine.

       Are you this way? Does happiness, like a butterfly, almost flutter within reach but just when you think you have grasped it. . . it's gone? Or perhaps you feel your marriage is okay, and your job is acceptable. Yet you feel as though something's missing. Perhaps you think this is real happiness.

       Well, life is hard. For some, it is downright hard. Unhappiness seems to be here to say. But it doesn't have to be tnus way, because the answer is not to get rid of unhappiness but to find a nee definition for it.

        My Friend has suggested that we redefine happiness as a duty and honor, sacrifice and faithfulness, commitment and service. Happiness is fleeting and elusive, but joy is an overflowof the perseverance and hope that comes from demonstrating faithful sacrifice and committed service.

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