Ready…. Are you?
Yesterday, a grieving friend said she thought she was. She thought she was ready for what was inevitable. A loved one faced the end of a long battle. The end was near.
This friend thought she was prepared for that news to come…news that it was over, her loved one gone….the end come.
Praise God that of all the people who tried to be ready, the one who left was ready.
Praise God is wasn’t an end….it was the first moment of eternity. The battle over. The struggle stopped. The pain gone. Forever.
Hallelujah !!!
Knowing what lies ahead, are you ready?
If not….what are you waiting for?
God has ‘set eternity in the hearts…’ of each of us. (Ecc.3:11) Eternity is the surest of sure things. Our hearts long for a perfect place…the perfect world that is only to be found in His perfect rule, in His perfect kingdom….in His heaven.
“Listen to the call, the gospel call today, get in the glory land way….”
Be ready my friend. You may not face the ‘sure thing’ of cancer….but don’t be deceived by the devil’s lie. You do face death.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Straight...
Straight…
We are offering a new service in our salon. Now, if your hair is curly and frizzy, you can have straight hair without trashing it with chemicals or frying it with a flat iron every day.
Oh if only we could get our lives straight so easily. But we can’t lay out a few bills and walk away with a straightened out mess….even for a few months.
God never wanted all the kinks in our lives. He still doesn’t. But we insist on twisting truth, bending His standards, and wrapping ourselves around ‘stuff’.
Changing the truth of God for a lie never has changed truth. “Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies…”(Rom.1:25)
Taking detours instead of the straight path only causes us prolonged periods of learning.
We can wander in wilderness, twisting around and traveling in endless circles, getting nowhere….or we can get through it in a much shorter time if we just follow right behind God as He leads us straight thru.
We can’t drive around a storm of life. But we can be delivered through it. Safely. Even stronger and better.
And we will never straighten out the mess of human life. Not without Divine Intervention.
“Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin?” (Rom. 7:24)
Thank You again my Jesus…..
We are offering a new service in our salon. Now, if your hair is curly and frizzy, you can have straight hair without trashing it with chemicals or frying it with a flat iron every day.
Oh if only we could get our lives straight so easily. But we can’t lay out a few bills and walk away with a straightened out mess….even for a few months.
God never wanted all the kinks in our lives. He still doesn’t. But we insist on twisting truth, bending His standards, and wrapping ourselves around ‘stuff’.
Changing the truth of God for a lie never has changed truth. “Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies…”(Rom.1:25)
Taking detours instead of the straight path only causes us prolonged periods of learning.
We can wander in wilderness, twisting around and traveling in endless circles, getting nowhere….or we can get through it in a much shorter time if we just follow right behind God as He leads us straight thru.
We can’t drive around a storm of life. But we can be delivered through it. Safely. Even stronger and better.
And we will never straighten out the mess of human life. Not without Divine Intervention.
“Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin?” (Rom. 7:24)
Thank You again my Jesus…..
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Beautiful roots....
Beautiful roots....
Roots are where all beauty and strength come from. You just can’t be beautiful without being strong FIRST.
The most talented hairdresser can’t make beautiful hairstyles from malnourished abused hair.
Ps. 1 gives us a great word-picture of beauty and strength.
“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked of stand in the way of sinners of sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.”
A tree grows strong and beautiful when it is close to a source of water.
We are wise and ‘blessed’ when we plant ourselves near the source of life.
We want beauty and strength in our hair …
AND in our heart….
Strength manifested in a beautiful head of hair.......or strength manifested in a beautiful peace-filled, joyous, loving life.
The beauty grows out of that strong place.
Beautiful hair comes from a strong healthy scalp, well nourished.
It stays beautiful when we tend it and care for it properly. It doesn’t stay pretty if neglected or abused.
So it is with our lives. We stay strong when we are well nourished.
Roots are where all beauty and strength come from. You just can’t be beautiful without being strong FIRST.
The most talented hairdresser can’t make beautiful hairstyles from malnourished abused hair.
Ps. 1 gives us a great word-picture of beauty and strength.
“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked of stand in the way of sinners of sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.”
A tree grows strong and beautiful when it is close to a source of water.
We are wise and ‘blessed’ when we plant ourselves near the source of life.
We want beauty and strength in our hair …
AND in our heart….
Strength manifested in a beautiful head of hair.......or strength manifested in a beautiful peace-filled, joyous, loving life.
The beauty grows out of that strong place.
Beautiful hair comes from a strong healthy scalp, well nourished.
It stays beautiful when we tend it and care for it properly. It doesn’t stay pretty if neglected or abused.
So it is with our lives. We stay strong when we are well nourished.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Roots.....
Roots…. I love roots. Roots help me pay my bills.
As a hairdresser, I see lots of roots. I make a living covering up that gray that peeks thru or the dark that demands to be seen. (Some girls are just really blonde on the inside and need a little help being blonde on top.)
You know, God made us perfect, without sin. What we were on the outside, matched what we were on the inside…. perfectly. We were intended to exist in that condition, but a bad choice was made and we all now suffer the imperfections.
Now, what we are on the inside is marred, (sin nature ) and what is manifested to the outside is imperfect. But praise God that He has a method of changing that and restoring us to what we were created to be.
Choosing to change our dark hair to blonde requires maintenance. (Changing the appearance of it does not change the natural of it…) And in the same way, while we are in this life, it is a daily, moment-by-moment process of maintenance. Maintenance…by maintaining of choosing, I mean the daily, sometimes moment-to-moment choices that we are faced with. (Joshua’s challenge in Joshua 24:15 ‘Choose you this day whom you will serve.. ’) The choices we make are vital.
One day, on THAT DAY, there will be no more ‘maintenance’…no more changes needed…no more choices between good and evil. No more temptations, no more mistakes, no more regret. “…in the twinkling of an eye…we will all be changed.”(1 Cor. 15:52)
Until then we must maintain…or call it persevere. “Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”(James 1:4)
After THAT DAY there will be no maintenance. No contrasting root line…the growing out will stop. We will be made fully mature, lacking nothing. And we’ll be that way forever.
As a hairdresser, I see lots of roots. I make a living covering up that gray that peeks thru or the dark that demands to be seen. (Some girls are just really blonde on the inside and need a little help being blonde on top.)
You know, God made us perfect, without sin. What we were on the outside, matched what we were on the inside…. perfectly. We were intended to exist in that condition, but a bad choice was made and we all now suffer the imperfections.
Now, what we are on the inside is marred, (sin nature ) and what is manifested to the outside is imperfect. But praise God that He has a method of changing that and restoring us to what we were created to be.
Choosing to change our dark hair to blonde requires maintenance. (Changing the appearance of it does not change the natural of it…) And in the same way, while we are in this life, it is a daily, moment-by-moment process of maintenance. Maintenance…by maintaining of choosing, I mean the daily, sometimes moment-to-moment choices that we are faced with. (Joshua’s challenge in Joshua 24:15 ‘Choose you this day whom you will serve.. ’) The choices we make are vital.
One day, on THAT DAY, there will be no more ‘maintenance’…no more changes needed…no more choices between good and evil. No more temptations, no more mistakes, no more regret. “…in the twinkling of an eye…we will all be changed.”(1 Cor. 15:52)
Until then we must maintain…or call it persevere. “Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”(James 1:4)
After THAT DAY there will be no maintenance. No contrasting root line…the growing out will stop. We will be made fully mature, lacking nothing. And we’ll be that way forever.
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