“Let all things be done decently and in order.”1 Corinthians 14:40 Disorder, for organized people, can be disturbing. It is for me. I like being organized more than I like chocolate. Junk drawers scare me. I’ve heard that alien items, that serve no known purpose, get lost there and are never seen again, like socks that never return from the dryer. It’s an eerie place. “Gimme” pens, that ...
Continue ReadingLearning How to Be Sound in Charity
“That the aged men be sober, grave,temperate, sound in faith,in charity…The aged women likewise…”Titus 2:2a-3a “Charity never faileth.” Isn’t that a beautifully put, deep, thought? Very little in this world has that 100% success rate. In fact, we experience failures or get told things are failing on a regular basis. God says, in 1 Corinthians 13:8a that charity works without fail, every day, ...
Continue ReadingHarvesting the Fruit of Longsuffering
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,Meekness temperance:against such there is no law.”Galatians 5:22-23 We know it’s going to be a depleting, motivation-killing day, when we wake up in the morning and realize that we’re going to need a watermelon size serving of longsuffering to make it through the tasks or trials awaiting us. Unlike a ...
Continue ReadingTeaching Younger Women to Be Chaste
“The aged women likewise…“That they may teach the young womento be sober, to love their husbands,to love their children, To be discreet,chaste…”Titus 2:3a-5a Teaching younger women to be what God wants them to be isn’t an easy task. We can see the reason for that in Titus 2. Not only are we instructed to teach them, we’re instructed to live it out before them. We can’t just speak words or ...
Continue ReadingThankful for My Toaster
“…It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone,but by every word that proceedethout of the mouth of God.Matthew 4:4b I enjoy good toast and appreciate our toaster. As I continue to practice being thankful for things in my home this year, I want to give a shout out to our useful and faithful toaster. It’s not fancy and wasn’t expensive. It doesn’t have multiple features. It simply ...
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