Monday, February 14, 2011

LOVE!

As we celebrate another Valentine's Day, let me start by wishing MY VALENTINE the happiest of days!  I have been married to the BEST WOMAN in the world (for me) for 27 years this Thursday!  And I am very blessed that she has been here for me, through the bad times and enjoying the good times!

GOD has a way of growing us into what HE wants us to be.  Even the scribes and the Chief Priest's were used to accompish HIS plan.  In Mark 11 and 12, JESUS shares with us how when the most learned men of the age were trying to TRAP JESUS with a TRICK QUESTION, scripture tells us in Mark 12:17 that they "marvelled at him"!  They were trying to TRICK HIM and yet they "MARVELLED" at HIS response. 

GOD is not here for us!  I know that we have a difficult time believing or understanding that sometimes, but we are created to GLORIFY HIM!  GOD uses or ignorance and disobedience sometimes to draw PRAISE and ADORATION to him! 

To me, that is what LOVE is all about!  Loving someone even when they are not doing what WE THINK they should.  GOD loves me when I disobey HIM!  Even the Scribes and Chief Priest's were trying to TRAP JESUS, HE loved them.  The CATHEDRAL's quartet used to sing a song called BOUNDLESS LOVE.  GOD's love for us know NO end and is not able to be measured!!!  It is good that we can LOVE someone here on earth while GOD is still teaching us about real LOVE!

Thursday, February 3, 2011

We have a GOD who delights in IMPOSSIBILITIES!

At times we get so comfortable with asking GOD for our desires and needs that we treat HIM as a ATM!  We need $200 so we ask for $200!  We need a new job, we ask GOD! We need something that WE CANNOT provide, we ask GOD. 

But what about when there is a PROBLEM that requires more than what we can do?  What about when we find ourselves facing an issue that seems hopeless! 

GOD loves to be trusted.  Luke 1:37 says "For with GOD nothing shall be impossible!"  Does that mean HE can figure out the difficult things?  Can HE make the "IMPOSSIBLE" a reality?

GOD does not operate in our realm of reality.  What we think does not limit HIM.  GOD is able......if we will ASK!