Trusting Who Christ Truly Is

Head Banging Bird

Do the women’s
liberationists want to be liberated from being women? No, they would
say, they want to be liberated from society’s stereotypes of what women
are supposed to be…. Some very interesting facts have been uncovered by
scientists which will feminists will have to treat very gingerly for
they show that it is not merely society which determines how the sexes
will behave…. The idea of matriarchy is mythical, I’ve learned, for
not one that can be documented has ever existed. Doesn’t it seem
strange that male dominance has been universal if it’s purely social
conditioning? One would expect to see at least a few examples of
societies where women rather than men held the positions of highest
status…. Isn’t’ it really much easier to believe that the feelings of
men and women throughout history bear a direct relationship to some
innate prerequisite? … It was God who made us different, and He did
it on purpose. Recent scientific research is illuminating, and as has
happened before, corroborates ancient truth which mankind has always
recognized. God created male and female, the male to call forth, to
lead, initiate and rule, and the female to respond, follow adapt,
submit.”
~ Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman, pages 58-59.

STORING UP TREASURE

 1 Timothy 6:19, “Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.”

The above Scripture encourages us to lay up in store
for the time to come. In the context, it is actually speaking to those
who have riches in this world, exhorting them to be rich in good works
and generous to the needy. But I do believe this message is for all of
us. I think it is one of the greatest exhortations we can have, don’t
you?

 Every moment of our lives we should be “laying up in store” for the eternal kingdom. We cannot take any material possessions out of this world. It is all vanity. 1 Timothy 6:7 says, “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.” We will only take what we lay up in heaven.

We need to remind ourselves again of Matthew 6:19-21, “Lay
not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will you heart be also.”

I have always been challenged by the statement,

“Life is a dressing room for eternity.”

Everything we do and say, either builds for this world, or for the eternal world.

I think we will
have a lot of surprises in heaven. I remember reading about a man of
God who had a vision of the eternal realm. He said that he saw that the
people who were closest to the throne of God were mothers and
intercessors. Our liberal society does not have time for these
ministries. Even the Christian world does not always affirm them. They
don’t receive the limelight. But they are powerful in God’s eyes.

Dear mother, I
want to remind you that as you sacrificially pour out your life for
your children, as you mother and nurture them in the ways of God, as
you pour out your heart in prayer for them–you are laying up treasure
for eternity! Your mothering is never wasted. It builds for eternity.
You are preparing your children for the heavenly realm. And you lay up
heavenly treasure for yourself as you do it.

You may feel
inferior because you think you are wasting your education as you lay
down your career for motherhood. You may feel sorry for yourself
because you are not making money like your neighbor who is choosing her
career over motherhood. You may feel insecure because you don’t feel
that you are accomplishing great things in your home.

Don’t listen to
these deceptions and negatives. As you mother your children in your
home, you are in the perfect will of God. You are building for
eternity. You are laying up store for the time to come.

You are building a big mansion for yourself up there! This is certainly not a waste of time!

Love from NANCY CAMPBELL

PRAYER:

“Lord,
please help me to put value on the eternal things, on the things that
you put value on. Help me to remember each day that motherhood is
building for eternity.”

“…while he himself went a day’s journey into the desert. He came to

a Juniper tree, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I

have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my

ancestors.” Then he lie down under the tree and fell asleep. All at

once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”" (1 Kings 19:4-5

NIV)


In this passage, Elijah had become so weary running from Jezebel that

he sat under a Juniper tree and just asked the Lord to take his life.

But the Lord knew exactly what Elijah needed and He sent forth a

messenger to revive and nourish him. I love this passage.


It truly speaks of God, in His infinite mercy, He sent an angel to

minister to Elijah and that was just enough to help him get up and

continue to do great things for the Lord. We’ve all been under that

tree, haven’t we? Some of us are there right now.


Perhaps you know of someone who is growing weary and in need of

refreshment. Let’s be available for the Lord, to be that messenger and

supply his or her needs. Make a meal, give a gift, offer your time,

maybe even just bring a word of encouragement or a hug , perhaps

that’s all someone needs to get up from under the Juniper tree and

keep on the path for the Lord!


When you supply a need for someone else, you are acting as God’s

messenger – an earthly angel is how I like to think of it. Proverbs

says that he who refreshes others will, himself, be refreshed!


Denny Dowd

I am a cow collector….have been for years.  So when I came across this I thought it was so funny….enjoy……it even has a segment for you pig lovers

Do you have a hunger for God? If we don’t feel strong desires for the
manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk
deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the
table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things, and there is
no room for the great. If we are full of what the world offers, then
perhaps a fast might express, or even increase, our soul’s appetite for
God. Between the dangers of self-denial and self-indulgence is the path
of pleasant pain called fasting.

John Piper