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| A young woman teacher with obvious liberal tendencies explains to her
class of small children that she is an atheist. She asks her class if
they are atheists too. Not really knowing what atheism is but wanting
to be like their teacher, their hands explode into the air like fleshy
fireworks.
There is, however, one exception. A beautiful girl named Lucy has not
gone along with the crowd. The teacher asks her why she has decided to
be different.
"Because, I'm not an atheist."
Then, asks the teacher, "What are you?"
"I'm a Christian."
The teacher is a little perturbed now, her face slightly red. She asks Lucy why she is a Christian.
"Well, I was brought up knowing and loving Jesus. My mom is a Christian, and my dad is a Christian, so I am a Christian."
The teacher is now angry. "That's no reason," she says loudly.
"What if your mom was an idiot and your dad was an idiot. What would you be then?"
Lucy paused, smiled and said, "Then, I'd be an atheist!" | | |
| John 15:1-2 (yet another of my journal postings.) "I am the vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch of mine that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit." Immediately one question comes to my mind, "Are you bearing fruit, Christian?" If the answer is yes, I must ask, "Is your fruit a progressive act of justification, or is it the result of being justified?" If it is part of being justified, than that fruit is rotten. If it is a result of being set free from attaining justification through works, then it is as sweet as the first fruits of the harvest. At the time of the harvest, who takes all the good fruit and discards the bad? On a tree, who breaks the branches that are fruitless and discards them into fire? The vinedresser of course! Could it be that if there is one branch which seems to be fruitless, but then at the very end a beautiful ripe fruit is hanging? The vinedresser takes this fruit, nourishes the branch and prunes it...so that next time it produces more fruit than ever. This is true of our lives as Christians! This is true of our lives as servants of the Most High. Where is your heart? Could it be that at the time of the Harvest, God, the Divine Vinedresser will find me with no fruit? I think not! By all means, NO! It is he who plants the tree and knows all it's branches- he who saves by grace, and that grace will abound to a plentiful harvest at the end of the age! Amen. | | |
| This is one of my journal entries from the book of John...
John 12:27
"Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this purpose I have come to this hour."
I have to wonder if Jesus was thinking of me at this point in time. Could it be that Jesus knew that I was hopeless? Did he look down the corridors of time that he created and see the utter despair that I was in without him. He was troubled in his soul, so that I would not have to be. He was about to face the wrath of Almighty God for me- the undeserving. How great is God that he sees it fit to be most magnified and glorified when he saves the undeserving of the world. He must have been thinking of me (and you)- because he was going to the cross to die for me (and you)! What a tragedy if we ever forsake this precious truth. My God, thank you for dying for me- and also for many others. Help us, O God, to glorify you- left to ourselves we would be lost and eventually suffer your holy wrath. Be with me until the day we die. Reader- see him in all his splendo and majesty as he shouts out into the heavens, "IT IS FINISHED!" th slain Lamb of God who was slaughtered to make you a child of God. Help us, God, to never stray from cross of Calvary- it is life to stay in it's shadow. Christ is the one in whom all things have life. Bless us, that we might stay in your hand and walk beside you into green pastures and quiet streams.
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| Hear Randy Alcorn speak on how NOT to use your time and money. (Boy, do I need to hear this...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db8O6q0clWY "If we want to make people glad in God, our lives must look as if God, not possessions, is our joy. Our lives must look as if we use our possessions to make people glad in God- especially the most needy." -John Piper | | |
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