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Loving God
Image via Wikipedia This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. (I John 5:3.4) The mountains will bring prosperity to the people, / the hills the fruit of righteousness. (Ps. 72:3) Note on Ps. 72:3 – the context is the King, the Royal Son. If the king serves the Lord than the land will be blessed. For me, if Jesus Christ is the king of my heart, life, and choices; then I will know prosperity and the fruit of righteousness. Look at what it says – “prosperity” followed by “fruit of righteousness.” Physical and spiritual…
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To the Right or to the Left
Image via Wikipedia So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers. Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.” Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out…
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The New Year
Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. (James 1: 16-18) New Year: New Journey? Although the New Year has been celebrated on many different dates through history, there is always a sense of endings and beginnings surrounding it. In the Roman Republic and Empire, they celebrated January 1 as the first day of the New Year like we do now. January is named for…