HAPPY SABBATH + Be Not Dismayed Nor Discouraged When You Are Dismissed And Disparaged!

We Who Hold Our Lord In Godly Fear ... In Awe

Will Never Have To Deal With Misplaced Trust

Or Decimating Despair! 

Our God Is Holy 

And 

His Word Is Eternally True! 

His Love For Us Is Infinite 

And 

His Blessings Are Perfect For Me And For You! 

Beloved, 

There Are Those Around ... And Among Us 

Who Will Question Our Christianity

The Way We Worship

And

Our Personal Commitment To The Lord Christ

And 

His Perfect Law Of Liberty

Which Is The Very Mirror Which Tells Us 

Where We Are Going Wrong 

And 

How We Should Walk Aright! 

Mirrors Declare!

Mirrors Don't Repair!

Please Do Not Be Dismayed Or Discouraged

With The Whole Lot Of Useless And Unprofitable Talk

And 

In Jesus' Name 

Do Not Become Defensive When You Truly Know That 

You Are Living According To The Will Of Almighty God!

Don't Listen To The Agents Of Satan, The God-Fraud! 

I Beseech Us All

No Matter Who Disparages 

Or Dismisses Your Walk With The Lord Christ

Continue To Walk Right According The Master's Will!

Any Other Way To Walk

Is 

Nothing More Than Satan's Pig Swill! 

When You Are Feeling Weak

Give Your Burden To The Lord 

And 

Fervently Pray  ... Without Ceasing

And

By Unfailing Faith Press On! 

The Day To Go Home Is Soon About To Dawn!

Please Do Not Give In To The Naysayers 

Who Are As Braying Donkeys 

And

Do Not Give In To The Gainsayers 

Whose Idea Of Profit 

Is 

Eternal Loss!

Choose To Remember The Lord Christ 

On Calvary's Cruel And Accursed Cross! 

Jesus Christ Calls Us 

Because 

He Cares For Us! 

Jesus Christ's Love Lifts Us Up 

So Rest Assured That He Will Never Lie To Us 

Or Leave Us To Do Battle Alone! 

Remember That The Eternal Word Of The Living God

Is Not 

A Holey Known-Leaky Sieve:

Trust The Word

And

Look Up ... And Live!

 

Marston 'n Marcelle's Marriage

Marston 'n Marcelle's Marriage

Marston looked at the rising sun and saw

Another challenge waiting to victimize!

Marcelle looked at the same rising sun and saw

Another blessing – oh praise Him who supplies!

Marston looked at the mirror and there he saw

Miserable weariness on the face of years!

Marcelle looked in the same mirror and saw

Happy tiredness on a face with no fears!

Marston looked at the old horse and saw

Just another drain upon their oft' meager supplies!

Marcelle looked at the same old horse and saw

A faithful laborer who never gave a surprise!

He looked at Her and She looked at Him

Each looked at the other, and saw deep within

He saw the peace that she held most dear

She saw anger, bitterness, and much despair!

They both spoke at the same time!

Both wanted to be heard!

She said: “You go first!”

He said: “Don't be absurd!”

This, my friends, is how it is

When unequally yolked two partners be

She says: “It is an 'A!'” He says: “Oh, you mean 'Z!'”

And so, Dear Ones, they can never agree!

Darkness and Light, Blackness and White

She means By Faith, He means By Sight

She holds her Bible dear, He won't ever come near

He won't go to Bible Class, They are ever at an impasse!

For many years, Marcelle faithfully prayed ... to God!

For many years, Marston faithfully played ... the Fraud

Until one fateful day not too long past

He came very near to breathing his last!

And so it was that perspectives aligned

She asked to pray for him, and he ever so quickly replied:

"Dear Wife, I am sorry for all that I've done and been!

Pray to your Jesus! I need to be made clean!”

So after years of pleading and praying for him

Marcelle prayed to The Dear Lord, and asked Him to draw nigh

To her beloved husband along life's journey e'er long

And thanked the Almighty for His love so kind and true

For keeping this Dear One so that he, too

Could be welcomed into the Household of Faith

As he had now forsaken what was his great disgrace!

“Oh clean him, Lord bless him, as he walks the narrow way

And by Your Grace, Father, we'll see You faith to Face!” **BJC**

God's Workmanship - A Poem

Greetings, Dear Ones!

     I hope every one had a Happy Sabbath, and that all is well in your world!

     I recently had the occasion to gaze upon a set of photographs showing what men, surgeons of high degrees - who "knew" that they could fix with a knife, surgical vacuum and filler and pads, etc., what the Lord through Christ Jesus had created with His own hand - had done to the faces of those who had sought their professional skills to "fix" what "ailed" them, or else ...! You may add your own ending to the previous sentence!

     To say that the end result for all those persons seeking perfection for already beauteous faces/features is a dire testament to the price paid for those of us whose hearts are so burdened with the things of this world, that we are willing to destroy ourselves for what is ephemeral. It is so much smoke and mirrors, and it makes me very sad.

     There was a time when this type of behavior was displayed by the "rich and famous!" Now this behavior is to be found among the "regular" people.

     In Ephesians 2:10 KJV, we see the following:

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 

    In Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV, we see the following:  

You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

     Can't we  learn to be satisfied with what the Good Lord has done for us, unless it is out of medical necessity?

     In the old days, we often heard the elders say: "Beauty fades, but ugly lasts for ever!" and "She/he is handsome/beautiful, but he/she has no mind!" What an indictment!

    We are asked to look at people/self in the same manner as our Lord did when He was with the Prophet Samuel as he was doing the Lord's commission to find an earthly king for Israel: " ...[M]an looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks upon the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7 in part, ESV.

     What is wrong with many of us is NOT external, it is internal, and only Jesus Christ the Great Physician can fix what ails us.

    Dear Ones, let us forget about those things which fade, and look, instead, toward to the Eternal Kingdom and Eternity with our Lord and our God.

    Today's offerings are poems - one has its own page, and is entitled God's Workmanship, and one which appears at the bottom of this post  is entitled Mirror Therapy.

    God does not makes mistakes! He made each and every one of us just right!

     Sin caused the problem.

     Our God has, and is, the solution!

     Enjoy!

BJ

MIRROR THERAPY

The mirrors in the olden days

Always replied when queried

“Who’s the fairest of them all?”

“You always are, my dearie!”

I had this mirror on my wall

That’s now sitting on a shelf

Because whenever I looked I saw

Someone not my reflected self!

I wondered how this was possible,

And my mirror calmly replied:

“You don’t like yourself very much

And it’s reflected outside!”

I decided to change my image by Design

By enhancing the Miracle inside me,

The mirror stands proudly back on the wall

And my Inner Vision shines back at me! **BJC**