MERRY CHRISTMAS. A message about peace.

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Gods tear bottle

When was the last time you cried?
Years, months, weeks or perhaps you are doing this very minute.
Some people view it as childish or not manly.
King David one of the bible's most bravest warriors was known to have a good old sob more often than not.

Psalm 6:6

King James Version (KJV)

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

So if you weep from more often than not, don't worry you are in good company. Are you afraid of the illness you have? How your children will survive? Whats going to happen to your partner? How long will a bad situation continue? Go ahead cry.

Archaeologists have excavated tear bottles or wineskins that people used to catch and store their own tears. The containers were made of various types of materials—some were of glass, some of day, others of sheep’s skin; the size and shape of course varied. King David a man after God's own heart after his own tear bottle and believed that God would remember all his suffering.

Psalm 56:8 (KJV) put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
He was right.
God remembers every tear you shed.
He not only remembers he will turn every single one of them in to moments of joy, peace and happiness.
So cry as much as you want.


 

God's Masterpiece

I once heard a story about a famous preacher who was admiring a friends art collection. After staring at one particuliar work that his friend was raving about, the preacher thought to himself quietly that it didn't seem very special. So much so he thought that perhaps that a child may of painted it.

His friend told him that he had purchased that piece for over a million dollars. This time he took the painting more seriously and asked who the artist was. His friend relpied "Pablo Picasso."

Suddenly this painting seemed to better than he first thought and after another 5 minutes of viewing he had really started to admire it.

Afterwards the Preacher realised that the painting had value because of who the painter is. It is the creator that makes it valuable.

Don't forget who your Creator is. God made you in his own image. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. Amen.

SHHHHHHHH and I will tell you a secret

Your heavenly,loving father has a an amazing and wonderful life ahead of you. You are earmarked for greatness. If he were to reveal your accomplishments to you in twenty years from now, you would fall down in awe and disbelief. So I say shhhhh and don't give up now. The best is yet to come. HE PROMISES

Give up some old friends this lent

For those that love and grow in Christ more, we can find some of our old relationships very different. Perhaps some old friends dont grow with us. They may hold you back, put you down or be constantly taking too much from you.
Such is the journey of love.
For the GOD that commands us to leave our mother and father certainly asks us to leave behind old friends at times.
Let us be like glow worms content with our own light and find others happy in their own skin.

Yes and no

Does God give us more than we can handle? The screaming chronic pain, the howling winds of cancer, blinding depression, broken marriages, empty wallets and many mouths too feed! Well many may say its seems that way.
Do such things even come from a  loving creator?
Certainly in these times we come a lot closer to our heavenly Father.
Maybe for many the walls close in on them more than they can hold them. So the short answer is Yes.
However he will always give you the strength to keep going.

“Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.” ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Dont be too guilty.

It is better to be angry at God than not believe in him.