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Date: Saturday, January 23, 2021
(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and
it will be given to you.
Meditation Opportunities
(@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with
Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Do not be
afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he
will never leave you nor forsake you.
1 Peter 3:4
Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the
unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s
sight.
2 Corinthians 4:6-7
For God, who said, “Let
light shine out of the darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to
show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
2 Corinthians 12:9 AMP
But He said to me…My
strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show
themselves most effective in (your) weakness.
Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com
Kaleidoscope
World @Francis Magalona (w/ lyrics)
Here I Am To
Worship / The Call @Hillsong Worship
God of All My
Days @Casting Crowns
How He Loves
Us @David Crowder
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
As I start these
thoughts today with logic and reason and all that I can understand, prove and/or
even grasp onto.
Knowing how different we all are and just how
much one can see clearly while others are blinded by the fog.
Clear as mud or
like pristine crystal, who is the judge besides the one who knows all things.
If only we could
be like the father in heaven and absolutely know exactly what is up ahead. Would that allow things to work out; would
that prevent the hurts, habits, hang-ups.
In many cases even now for all the violence that even the little bits
and pieces of power that those have now cause so much death, destruction to
each other and humanity.
As that kaleidoscope
world zooms in and out bringing it back to self. Where we do what we do for self-preservation
all the while no one else gets it. Or do
just to exist. Do for what we think is
love yet we have never once meet who Love really is.
Every expectation
or indiscretion we choose sometimes with plans laid out if this or that the
result will be then those others where we just do because the natural reactors
in our being fire off like some computer chip programmed not to self-destruct and to be ahead, we have to have, take or be
all the word produces.
So, what happens
when we do and want to believe in something so much until that one bad apple mentality
kicks in. You do for all that is unseen,
yet not once have you ever had absolutes.
Knowing at some point you have to get off the
fence and either jump in the pit of Satan’s sandbox or step away until you have
the affirmations of why you are doing this anyway; what is in it for you; what
do you really think will come of it.
Easy to act in
love and even easier when you open your heart to turn on those emotions that
allow you to dream and desire and make things more than what they are or even
should be.
Easy to fool around and fall in love getting
that euphoric release of power rushing through your veins each time you see, speak,
and talk to that someone who promise you the world then one day you wake up and
realize.
God is perfectly
clear and will never hide anything from you.
He will never give you more than you can handle, and He will protect you
as you are coming out of the fire you distracted your day to day and sometimes
even fell hard believing in maybe this time.
All the while
just wanting all you are connected to be pure in heart, pure in truth. As no one ever owes you anything; so why
would there ever be a need to lie, or create some façade pretending to be
anything less than who God created them to be.
Loving people for
who they are and not what they do, not what they have. Yet over and over again so many pretend with
stories so real you almost feel the pains of their misgivings and never hesitate
to dive in helping. Until later when
the truth sets you free you look back just how will God ever teach us to stop
going down those roads.
How will you
continue to grow in His world and love everyone and help those in need; while not
getting entangled in the strings that they feel they must play out.
Wanting so hard
for something that only God will deliver and when he does there will be no
secrecy no reason to hide the purity or glow of release to never pretend or
need to hope for never will be all the while the abilities to serve without doubt.
That one and only
truth is no matter if I see a physical God here and now; proof He is real for
thousands of years cannot be erased nor will anything ever be made up when I
count my blessings and think upon every miracle, he has allowed me alone and
the only purpose of my life this day.
So many in real
need, so many never asking for a thing desperately hurting or stuck. So many with what can be all yet never
having enough. So many blessed with so
much yet never happy and continually stepping out and taking whatever, they can
along the way and making the unsuspecting they take from feel like they are the
problem when life isn’t working out as they see in their own kaleidoscopes.
The only regret I
will ever have in this life is that I did not meet Jesus sooner than I did in
life and that I will never really know if anyone; my blood, my friends, my
spiritual family members truly really know Him deep inside.
When my days come,
we will all be judged by the creator that one all powerful who breathed humanity
from breathing dust to life.
All the good, all
the bad that has happened to this being is irrelevant without Jesus. What matters is what I choose each day I am
allowed up.
Today is another
day I have been given to give thanks no matter what is up ahead. To seek forgiveness
as I cannot believe in those who say they are, yet they never show up all the
while there are many excuses that can justify.
All those who I have been blessed to know and have been released back to
God. All those not yet arrived and those
that across the wind will always be deep in the heart of my prayers.
For this day I am
blessed to get back up and be my best self and know acknowledging where all
that I am was purposed for and where I am going does not matter. For in the end the greatest love of all will
be that which I call upon the name of the Lord.
Few will ever understand
what any of us speak out, pour out, write out.
Perhaps that is why music is so beautiful as it releases the stories of
all pain all joy all that can be through rhythms, notes tones and lyrics that
even if in a conversation could not flow but singing to the soul make perfect
sense.
In our weakness
or in abundant strength may we all learn to dance and call upon Jesus for every
step we take as we take those baby steps or even when we have been running in
his ministry for awhile and suddenly lose footing know. He will never allow us to fall if we allow Him
to carry us.
Give Jesus a chance,
meet Him every day before you take off each day and before you shut down each
evening. What is the worse that can happen? With or without words openly in this world
that changes what matters every second of any day.
Grow with and to Him
through music, through devotionals, through random acts of kindness with no
agendas. Live life knowing for the same
breath that allows you up each day loves and wants you all for His glory. Our God is a jealous God. He wants humanity to shine bright for all
that is good. Selflessly not Selfishly!
Lord thank you
for this day.
