AWESOME SUNRISE, MOONSET – – – AND CLIMATE CHANGE

November 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

(a couple weeks ago)

This morning I saw the most awesome sunrise and super moonset at the same time.

It’s a day after 8″ of slow, drought-busting rain.

The air is clean and clear, except for God’s painting in the eastern sky for anyone who will notice.*

The full moon setting in the west was so bright in the clear air that it caught my eye before I looked at it.

I texted friends and children—it was too good not to share.

And I came to a profound conclusion:

I will believe in man-made climate change when man stops God’s masterpieces in the sky.

We have no idea how little we are.

We have no idea how great God is.

Anyone who cannot look up on a morning like this and acknowledge God, is a fool indeed.

 

*Sometimes I wonder as I notice extra special stuff in the sky, “What if at this very moment, I am the only person in the world who sees this and stops for time with God.  What an amazing personalized communication/connection with the Creator.”

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OPPORTUNITIES TODAY – – – NO REGRETS TOMORROW

November 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

“Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God . . .”

—–His Book

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MARTYR

November 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A martyr is not simply someone who dies for his faith.

“The cause, not the suffering, makes a genuine martyr.”   —–St. Augustine

A martyr is one “who has become an instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God.  The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of martyrdom.”    —–T. S. Eliot

In original Greek, “martyr” means “witness.”

“. . . we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses [martyrs], . . . ”   —–Hebrews, His Book

“You shall be witnesses [martyrs] to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”   —–Jesus

The time has now come when Christians in America also experience what Jesus promised:

“Blessed are you when people revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake.  Rejoice, and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven; for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

 

(The promise that Islamic killers die for—70 virgins in glory—is one more appealing counterfeit of the devil.)

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