1 Peter 2:1-10 ~ into His Marvelous Light +†+

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

1 Peter 2:1-10

1 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 

2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation-- 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 

4 As you come to Him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 

6 For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame." 7 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone," 8 and "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. "They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do." 

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies
of him who called you out of darkness
into his marvelous light.

10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people;
once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.



This is the Season we all want to be the Lamb of God. His Beloved. And the stresses of life

are causing many to have concerns and worries. Christians so often worry more about heart matters than all others.  

A life we look to the Lord, calls us to always remember He always invites us for prayer, a talk, a heart-to-heart, up building us to put down our ways and find the ascent to the Lord.

John 10:9 

I am the door. 

If anyone enters by me, he will be saved 

and will go in and out and

 find pasture.

Psalm 100

1 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!

2 Serve the LORD with gladness! 

Come into His presence with singing!

3 Know that the LORD, He is God! 

It is He who made us, not we ourselves,

we are His; we are His People, and the Sheep of His Pasture.

4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise!

Give thanks to Him; bless His Name!

5 For the LORD is good; His steadfast love endures forever,

and His faithfulness to all generations.

Nourishing our souls - the process of looking for the good God provides.

Believing God loves us first. Growing into our salvation. Believing within us  -we really are chosen and special. Obeying God is worship.

And in shining the Light of Christ, we make ourselves a people. Putting down darkness. Living in His marvelous Light.




These are good words. And unless we reach to receive them - they are as comforting as poetry, we can toss the words around behind us or beside us - just trot those words out.

Life will always have stages, and then these stages abruptly end.

In remembering the love, we have been given and giving, the challenges we have overcome, we grow and have strength in our roots God has helped us to have.

We have an early childhood - we believe we are chosen and precious and able. And then our childhood meets expectations to grow up and take on responsibilities to become a people. To become invested in talents. In the rub of life, we find as an heir to being God's Beloved, weeds choke out the sunlight.

We progress to early adulthood, where we find we like the freedom and wish to have our inheritance to do as we please. We ask our Father to step back; give us the promises of the inheritance to do as we wish.

We enter the cubical world of employment, where God's place on His refrigerator for our talents seems a faded memory. Our 5 talents of childhood seem to be half a talent - with no end in sight of increasing demands of cost, time and ability to being thought young.

We have our young, and we struggle to establish our house upon a rock. Soccer practice, sewing lessons, Boy Scouts, room mother, PTO, find matching socks and locate homework...shoe? The shoe, shoe, shoe..... Shoe! The permission slip, report card, doctor and the appointment. Major crisis to minor, "fire of the day", gummy/ gum hair. Care locator, lost backpack at daycare, Conflict with caregiver, teacher, den leader. The outing/lunch/vacation led to the need for more relaxation in life.


The wonder of life's every day.
The emotional discussions of life. The chores. And then - scattering Life - scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.

Help?
Eventually, the needs of the children encourage us to remember Christ is our Rock. Come to Him, His burden is Light. Rest for the weary. Renewal. Prayers with Jesus are Hope.

Christian Radio. Christian Music in the car.  Church. Youth Group - try going 6 times - and then complain. We need the people of God to teach our children about being a people. We return from feeding the wild pigs to be embraced by our Father running to us.

Finding we need again to remember we are chosen and special in the sight of God as our children long in their teen years to have the inheritance to be free. And if we have wandered far from Hearing the Love our Father pours into our lives, we can be diminished in so many ways. At this point, our peers complain about the world, the culture aches and pains. We are reaching Ecclesiastes House.

And if we make our security on money, we have received jealousy. We have received a place where we would have lip service and not heart. If we believe God, we fit into His Kingdom, We find hope to see the good in our lives in all circumstances. In abundance - in need - in full houses and full money - then - we fit into being given to in the mercy of God and being able to give mercy to others.

If we find we are in a struggling stage of life, we find we have the ability to take on our tasks of life given to us by God. We have the strength to dig deep and find God loves us. We find we don't need affirmation as much from others as from God, Who has made promises to us. Giving God our hearts and desires and see victories and His Mercies each day. Jesus told us always to pray and not give up Hope.

Finding we are His People and He has made us.

Finding in our situation to give help and hope to others.

Making Life Meaningful.

Trusting - if today was meaningful, tomorrow will be as well. And if today was rest or irritation, tomorrow is a new chance. Deliberately finding and seeking the Light of God.

Realizing we are all at varies stages with hurdles. And in His Holy Spirit, having the goodness to make the hurdles smaller or well paced.

Our words are real, sincere, trust-worthy, honoring God and pleasing to Him - our words seek to do what the Holy Spirit does - to Give Life.

Abba, Father,

You are more capable of Blessing than we would ever be, 

Bless us with Your Ways, Wisdom and Heart.

 May the God of hope fill us all, everyone, 

with all joy and peace in believing, 

so that by the power of the Holy Spirit 

we may abound in hope.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, in Jesus Christ. 

Strengthen our homes, our marriages, our families, our bodies. 

Give us Your Strength of soul - to make Life filled with Your Marvelous Life.

Fill us - our Loved ones, 

the people You have given us - our peoples - our Nation 

- Your Beloved with the Light that fills mankind 

- Jesus Christ.

We lift to Your Word of Healing,

Alexander, our son,

his lens for his eye is curved

and he has found having glasses makes him have double vision.

To have healing for his vision not to trouble him

and The Lord to fill his eyes with Healing.

Let Your Words of Life be the Light guiding us to be the Children of God.

In Jesus, 

we know You long to hold us 

and we to be held to You.

 Amen and Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

YES Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You Jesus

Psalm 54 ~ my Helper †

 

Psalm 54

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. 

A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, 

“Is not David hiding among us?”

O God, save me by Your Name,

    and vindicate me by Your might.

2 O God, hear my prayer;

    give ear to the words of my mouth.

3 For strangers have risen against me;

    ruthless men seek my life;

    they do not set God before themselves. 

Selah

4 Behold,

 God is my Helper;

    the Lord is the upholder of my life.

5 He will return the evil to my enemies;

    in Your faithfulness 

put an end to them.

6 With a freewill offering 

I will sacrifice to You;

    I will give thanks to your name, O Lord, 

for it is good.

7 For He has delivered me 

from every trouble,

    and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.

One of the Garden beauties, loved in Russia, at Christmastime, is Siberian Dogwood. It's deciduous with scarlet branches.

Proverbs 31:21 

She is not afraid of snow for her household, 

for all her household are clothed in scarlet.

 The virtuous woman is diligent and strategic. 

She looks ahead and sees the needs that are coming, 

so she can prepare for them in advance 

and be ready when they arrive.

David could not prepare for the turning of his father-in-law's spirit against him. 

King Saul was said to have an evil spirit and David played the harp to soothe Saul.  1 Samuel 16. Not much could be done to prepare for disaster. 

This is the time of year, for trudging along. 

Not so excited.  Just making the motions. Yes. 

And yet, to hear or read the Psalms in numerical order, is to find a soul crying out to God in the difficult years. Homelessness, political persecution, living in a ditch, kidnapping, mercenary followers and mercenary work.  David had every reason in the world to live a life of depression. And David took his hardships very hard.

David is one of the most inspirational sources of faith in the Bible. He teaches us to live in the terrible, fierce grip of disaster. And to let it go when the disaster is accomplished. To believe in God to rouse ourselves again. And in songs, David loves to see ascension. And in ceremony of songs, the singers will climb the stairs and ascend.

Fight!

To fight the negative memories and situations, David finds he gives the sacrifice of Thanksgiving. And he plans for his worship to uplift and encourage. David turns his life completely around to have faith in God. He uplifts and heals. David nourishes others with the Good News.

John 16:33 

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. 

In this world you will have trouble. 

But take heart! I have overcome the world

Luke 4:18-20

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,

    because He has anointed me

    to proclaim 

good news to the poor.

He has sent me

 to proclaim liberty 

to the captives

    and recovering of sight to the blind,

    to set at liberty 

those who are oppressed

The point being...

we have to feed our soul

hope and hopeful

goodness

seek goodness

even scratch the soil

to put good in.

And in putting good in...

we will reap the goodness we feed

our heart

our soul

our mind

and

Please The Lord. 

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, 

whatever is honorable, 

whatever is just, 

whatever is pure, 

whatever is lovely, 

whatever is commendable, 

if there is any excellence,

 if there is anything worthy of praise, 

think about these things.

When I worked with ProLife

we had so many people praise us for

suggesting Christian Music

to uplift

reaffirm

strengthen

and give Joy and Love.

honorable, 

just, 

pure, 

lovely, 

commendable, 

excellence,

worthy 

praise, 

think about these 

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Hebrews 13:1

Let brotherly love continue

1 Peter 3:8

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, 

a tender heart, and a humble mind

2 Corinthians 13:11

Finally, brothers, rejoice. 

Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another,

 live in peace; 

and 

the God of love and peace will be with you.

Ephesians 4:3

Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Abba, Father,

We ask Your blessings. 

May Father God turn HIS face to us with compassion. 

And we rejoice knowing Father God hears and answers. 

Thankful for the day and more and better to arrive.

Asking God to bless our Loved ones 

and our Nation for Trusting in Him. 

For All of God's Beloved around the earth.

For Jesus blessing upon all His Children 

as we Pray The Lord's Prayer

 and ask more Heaven on earth.

Help us find and bring

to become

 more Heaven

on earth.

 May the God of hope fill us all, everyone, 

with all joy and peace in believing, 

so that by the power of the Holy Spirit 

we may abound in hope.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, in Jesus Christ. 

The Lord,

The Almighty,

Our Father,

Bless,

Save,

Secure

and Uphold

Your Nations.

Israel.

And Ukraine.

The EU.

We know:

Our God is working. His Son, 

Jesus is working.

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

YES Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You Jesus