Archive for February, 2011

Published by admin on 25 Feb 2011

SHOVELING SNOW AND FORGIVENESS

   Recently while shoveling snow for about the seventh time in a couple weeks at my home, I got to grumbling about how many times I had to clear the driveway and road. 
I really didn’t mind shoveling the snow ONCE.  But as soon as it was cleared, here comes the snow, so it had to be cleared again.  Everything was fine for a couple days, then the big snow hit, about 2 feet of it, and the real work began.  Again.  After three long days of clearing snow, there were high piles everywhere, the sun came out and no more snow was predicted.  Oops, the weather man is wrong, it’s snowing again.  Lord, this isn’t fair. It was then the Holy Spirit said to me, Son, shoveling snow is kind of like forgiveness.  Once should be enough, but it isn’t, I have to keep forgiving My children over and over again.  That put it all in perspective, didn’t it? Continue Reading »

Published by admin on 18 Feb 2011

RIPPLES IN THE WATER

   As a child I enjoyed throwing stones in the lake where we lived just to watch the ripples. I was fascinated to watch the ripples go out in a circle from where the stone landed, and on a calm day, they would actually go all the way across the lake, bounce off the shore, and go back toward where the stone landed. Now, what possible importance could this have in the scheme of things, aside from the fact that every stone I threw in the lake would raise the water level by the amount of the volume of the stone? Glad you asked. Continue Reading »

Published by admin on 11 Feb 2011

PRAY ONCE AND IT’S DONE

   There are people who think continually nagging God for this or that will get results, citing the reference made by the Lord Jesus in Luke 18:1-8;  Continue Reading »

Published by admin on 04 Feb 2011

O FEAR THE LORD

   I was awakened today by the words O FEAR THE LORD, so I started looking in the Bible for where that phrase is, and found it in Psalm 34: Continue Reading »