Food For Thought.

Food for thought.

Imagine you were about to move into your dream house and then all of a sudden, everything fell through and you were forced to stay in your current house for another year. Rightfully so, you would be frustrated. But in that moment you have two choices: you can either spend the whole year complaining because you can no longer move into your dream house, or you can start to see your current house in a new way. That bedroom that seemed so boring? You can paint the walls. That kitchen that seemed outdated? You can change the knobs on the cabinet and replace the tiles on the floor. The living room that was nothing exciting? You can learn how to make new curtains or a new rug for the floor. You can start to appreciate and make the most of what was already there. ⠀ This is what it means to learn to be content with you have. Being content with what you have is not settling for what you have. It is learning to see what you already have in a way you might have otherwise overlooked. ⠀ Through contentment, God wants to show you the many beautiful and intricate details of what He is already doing in your life that you may have otherwise overlooked, had you only been focused on what you don’t have yet. ⠀ You may not have your dream house, your dream job, or your dream family yet, but by learning to be content with what you have, God wants you to see the beauty in the life He has already laid in front of you. ⠀ I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. - Philippians 4:11 ⠀ Written by @morganhnichols for #TheDevoCo

Living His Word

Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring. Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth– a stranger, not your own lips. - Proverbs 27:1-2

Humility is an essential and fundamental quality of the Christian life. It is essential and fundamental because of the position human beings have in the great scheme of things. God is the sovereign ruler over all creation. We exist in the creation that He made. Although He made us in His image and placed us in a position above all other creatures (Genesis 1:26-28), we are still subject to His divine providential control. He determines the story of creation and He determines the story of our lives within His creation.

True humility, then, recognizes and acknowledges the subservient place we have in the great scheme of things. Although we may think we know what the day will bring, we can make no guarantees. As the Proverb says, “We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps” (Proverbs 16:9). And that’s why James warned us not to boast about tomorrow. Instead, he said we should say, ’“If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that”’ (James 4:15). After all, unlike the sovereign and eternal God who controls all things, our lives are “like the morning fog–it’s here a little while, then it’s gone” (James 4:14).

The true humility that recognizes and acknowledges our subservient place also knows that boasting about one’s accomplishments does not properly reflect our status in reality. Although there may be occasions when public acknowledgment of one’s accomplishments is necessary for personal vindication or for the edification of others, as was the case with Paul and the Corinthian church (II Corinthians 11:12), gratuitous boasting has no place in God’s Kingdom. We are dependent creatures. We are dependent upon God for everything we have and everything we are. Instead of boasting about ourselves, then, we should boast about God (II Corinthians 10:17).

Paul said, “When people commend themselves, it doesn’t count for much. The important thing is for the Lord to commend them.” (II Corinthians 10:18). One of the ways that the Lord can do this is by having others ? strangers even ? praise us. And in the next life, of course, the Lord Himself will do the job personally (I Corinthians 4:5).

We don’t have to brag about tomorrow or praise ourselves. God can see to it that we get the acknowledgement and the encouragement we need.

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cheeryblueheart

11 years ago

''My Great Hope in Life is to Laugh as Much as I Cry.. to get My Work Done. to Try and Love Somebody,.And Have the Courage to Accept A Love Such as that in Return.'' -Maya Angelou.

👑 #RIP

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cheeryblueheart

5 years ago

Where are my lefties at?

Reblog if you’re left handed! ♡

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cheeryblueheart

4 years ago

One of My Most Favorite Psalm. 🌻🌻

a friend asked me to read this....

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 103 Of David.

1 Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. 2 Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— 3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, 5 who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

6 The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

7 He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel: 8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. 9 He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; 10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; 14 for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. 15 The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; 16 the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. 17 But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— 18 with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.

19 The LORD has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.

20 Praise the LORD, you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his word. 21 Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts, you his servants who do his will. 22 Praise the LORD, all his works everywhere in his dominion.

Praise the LORD, my soul.

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cheeryblueheart

5 years ago

OMG. The only Other person on the Internet who watches outlander! Haven't watched season 5.

Outlander S5 EP 10

I seriously LOVE the scene when Brianna "reads" Moby Dick to Bonnet and Bonnet opens up to her about his story

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cheeryblueheart

5 years ago

“In the 1950s kids lost their innocence. They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term —the generation gap. In the 1960s, kids lost their authority. It was a decade of protest—church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it. In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self. Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion….It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference. In the 1980s, kids lost their hope. Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future. In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world. In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.” ― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

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