Happy August...MY 100th post..Yippie!!

This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it—the LORD is his name: 'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:2-3)

Happy new month my bon famille.
As usual, I thank God for all his greatness, for his love, for the soothing gestures of his kindness. We have arrived at the 8th Month Mark. its August...the month of Lions :)
This month begins on a slightly overwhelming note for me. I dont know about you, but I feel a bit drawn on many sides....stretched to what appears to be an endless limit. But the word of the Lord (quick to the rescue) reminds me to count it all joy. As James 1:2 admonishes us. 'My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; ³Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. ⁴But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.'
What is that condition that itches...that annoys, that seems like its too strong, too demanding, vituperative to our person, smoothering our very being??? The bible says count it all joy...because your faith is working patience in you; because truthfully, the reason why it binds us and enslaves us so much is because we are earth-conscious, we are more lovers of SELF than lovers of GOD. If God were our focus, if his love, his sacrifce was our daily thought, our all-consuming passion....as the Psalmist said...'As a deer pants for the water, so my Soul (my being, everything that I am) pants for you' . if we yearn for him as much as we yearn for our very life, we will not be bound to these frivolities...to experience true REST. The Rest paul describes in Hebrews 4:10 'For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.'

Indeed Reading the first 12 verses of Chapter 4 of Hebrews, Paul admonishes us...
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
²For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
³For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
⁴For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
⁵And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
⁶Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
⁷Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
⁸For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
⁹There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
¹⁰For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
¹¹Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

The true Shalom, that Christ willed us upon his death, is yours for the taking...The question we need to ask ourselves is this...'is that situation? is that problem? is that thing, worth me losing this great promise from my saviour?' I pray that God will teach us to grow and to labour for that rest that only he can give.
AMEN

its August...i'm getting married soon...LOL

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