Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Here is a working link to the article I just told you all about at Purple Cellar!

The Purple Cellar: Life Lessons from a Toothbrush
Perspective... interesting word... the definition from Miriam Webster online dictionary is, "Aids in the vision of"....

I'm sure you've had those moments of perspective thinking... for example.. I am having a horrible day, nothing is going right and then i remember my son, and all our soldiers, risking life and limb in Iraq and Afganistan and then I realize that my day isn't so bad after all. Remembering what my son in Iraq is going through "aids in the vision" of how my day really isn't quite so bad!

Lydia, over at the Purple Cellar blog wrote a great article today about perspective. You may have to copy and paste the link. Here is the link:

http://purplecellar.blogspot.com/2007/10/life-lessons-from-toothbrush.html

I highly recommend you go and read it.

May God give you HIS perspective today. No matter what else is going on in your life ask yourself this, "Is it well with my soul today?"

Blessings to you! Go and read Lydia's blog!

Monday, October 01, 2007

I am so encouraged this morning! I am encouraged because I was at church yesterday! I have not been at my church for 2 Sundays due to travel. It was SO good to be back with my church family. It was GOOD to sing songs proclaiming the gospel and thanking God and worshiping Him through song! It was GOOD to be taught from God's Word! I wrote an email to some women that I am in bible study with this morning and thought I would post this email on this blog to encourage whomever might stroll by and read it today! May it encourage you as we treasure Jesus together!

Good Morning friends,

How are you today? I hope that the songs of worship yesterday, as we sang about the glories of the gospel, served to encourage you and boost your confidence in the faithfulness of God!

I just finished listening to one of Piper's sermons from this weekend (There was a huge Desiring God conference this weekend and videos of all the speakers are online) and I am so encouraged to FIGHT for delight in Christ.. to treasure HIM above all things.. above health, above family, above worldly possessions and worldly promises and wordly expectations...etc etc... and I just wanted to pass that along to you today..

At whatever time you read this email I trust that you will be encouraged to switch your mind and your heart from whatever is occupying its thoughts to the glories of God as found in Christ Jesus! That you would treasure Jesus above all things.. Nothing but Jesus is worth anything! So, delight in HIM today and glorify Him by delighting in Him! Magnify him by delighting in Him! That is my prayer for myself today.. may it be yours as well.

Romans 8:31-39
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36As it is written,

"For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

With a promise like this how can we not delight in Jesus!? May God's Word give you joy today!

love,
diane