Lamentations 3:25 (ESV)
[25] “The LORD is good to those who wait for HIM,
to the soul who seeks HIM.”
Saturday, September 5, 2026
“TO SERVE!”
Mark 10:45 (ESV)
“[45] For even the SON of MAN came not to be served but “TO SERVE”, and to give HIS LIFE as a ransom for many.””
Sharing a video recently from Dr. David Gibbs, Jr. about his dad SHOWING him about serving is something that brings back memories to this servant of THE MOST HIGH GOD! 1 Corinthians 3:16 days very plainly “Do you not know that YOU ARE GOD’s temple and that GOD’s SPIRIT dwells in you?”
When we SURRENDER OUR LIVES to JESUS, we give up CONTROL of “calling the shots” as far as the decisions about what we do and where we go.
Probably when I was around ten years old, I remember riding with my grandfather to his fathers house (my great grandfather) outside of Idabel, OK to pick up a milk cow that needed to go to the “sale barn”. My grandfather was given a check by his dad for his gas and the “trouble” he went through helping his dad sell his final cow before “great grandpa” died a few years later. He tore that check up on the way back to where we lived, WITHOUT COMMENT!!
That act of kindness and generosity shown to my great grandfather by my grandfather came to mind as I saw the video recently. The Privilege to Serve video exquisitely said what my grandpa WOULD NOT say back then! It was an honor and privilege “TO SERVE” the one that gave him life, while SERVING THE ONE WHO GIVES ETERNAL LIFE!!!
Friday, September 4, 2026
“BIND TOGETHER!”
Psalms 27:14 (KJV)
“WAIT” on the LORD: be of good courage, and HE shall strengthen thine heart: “WAIT”, I say, on the LORD.”
It is very seldom that I read from the King James Version of the BIBLE anymore. My experience is that other translations are more closely translated from the ORIGINAL TEXT, and in my humble opinion my life has to experience the closest to what GOD meant for me to hear!!!
However, the Hebrew word for “WAIT” is “qavah”, and that translates to “to bind together (perhaps by twisting)”. That tends to SHINE a completely different LIGHT on things, in my humble opinion. “BIND TOGETHER”, with THE LORD! be of good courage, and HE shall strengthen thine heart: “BIND TOGETHER”, I say, with the LORD” gives this servant a VASTLY different message than WAIT!!
Why the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES would desire to “BIND TOGETHER” with a Brain Damaged Stroke Survivor is almost INCONCEIVABLE, in my opinion? Yet HE left me here FOR A PURPOSE and I DEFINITELY need to “BIND TOGETHER” with HIM before I attempt to do ANYTHING!! If I get up and begin driving early in the morning, I always try to go to bed early the night before I am trying to leave. But HE PROMISES to never leave us nor forsake us (Deuteronomy 31:6), so I CLING to HIS PROMISE!!!
Discovering a different translation of THE WORD OF GOD is something that I research very closely, because TRUTH is VERY IMPORTANT to me!! But I do appreciate that “BIND TOGETHER” is what “qavah” translates to and I am grateful for that!!!
Thursday, September 3, 2026
“CHILDREN OF GOD!”
John 1:9-13 (ESV)
“[9] The TRUE LIGHT, which gives LIGHT to everyone, was coming into the world. [10] HE was in the world, and the world WAS MADE THROUGH HIM, yet THE WORLD DID NOT KNOW HIM. [11] HE came to HIS own, and HIS OWN people did not receive HIM. [12] But to all who did receive HIM, WHO BELIEVED IN HIS NAME, HE GAVE the right to become “CHILDREN OF GOD”, [13] who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, BUT OF GOD.”
The ABSOLUTE LOVE that is bestowed on my grandchildren is INDESCRIBABLE!! But the LOVE of my CHILDREN made my grandchildren possible! Similarly, ALMIGHTY GOD, WHO orchestrated THE WORD to be written by mankind, says in many places that BELIEVERS SHALL be named as the “CHILDREN OF GOD”, CHOSEN by HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (Ephesians 1:4)!!!
To fully understand this is something that GOD has ELECTED to keep “secret” (Deuteronomy 29:29) from me, at least for now!?! In HIS UNMITIGATED and INDESCRIBABLE WISDOM, GOD CHOSE me to be CHOSEN by HIM, BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, KNOWING how rebellious and cantankerous I would be, especially in my younger years. HE CHOSE me, even though I was moving so quickly before the Brain Hemorrhage, and HE SUPERNATURALLY SLOWED me down to be able to HEAR from HIM!!!
My inability to find “the words” describing my LOVE for my wife, children and my grandchildren goes FAR BEYOND the Brain Hemorrhage! I am a FLAWED and IMPERFECT servant who is BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE with everything that GOD has given me! But HE GAVE an insignificant servant THE RIGHT to become “CHILDREN OF GOD”, and I am BLESSED that HE did!!!
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
“THE SON OF MAN MUST BE LIFTED UP!”
John 12:27-30 (ESV)
“THE SON OF MAN MUST BE LIFTED UP!”
[27] “NOW IS MY SOUL TROUBLED. And what shall I say? ‘FATHER, save ME from this hour’??? But FOR THIS PURPOSE I have come TO THIS HOUR. [28] FATHER, GLORIFY YOUR NAME.” Then A VOICE came from heaven: “I HAVE GLORIFIED IT, and I WILL GLORIFY IT AGAIN.” [29] The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to HIM.” [30] JESUS answered, “This VOICE has come for your sake, not MINE.”
SPEED READING has gotten me into trouble more often than not, yet VERY FREQUENTLY I have, IN MY HASTE, omitted acknowledging the question mark(s) (???) at the end of the third sentence listed above. JESUS wasn’t asking this question because of what lie ahead of HIM, for HE KNEW what THE PLAN called HIM to do for HIS CHOSEN! In John 15:16 HE plainly said “YOU DID NOT CHOOSE ME, BUT I CHOSE YOU and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the FATHER in MY NAME, HE may give it to you.”! HE CHOSE US (Ephesians 1:4) BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, so HIS wretched future was preordained on our behalf!!!
THE GLORY of the hideous Cross is something so gory that humanity declares as reprehensible!!! But my vile, reprehensible self required an ABSOLUTE PERFECT SACRIFICE to redeem it, AND JESUS WAS MY ONLY HOPE!!! Without JESUS, I had NO HOPE of an eternity with MY SAVIOR!
HIS SACRIFICE seems SO EASY TO UNDERSTAND from where I sit currently, but it is also VERY IMPROBABLE knowing what HE received from Calvary. Why would the PERFECT LAMB OF GOD YEILD UP HIS LIFE for someone who values HIS SACRIFICE with such disdain???
“THE SON OF MAN MUST BE LIFTED UP!”, not because I am worthy, but because HE IS WHO HE IS!!!
Monday, August 31, 2026
“THE TRUTH!”
Romans 1:18-23 (ESV)
GOD’s Wrath on Unrighteousness
“[18] For THE WRATH OF GOD is revealed from Heaven against ALL UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress “THE TRUTH”. [19] For what can be known about GOD is plain to them, because GOD has shown it to them. [20] For HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES, namely, HIS ETERNAL POWER AND DIVINE NATURE, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE. [21] For although they knew GOD, they did not honor him as GOD or give thanks to HIM, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. [22] CLAIMING TO BE WISE, THEY BECAME FOOLS, [23] and exchanged the glory of the immortal GOD for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.”
The six verses of Scripture listed above are replete with “THE TRUTH”, but my finite mind and limited vocabulary prohibits me from discovering many of these??
The MAIN THING that has to be written is that “THE TRUTH” MUST BE THE MAIN THING, regardless of what it is surrounded by in “this world”!!!
“THE TRUTH” needs to be acknowledged and respected, for when “THE TRUTH” is “lifted up” (John 12:32), it will draw all men to HIMSELF!!!
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