Forbearing

 

“Forbearing” is a great Biblical word!  I think of it often when I am on facebook.  Forbearing means that I do not need to “reply” to every post that I read on facebook.  Forbearing means that I should resist saying that you are stupid when what you said really was stupid.  Forbearing means that I should be kind to you when I don’t really feel like being kind.  Colossians 3:13&14, “Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”  I suppose forbearing really means Christlike … even to you on facebook.

Breakfast & Supplements

 

Marleen is amazing!  Before she headed out to work this morning at 7:30am, she made me breakfast.  She also has these supplements for my heart, brain, immune system, and for overall good health.  She wants me to live to be 95 (and I do too).  But that’s up to the good Lord.  Which reminds me … have you had your spiritual supplements this morning?  I Peter 2:2, “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.”  You need the spiritual nourishment from the precious Word of God.  Read it.  Memorize it.  It’s good for you.

Carved in a Tree

 

I have always been adventurous.  I still am, except now I realize many of the terrible things that could happen, so I am a little more cautious.  Just a little.  When I was a boy, I enjoyed climbing trees in the woods behind our house.  I would climb to the top of smaller saplings and swing over to get to the lower limbs of taller trees and then climb up into the canopy.  From the tops of the big trees, I thought that I could see forever.  I would find the highest hill that I could, climb the tallest tree on that hill, and use my pocketknife to carve my name into the bark at the top of that tree.  When that tree is cut down for timber, I can only imagine the surprise of the lumberjack who found my name and the date carved in the top of that tree!  But my name is carved in a much more fantastic place.  The dear Lord has written my name on the palm of His own hand so that He will NEVER forget me!  God said in Isaiah 49:15&16, “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands …”  Wow!  Just to think that the Creator of the universe remembers my name!  Oh, how he loves me!  Hey, is your name carved into the hand of God?  Do you belong to Him?  I hope you do, because He loves you so much!  Why not accept the dear Lord’s gift of salvation while He is gently calling to you?  Do it now without delay!