Imperfect Tuesdays
To start a Small Group at work… that WAS my hesitation. But then I was reminded, God uses IMPERFECT PEOPLE. People who knows they’re so imperfect that they CANNOT BOAST OF ANYTHING apart from Him.
Here’s to our fourth Tuesday of meeting strengthening together. Watch, be encouraged and be tickled.
What is pure and true religion? (Taken with instagram)
Who are true worshippers? (Taken with instagram)
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
I love how the author of this post elaborates how I oftentimes feel.
An excerpt from Bebo Bharwani’s Under the Sun:
Meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
In other words, the things you dream of, the stuff that keeps you up late at night, that you’ve been working hard for, you’ve been hunting down―all eventually amounts to nothing.
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If there is one thing to remember from Solomon’s essay, this statement might give us the perspective we need:
He (God) has also set eternity in the hearts of men.
Ecclesiastes 3: 11
Somehow, God took something bigger than the space and time continuum and stuck it in the core of our existence; and here we are trying fill the bottomless abyss with “stuff”. Go figure!
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There is a hunch that long before our heads could even begin to process the insatiable hunger, our hearts have always known that it needed something more than just the material. The very reason you continue to long, hope, dream and desire―to the point of aching―is because ultimately, your soul is trying to inform you that it is frantically desperate for the one thing that is truly eternal. God.
Read more here.
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:31-32
~And yes, tootsie roll lollipop also helps. (Thanks, Ms. Mavic!)
So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, ‘We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.’
“I’m sorry, Peter, but water walking is for messiahs only.” — No, God did not say that. Believe and let Him work mightily thru you.
