Silly Saturday
Author: The WheatandTares
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The Greatest of These…
What principles define how you live?
Principles to live by… well, that can be a long list, I guess. But to sum it all up, I suppose the principle that all the rest would fall under would be a principle of love. Yet, if I start describing this in detail, it might look a little different than the societal demand for love these days.
In our current culture, there seems to be a demand to show love by accepting a certain opinion as truth. Or the demand might be that if I disagree with you, then, I’m not showing love but hatred.
Or if I’m not giving you what you want, then I’m not showing love. Or maybe if I’m not giving up something I want, or maybe I’m not suffering in a certain way, then I’m not showing the kind of love I’m supposed to be showing.
Pure, unadulterated love is sacrificial, gracious, and compassionate; yet, it is also full of truth, strength and courage.
True, unblemished love is is not one of these without the other. It is both.
If a parent loves his or her child but allows that child to run in the street to play while the truck is barreling down the path, is that really love?
If a spouse declares his love yet leaves and showers everyone else with his affections because he wants more, is that really love?
If a friend promises to share love and friendship yet breaks every confidence because she wants her liberty to share, is that really love?
If a child proclaims his love to his parents yet steals and destroys because he wants his freedom to live as he pleases, is that really love?
True love will rejoice in the truth, will bear all things, will believe all things, will hope all things, and will endure all things. Love never fails.
And love is impossible without abiding in the Only One who gave true love.
So, what principles define how I live? I guess I could begin with 1 Corinthians 13. I certainly don’t live it perfectly, but I strive toward it daily, only by seeking Him first.
Because He loved me first, now only can I begin to truly love.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. … And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13
Grow and Thrive to the Sky
The sky really is the limit of your success.
There can be hardships. There can be pain.
There can be obstacles. Don’t strive in vain.
But find your place. Find your niche.
Keep pushing forward. Don’t fall in the ditch.
Yet, even in the moment of falling.
You can always find your calling.
You only have to look up to the sky.
And you’ll begin to thrive when you seek the Most High.
Commit your works to the Lord,
And your thoughts will be established.A man’s heart plans his way,
Proverbs 16:3, 9
But the Lord directs his steps.
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Living in the Vast Domain
How do we go about living in this vast domain call earth?
How do we survive on the blazing globe of fire that is hurling through time and space?
How do we keep breathing?
How do we not trip up and spiral out of control into oblivion?
Honestly, there is no way.
Except through Him.
He is the Author and Finisher of our faith, of our souls, of our very beings.
He is all powerful, Almighty, all knowing.
He is all gracious, all tender hearted, all merciful.
This is the God who can heal you our body and your mind.
This is the God who can pull you out of depression.
This is the God who can transform your very life.
With Him, all things are possible.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation 1:8
For with God nothing will be impossible.
Luke 1:37
Take a Walk
Weight of the world resting on your shoulders?
Take a walk in nature and look around.
Clouded viewpoints and shadowed vision?
Step out to the oceanside and take a seat for a while.
Muddled hearing and crooked pathway?
Hike up to the summit and breathe deep.
White noise consuming and anxiety rising?
Find the waterfall and sit and soak till the sun sets.
Don’t stop until the spinning stops and the fog clears.
The heavier the load and the wider the time will determine the stretch you need.
But keep seeking. Keep breathing.
Let it all wash over your soul until all is at peace.
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
John 16:33
Weights to Carry
We all have a weight to carry.
No matter where we go, what we do, or who we are.
Some choose to carry more, and others believe they’re not choosing to carry any, which that, in and of itself, is a weight to carry.
Those who choose to carry the weight have the ability to decide what they carry and what they let go.
Those who choose to carry the weight have the right to be confident in the fight; they have the right to be indignant of those who won’t.
Those who believe they’re not choosing by their silence and their apathy are truly choosing to drop the weight onto another.
Those who believe they’re not choosing by their lack and their contrived kindness are simply creating a cadence to condone the wrong.
Some choose to carry the weight with dignity, integrity, and strength, and they give their power to the masses.
And those who don’t only add the weight to the ones who choose.
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2
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