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I was reading along in the second conversation of THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD and came across this…
That he had been long troubled in mind from a certain belief that he should be damned; that all the men in the world could not have persuaded him to the contrary; but that he had thus reasoned with himself about it: I did not engage in a religious life but for the love of GOD, and I have endeavoured to act only for Him; whatever becomes of me, whether I be lost or saved, I will always continue to act purely for the love of GOD. I shall have this good at least, that till death I shall have done all that is in me to love Him. That this trouble of mind had lasted four years; during which time he had suffered much.
So many of us have been brought up with a focus on the end result, i.e. getting to heaven and spending eternity with God. With questions like “What are you going to say when God asks you why He should let you in?” or “You don’t want to spend forever and forever in burning hell do you?” or “If you died tonight, where would you be spending eternity?”… and I am not saying that eternity with Christ is something to snuff at; it’s not. However, if God’s main desire was to have us in heaven with Him, he would have just taken us to heaven and been done with it. There is a reason we are on earth and why we have to live our lives UNTIL He calls us home: His Glory. I usually think the saying “To heavenly minded to be of any earthly good” is pointless. We must have our eyes fixed on the goal and looking at the end. However, the goal and the end are NOT the same. The end is heaven, but the goal is God Glorified! 1 Corinthians 9:24 says, “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.” We are to run “in such a way” that we may win! For us, crossing the finish line first is not winning; it is living a life that is worth of God lloking at us when we finally do get home and saying, “Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’! (Matt. 25:23)
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I got this in an email from my mom….it is so true….=)
Subject: (27) The Hormone Hostage Handbook
The Hormone Hostage knows that there are days in the month when all a man has to do is open his mouth and he takes his very life into his own hands! This is a handy guide that should be as common as a driver’s license in the wallet of every husband, boyfriend, or significant other!!
DANGEROUS: What’s for dinner?
SAFER: Can I help you with dinner?
SAFEST: Where would you like to go for dinner?
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.
DANGEROUS: Are you wearing that?
SAFER: Gee, you look good in brown.
SAFEST: WOW! Look at you!
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.
DANGEROUS: What are you so worked up about?
SAFER: What did I do wrong?
SAFEST: Here’s fifty dollars.
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.
DANGEROUS: Should you be eating that?
SAFER: You know, there are a lot of apples left.
SAFEST: Can I get you a glass of wine with that?
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.
DANGEROUS: What did you do all day?
SAFER: I hope you didn’t overdo it today.
SAFEST: I’ve always loved you in that robe!
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some more chocolate.
13 Things PMS Stands For:
1. Pass My Shotgun
2. Psychotic Mood Shift
3. Perpetual Munching Spree
4. Puffy Mid-Section
5. People Make me Sick
6. Provide Me with Sweets
7. Pardon My Sobbing
8. Pimples May Surface
9. Pass My Sweatpants
10. Pissy Mood Syndrome
11. Plainly; Men Stink
12. Pack My Stuff……..And my favorite one…
13. Potential Murder Suspect
Pass this onto all of your hormonal friends and those who might need a good laugh! Or men who need a warning! And remember: Money talks…but chocolate sings.
Another thing to giggle about… My husband, not happy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so he would be able to monitor my moods. When I’m in a good moo d, it turns green. When I’m in a b ad mood, it leaves a big red mark on his forehead. Maybe next time he’ll buy me diamonds. Here have some chocolate.
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I thought this was kinda ironic…
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Nave’s Topics were originaly produced by Orville J. Nave, A.M., D.D., LL.D. while serving as a Chaplin in the United States Army. He referred to this work as “the result of fourteen years of delightful and untiring study of the Word of God.”
I found this while researching (and eventually downloading) the Sword Project. The project focus in an open-source bible study tool consisting of different versions of the bible (public domain) and various bible guides, commentaries, dictionaries, and other various study tools. Their purpose statement is this: “In short, the SWORD Project is an effort to create a software platform for research and study of God and His Word. The open source model is the basis of development, maximizing the rapid growth and features of this project by leveraging the contributions of many developers. Components of the project include all types of Biblical texts and helps, a portable, platform-agnostic engine to access them, and a variety of front ends to bring this to as many users as possible.”
Check out their site at www.crosswire.org/sword for more info.
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That is the actual name of the post house I am in today…actually for the last couple of weeks I have been in and out of here; we are doing the compositing and other post production on the special effect we shot in LA last month. The guys here are really cool esspecially Mark. they all know there stuff and are more worried about making you happy with the end product than what they think it should look like…
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. . . in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses
—2 Corinthians 6:4
When you have no vision from God, no enthusiasm left in your life, and no one watching and encouraging you, it requires the grace of Almighty God to take the next step in your devotion to Him, in the reading and studying of His Word, in your family life, or in your duty to Him. It takes much more of the grace of God, and a much greater awareness of drawing upon Him, to take that next step, than it does to preach the gospel. Every Christian must experience the essence of the incarnation by bringing the next step down into flesh-and-blood reality and by working it out with his hands. We lose interest and give up when we have no vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our everyday life with its trivial tasks. The thing that really testifies for God and for the people of God in the long run is steady perseverance, even when the work cannot be seen by others. And the only way to live an undefeated life is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to discourage you. Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1-17 .This was all taken from todays’ “My Utmost for His Highest”.
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Just wanted to give a little update…there are a couple of changes that have been updated:
1. Title Image: I took this while I was in LA in Feb. on a Big Freeze Shoot. Let me know what you think about it…
2. Old Entries: For the first time in close to like two years, I have been able to house all my blog entries across different blogs under one roof. So you can see entries from back to Feb 2004.
3. Links and Other Blogs: I am still tryin gto figure out the best way to import the links, videos, and review I had on the old blog. but I finished transfering the links for other peoples blogs…
