Morning Thoughts

Knowledge. OK. Now what. What do we do with it? It now takes work to use this knowledge we gain in life to gain understanding and when we gain understanding, we find wisdom and make better choices! We make godly choices and we find godly ways! Wisdom: she’s a good friend to us all!

Directions, instructions, manuals - why is it so difficult to simply follow what the manufacturer says is the proper way to assemble what we buy? Pride? Ego? Over confident? We would save ourselves a lot of heartache if we would just follow the instructions from the start....

Age brings about so many changes in our health. One thing it affects in most everyone? Eyesight. It grows dim. We do all we can to help it. How about our spiritual vision. Do we maintain it? We should.

The battle between what the body desires versus what the spirit knows is right is a tough one. We have to keep in tune with the walk with the Spirit of the Lord and His desires or we will surely follow after the fleshy desires that will get us in trouble.

We “own” many things. We can show papers, receipts, deeds, titles and other documents of possession. But, who does it really belong to? It belongs to the Lord! Let’s see things as being on loan from the Lord and not ours to begin with!

It’s amazing to read the biblical account of creation and to wonder at the power that created all that we know today. But, it’s even more amazing to imagine the love that was shown to then redeem man for the terrible mistakes made through time - to pay the price to sin.

No one likes to be left in the dark. That goes for the literal darkness but I think it also goes for knowing and knowledge. We’d like to be in the know. When it comes to God’s word in God’s will, we need to turn on his light. That light? It’s the word of God.

Being chosen for a team is a great honor. Being chosen first is an even greater honor. But someone has to be last in the process of choosing sides. With the Lord, He wants us all in His side. It’s a matter of whether we want to be in His!

We speak of the valleys of life be low points in our journey but valleys can be beautiful places! Find the good in the valley - find your friends, family and find Jesus for He said He would be there!

We all try to make right choices and to make right decisions. We honestly try. But that’s the issue. We have to make a conscious decision to do so. God however, doesn’t have to think. He is just right in all that He does. We need to trust in Him and His ways and rely on His truths and not ours.