God alone is the firm foundation upon which our faith, life, hope, joy, peace, and our salvation rests. To put faith in anything else is to trust in things that will fail.

So to become great in God, you must become deep in God. strengthen your roots. Make it your priority to grow deeper in the hidden and secret places and your life will bear much fruit as it is written, "The root of the righteous . . . will bear fruit." Proverbs 12:12

Jesus entering the temple should be one of the most incredible moments of anyone’s life. The Messiah, the King of Kings has come into the holy place of God. This is where the people of God should be able to come into the presence of God. Here is the righteousness, glory, exact representation of God. This should be cause for celebration.

It is an Interesting thing how subtle our loyalties and dependencies can shift. Just who it is we are asking or relying on to “Save Us”! To whom are we saying “Hosanna” too?

Let us learn from this and seek to lay our agendas down daily that we might hear what the Lord has to say, including the warnings from God, and thus be better prepared for that which is in store; The blessings, and the sufferings.

But what I like about this story is Bartimaeus had a need, he had limitations, but he did not hide behind or excuse them or even worse, condemn himself because of his condition.

They’ve Heard this before…, it's not new…  but the don’t really get it … so they just set it on the back burner…. they focus on the things they want to and like. You know what happens when this happens? “SELF-tianity”!

We are going to take time to ask the Holy Spirit for revelation on the present as we reflect on the past and look to the future.

God alone brings about this grace...we have no hand in the creation or completion of God’s grace. Planned from all ages, begun, message sustained by prophets, sovereignly guided, manifested, carried out, completed, and delivered by God.

I have found that if I apply this principle more, I get upset less. I am a child of God, loved as the prodigal, and I am also in humble servitude for all that He has done.