Enlarge the
place of your tent.
Isaiah 54:2
"What we do today is important--
we are exchanging a day of our life for it."
~anonymous
Isaiah 54:2
"What we do today is important--
we are exchanging a day of our life for it."
~anonymous
We
are born with an allotted number of days,
and
every night we give one of them back.
At
the end of the day, the Lord asks
what
we did with His day.
Were
we just engaged in busyness
or did we
enlarge the place of our tent?
God
has planted us in the world to be
a
visible demonstration of His goodness.
To
the degree that we reflect His nature,
we
are His Word to those who read no Word.
We
can only express what is real,
not
what we want to be real.
Our
cry has to be that He makes us more real.
God has
chosen you and He loves you.
So your new
life should be like this:
Show mercy
to others. Be kind...
Colossians
3:12
Recently
God has been speaking
to me about His kindness.
The
other day I walked past a woman
and
didn't smile at her.
I
have done this many times before.
But
this time, the Lord spoke to me,
"You
just missed a chance
to
show My kindness."
Say
what?
I
was genuinely startled by His words.
"You
missed a chance to
surprise
her with My goodness."
Kindness
always puts another person first.
It
always requires giving, and giving is
at
the very center of God's nature.
Maybe
it's a smile, or sincerely stopping,
looking
someone directly in the eye
and
saying thank you,
or
offering to help someone who's struggling.
Or
showing mercy when someone is rude.
Today,
I will put my hand to many tasks which,
for
the most part, are temporal.
But
I want my heart in the eternal
while
spending this day.
I
want to give more than I take--
I
want to startle someone with Your goodness.
This is so good!!
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