Nothing Less

"How much of your life you've invested in Jesus Christ is the issue. Have we held some back for ourselves - just in case He's not as real, as powerful, as active as we thought? Just in case He doesn't come through? Just in case He really can't be taken at His Word? Or have we banked everything we have and everything we are on the reality that Jesus Christ is Lord of all the earth? We will never fulfill our destinies until our hope is built on nothing less."
Beth Moore, Beloved Disciple

His oath, His covenant, His blood

Support me in the whelming flood.

When all around my soul gives way

He then is all my hope and stay.

On Christ the solid rock I stand

All other ground is sinking sand.

All Powerful God

There is a river

    whose streams bring joy to the city of God,
        the holy place where the Most High lives. 

God is in that city.
    It cannot fall.
        God will help it at the break of dawn. 

Nations are in turmoil, and kingdoms topple.
    The earth melts at the sound of God’s voice.

 The Lord of Armies is with us.
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah

 Psalm 46:4-7 God's Word

I have posted this passage before, but it meant even more to me this morning. That one phrase: "The Lord of Armies is with us" stood out. He is here!

The Plans of God's Heart

"From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. To anyone who truly loves America, nothing could be more inspiring than to contemplate this rededication of our youth, on each school morning, to our country's true meaning."

President Dwight Eisenhower upon signing the bill to include "under God" in the pledge of allegiance. 6/14/1954

The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart from generation to generation. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

Psalm 33:11-12

Funny Memory

My first year of teaching school was in 1972. I was 21 and the other two first grade teachers were in their late sixties. We three would sit together at the lunch table in the cafeteria. They were a tremendous help to me, but they would often boss me around like I was a kid. (Guess I was!)

"Eat everything else on your plate before you have your dessert!" they would tell me every day.

One day, I'd had enough, and I said a little too loudly: "I went to school for four years to be able to teach, and I've earned the right to eat what I want off my own plate!!"

Then I heard one of my six year old students at the table behind me inform the class, "Hey, our teacher only went through the fourth grade!"

All We Need

By his divine power,

God has given us
 everything we need for living a godly life.

We have received all of this
by coming to know him,

the one who called us to himself 

by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.

2 Peter 1:3 NLT