SELF REMINDERS

SELF REMINDERS

Thursday, September 15, 2016

  Grandmother McGee would tie a bit sting (From the “save drawer” around her figure so as not to forget something. I enjoyed a female coworker using a rubber band around her wrist and snapping it from time to time to stimulate her memory. And then there were the dozens saying “remind me later to …..” Did they do the job beyond numb thumb, sore derma, a person to blame-shift to? What do you think?

  God uses none of the above self helps. He does so in and by His indwelling Holy Spirit. Reviewing past Daily Thoughts (DT) is one the exercises for me, for I too easily forget.

  This morning I complied to His nudging, and now do share . . . knowing that possibly you too need reminding.

EBB4

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A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE

Monday, August 04, 2014

The following is written from notes taken and thoughts provoked during Pastor Paul Marine’s Sunday sermon.

Psalm [MKJV] 103:1-22 A Psalm of David. Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. …

Deuteronomy [MKJV] 30:19-20  I call Heaven and earth to record today against you. I have set

before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your

seed may live, so that you may love Jehovah your God, and that you may obey His voice, and that you

may cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, so that you may dwell in the land which

Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them.

  There is a considerable difference between praising and blessing. If we bless we typically also praise. We however can and do at times praise without blessing.

  Praise is words, heartfelt appreciation. It is done verbally and/or written in sentence and/or song.

  Blessing is mental study with therein serious meditation producing decisiveness leading to physical action, the mental commonly being laziest at in implementation. (How often do we even bother to look up His Word verses referred to in devotionals, essays, books?)

  To illustrate distinction: An individual appreciates their rural community and does not hesitate to say so at every opportunity. Another individual appreciates the same community, often says so, but goes beyond praise, studies and qualifies as an EMT so as to serve as an unpaid member of ambulance crew of community VFD (volunteer fire dept).

  Again, we may praise, but without actually blessing in Biblical sense, especially not as does God.

  When God praises, it is when a person or people have blessed Him.

  Another side of this is when we refuse to bless God. Not doing so we very much live under His general curse brought upon us by Adam refusing to bless God. (Gen.3; Ex.20:1-6; Deut.4:24 [Heb.12:28-29]; Ps.81:9-12; Jn.3:16-18; Jam.4:4-6)

  After Pastor’s sermon I am left with the examining question “Am I singing better than I’m sojourning?”  EBB4