Sleepless Nights

 

Do you have trouble sleeping?
This psalm’s for you.

 

 

Psalm 77:4, 6-7, 11-13 (CEV)
Because of you, Lord God,
I can’t sleep …
Each night my mind
is flooded with questions:
“Have you rejected me forever?
    Won’t you be kind again?
Lord, I will remember

the things you have done,
your miracles of long ago.
I will think about each one
of your mighty deeds.
Everything you do is right,
and no other god
compares with you.”

Sleepless, yes. Wasted? No.

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Worthy Work

 

John 5:17 (ESV)
Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

 

 We don’t work alone. That’s worth knowing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lasting Labor

 

Proverbs 16:3 (ERV)
Turn to the Lord for help
in everything you do,
and you will be successful.

 

Lord, may my words and works be successful in your eyes. May they have a lasting impact.

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Labor out of Love

Ephesians 2:7 (TLB)
And here you yourself must be an example to them of good deeds of every kind. Let everything you do reflect your love of the truth and the fact that you are in dead earnest about it.

Good work grows out of honest love for God.

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Good morning, Lord. We call a disaster an “act of God.” We even buy insurance to cover the cost. We forget all the good things that are “acts of God:” the beauty of Your creation, the blessings Your pour out on us, the miracle of birth, the flavor and taste of the food we eat, and grace to save us from ourselves. I praise and thank You for Your mighty acts. Amen.

 

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Labor of Love

 

Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)
For we are God’s masterpiece.

 

 

We are His labor of love.

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Labor with Love


“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”

Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
The Practice of the Presence of God

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Directions Count

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Science Counts

 


Some say the Bible is anti-science. I disagree. The Bible puts God’s face on science.

 

Psalm 104:5 (GNT)
You have set the earth firmly on its foundations,
and it will never be moved.

I can’t imagine we’ll get to heaven and say, “Yep, we knew it! The Bible is wrong.” I think we’ll discover the Bible is right in ways we cannot fathom.

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History Counts

We don’t think of the Bible as a history textbook, but history is woven through its pages: 

      • history of the world
      • history of mankind
      • history of the Jewish people


In the words of this old hymn, the Bible is:

“Mine to tell me whence I came,
Mine to teach me what I am.”
John Burton, 1803

 

Cover to cover, the Bible is His Story–the story of Jesus, Son of God, Savior.

 

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