Being made in
heavenly Father’s image, your human personality vibrates as the highest order
of any physical being or any heavenly being, like angels on earth. Jesus is
also human with you, but He is much more than personality. He put in motion his
eternal universal way. He IS that Way, a way of serving, giving, everlasting
togetherness.
Prayer: Lord, help me recognize you show the true
Path for any life situation.
Mystery does not
mean God grudgingly or reluctantly withholds knowledge or understanding from us. Mystery simply means sometimes more knowledge exists than we can
understand at present. You may not know how gravity works, but we accept it
every day. Don’t try to take the bite out of scripture you may not understand.
Instead, embrace the mystery by faith. Just have faith in the right person.
Just realize you may not know now, leave the unanswered questions to heavenly
Father and move on. You can know later. For now, God’s Grace is sufficient.
Prayer: Thank you, Lord, that you created mystery as a way to increase our
trust. Help us have faith to let the unknown change our trust into the
challenge for growing faith.
Although the disguised
lies of commercials [this product will help you live longer because it feeds
your body system], these temptations to buy look good; if those promises were
really the right paths for you, they would feed you. But when you follow their
covered deceit, they bleed you.
Prayer: Lord, help me remember that no matter how
attractive false truths may appear, they still hide your actual truth.
Because you follow
Jesus and look to scripture, you live not only in worldly time, but already in God’s
eternal significance. You may choose His peace and a restful attitude in all
the activities of any given day. You may not always see or understand His
divine operations. But His way leads to peace that makes any better become the
best! Choose the resting pace of peace.
Prayer: Lord, help me take a deep breath, relax and remember you are still in
charge of all my activities, especially with others.
The Sermon on the
Mount [Mt.5-6] directions need to overtake any sermon of the consumer-shopping
motivation. Too much getting and collecting becomes self-centered. You
only need to keep and use what is necessary and especially give toward what
enhances God’s Kingdom. Adopt a full-time gift lifestyle. Discontinue collecting,
avoid the hoarding tendency that falsifies longer living, work out ways to give
things away and not expect any return. Freedom gives more than it takes!
Prayer: Lord, remind me to behave today in any way that will keep me
other-centered rather than self-motivated.
One big purpose of technology, whether cell phones,
computers, drones, medicine, cloning, transportation, electronic gadgets that
claim to define life, imply you can make life predictable and therefore feel
more self-comfortable. Some benefit comes from that. However, the kind of life Jehovah
gives… always allows the mystery of faith. When you label some invented instrument,
like a computer, and expect it to solve all problems, faith-quality is
at risk to be watered down. When relying on a label to give the only solution,
you approach the temptation to take the mystery out of your faith, and yet,
mystery creates an energy that keeps you searching, learning, and pursuing
personal growth. Allow mystery----'the I don’t know enough about life’. You will
never know enough about any one thing before you reach heaven’s gate.
Prayer: Lord, help me keep the mystery of your
creation, along with any specific
knowledge gained from your kingdom.
In the Bible,
Solomon, in all his glory, concluded, the best thing a person can become in
life demonstrates itself as being happy in your work. But the Holy Spirit
offers more. Work is more than a job. Specific work is often a
time and place to define what interacts with your personal life, intermixed
with your growth experiences. How you respond to your work becomes a proving
ground for character growth, the interaction with things and people. The Holy Spirit
wants to direct all your works. Stay alert to combine your work experience,
whether at home or away from home, with spiritual principles that come from God’s
word. Pay attention! You can learn to listen someone into better health.
Prayer: Lord, help me be good news in all my work. .
. and spread affirmation rather than bad news.
