The Best Aug.18

 

            Your best interest remains to trust your designer. Stone by stone, brick by brick, experience by experience Jehovah is putting the pieces together for the kingdom and you are a brick. Whatever is genuine, whatever shows loyalty, whatever promotes right doing, whatever encourages cleanliness of heart and soul, whatever shows beauty, whatever brings honesty, whatever presents itself as praiseworthy in Jesus’s name: think always on these things.

            Prayer: Lord, help me with my thinking today, that my every thought and action will complement kingdom growth.

Waiting Aug.17

 

            Special process with slower time helps to work a piece of rough mineral into a precious, cut stone. Any small element, like a seed, child, or stranger may start as an insignificant mass and still yield a beautiful result. You and others always have potential for improvement. Exercise patience and wait long enough and you will reach your potential. But for now, keep patiently struggling with your growth. Practice and learn to wait with the Holy Spirit. He presents signals to wait, endure, and appreciate the moment that grows into an experience of God’s Grace.

            Prayer: Lord, stay and work close with me, to smooth out the rough edges to become all you intend.

Service Measure Aug.15

 

            The true God Jehovah did not promise every act of service would be pleasant but would be more like a planted seed that does not necessarily experience pleasure when the unseen energy expands its growth. After a struggle of time and growth, any pleasure happens as a fruit result. You may need to behave and grow like the seed planted. Life doings may take time to grow and show the life God intends. Even after you produce any personal fruit, you are not to hoard the fruit. You must not stash the results but share completely all that remains yours to give.

            Prayer: Lord Jesus. Remind us to be generous with everything we have, including our inborn character, any emotion, or opportunity.  

 

Lasting Foundation Aug.14

 

            Jesus is He who was sent from above, what we call heaven. Look at his words and look at his life work, and you will see no confusion, no contradiction. All things come together in Him. You can fully trust he will do what is best for you, although you may not see it now. He is Jesus, the one born on earth, the name above every name. He gave us the Eternal’s name: Yahweh Abba Father, the everlasting foundation of all.

            Prayer: Lord, help us be aware, you continue with us as we search scripture for your reality.

 

Personal Existence Aug.13

 

            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 Aug.12

 

            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.

 

Falsehood Aug.11

 

            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.