Greetings sisters!
One more day of life and breath and a heartbeat and so many hundreds of other things that must work together all over His creations each day! His creation is amazing and so complex but that's nothing for our almighty God who spoke it all into existence anyway! He is infinitely bigger than it all. I know that's hard for us to fathom but we have faith and trust in it. And we know we are not our own and so we do not just do whatever we want! We submit to Him and I'm glad He told us what pleases Him! He is a good God and His commands are based on love. That is true love and not all the worldly interpretations of it.
I love this scripture which defines what godly love will look like...
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
It is very important that we have this right as we know our duty is summed up in loving God and others.
It is faith which works by love...
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Galatians 5:6
And of course there's so many scriptures on it it's so important as all of His Word is.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:8-10
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Galatians 5:13
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.
Ephesians 4:15
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Ephesians 5:2
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2 Corinthians 2:4
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1 Peter 1:22
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Colossians 2:2
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
1 Thessalonians 3:12
So may we sisters!
Just catching up on whatever pictures I have from the last week or so since I posted the last one or it's probably been longer than that now!
Been able to get some more seeds into the ground. Beans and more pumpkins and zucchini as well as some potatoes.
It's amazing the whole concept of planting seeds and then tending the plants until the harvest and then the whole cycle repeats if you allow some to set seed for next season!
And quite a bit of watering to be done...
Water is so refreshing especially on a hot day!
But there was some rain which watered things for a day or two!
Such a blessing it is!
So nice to see green flourishing plants in places that are watered when it's dry and dead around here. Green is a refreshing colour to the eye I think. Just a picture of life!
I was pruning the apricot tree and it looked so nice looking up at the blue sky and green leaves and sunshine
A beautiful sight of sun-ripening peaches...
The air smells so good and peachy too!
There's a lot of hungry creatures around too to try to keep off...
More food blessings...
And there's always cooking to be done and thankful for daily bread the Lord provides and a variety of things to cook with.
We are to be content with food and raiment and surely we have so many more blessings than that!
Thankful to finally have a good amount of shirts in stock on my store!
And hope to keep on top of making them as they sell as they have been going out relatively well though of course biblical clothing is not popular in this lascivious prideful age.
I'm sure you sisters know what this little tool is...
I'm sure you've had to use it too! In trying to learn new things, there's always trial and error. As you can perhaps see, things didn't line up in my next project. I shared how I was doing button front skirts. Well I figured it would be best just to have buttons up the top so I'm learning how to do a button placket. No I haven't done them before. Well not partial ones anyway which are a different matter to ones that are the whole way down. And that's one good use of the internet to learn new things as I don't use any patterns for my skirts. But you just keep trying and it's why I make trial skirts in my size! I did end up with this previous button up skirt I made due to one very small detail which disqualified it for selling. There's so much that can go wrong...even right at the end as it did here. The button hole was too big for the waistband so there's not enough fabric left at the top for me to feel comfortable selling it as it could tear over time. Otherwise it was a perfect skirt. Just a little disappointing but it's all good and you learn to not do so large a button hole there next time!
And that's how it is in life in general right sisters. We all face situations we never have before and some are hard to know what to do in and how to react! And to be honest often it's best to say and do nothing I think if we are unsure but the Lord can help us if we stop and think and pray if we can. All depends on the situation but the Lord is good to help us learn and grow. Obviously we are human and don't always make the perfect decision every single time. No one does. But we just do our best and keep going and over time as we face more of the same and similar situations we faced before, we mature and know how to handle them better!
God is so merciful to us to help us grow and not just condemn us when we fail! Let us go towards Him! And also be merciful to our fellow humans, especially the saints as they also learn and grow as well. Love covers a multitude of sin. That's what God's Word says and I'm standing on it. We don't want to go repeating or laughing about others mistakes but be merciful and gracious knowing we all make mistakes even though we don't want to and we don't just say it's OK, no. It's never OK to sin. Sin leads to death but we have growth to do and purging out the old as we cultivate the new. And there's so many daily life situations that we must discern and make the best decisions based on the Word and putting it all together. The Lord help us.
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Hebrews 5:14
It's the last few hours of the year here. While we don't do the partying like the world does and all that foolishness it does cause reflection on time. (Even out in the country I can hear the heavy metal beat from someone's party down the road.) The closing of another year seems to me to have quite a bit of gravity to it as we consider all that was in the year past and what may be to come which we know not and it is like a blank slate to us at least. God knows. We must trust in Him each of the 365 days ahead and beyond of course. But we really don't even know if we will get another year, let alone another day. I hope and pray we all strive on faithfully ahead in whatever comes no matter how hard it is. We must be faithful unto the end, unto death, to be saved.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Psalm 90:8-17
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
1 Peter 1:17-21
So may we press on and Lord willing I can continue to daily edify you with the Word here and daily life as I strive to be a godly woman as the Lord grows me. I need all the reminders and exhorting myself that I share here too! Let us all redeem the time as the days are certainly evil. I cannot stress enough how much we need to cling to the Word in this changing darkening world. The Lord is our only hope and light. Let us abide in Him in truth and leave not His ways as even the righteous will scarcely be saved. We do not want to come short of the mark but press on diligently to be saved in the end. Hold fast my sisters! Love to you in His name. May He be magnified!
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