Greetings sister saints!
A new day and a new month is here...and time keeps moving behind us, and whatever time we have on this earth is less and less. Good to stop and ponder sometimes.
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 39:4-5
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
James 4:14-15
We are nothing really aren't we and our time is so short. May we sister saints who have been born of God and washed in Christ's blood, redeem the time in that which is good and profitable and necessary and edifying and godly.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.Psalm 90:12
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5:15-17
The seasons in His creations are changing too. It's even starting to get light here in the mornings before 5am so the days are surely getting longer here. Surely the Lord has appointed the sun and moon for times and seasons.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14-18
Just some pretty and peaceful creations in the evening light here.
Just what I took while getting in and hanging out laundry (did a LOT of that today!). It was so quiet and peaceful with birds and crickets singing. Country blessings...and yet there's the busy noisy world out there still with man getting up to all kinds of things and much that he shouldn't. But God's creations are good.
Jesus told us to consider His creation didn't He...
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?Luke 12:24
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.Luke 12:27
We can indeed learn things from His creatures!
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.Proverbs 6:6-8
This is an interesting scripture to ponder too...
And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Luke 4:24-27
There are many interesting accounts in His Word, including in the Old Testament which are often mentioned in the New too.
Pondering this scripture too and what faith actually is!
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11:1
We see a lot of evidence for God don't we! His Word also tells us that creation speaks as a witness to Him.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Psalm 19:1-4
There is no chance this wonderful and huge and detailed and interconnected and orderly creation made itself!
We have His written Word also and the fact that He came to earth as a human too!
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.1 Timothy 3:16
People have a tendency to want to worship something they can see I think so they make physical idols or even if it's what they own or do and highly esteem or even themselves I guess. But we walk by faith in that which is unseen but we have the great evidence of a very great God!
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.Hebrews 11:6
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
2 Corinthians 5:6-9
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Colossians 3:1-4
That's a good encouraging scripture! Indeed Christ is our life and outside of Him and His Spirit we are dead.
We are looking for His appearing aren't we sisters.
That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
1 Timothy 6:14-16
Let us keep preparing for the coming of our great King!
It's been such a busy day cleaning up here! But thankful for rest soon and a quieter day tomorrow Lord willing. Keep pressing on sisters in the faith and also in these physical bodies which can grow weary and worn and such like! Our Lord never grows weary! Let us look to Him! Hold fast sisters! Our Lord be magnified!
Much love in Christ,
Sister Chayil
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