A Resolution For Every Day

What is a truly sober mind? What is right thinking?
Not fretting over, not caring what others may think about you,
but caring about what God thinks concerning you.

What are the right actions that we should take each day in 2016?
Not actions to please others around us, but actions that honor the Lord God. "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delighteth in his way". God made us in His image, in order to reflect His goodness and glory.
Wow! These are impossible marching orders were it not for Christ Jesus, the crucified and risen Savior. He can save to the uttermost those who call upon His Name. Remember Onesimus, the "useless". now and forever known as the useful. An amazing transformation that all true Christians can relate to, and embrace as their own experience.
May our greatest joy in 2016 be this: to please and honor Him Who laid down His life for us, yea, Who was raised to life for us, and even now talks to the Father on our behalf. Hey, now, that is a powerful "joymaker" thought...Jesus talking with God the Father on your behalf!
Halelujah, what a Savior! Hallelujah, what a future that no one can steal from those who are Christ's property and possession!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE!

Bitteness and then Sweetness!

Great pastor and author Thomas Watson wrote "Until we taste the bitterness of our sin, we cannot taste the sweetness of God's grace."

How true this statement is. Truth that is not regarded as necessary, is truly disregarded. But when we taste the foulness of our thoughts, words, behavior, and actions, in light of what God says, and we taste our own sin as foul, then the amazing message of the gospel, the death of Christ to atone for our sin, becomes very sweet! Then we can begin to understand the many different hymns and verses "Amazing love, how can it be, that Thou my God, shoulds't die for me" and of course "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me..."

Go and meet with God today, ask Him to make known to you your own sin, and the bitterness of it, and then ask Him to make known to you the sweetness of His death defying love. Then worship God for His amazing love and grace made known to you.