Are you exhorting daily?
Time for midnight blogging! I've got a tasty snack to chaw on while I post--ciabatta roll with salsa cream cheese dip and a slice of cheese. Love it! (Those items were bought at Costco).
I washed all my filthy quilt squares in Oxyclean in the washing machine. I think it helped. We'll see for sure when they're dry.
Anyone watch King of the Hill? A hilarious animated show set in Texas? Love that show. One of the characters recently said, "I'm so depressed I can't blink." Thought that was pretty funny, and yet not so funny, cuz that's really the way I feel sometimes, including today. But I was majorly cheered up this evening, unexpectedly. On break at work, I was looking at a newspaper, and the front page had an article about a young, local, onfire pastor. The front page!!! He's "hip," and preaches to a young crowd. He tells it like it is--tells them stuff they really need to hear about sin and morality and the evils of abortion. And they are listening!! He's an onfire guy for God, and the positive ripple effect of it has reached me, and he doesn't even know me, nor has he talked to me personally! Our pastor is just like that, too. This got me to thinking about how the Bible says we should exhort one another daily so we don't get hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. It also got me thinking about how in the last days, the increase of wickedness will cause the love of most to grow cold. It seems that righteousness--seeing it, hearing about it, doing it, is one antidote to the cooling effects of iniquity. So if this is the case, then tomorrow, if nobody comes up to exhort me, maybe I should seek it out? Instead of soaking up the negativity around me with no TRUTH AND LIFE to offset? Be exhorted, all ye that love God, God notices those who sigh and cry against wickedness! Right?!
Peace out
6 comments:
It is nice to run into people like that. Or have times that recharge your "spiritual" battery, etc, etc.
We are sponges and I found some of us Christians must make a conscious effort to squeeze out the junk we are innundated with.
As for King of the Hill, I saw one where Bobby was depressed[about a girl who was a vegetarian I think], so he went to a restuarant and ate the hugest steak ever. The thing was, if you could finish it, you got it free. So he finished it, then promptly got sick :) and then was all better, lol.
So if you get too depressed, maybe you should eat scorched chicken :)
THANKYOU! I was recently encouraged by someone and I think it was a combination of just them being themself but also being filled with the Holy Spirit. They were talking about a situation that seems hairy/dicey/sketchy/discouraging whatever from my point of view but to hear them, it was really "all joy"...and it was nice to have someone just be POSITIVE for a change...and realize that we have a BIG GOD.
Thanks for the great post. We have just recently found a church that has a pastor who is really on fire for God and it is and inspiration to me as well.
Your right as well, we NEED to find the positive things to situations, and not always the negatives.
By the way, your posts make me hungry most of the time!
Take care.
Derrick, yes, I'm sure scorched chicken has antidepressant qualities the pharmaceutical companies can't wait to get their hands on! :)
Claire, being one's self and filled with the Holy Spirit sounds like my cup of tea! (Actually, I've really been praying for this). :)
Tanya, good to hear from you again, and I aim to foster love of good food--not trying to get anyone to binge or anything! :)
hi!
I LOVE KOTH! (King Of the Hill)
Hey...
that was really good! It is so true--what you
said about growing cold...I'm glad you wrote
about it.
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