Devotion Talk 4/3/08

Yesterday was my birthday. Got caught up.

Tonight I read John 17.

“4 ‘I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.’ “

THIS is a direct order from God to glorify him in all our works. We sometimes find it hard to do this because of all of Satan’s temptations. We need to fight lust, envy, pride, and just plain sin in all aspects of our life. We need to glorify God, because he was the one who gave us life. I don’t know f you have ever really thought deep about why God wanted to create us and a universe for us. He could have had a perfect realm to do what he pleased. But, he created us because he wanted someone to be in this universe with him to bring glory to his name. Our God is a jealous God. He wants the praise from us. While we show this praise, we are meant to help others to join the praise, because God is GOOD.

The rest of the chapter shows how much God loves and cares for us. Jesus prayed for us that we would remain in him and to be strong because the world will hate us for what we set out to do.

” 20 ‘My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.’ “

Devotion Talk 4/1/08

Tonight I read John 16.

The beginning seems to be a continuation of the last couple of verses of John 15. Jesus continues to tell us how we will be despised in this world by all followers of Satan. Again, we need to remain strong for God and what we believe in.

And after Jesus told this much all to his disciples, he rose into heaven as he told them how he would be back soon. Just because he left doesn’t give us the right to stop our good works and the spreading of the good news. HE is still working for us up there. We need to keep working for him to show him our love. He has showed his immeasurable love in so many ways. We cannot show how much we love him for his sacrifice, but we can attempt to make up for some of it.

The last verses (17-33) describe how Jesus will return. Praise the Lord, Jesus will return to take us home. This is good news. We are saved and soon, we will be taken home by our Lord and Savior. Can’t you wait. I can’t! I want to see Jesus in his glory! I want to know what he looks like. I want to see the scars in his hands and feet. HE BLED AND DIED FOR ME! I want to see his hands and feet. I don’t care if I don’t get to go to college before he takes me. Going to heaven is the thing I look forward to most. That is no April Fool.

April Fools Day: The Atheist Holiday

“Hooray For That Judge In Florida, an atheist became incensed over thepreparation for Easter and Passover holidays and decided to contact thelocal ACLU about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the constantcelebrations afforded to Christians and Jews with all their holidayswhile the atheists had no holiday to celebrate.The ACLU jumped on the opportunity to once again pick up the cause of thegodless and assigned their sharpest attorneys to the case.

The case was brought before a wise judge who after listening to the long,passionate presentation of the ACLU lawyers, promptly banged his gaveland declared, “Case dismissed!”

The lead ACLU lawyer immediately stood and objected to the ruling andsaid, “Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? Surely the Christians have Christmas, Easter and many other observances. And theJews–why in addition to Passover they have Yom Kippur and Hanukkah…and yet my client and all other atheists have no such holiday!”

The judge leaned forward in his chair and simply said “Obviously yourclient is too confused to know about or for that matter even celebrate the atheists’ holiday!”

The ACLU lawyer pompously said “We are aware of no such holiday for atheists, just when might that be, your honor?”

The judge said, “Well it comes every year on exactly the same date—April 1st!”

“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ ” – Psalm 14:1, Psalm 53:1

HOORAY FOR THAT JUDGE”

-Quoted from many chain mails. True or not? You decide. I believe it (The Court Case and the fact that April Fools Day is for atheists).