September 26th, 2013

50 years ago today my Papa was born. In 1991 the doctors told him that his second child would be born to him on September 26th. I was that second child but come as his early birthday present on September 23rd. Papa and Mama did not know if they were going to have a girl or a boy and Papa was afraid to have a daughter because he didn't think he had what it would take to raise a girl. I stand here today, 22 years later, and say with all my heart that he has been the best Papa a girl has ever had!

Happy Birthday Papa! Thank you for walking with God! I love you!

What Grace!

"What Grace! From heaven to earth, from glory to shame, from Master to servant, from life to death, even the death of the cross!" 

Warren Wiersbe in his commentary on Philippians 2 

Thought for the Day

"While Jesus is representing me in heaven, may I reflect Him on earth."

- Puritan Prayer 

God will NOT forsake Israel!

"Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah." 

- Psalm 89:33-37

A Day at the Zoo

                Due to Zeke's 6th birthday a trip to the Zoo was in order. It is amazing to see God's handy work. The creatures that are there so clearly testify of a Creator...but still mankind so often refuses to acknowledge it. 

"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:" - Romans 1:20 

A Few Pictures from the day:

The Photographer and her trusty Canon :)  

These Two are NO kin to the monkey! But they are two of God's AMAZING creations! 

"An ant sucker upper" - Zeke 

Single Meaning of Scripture

When God wrote the Bible did He write in understandable language with a specific message? I believe He did! There is single meaning in Scripture not multiple meanings or interpretations that very from culture to culture.

I read this great example and would like to share it with you.

When God communicated to Adam, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Gen. 2:16b-17) Adam apparently understood this statement as God intended it and communicated it to Eve as well. Confusion entered the picture when the serpent suggested to Eve that God's plain statement had another deeper meaning. He said, "Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." (Gen. 3:4b-5).

There is great danger in reading into God's Word things that are not truly written! God did not communicate to man in riddles that he must decode. Rather, He wrote in understandable language exactly what He wanted man to know! We have a good God and He has given us His Word! Let us read it for what it says so that we may know Him and glorify Him!

Quote of the Day

"It shall greatly help ye to understand Scripture if thou mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom, and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what extent, with what circumstances, considering what goeth before and what followeith." - Myles Coverdale