Showing posts with label Glorify God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glorify God. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 August 2014

What are you thinking?

Christian philosopher Soren Kierkegaard reminds us that whatever consumes our thoughts will influence our lives. 

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."

Solomon also realised this many years before Kierkegaard, "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he..." (Proverbs 23:7, KJV)
What has been dominating your thoughts of late? Is there a chance that we have allowed our thoughts to be hijacked by something unhelpful or ungodly? Meditating on God's Word is a great start in allowing our minds to be influenced by things that are pure, right and just. 

Why don't you take a few moments to read and pray over these words from Psalm 91:

 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
    will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
    my God, in whom I trust.”

Surely he will save you
    from the fowler’s snare
    and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers,
    and under his wings you will find refuge;
    his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
You will not fear the terror of night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
    nor the plague that destroys at midday.
A thousand may fall at your side,
    ten thousand at your right hand,
    but it will not come near you.
You will only observe with your eyes
    and see the punishment of the wicked.

If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
    and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
    no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
    to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
    you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
    I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble,
    I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
    and show him my salvation.”

Living in Grace
D3LM3 

Monday, 22 July 2013

Am I rich towards God?

Reading from Luke 12:21 this morning I got stuck at the last part of the verse...

"This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich towards God."

How can I be rich towards God? What does this mean?
Well, in a way, I guess it means giving my best to God. Am I generous in what I give to God (this would include every aspect of my life), or does God have to settle for the scraps? It's a tough thing to comprehend.

So, here is the million dollar question - "What does it mean for you to be rich towards God?"


Living in Grace,
D3LM3

Monday, 28 March 2011

Godly people


There is a famous quote from Marcus Aurelius:

"Waste no time arguing what a good person should be. Be one."

Often we spend lots of time arguing what a 'godly' person should look like, but we forget that the Lord has called us to be Christ-like. So, here is a challenge for the week...

Seek to be Christ-like before you start arguing why others aren't godly enough.
Just a thought.

Living in Grace,
D3LM3

Monday, 7 March 2011

Above all else

Thomas a Kempis was an inspired man. In one of his writings he wrote these words:

"Above all else, and in everything,
my soul must rest in God.
Let me, O Living Jesus, rest in you,
above every created thing,
above health and beauty,
above glory and honour,
above power and dignity,
above wisdom and cunning,
above riches and arts,
above joy and gladness,
above fame and praise,
above pleasure and comfort,
above hope and promise,
above things earned and things desired,
above gifts and favours,
above mirth and merrymaking."


May we trust in Jesus today, above all else.

Living in Grace,
D3LM3

Friday, 25 February 2011

Sunflowers


Driving up to the Midlands to conduct a wedding rehearsal I noticed the hundreds of sunflowers next to the highway. It makes a welcome change from tar and concert! It is impressive to see how these beautiful flowers blossom in an unlikely place. Here are my random thoughts on what sunflowers can teach us about life.

They flower wherever they find themselves.
They are hardy and resilient.
They turn their heads towards the sun.
They make the world a beautiful place.


Perhaps God has called us to be 'sunflowers' today.

1 Peter 2:12 - Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God...

Living in Grace,
D3LM3