Don't Stop Believing!!!!!!!

This is just too great NOT to share. :-)

True, but OUCH!

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For some reason I haven't been able to embed video into my blogs. There have been several things I wanted to post. Maybe I'll try to post the links; however, it just doesn't seem to be the same.

thoughts from Herman Melville via Elisabeth Elliot

Here's an antidote in the musings of a sailor in Herman Melville's great classic, MOBY DICK:

"What of it if some old hunk of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weigh, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me because I promptly and respectfully obey that old hunk in that particular instance? Who ain't a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content."

Most of us are not exactly under the orders of "some old hunk of a sea-captain," but we are meant to be willing and cheerful servants of anybody who happens to need us. Have I a true servant-heart? I should have. I will not be anything like my Lord Jesus if I haven't, for He came not to be served but to serve. He set for us a radiant example of how practically He meant it. He washed feet. Knowing His own origin and destiny, He did it with grace and He did it with love.

And what is our origin? Our destiny? We, too, "come from God and are going back to God." Is there any job, then, that is really "beneath us?" Any "thump" that we really mind?

"You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love" (Galatians 5:13, NIV).
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Is God 'thumping' me and showing me how to be a servant??? Is this part of the lesson I am supposed to learn in my present circumstances?

From today's devotions...

Someone has said, "The present must forget the past by correction, or else the past will become a moral and spiritual liability for the future."

Consider some items that need to be forgotten: failures--they keep our faith from advancing; successes--they create pride (see Prov. 16:18); losses--they drag us down so we cannot serve the Lord the way we should; grievances--they produce false attitudes (see 1 Cor. 13:6); sorrows--God can heal all heartaches; discouragements--we need to remember Christ, not disappointments, thwarted hopes and plans.

for today

Courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to do the thing we fear.

I feel, in spite of all the promises of God, as helpless as a worm today? There's a special word, too: "Do not fear; I will help you. Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I myself will help you" (Isaiah 41:14, NIV).
(the above is excerpted from Elisabeth Elliot)

I may be exhausted and overwhelmed with all there is to do; however, God is in control. He will give me the strength and power to make it through. And while the prayer I utter is "Please, Lord, Help me!" He hears and knows. He knows what I need and knows all the issues. I can rest in Him and let Him lead.

More thoughts for today...

Never be afraid to try something new.

Remember:
Amateurs...built the ark.
Professionals...built the Titanic

a thought...

Art is never dangerous -- unless it tells the truth.

FOR-PD

I don't like the FOR-PD class I'm being forced to take.

~AND~

my job has been very frustrating. I keep praying for what God would have me do. I can't keep going the way things are.

Lord, please help!!!!!