Thoughts on Christ and His Word

A lot of people hate tattoos.  Many others sport them with great enthusiasm. Many people get a tattoo to honor their girlfriends or mother or other significant people in their lives.  Some have had to erase ex-girlfriends names from their arms or backs (ouch, I think that must hurt). I don't know if what God is describing is a tattoo, but look at what he says through Isaiah: "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?   Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands... Isaiah 49:15-16 Is an engraving in the hand a tattoo? I'll let you decide. But here's the greater point - God will never forget about you.  No matter how low in life you are, how terrible you feel, how beaten up Satan has you, God says " I will not forget you!" Next time you feel lonely, unloved, forgotten, or despised, REMEMBER that God has your name  engraved on the palm of

Country Singer Brad Paisley wrote a song called “Waiting on a Woman”.  In it an old man tells his story how since 1952 he’s been waiting on his wife who makes him late everywhere – but he’s learned not to mind, because she is worth the wait. Well I still haven’t learned to patiently wait on my wife, but one thing I know, God wants us to learn to wait on Him: 15  This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:  “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it…  18  Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! Isaiah 30:15-18 To wait on God is to trust Him in every situation of my life.  Singles want to get married yesterday; Businessmen want to get promoted “right now”; sick people want to be healed “today”; and those in economic crisis want to win the lotto just this once. But God wants

Leadership is a choice you make, not a place you sit.  Anyone can choose to become a leader wherever he is.  You can make a difference no matter where you are.  –John Maxwell Israel had many political leaders who were not biblical leaders: Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, 2 to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. Isaiah 10:1-2 We have too many who sit in positions of leadership, in business, in political offices, and even in the church who are not biblical leaders.  Instead of having a “Serving” mentality they have a “Serve-us” mentality.  They rule only to serve themselves at the expense of the people they are supposed to lead.