Today is Tuesday, August 14th, 2012; Karen's Korner #2382

A dose of a couple of Max Lucado thoughts for the day:
 
An Assuring Presence

Why anyone would pester Hannah Lake is beyond me.  If her sweet face doesn;t de-starch your shirt, her cherubic voice will.  But a grade school bully tried to stir some trouble.  Intimidation.  Pressure.  But Hannah didn't fold.  In the end, it was her faith that pulled her through!

The older student warned Hannah, Any day now I'm coming after you. Hannah didn't flinch or cry.  She simply informed the perpetrator about the facts: Do whatever you need to do, she explained.  Just know this:  God is on my side.Last word has it that no more threats have been made!

Elementary school bullies don't await you.  But job transfers and fair-weather friends do.  Challenges pockmark the pathway of your life.  Where do you find energy to face them?

God never promises the absence of distress.  But he does promise the assuring presence of his Holy Spirit.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.  2 Corinthians 12:9

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God is the Great Giver

Accumulation of wealth is a popular defense against fear.  Since we fear losing our jobs, health care, or retirement benefits, we amass possessions, thinking the more we have, the safer we are!

If there were no God, stuff-trusting would be the only appropriate response to an uncertain future.  But there is a God.  And this God does not want his children to trust money. He responded to the folly of the rich man with the words,  Do not worry about your life. Do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind.

God is the great giver who ggives us richly all things to enjoy. He is the great provider.  The fount of every blessing.  Absolutely generous and utterly dependable.

The resounding message of Scripture is clear.  God owns it all.  God shares it all.

 

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