Gods Gift To This World

In one store we recently bought an air conditioning charging kit, a nice new cooler, yogurt, cat litter, milk, fresh fruit, antifreeze, and much more. I could have bought so much more.

More needs than wants, this time.

One store so many items.

If we are not careful we tend to treat God like those stores.

We have our list of wants and we place our order. However, we want to “check out” without paying any price.

Scripture clearly states that following Christ will cost you “something”.

What is it costing you?

What are you sacrificing? An hour on Sundays? Maybe an hour and a half. Is God asking more of you? Let me rephrase that. God is asking more of you.

Love,

Duane

Yesterday, I stopped to talk with an 89 year old lady who WORKS right down the road from where I work. She serves as a crossing guard in the community that I work. I didn’t have the time, but I like to talk to those who have been there.

I said “Hi Granny” (It is what she wants to be called.) Her reply; “One more day!”. (The next day was the last day of school.)

Jesus said. Matthew 6:25-34 Don’t worry about tomorrow, it will worry about itself.

If you are going through something, hear this. Stop asking yourself, ‘How can I live the rest of my life like this’.

Pray.

“This isn’t about tomorrow, God, I trust you to help me get though this today. I am following your S0n’s words and will let tomorrow worry about tomorrow.”

Love,

Duane

I spent hours in cemeteries this past weekend visiting burial sites.

Most of the sites were family members. Some I knew well and some I knew little. I visited once with my mother and once with my father.

With each grave site, there were stories and tears. I learned how my grandparents met. I learned that my grandpa was under the command of Patton.

I was reminded about those who sacrificed for me as a young boy. They went without so I could go with. Sacrifice. My son went with me and I told him about the sacrifice that my aunt and uncle had done for me and my mom said they are the reasons why we are Christians.

Thanks Aunt Betty and Uncle Rufus. Thanks for impressing upon me, the love you had for God.

Deuteronomy 6:7

Love,

Duane

I went for a back roads drive the other day. I passed a cemetery and thought, ‘this body is headed there’. Should God wait to send his Son back and I exit this body; it will lay in one of these nicely kept yards.

I will no longer be able to help anyone find The Way to God. Wow. That reality is too much for me to ingest.

As we enter our eternity I also have this rather odd thought.

Will there be more people I know in Heaven because of my willingness to do God’s work, or inspite of my lack of willingness to do God’s work.

I shorten it to this, ‘Will there be more people in Heaven because of me or in spite of me’?

The Way to God to Jesus!

Get in The Way.

Love,

Duane

I like the Discovery channel! However, I often get irritated with some of their statements.

I recently heard this, “Fish have adapted to live their entire life underwater”.

Well done fish. <—-Sarcasm.

Fish are smart enough to do adapt to breathe underwater, yet they continue to try to eat plastic frogs with grass skirt legs! “Hey, there is a frog on the way to a luau! Get him!”

I think if they were that intelligent, they would swim back to the others, ‘Don’t eat the Hawaiian frogs! Pass it on!’

Genesis 1:20

²⁰ And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, (and let them figure out how to breathe under it!?) and let birds fly above the earth (if they can adapt to fly!?) across the expanse of the sky.”

Sounds stupid, huh? Pass it on.

Love

Duane