January 6,2011

Yesterday was school, there were teachers there from other schools and they were interviewing us and then a time when they shared what were the results.  After school I went to Cando and cleaned the church and briefly visited with matt and mavis.  After supper I was tired and went to bed early.

                                                     January  6, 2011


VERSE:
  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
   -- 2 Corinthians 4:18
 

THOUGHT:
  What do you see most clearly today? Is it what is seen or what
is unseen? No matter our belief system, we ultimately have to trust
what we can't see. Even the most atheistic scientists trust
gravity, breathe air, and depend upon principles they cannot see
until these realities produce results in the tangible world of
human perception. But as Christians, we don't believe the seen
world is any more real as the unseen world. In fact, most of the
seen world is subject to death, disease, disaster, decay, disorder,
and death. I don't know about you, but if it isn't any more
permanent than that, it's not going to be very real for any of us
for very long. I want to hang on to something that allows me to
look past the seen and to find my Father who is unseen. He is the
one who guarantees the unseen!

PRAYER:
  Eternal Father and God of all peoples, help me see more clearly
the spiritual, eternal, and real world of the unseen. I am not
seeking novelty, nor am I on some quest for the bizarre. I only
want to know you, your truth, and your character so I may more
appropriately display them to others and help them come find you in
the world of the unseen. Please grant me greater success at
reaching others, to your glory. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

Isaiah 40:29-31

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and flal;

but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.

Colossians 3:10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator

Romans 6:4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Romans 13:14  Rather clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.

2 Corinthians 4:16  Therefore we do not lose heart. though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

Ephesians 4:23  To be made new in the attitude of your minds;