My sister sent me this picture that she took when she was eating lunch with some coworkers at a local restaurant. Her quote was perfect…”When your AC goes out in your vehicle…just install a window unit!”
“When the south wind blows, you say, ‘Today will be a scorcher.’ And it is.” Luke 12:55 (NLT)
I thought this was humorous and fitting since we talked about people offending you earlier this week! So true…Why do people say “No offense” just before they’re about to offend you?
“For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.” James 3:2 (KJV)
I couldn’t decide if this was just cute or funny or both. Either way, raccoon peek-a-boo isn’t something you just see everyday!
“Go into the rocks, hide in the ground from the fearful presence of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty!” Isaiah 2:10 (NIV)
Hmmm…I’m not sure the doors are so useful here??? I guess at least they won’t see your face!
“Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.” Psalm 24:7 (ESV)
You gotta give it to this chicken. At least he died fighting! 🙂
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7 (NIV)
I don’t think most of my college students would even get this! If this doesn’t make sense to you click here to understand about Toto and the rains down in Africa. Happy Friday! 🙂
“Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years!” James 5:17 (NLT)
Previously, when I attended a Weight Watchers meeting we talked about ways to love yourself (and NOT the Justin Bieber kind of “Love Yourself”!). We did a fun name acronym activity. We were supposed to come up with a positive attribute or descriptive word for each letter of our first name. It was funny how so many people had such a hard time with that. They had a hard time either coming up with words that were positive to describe themselves, or they didn’t want to say them out loud because they felt like they were being arrogant or bragging. Our leader was trying to encourage them that this is the right time to brag and that it was actually helpful to love yourself.
I wanted to yell out, “Don’t you know that God thinks that of you and sees you that way?!” Then I realized that I wasn’t reading mine out loud either. Oops. It can be hard to love yourself sometimes and then especially to show that you love yourself out loud! We’ve been trained not to speak highly of ourselves because we may come across as cocky and arrogant. However, I think there are two ditches. On the one side is the ditch where we ARE arrogant and speak and think too highly of ourselves. This is obviously wrong.
“For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.” Romans 12:3 (NIV)
I like how the NLT translation of the verse reads though because it says “…Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us”. It doesn’t say we can’t say or think good things about ourselves. It just says we just need to give an honest evaluation by God’s measurement. We need to see, think, and speak about ourselves based on how God sees us. And guess what? He does think we’re pretty great. Therefore, we need to see ourselves as pretty great too!
The other ditch is Continue reading
I think this one’s been floating around the internet for a while, but it’s still worth sharing.
“Listen to the village musicians gathered at the watering holes…” Judges 5:11a (NLT)
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