Sunday, May 18, 2008
Time, strange thing isn’t it. Many people try to control it with all kinds of organizational methods. Corporations spend millions of dollars annually to teach employees time management. The problem is that no one can manage time no matter how hard they try. Time is unmanageable as long as it keeps marching forward… and it does. No one can stop time but it will stop you, and me and every person who exists in this world. It is only a matter of time and time will end for each of us. I know, it sounds hopeless.
But to the contrary, the hope of this life is eternal, timeless life in Jesus Christ. It is the only way to manage time.
-Lyn Sahr
-Eccl 3:11 NIV
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Today I was with my two year old granddaughter and as we went to walk across the street she reached up for my hand and held my little finger. She wanted to walk. I suddenly realized that this was a step of her growing up as I would have normally always carried her. As I was walking I thought about our spiritual walk with God and how we mature from being dependent in our infant faith and the growing to crawl, walk and run with God. Of course, the reassurance of holding God’s hand as we walk by faith is not only reassuring but necessary. As we walked for a bit she decided she wanted me to carry her after all so I picked her up, hugged her and carried her the rest of the way.
I am kind of like that. Sometimes as I am crossing the streets of life I just want God it carry me… and He does!
-Lyn Sahr
-Ps 28:6-9 NIV
Praise be to the LORD,
for he has heard my cry for mercy.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in him, and I am helped.
My heart leaps for joy
and I will give thanks to him in song.
8 The LORD is the strength of his people,
a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.
9 Save your people and bless your inheritance;
be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Thursday, May 8 2008
What happens when people are too busy to pray? Nothing! At least nothing good!!
-Lyn Sahr
-Col 1:10-14 NIV
And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
If God’s not in charge, no one is in charge!
-Lyn Sahr
-Eph 1:22-23 NIV
And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
As I write this I am finishing the day at my office. It has been one of those days. I would like to say that it was a good day but, the railroad track of life had some good and some bad all at the same time. However, three major problems that I had to deal with today were resolved by mid-afternoon. It is amazing how heavy a problem can weigh on a person when you don’t have the answer. Can you imagine what it is like for people who have not made a decision for Christ and have no answer on eternity or even worse the wrong answer. Sometimes we forget the bottom line, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life!”
-Lyn Sahr
Sunday, May 4, 2008
When a little boy grows up, we expect him to become a man. When a little girl grows up we expect her to become a woman. But more, we should expect them to grow up to be a gentleman and a lady! Something has gone terribly wrong with the idea of being kind and decent to other people. We witness it in all areas of society. Yes, we even witness it in our churches by the things being done and said. And I also struggle with Christians, especially women, having a “potty mouth.” It is so unbecoming to the beauty God intended for them.
Kindness is a minimum for a professing Christian.
-Lyn Sahr
-2 Peter 1:3-9 NIV
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
