HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY December 4–10, 2023

Decem­ber 4, 2023
#802 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Octo­ber, 2023 “I wan­na tell you peo­ple it’s a nat­ur­al fact/ Every man don’t under­stand the Bible alike/ And that’s all, I’ll tell you that’s all/ But you bet­ter have Jesus, I’ll tell you that’s all.” –Denom­i­na­tion Blues by Ry Cooder
There is no spir­i­tu­al bless­ing in the uni­verse that match­es the knowl­edge that you are in the pres­ence of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Decem­ber 5, 2023
Golf Tues­day, late tee time…
#803 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Novem­ber, 2023 We had our first annu­al (I hope) Plan­ta­tion Senior Men’s end-of-year par­ty. It was awe­some. Hus­bands and wives! There were 50 peo­ple there. Con­ver­sa­tions going on every­where. I felt like I was in high school, except we are old. It start­ed out a lit­tle junior high–men on the porch, ladies inside–but that soon dis­solved. We golfers got to see each oth­er from a wider per­spec­tive. Friend­ships were strength­ened. I felt like God had His hand behind the whole event.

Decem­ber 6, 2023
#804 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Novem­ber, 2023 “For those who live a spir­i­tu­al life, wealth is not only unnec­es­sary but uncom­fort­able. It stops the devel­op­ment of one’s real life.” –Leo Tolstoy
I can­not believe there was a time when I used to pray to win the lot­tery. As if I per­ceived the need (more mon­ey) and God pro­vid­ed the solu­tion (win the lot­tery!). God per­ceives my needs. He knows far bet­ter how to cure my ills than I do. Thy will be done, Lord Jesus.

Decem­ber 7, 2023
#805 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August, 2023 “God nev­er clos­es a door with­out open­ing a win­dow.” Chris­t­ian apho­rism. I remem­ber it some­times annoyed me. If I did­n’t get the job I real­ly want­ed, or my book did­n’t get pub­lished. Tough medicine–can’t get my mind off the closed door. The win­dows He opened were not as easy to dis­cern, and the closed door sound had such a final­i­ty to it. And now after 74 years of life…“O give thanks to the Lord for He is good; His mer­cies are ever­last­ing.” (Psalm 136:1)

Decem­ber 8, 2023
#806 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Novem­ber, 2023 Yeah, this is how my blog is some­times received…on the oth­er hand, God can use a beige wall.

Decem­ber 9, 2023
#807 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August, 2023 Long ago a high school boy said to me, “I don’t like to read, Mr. M. When I read I have to think.” I don’t want to con­demn the remark–I want to rec­og­nize the truth. We all need oppor­tu­ni­ties to turn off our minds…down times. (Fun­ny thing, for me read­ing is a down time). The scary thing is when we allow our down times (tele­vi­sion, sleep­ing, favorite sites on inter­net) to become our pri­ma­ry means of killing time. If I am killing time, I am invit­ing death.

Decem­ber 10, 2023
Always fun to post on Fam­i­ly Sunday…
#808 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Decem­ber, 2023 A Swift-ie? I just had the plea­sure of being intro­duced to the fab­u­lous­ness of Tay­lor Swift by my grand­daugh­ters. They com­mu­ni­cat­ed this by sev­er­al Karaoke-ish per­for­mances, insights into Tay­lor’s roman­tic mis­ad­ven­tures, and an empha­sis on the real­ly cool words. I was left with a list of eight songs I have to lis­ten care­ful­ly to. My response to this? I will go through any door that God opens to draw me near­er to my grand­daugh­ters. And I like Taylor.

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