Musings and Nuggets

God is a Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:24 NKJV         Photo by meriç tuna on Unsplash If you’ve ever seen a field of sunflowers, you know that they are spectacularly beautiful and you almost have to smile.  There are so many wonderful lessons that we can learn from nature including sunflowers' response to the sun. They aren’t just pretty “faces”.  They provide food (seeds that we can eat) and when the seeds are pressed, they provide oil used for cooking, as well as, medicine. According to the Google search engine (FindAnyAnswer), they are considered to be a spiritual flower symbolizing faith, adoration, loyalty, and longevity.  Some also see them as representative of happiness. They all uniformly turn their “faces” toward the sun (thus their name) and track it’s movement.  In my mind, it was also the sunflowers'  way of honoring our Creator by worshipping Him, as they receive the gifts that the sun's ray impart.   What le

😞. Revelation 12:10 NLT “...For the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down to earth--the one who accuses them before our God day and night .   Do you look at your life, and feel like God could never use you to His glory because of what you have done in your past😒, mistakes that you have made,  and your inability to forgive yourself (even though God already has)? When you are praying, trying to focus on or develop times of intimacy with the Lord, do the memories of your past indiscretions flood your thoughts?  The enemy will remind you of those things in a way that imitates your own voice and thoughts so that you accept them.  Remember that the enemy of your soul, satan,  is the accuser of the saints/the brethren, and He “prowls around like a roaring lion🦁, looking for someone to devour.”  (1 Peter 5:8).  His goal after being kicked out of heaven has always been “to steal, kill, and destroy” because he already knows the end of his story.   If we look at the peop

       Gal. 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.                         II Corinthians 9:6  Remember this:  Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Every seed is programmed by God with the means to procreate or reproduce itself.  In the natural sense, this is true for every seed in every living thing from man to all things in the plant kingdom. Ecclesiastes teaches us that to everything there is a season and that is certainly true.  Genesis 8:22 calls it “seedtime and harvest”. When it comes to mankind (especially within the Kingdom of God) what we reap depends on what we do, how we live, the choices we make, how we treat others, and the motivations of our hearts; in essence, the quality of “seeds” we plant.   Anyone, whether a farmer, a horticulturist, or one w

  Key Scripture:  Isaiah 55: 8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. A couple of weeks ago, we looked at how seemingly unbelievable it was (in our minds) that God would choose someone with the reputation of Saul to have such a huge impact on Christianity.  Yet, our sovereign God in His infinite wisdom always knows what He is doing. (1 Corinthians 1:20)  Sometimes we look at other’s lives and find it inconceivable that God could or would use that person in His plan, forgetting that God’s ways and perspectives are so much higher and deeper than ours (1 Corinthians 1:25a).  In our minds, we limit Him with our finite minds to what He in His infinite wisdom and power can do.  I would hazard a guess that each one of us at one time or another has unfairly drawn baseless conclusions, passed judgements, or  formed opinions about someone else's worth or potential to the Kingdom. Sometimes it’s based on our knowledge (or things that we have “heard”)