Winter's Over, Spring is Here!

It's a pity to live in unhappiness, when just around the corner, your life can be thrilling and filling and wonderful beyond all expectations.

Beyond the blue horizon,

waits a beautiful day!

Goodbye to things that bore me,

Joy is wating for me!

Beyond the blue horizon,

Waits a rising sun!"

For all of you who've found the Lord, that certainly is true--He came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly. (John10:10) Not just 'pie in the sky' and 'heaven hereafter', but an hundredfold in this life, and in the world to come life eternal. (Mat. 10:30)

It's like the end of a cold, hard Winter and the beginning of a beautiful new Spring, like awakening of the Spirit of Life. We can have a Heaven on Earth in our hearts, in the peaceful sunny beauty of God's bright Spring sunshine.

Psa. 89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance.

PSA.144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.

ISA.12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of Salvation.

Isa. 55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

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Spiritual Disciplines--Reading God's Word

Setting aside time daily to read the Bible provides the opportunity to connect with God each day. It opens us up to letting Him speak to us through what we read, to His instruction and guidance, to His help through life’s problems and difficulties. Regular reading of God’s revelation to us reminds us of the moral code which we are meant to fashion our lives around, and provides us with guidance when we are faced with decisions. As we begin to absorb the truth contained within these pages, as we ponder and pray about those truths, and as we apply them to our daily living, we begin to anchor both our inner and outer lives on the foundation of Christlikeness, on godliness, and on the truth of God.

Each day we are flooded with a barrage of input from a wide variety of delivery systems which influences us in one way or another. Taking time daily to read what God has said to us provides a way to navigate through the maelstrom of information and input that we are faced with. It enhances our spiritual ability to discern truth and falsehood. It makes it easier to keep our hearts centered on those things which are important to living lives of true happiness, inner peace, and alignment with God and His will. It helps us to survive and overcome all that life brings our way. As Jesus said:

" Everyone then who hears these words of Mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock."

Abiding in God’s Word brings us in regular contact with His Spirit. "The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life."

Part of having that contact with the Lord, of having that promised peace, is spending time reading His Word. Take the time to commune deeply with God daily through His Word. It will change your life.

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

 Luke 11:28  But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

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