“Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart. My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.”
Psalm 119:111, 112 (NIV)
may this be true in me, o Lord…
Archives For November 30, 1999
I splurged and had dinner at Max Brenner, Chocolate by the Bald Man last night…
Result: Happy Tummy.
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Dinner: Mini Philly Sliders
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Dessert: Chocolate Chunks Pizza – “THE WORKS” (half order, of course!)
Definitly have to take Karen there next time we are in Vegas!
“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof”
Inscription on the Liberty Bell, from Leviticus 25:10
It’s what all the cool kids are wearin’
“…designed to be worn discreetly around your neck and pulled up over your nose and mouth when you need added protection from germs or are sick and want to keep your germs away from others.”
Whenever I prune our roses, lessons abound. It’s a given.
Yesterday, I was working in the backyard on a gangly bush and saw the limb shown above. I thought, “If I grab it just right, I won’t get stuck.”
Guess what – I wasn’t ninja enough…
It hit me: temptation, or the attraction of sin can be exactly the same. We see/think/do something obviously wrong, and think, “It’s OK, I’m a ‘ninja’ – I won’t get stuck/caught/discovered/etc. No one will ever see/hear/spot me.”
The truth is, we’re wrong. We all get stuck, caught, discovered, seen, heard, spotted, etc.
We may be able to fool some in our sinful, game of thorns (like my creative reference to the book & HBO series); but rest assured, God knows – which is key since He’s the One we most offend by our blatant, would-be ninja sins.
Thank God for His amazing and wonderful forgiveness and grace!
For there is no distinction: all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.
Romans 3:22-25 (ESV)
Read this passage this morning and immediately thought about seeing the sunrise at Haleakalā.
Between Karen an I, we snapped some pretty cool photos. This one has a filter applied though…it made it more dramatic.
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