Do you have a #purpose? Do you have #intentions to do something or do you just go with the flow? As a child, I always had plans for the weekend to skate, swim, tennis, play softball, go to the library, ride horses, Saturday matinee movie, over-nights with girlfriends, and then Sunday School and Church on Sunday. Those were some of my favorite ways to spend my time which required making plans and scheduling with my parents permission. I could only do one or two things on my list weekly, but over time I enjoyed it all. As I matured, I realized I needed God’s guidance through His Word to make purposeful productive choices in my life. Today, as I read from the Holy Bible, I see how God has always had intentions for our good and purposed to love us by redeeming through His Son, Jesus and comforting by the Holy Spirit. Isaiah 14 tells us that the Lord’s purpose is still unfolding as His intentions are told, “The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I HAVE PURPOSED, SO SHALL IT STAND; …The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. ..How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!…LORD will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke be removed and his burden depart from off their shoulders. This is the PURPOSE that is PURPOSED UPON THE WHOLE EARTH: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For the LORD OF HOSTS HAS PURPOSED IT.” Jesus said in Luke 9:56,59 “For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them”.. . … “FOLLOW ME”
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I have been privileged to have my college-aged grandson with me this week painting my deck! We have enjoyed eating and eating and sharing. Last weekend, I had my children, grandchildren, great grand, and sons-in-laws around farm tables dining together. This reminded me of the account of Jesus dining with Peter and the other disciples on fresh caught fish cooked on an open fire while enjoying the fellowship and wisdom of our Savior. “As soon as they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread….Jesus said to them, ‘COME AND DINE.‘ None of the disciples dared ask him, Who are you? knowing that it was the Lord. Jesus comes and takes bread and gives them and fish also. This is now the third time that Jesus showed Himself to his disciples, after He was risen from the dead. So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, …lovest thou me? … Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time Lovest thou me? Peter said, Lord, knows all things; thou know that I love thee. Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my sheep‘ ‘Truly, I say to you, when you were younger you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished: but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go’ This He said, signifying by what death he should glorify God, and when He had spoken this He said to him, ‘FOLLOW ME!” John 21:9-19