I was going to wash dishes but before I started, I looked up to see a deer right outside the window! I got a picture of her from the kids bedroom. She stayed around for 5 days hiding in the bush and walking around softly. She didn't seem afraid of us at all. 😁
Many years ago, I remember that my husband always saw the hummingbirds come to the feeder early in the morning. I rarely saw them. I wanted to see them! I remember praying about it. One day, a hummingbird built a nest right in front of our window! We watched her for two days! She worked non stop! She smoothed down the softest materials she could find with her little body. She even used spider like web threads. The next day she laid a tiny white egg and another one on the following day! I was so thankful to the Lord! This was so much better than just seeing the hummingbird for a couple minutes!
“Be of good cheer.”
“When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them: and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. (John 2:22)
The believer’s heart is waiting for the Lord from heaven
(1 Thessalonians 1:10).
The believer’s eyes are watching for His appearing (Hebrews 10:25).
The believer’s hands are working, abounding in “every good work”
(2 Corinthians 9:8).
The believer’s feet are walking - in love (Ephesians 5:2).
The believer’s ears are listening. Jesus said, “Hear, and understand” (Matthew 15:10).
The believer’s mouth is glorifying God. “With one mind and one mouth glorify God” (Romans 15:6).
Norman Berry
It has been said, that because our Lord died on Friday at the ninth hour, was buried that day, and rose again from the dead on Sunday, the first day of the week, that, therefore, it is not true to say He was "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth," as our Lord declared that the Son of man would be. (Matt. 12:40.)
But let it be observed, that according to the Jewish mode of calculating time, there is no inaccuracy in this statement. In our day man has changed the scriptural order of almost everything possible, and instead of speaking of an evening and morning being a day, modern Gentiles say that a day consists of a morning and evening, and so calculate accordingly. And if the Jews reckoned any part of a day, as part of a night and a day (for the evening and the morning in Genesis 1 made a day), the alleged inaccuracy wholly disappears. For Friday, up to six o'clock, would be spoken of as one night and day, Friday evening and Saturday morning another night and day, and thus the difficulty is removed.
“Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2)
UNTO JESUS and not to the apparent success of our efforts. The apparent success is not the measure of the real success; and besides, God has not told us to succeed, but to work; It is of our work that He requires an account, and not of our success, - why then concern ourselves with it? It is for us to scatter the seed, for God to gather the fruit; if not today, then it will be tomorrow; If He does not employ us to gather it, then He will employ others. Even when success is granted to us, it is always dangerous to fix our attention on it: On the one hand we are tempted to take some of the credit of it to ourselves; On the other hand we thus accustom ourselves to abate our zeal when we cease to perceive its result, That is to say, at the very time when we should redouble our energy. To look at the success is to walk by sight; To look at Jesus, and to persevere in following Him and serving Him, in spite of all discouragements, is to walk by faith.
(Theodore Monod - translated from French by Helen Willis)
N.J. Hiebert - 5823
Ecuador.
