Thursday, May 31, 2007

The Perfect Gardener

The Perfect Gardener

I never really realized this truth until just a bit ago; The Lord is The Perfect Gardener.

The Word of God – the Holy Bible – begins in the Garden (Genesis 1:29-31).

How many times through the Word are fruits and harvests mentioned? I haven’t counted, but I know it is a lot – I was shown this when I planted my first garden after being saved.

I built the boxes, brought in the good soil, prepared everything then put the seeds into the ground. Watered and trusted in the Lord. The corn came up corn, the tomatoes – tomatoes, everything as it was supposed to be. All I did was water the garden – God did all the work.

People are just like that as far as God is concerned, He preps the soil (a heart where He can find a home), He plants the seed (the Word of His Son, Jesus Christ and the sacrifice He made), then He waters it (the lessons from His word and the Fellowship between us and God and the fellowship between us and fellow Christians) Then His crop grows and becomes what He planted, loving, caring and gentle believers in His word; children whom He loves.

Yep, I may have planted the seed, but God grows the garden.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Here is part one of something I am working on...

Sacrifice :
How to save the World
A study of Christ and the gift of Faith

How do you save an entire planet and its entire population from a certain death?
What methods would you employ? Drastic ones? Seemingly impossible ones? Anything at all?
Yes, I think we all would. Anything at all to save the maximum number would be acceptable to us, I think.

Well how would it be if you were God, you saw the death awaiting your creation and wanted to save as many as you could, what would you do, what would you sacrifice to do it?

One word – propitiation – You know, I was a pagan since I was 13 – 36 years I worshiped and followed false idols – turned my face away from God, turned my heart away from salvation, always thinking “I am the captain of my own life, my course goes where I tell it to” Bull…

You want to know where you go setting “your own course”? You die and that’s all, that’s it, fini , done, washed up, through, out of there, dead, bye-bye, so long now. Dead – that clear enough?

Let me get back to that word - propitiation – Sounds like a good word – sounds powerful, like it means something. Propitiation - kind of hard to say - propitiation -
It is a powerful word, and it has great impact on us and our relationship with the Lord and each other. Propitiation, well then you ask (and rightly so) what the heck does it mean?

I found this definition on the internet of all places, I just Googled it; here is what I found;
“This means the turning away of wrath by an offering. It is similar to expiation but expiation does not carry the nuances involving wrath. For the Christian the propitiation was the shed blood of Jesus on the cross. It turned away the wrath of God so that He could pass "over the sins previously committed" (Rom. 3:25). It was the Father who sent the Son to be the propitiation (1 John 4:10) for all (1 John 2:2).”

Take a moment and let that sink in – “It was the Father who sent the Son to be the propitiation for all” His blood – the blood of Jesus Christ, the living Son of God, who was there with the Father from before the beginning of creation (John 1:1-2), through whom All Creation was made (John 1:3), was sent by His Father (Matthew 1:18-23), to earth, born human, lived spotless, judged sinless (Luke 23:4), crucified (John 19:16-25), died (Mark 15:33-39), buried (Luke 23:50-54) and RAISED FROM THE DEAD!(Luke 24:1-12) All to wash away our sins, to make us right with God, to make us acceptable to Him to forgive. I don’t know about you, but when I think about that, it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and tears come to my eyes.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Memorial Day - May 28, 2007

Well hello,
Thanks for dropping by - sorry I wasn't here to welcome you personally, but I hope you enjoy this blog anyway.

A bit about me - I came to the Lord November 7, 2006 after a long and serious case of the bite me's. When the Lord and I got together - WOW! - all I can say is, beautiful. If you have not experienced that joy yourself - You do not know what your are missing. I'm 49, be 50 this September (9/7/57) I am about 5' 8" (depends on how hard gravity is at the time ;) ) I have red hair, but it's fading fast, being replaced with some sort of skin toned fleshy stuff, I don't know what's up with that.

I enjoy good music, and by good music I mean most anything uplifting (no rap!! or top 40 junk!)
I really enjoy reading the Bible - so much good stuff in there - I enjoy talking with friends about Christ - I enjoy cooking (I am the bomb cook - my daughter and my waste line will attest to that) I enjoy gardening and being out with my "babies" in the early morning or in the early evening. I work for the local county government in the IT department as desktop support, have been there for almost 9 years - I love what I do, and if I say so myself, I'm pretty darn good at it.

In my life I have been blessed with some of the most wonderful people who call me friend and who I am delighted to call the same. At the top of that list are two - well now, three - names - Jesus, Everett and Jewle. My support and repair crew. I love all of you so very much, I don't think words alone can say it.

I am a single parent - have been for a long time - Raised three children, Kira (hey pooter ;) ), Amber (she who rebels - love you hon) and Sean (what is up with that mohawk? But I love you too). I am a grand dad X2 thank you Kira for a wonderful addition to my life - Dawn and Annika, wonderful. My kids are 24, 20 and 17 as I write this.

So there you go. You now know more about me than you want, I know nothing about you.

See the comment area? Change that, please?

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Sigh...

Ever had a good idea? Then have it blow up in your face and take parts of your flesh and scalp and your left eyeball out? Well, me either... ( and you're sick if you liked that ;) )

But I did try and fix an annoying - and it was just a little thing really, a few users had to click "accept" when they were accessing an very important and highly accessed application - popup.

*sigh*

almost 300 users - now they can't access the application, I have NO idea what broke, undoing what I did doesn't fix it, shouting at the application, does not fix it, pleading with the application does not fix it. Praying is all I have left - and I have been doing a lot of that.

A good thing is - 50% of the user base is off tomorrow the other half is off the following Monday...
Breathing room! Yes! I likes it!

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Just close your eyes and listen

to this

Hey - Check this out

Great Fret work - Awesome

Neat Site

Found this place kind of nice, lots of "how to" info there, in video format. Like it.

Saturday, May 5, 2007

I want my Blog back!

Have you seen it?
It wasn't much - but it was all I had.
Now it's gone... Well not really gone (http://b4nldt5a.blogspot.com) but - well *sigh*, starting over is not all that fun.