DLIGHT OF GOSPEL

Philosophy and Vain Deceit   As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:6-8   King Gustav III of Sweden had a number of very strong opinions. One of them was that drinking coffee was a dangerous habit to a person’s health. To test his theory, he devised one of the strangest experiments ever recorded. He found two identical twins who had been sentenced to die for their crimes, and offered them a commutation. In exchange for their lives, one would drink three pots of coffee a day, and the other would drink three pots of tea. Gustav was sure that his dim view of coffee would be verified, but the actual events unfolded somewhat differently. First Gustav was assassinated in 1792. In time both of the doctors involved in the study died. The tea drinking brother finally passed away at eighty-three years old, but his coffee drinking sibling was still going strong, and outlived them all.   There are a lot of ideas that people hold firmly and with conviction. But that does not mean those ideas are correct. The sincerity and intensity of our beliefs does not guarantee their accuracy. If we want to know what is reliable and true and trustworthy, we must start with the Word of God. All of man’s ideas are subject to error because all men are fallen. The only settled and certain basis that we can always fully count on comes from God. David wrote, “As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him” (2 Samuel 22:31). The world is happy to promote their ideas to us, but if we are not cautious we will be robbed of the joy and peace and hope God offers through vain ideas.   Today's Growth Principle   All ideas and philosophi

Faithful Grace   Lord, You will make a way where there seems to be no way, opening paths through impossibilities, creating solutions that don't exist yet, finding routes when I'm completely blocked. I'm staring at a dead end right now, no options, no solutions, no way forward that I can see, every door closed, every path blocked, completely stuck. Teach me that "no way" from my limited perspective doesn't mean no way at all, that my inability to see a solution doesn't limit Your ability to create one from nothing. You specialize in making ways where none exist, parting seas, opening prison doors, providing manna in deserts, doing the impossible precisely when it looks most impossible. Help me stop panicking when I can't see a way and start watching for You to make one, to shift from problem-focused to God-focused, from what's impossible to who makes the impossible possible. Remind me of times You've made ways before, when I was stuck and You opened paths I never saw coming, when You created solutions I couldn't have imagined or arranged. Give me faith to stand in the "no way" place trusting You're already working on the way, patience while You create what doesn't exist yet, hope that refuses to accept dead ends as final. Let me rest today knowing You will make a way where there seems to be no way, and what looks impossible to me is just another opportunity for You. In Jesus' name, Amen.   ~Faithful Grace   https: //t.me/Winning_The_Lost

“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 KJV

EARTHLY THINGS ARE TEMPORARY, BUT GOD’S PROMISES ARE ETERNAL~ 👇👇