OUR DAILY BREAD : GLASS BEACH
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:00 amWEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2
GLASS BEACH
READ:
Malachi 3:17
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"On the day when I
act," says the LORD
Almighty, "they will
be my treasured
possession."
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Early 20th-century residents of Fort Bragg, California, disposed of their trash by throwing it over a cliff and onto a nearby beach. Cans, bottles, tableware, and household garbage accumulated in huge, disgusting piles. Even when residents stopped depositing trash on the beach, it remained an embarrassment__a dump seemingly beyond reclamation.
Over the years, however, wave action broke up the glass and pottery and washed the rubbish out to sea. The pounding surf rolled and tumbled the glass fragments in the sand on the ocean floor, frosting and smoothing the surface and creating gem-like "sea glass," which it then deposited back onto the beach. the surf created a kaleidoscopic beauty at which visitors to Glass Beach now stare in wonder.
Perhaps you feel as though your life has become a dump__a mess beyond hope. If so, you need to know that there is someone who loves you and waits to redeem and reclaim you. Give Jesus your heart and ask Him to make you pure and clean. He may tumble you a bit, and it may take time to smooth away the rough edges. But He will never give up on you. He will make you into one of His jewels~ _____David Roper
**Lord, when we have nothing left but You,
we are right where You want us.
you can use any situation for Your glory and our good.
You never give up on us. Help us to relax in Your love.
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God loves us too much to let us remain as we are.
**********************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24**********************
23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through
and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept
blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 34 The
one who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Paul wrote the letter of 1 Thessalonians to
assure the believers that Jesus is indeed coming back, even
though we don't know when. Everyone who believes in Him_
both the living and the dead_ will meet Him in the air and be
with him forever. After assuring us of this wonderful truth (see
ch. 4), Paul reminds us in today's reading that while we eagerly
wait for Christ's return, God is working in us to prepare us to be
in His presence.
__J R Hudberg
GLASS BEACH
READ:
Malachi 3:17
______________________________________________________________________________________
"On the day when I
act," says the LORD
Almighty, "they will
be my treasured
possession."
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Early 20th-century residents of Fort Bragg, California, disposed of their trash by throwing it over a cliff and onto a nearby beach. Cans, bottles, tableware, and household garbage accumulated in huge, disgusting piles. Even when residents stopped depositing trash on the beach, it remained an embarrassment__a dump seemingly beyond reclamation.
Over the years, however, wave action broke up the glass and pottery and washed the rubbish out to sea. The pounding surf rolled and tumbled the glass fragments in the sand on the ocean floor, frosting and smoothing the surface and creating gem-like "sea glass," which it then deposited back onto the beach. the surf created a kaleidoscopic beauty at which visitors to Glass Beach now stare in wonder.
Perhaps you feel as though your life has become a dump__a mess beyond hope. If so, you need to know that there is someone who loves you and waits to redeem and reclaim you. Give Jesus your heart and ask Him to make you pure and clean. He may tumble you a bit, and it may take time to smooth away the rough edges. But He will never give up on you. He will make you into one of His jewels~ _____David Roper
**Lord, when we have nothing left but You,
we are right where You want us.
you can use any situation for Your glory and our good.
You never give up on us. Help us to relax in Your love.
___________________________________________________________________________________
God loves us too much to let us remain as we are.
**********************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24**********************
23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through
and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept
blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 34 The
one who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Paul wrote the letter of 1 Thessalonians to
assure the believers that Jesus is indeed coming back, even
though we don't know when. Everyone who believes in Him_
both the living and the dead_ will meet Him in the air and be
with him forever. After assuring us of this wonderful truth (see
ch. 4), Paul reminds us in today's reading that while we eagerly
wait for Christ's return, God is working in us to prepare us to be
in His presence.
__J R Hudberg