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[cimi]

July 20
Sunday

EXPIRATION
DATE

READ:
Psalm 139:7-18
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In Your book they all
were written, the days
fashioned for me.
__Psalm 139:16
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Chuck Montague was undergoing an extended series of treatments at a cancer center far from home. Then his treatments were abruptly interrupted by another medical condition But God answered prayer and removed this problem. Later, when Chuck testified in his church back home, he told of his gratitude for the prayers of God's people and the truths from His Word that had ministered to him and his wife, Janet.

At times Chuck had wondered whether or not he would survive. That thought drove him to the Scriptures, and he carefully read Psalm 139. His attention was drawn to verse 16, which says, "In Your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them." Before we were createrd, all of our days were "fashioned" by the Lord. "It lifted my spirit to know that my life is in God's hands," Chuck said. "Every jug of milk or can of tuna has an expiration date. Well, so have I.... God's timing is best."

As we suffer illness or grow older, we naturally think more about death. If we're believers in Christ, we can be confident that death is an open door to eternal life with Jesus. With the psalmist David, we are comforted by the truth that the God who love us knows our "expiration date." __Dave Egner
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`````````````````From Him, who loves me now so well,`````````````
```````````````````What power my soul can sever?```````````````
```````````````````Shall life or death, or earth or hell?`````````````
```````````````````No__I am His forever. __Stebbins`````````````
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God's timing is perfect__even in death.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 139:7-18*************

7 Where can I go from Your
Spirit? Or where can I flee
from Your presence? 8 If I
ascend into heaven,You are
there; if I make my bed in
hell, behold, You are there.

9 If I take the wings of the
morning, and dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there Your hand shall
lead me, and Your right hand
shall hold me. 11 If I say,
"Surely the darkness shall
fall on me," even the night
shall be light about me;

12 Indeed, the darkness shall
not hide from You, but the
night shines as the day; the
darkness and the light are
both alike to You. 13 For You
formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my
mother's womb. 14 I will
praise You, for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made;
marvelous are Your works,
and that my soul knows very
well. 15 My frame was not
hidden from You, when I
was made in secret, and
skillfully wrought in the
lowest parts of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my
substance, being yet
unformed. And in Your book
they all were written, the
days fashioned for me, when
as yet there were none of
them.

17 How precious also are
Your thoughts to me, O
God! How great is the sum
of them! 18 If I should count
them, they would be more in
number than the sand; when
I awake, I am still with You.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Based on Christ's resurrection, the believer need not fear death.
As Scripture says elsewhere," [Christ] Himself likewise shared in the
same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power
of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of
death were all their lifetime subject to bondage" (Heb. 2:14-15).
__Dennis Fisher

[lizzie]

Amen cimi sis

I used to be very scared of death and dying. But it was fear of the unknown... But that is no longer the case, as I now know where I am going when I die.

2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.



Luv u cimi