Quotes, Quotes, Quotes!!!

“Christianity is a mind altering Reality.” – Alistair Begg

“I believe in Christianity much like I believe in the rising sun. Not because I can see it, but because by it, I can see everything else.”  – C.S. Lewis.

Scottish quote -(McLoud)

“Human thought processes, and human presuppositions and assumptions, and human logic, are hostile to God. The distortion of sin, the anti-God bias has come in at the level of understanding and intellect. By nature we think crookedly. We think in an ungodly way. “

“There is no road from man’s intellectual and moral perception to a genuine knowledge of God. The only way to knowledge of God is for God freely to place Himself within the range of our perception, and renew our fallen understanding. Hence, if we are to know God and have any adequate basis for our Christian understanding and experience, revelation is indispensable.”  -Bruce Milne

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I have not learned wisdom,

    nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.
4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down?
    Whose hands have gathered up the wind?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak?
    Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is the name of his son?
    Surely you know!

- Proverbs 30:3-4

"A heart of flesh"

I still have the heart within me to raise livestock, and to be the farmer/rancher that I would love to be! I thank God for my few goats that I have, and for the little Chicken's we have been able to keep on our property. And I know that if the Lord wills it, someday I'll have those things that are in my heart. The land, the animals.  But my heart should not fix itself onto those things, and thankfully it has not! Rather, I have given that dream over to Him. Knowing that His timing is not MY timing. I still am required to fix my eyes, and my heart on Him. With the Heart of flesh that he gives me. And the Spirit that he provides.

I love the word picture used here, a heart of stone, traded out for "a heart of flesh". I hear that and picture open heart surgery. With the idea, and knowledge that the flesh is very sensitive to the touch, and can wound easily. I imagine a heart that is figuratively, and literally LIVING, and almost breathing the Spirit of God. Alive in the Spirit. Sensitive to the touch of the Holy Spirit.

Ezekiel 36:24-27New International Version - UK (NIVUK)

24 ‘“For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

"Work with your hands"

It is such a great reminder we get from scripture. When I am worrisome about my life, and my endeavors. I feel a tremendous comfort in knowing that my Lord, is watching over my everyday endeavors... and my long road as well, and I can trust in Him to bring to fruition, any and all of my hopes, and aspirations in life.

All I have to do right now, is put my faith in Him, trusting, and seeking Him first, "...and all of these things will be added unto you." Not to think that I will be wealthy, or have lots of things as the world might think. But that He will bless me with His blessings! Which are far better, than I can imagine!

I love the Scripture that helps me look at what is in front of me, TODAY.. and do what I have before me, as unto the Lord!

"And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;"    - 1 Thessalonians 4:11 KJV 


...Thy will be done!

What's important?

So I've been pondering what to post, and came to the conclusion ..post whats most important!

Lately I've increased my scripture reading, and study. At this point I've managed to read through the New Testament one time, and am half way through my second time. I simply know that with out the Word being pored over me, and into me, I will have an even harder time knowing the mind of God, and the will of God in my life. But when I am in His word, his Spirit "teaches me all things". -John 14:26


"For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God."  - 1 Corinthians 2:11


When you know the mind of God, from reading His word... you begin to see this life through His eyes, and everything starts to make  a lot more sense! I love the quote from C.S. Lewis.

"I believe in Christianity much like I believe in the rising sun. Not because I can see it, but because by it, I can see everything else.”  – C.S. Lewis

Just some food for thought! 

Born to this land: by Red Steagall.

http://www.cowboypoetry.com/redsteagall.htm#Born

I miss my truck!!

It's been parked in my driveway for about four, or five months  now. Breaks are shot, and both gas lines are rusted to the point where one of them has a huge leak in it. As soon as I start it up, gas just  poors out. 

My mechanic has told me that he cannot find the lines anywhere, the manufacture doe snot make them anymore due to the age of the truck. And he's made gas lines before, bu the way these are made to function, it's something that he cannot fabricate. 

I'm not giving up yet! The truck is a year 2000 model, and it's been paid off for several years now. 

...sigh.... 

Reminds me of the Lyle Lovett song... "Old Black's my trucks name, she's held together by B.F. GoodTire, and Bailing wire."

And another song... "You could light my truck on fire, and roll it down a hill, and I still wouldn't trade if for a Coupe DeVille."

Plans.... Hope..... Future....

These are awesome words... especially since they have come from an All Powerful, and Loving Heavenly Father!

I started a new job about a month ago. Maybe more. It's a full time job right across the street from the State House downtown Columbus. And it's honestly been nice. new car, new job. I've sort of been just enjoying, and slipping right back into my city mindset.

Only every time I drive past a large open pasture field, or see farm fields, I remember my passion for the grass, and the science and study that goes into a grazing operation. My hope and desire is first of all... deepening my walk with the Lord, the Father of us all. ...By daily staying in His Word. And second to that is my hope to someday and hopefully soon, own my own land, and start my very own grazing plan with some animals.

Something I can pass down to my kids, should any of them want to farm.