Inspiring Sunrise!

I shot this photo going to work the other day, while I drove down the Baltimore Beltway.

"His mercies are new every morning, and great is His faithfulness!"

For His glory and our good.

I have a wonderful sister in my church who has cancer. Her husband and four daughters are fine examples of a Christian family.
Pam is such an encouager. She is very talented, and we have been serving the Lord together for the past 16 years.
My wife and I pray every day, and throughout the day that God would heal her. And that he would bless us with her presence here on earth for a long, long, time to come.

She is in His hands.

Jesus Christ loves her more than we all do, even her husband. And so she is in good hands, and was even before the cancer was found.
God knew the cancer would form in her. He is sovereign. Why did He allow it? I pondered this, and pondered it. And I realized He allowed it for His glory and for Pam's good. As crazy as that may sound.

And yet my heart aches for Pam, and her family. I cry out to the Lord for mercy, and ask Him to touch her body, and make this cancer disappear. I pray that He would fill her with wisdom, so that she will know how to proceed, with all the medical possibilities available. And I pray for her family to be strong in the Lord through this difficult trial.

If anyone does come here and reads this, please go to the throne of our Lord, and ask Him to send His mercy and grace upon Pam and her family. Thank you.
For His glory, and for Pam's good. Rom 8:28

"I Hate That I love Sin".

"In truth, every Christain, who has not been seduced by the superficial tactics and magical pixie dust of childish Christain gurus from evangelical Neverland, knows full well that there is more to living the Christian life than reading the latest Christian self-help book. ... What makes us different from the watching world of sinners is not that we don't sin but that we hate our sin, repent of our sin, and earnestly seek to mortify our sin that has been taken to the Cross and placed upon our Savior who atoned for our sin --- and all this to the glory of God." - Burk Parsons

I agree with Burk. But I think I need to take it one step further for me personally.

I hate that I love sin.

I am strong in some ways, and yet so weak in others. I struggle with lust, and pride, and timidity.

God is working in me. And His grace is sufficient. I do long to obey His law, and yet I serve my flesh as well. Romams 7

I hope and pray that I will grow in His grace and knowledge this coming year, and that I will walk with Christ in a higher degree of godliness, and righteousness, which is bore from being connected to Him. I'm a branch, and He's the vine.

2007 may be a hard road, but I'm pressed to walk it with my Savior and Lord, and rely on His power, love, truth, and grace, in order to bear fruit for His glory, and the glory of our heavenly Father.