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What’s Life About? A-B-C (part a)

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With recent distracting events in various places many have been forced to re-focus on what life is about. Here’s my take.

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Life is About

I’m sure you’ve wondered and asked: What is life about?

Well, actually, it’s about God rescuing us, isn’t it?

It’s the Exodus story, right?

It’s about God delivering us from the cost and captivity of sin.

God Keeping His Promise

I mean, until God did something we were trapped in slavery without any hope of freedom.

So God did something by sending someone like Moses—yet different from Moses—to release us from slavery.

God sent Jesus.

Jesus saves us from slavery’s certain death. 

God sent Jesus

Yesterday, Moses sprinkled lamb’s blood on the doorposts to ransom the Hebrews from death.

Today, Jesus’ shed blood on the cross is able to save everyone from forever death.

We no longer have to be victims of sin because our deliverer has come.

  • Jesus is the sprinkled blood on the doorpost.
  • Jesus is the one to put our trust in to free us from slavery.
  • Jesus rescues us from eternal death.
  • Jesus replaces hopelessness with hope.
  • Jesus gives life.

The life and hope of Jesus offer rescue from slavery.

Giving You an Option

This is Good News, right?

Exodus is real.

Salvation is here!

You can Choose Life with Freedom

This is what life is about.

(to be continued) 

Bonus Song:

Rescue

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Contentment: Why this Moment Matters

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Contentment

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Bad stuff happens.

I don’t like bad stuff. I rarely see bad stuff as an opportunity.

In September I wrote about God being the ‘FRUSTRATION FIXER.’ I thought I passed that test… if it was a test. I confidently proclaimed, “I won’t have to re-take that test.”

I was wrong.

Bad stuff causes anxiety (panic, doubt, terror). The accompaniment to bad stuff is often chaos, conflict, and confusion. How do you find contentment when awful stuff happens, when there seems no solution?

Currently, I’m having trouble with my Lee’s Nite Radio website. Nasty stuff. I spent six or seven hours trying to fix it myself. I couldn’t.

I called my son, Duwayne, to ask for help. He couldn’t help. I called my granddaughter Claire, hoping with my fingers crossed. Claire was helpful but didn’t fix my bad stuff. I called my computer tech friend who works magic almost always with my website. He battled my problem for an hour and a half and finally said, “Call your web-host.” I did. Three days later it remains unfixed.

I know what you’re thinking, “Did you bother to pray?”

Yes, I did that first.

It’s difficult to be content when troubles happen. You can probably picture your own bad stuff. A panic attack. A dead battery. A broken garage-door motor. Etcetera.

What appears as bad stuff in the Bible: the Red Sea; Gideon and the Midianites; Esther; David and Goliath; Noah; the Apostle Paul’s blindness; becomes an opportunity to reveal God’s authority and power.

When I was a child playing with neighborhood kids a popular phrase from TV was, ‘Never fear, Superman is here!’ We’d pump up our chests and bellow this phrase at each other as if it mattered.

Someone way superior to Superman is here. I thought about this this morning. It occurred to me that God knows my dilemma (our dilemma). My bad stuff (our bad stuff) is opportunity to him, both temporarily and eternally.

Want proof?

The Father sent his Son into our bad stuff.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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P.S.

My website just got fixed. God is good all the time. He taught me a lesson in CONTENTMENT.

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What it Takes to Satisfy Spiritual Hunger

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It growled at me. My stomach churned in anticipation. Hungry, Ernie and I sat in the food court late morning at the Tucson Mall saying a prayer before we chowed down.

I took my first bite of my Cinnabon when Ernie said, Do you remember that story about cheese and crackers? *

Me: Yeah, sort of…

Ernie: It’s an old story of a European guy who wanted to travel across the Atlantic to the United States.

Me: Oh yes…

Ernie: He saved his money, bought a ticket on a luxury liner for the three-week trip…

Me: …and filled his suitcase with cheese and crackers for his ocean trip’s meals.

Ernie: That’s right. Do you recall the point of the story?

Me: Um, I guess so. The man lived on crackers and cheese even though meals were included in the price of his ticket.

Ernie: So what do you think, do we do that?

Me: Do what?

Ernie: Are we satisfied eating cheese and crackers when God has provided a banquet?

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* cheese and crackers story

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I had to change my attitude because I’ve been guilty of possessing a poverty mentality—well not only a poverty mentality but also a poverty spirituality. In other words God has spread out the riches of Christ for my pleasure and too often I am clueless about the wealth that belongs to me in Jesus. Wealth has been mistaken by some as meaning simply material wealth, I suppose it may include material wealth but of far more value is the spiritual wealth made available.

I believe I’m seeing that spiritual wealth is key to correctly discerning and enjoying whatever my physical wealth and mental wealth happens to be. Jesus even said, “I have food that you don’t know about,” John 4:32.

For me to concentrate on physical wealth or mental wealth at the expense of the rich treasure of spiritual wealth leaves me eating cheese and crackers when a generous and carefully prepared meal is mine. Shame on me if I’m satisfied or content with cheese and crackers.

Thanks for spending time with me on Lee’s Nite Radio.

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