blog is a many splendored thing

Dear Readers, I wrote this post on Monday, January 5, 2015!  I just realized that I never posted it to my blog.   I've decided to post it now because God prompted me to write this, and He may know that someone needs to read it today.  I know I was convicted as I re-read the post....   and I wrote it! Little is Much when God is In It!   The greatest things happen when God is involved!  I got up this morning and wrote my blog, and then my husband got up and we sat down to read our Bibles together.  Then I did my devotions. I do my daily devotions with my Sunday School lesson.  This week's lesson just happened to be on God being with you all the time and on depending on Him to strengthen you, just as my blog post had been.  I love it when God works things out just that way. He put a certain message in my head this morning, he told me what to share with all my reading friends and family, and then he reinforced that message in my S...

This morning’s reading, Proverbs 7, contrasted living in wisdom (seeing things the way God sees them) and the way of the “strange woman” or the harlot.  A literal reading of the passage warns us against sexual sin and reminds us that people will try to deceive us and make us believe our sins are ok, and that no one will find out about them.  Have you found that to be the case in your life?  Do those who entice you to sin reason with you and tell you that it’s ok as long as you don’t get caught? Proverbs 4:7 (KJV) -  Wisdom is the principal thing;  therefore get wisdom:  and with all thy getting  get understanding.  But, the truth of the matter is that sin always has consequences.  We may not see those consequences immediately; but, in the long run, our sins will find us out and we will pay for them.  Proverbs 7:27 tells us that the harlot’s house is the way to hell, and will lead us into the chamber of death.  The harlo...