From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>

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Sent: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 6:07 AM

Subject: 8-15-22 THOUGHTS

8-15-22   THOUGHTS

In a Robert Frost poem,   “I shall be telling this with a sigh,  Somewhere ages and ages hence:  Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by,   And that has made all the difference.”    Say with me...   “It’s MY LIFE, and I intend to BE ALL I CAN BE in CHRIST JESUS!”   Nothing else makes sense.  May I suggest the road below, followed with ALL DILIGENCE?

Prov 8:12    "I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And I find knowledge [and] discretion.”
Prov 8:22-36    "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old.  23  "From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth. 24  "When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding  with water. 25  "Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;  26  While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world.  27  "When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep, 28  When He made firm the skies above, When the springs of the deep became fixed, 29  When He set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth; 30  Then I was beside Him, as a master workman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him, 31  Rejoicing in the world, His earth, And having my delight in the sons of men. 32   "Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways.  33  "Heed instruction and be wise, And do not neglect it.  34  "Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my doorposts.  35  "For he who finds me finds life And obtains favor from the LORD. 36  "But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death."
John 6:63   "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
John 6:68   Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.
Deut 32:47    "For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life.  And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess."
1Pet 2:2   like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
Ps 119:93     I will never forget Your precepts, For by them You have revived me.
Matt 7:24   "Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

My Prayer
O God, give us a reviving from your word.  Give us life from the Spirit breath of your mind.  Remove our laziness, and establish a fresh desire to absorb Your Being.  You, O Father, are the source of all good, keep us focused on things above.  Remove the vanity of this world from our desires and thoughts.  Help us to die to self and learn to live for You.  Bless us as only you can, as we come to you.    In the name of Jesus,      Amen.