“Vengeance is mine says the Lord, I will repay,” comes from Hebrews 10:30. The more difficult statement is the verse that follows. “31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” I have heard that second verse quoted over the years but I never looked at its context until tonight.…
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Lent 2021 Day 34 – Choices
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In the Lenten posting for day 19 I wrote about choices. I think a lot about choices. Back in August of 2005 I wrote a poem about choices. It was Ok, but something remarkable happened. Someone named George added to it and did so beautifully. He is unknowable, at least in this life, but I…
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Lent 2021 Day 33 – Excuses
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Even though God has gifted each and every one of us and expects us to use those gifts for the good of His people and His kingdom, we have a bottomless well of excuses for every failure in our lives. I can say it is because I got rejected, or they didn’t understand what I…
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Lent 2021 Day 32 – Are You Making Memories With God?
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I have been reading some of my earlier Lenten posts and one from March 30, 2007 caught my eye. The title is Making Memories With God. The post is about how memories make people important in our lives. There are numerous things that build memories and make people significant. It is probably why guys bond…
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Lent 2021 Day 31 – A Unique Lent
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This year’s Lenten observance is approaching its conclusion. I can say without reservation, this has been a Lent like no other. There are many reasons. You can cite the so-called pandemic, the world-wide lockdowns due to COVID that generated widespread fear, the governmental over-reach that in the U.S. violated both states’ constitutions as well as…
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Lent 2021 Day 30 – Something is Imminent
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Sometimes life looks like it is out of control and the more under the surface of things you look the more out of control it appears to be. Now some people can look at that and not realize the obvious, which is things are never what they seem on the surface. When you look at…
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Lent 2021 Day 29 – The Mysterious Intersection of Sovereignty and Will
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Coming up on two weeks until Easter tomorrow. My birthday follows 3 days later. Easter was last on my birthday in 2012 and won’t be again until 2091 so I think I can safely say have seen the last Easter birthday. It was exceptionally special to observe my birthday on the day we celebrate the…
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Lent 2021 Day 28 – You Have to Break It to Fix It
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One of the hardest things I have to learn to accept as I grew in my Christian life was that in order to change from the old man I used to be to the new man I want to be, things have to be broken. It seems to be that way in everything. We have…
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Lent 2021 Day 27 – Do-overs are Not God’s Way
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Interestingly enough, I read through a number of my previous Lenten journey postings and this one stood out to me – https://beyondtherim.meisheid.com/lent-06-day-20/. At its heart it is about God’s sovereignty, but it is also about a human failing we all have that has been overfed us by the video gaming industry and that is the…