Week Fourteen, 2025
The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple. (Psalm 19:7).
It was a grandfather’s day out with some of my favorite grandsons….. a day at the races. We attended a series of Indy Car races and were fortunate enough to sit right behind the pit area. The pit times are as important as the track time, and often it’s the fast pit time that wins the race.
I found it amazing how fast the crews could change tires, fuel up and get the car back on the track. A car can only go so far without pit stops. I noticed one that went too long and had to be towed off the track.
Our spiritual life is like that. Just as we need physical rest, we also need spiritual rejuvenation. Spiritual refreshment is when we are refreshed or revived in our inner spirit through our relationship with God and our hearts are filled with peace, joy, inner strength and renewal, as we experience God’s life and God’s Word in our daily living.
This world is a dry and weary land. Nothing will deaden a person’s spiritual appetite like the spirit of this world. Even believers with the best of intentions find that their passion for God wanes in the spiritually polluted atmosphere around us. And the more immersed we become in it, the more dry and weary our souls become. Every minute we spend watching television, listening to secular radio, surfing the Net, playing video games, reading newspapers & magazines, strolling through the mall—and a thousand other activities that beckon us—the more barren we become spiritually.
The believer who thirsts for God – like a deer pants for streams of water – limits his time in this world. He rises early and cries out, “O God, Thou art my God!” There is a thirst for God and the things of God that cannot be quenched. He longs for “the Fountain of Living Waters,” and refuses to drink from the “broken cisterns” of this world.
Let us forsake the stale, dirty water offered by the world’s broken cisterns. They may temporarily wet the throat, but they can never quench the thirsting of our souls. Instead, let us keep going to the Fountain of Life—again and again and again—until we thirst no more.
Sometimes True Stories
What is the shortest chapter in the Bible? Psalms 117
What is the longest chapter in the Bible? Psalms 119
What chapter is in the center of the Bible? Psalms 118
There are 594 chapters before Psalms 118.
There are 594 chapters after Psalms 118
Add these numbers up (594 x2) and you get 1188.
What is the center verse in the Bible? Answer Psalms 118:8
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Internationally the US ranks 125th for literacy. 54% of Americans between the ages of 16-74 read below a sixth grade level.
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Florida abortions declined 28% in 2024, the lowest since Roe v. Wade due to the state’s six week ban which became effective in May. A statistic to celebrate.
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In other news, a supercomputer simulation has predicted when humanity will go extinct. It foresees a day when rising temperatures, volcanic chaos, and an unrecognizable climate will make most of our planet uninhabitable for mammals. However, this cataclysmic apocalypse will not occur for another two hundred and fifty million years. Jim Denison
Quotes You Can Use
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. Proverbs 9:10
The question is this… what are we doing with the gifts that we have been given? Marty Stubblefield
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson. Elon Musk
Idleness and ignorance breed vice.
We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how they fall.” Proverbs 16:33
God’s plan for your situation may seem peculiar. And you may even be reluctant to try it. Obey the impressions of God upon your heart. Dan Shock
God doesn’t want to make you a better person. He wants to make you a new person. Edgar Aponte
God sometimes allows things to happen – good or bad – so that He can and will ultimately be glorified through them. And if that’s the case, He does the same things with talents and gifts. Marty Stubblefield
A man does not realize how bad he is until he tries really hard to be good. C.S. Lewis
You can learn a lot about what people value when faced with a crisis, they decide what to defend. Michael Smith
We often spend more time trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube than brushing our teeth and getting them extra clean. Dwight Short
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. Winston Churchill
God’s judgment on sin will be final and eternal. Tommy Campbell
What I say is this: let the Spirit direct your lives, and you will not satisfy the desires of the human nature. Gal 5:16
Time shall be no more when judgment comes, and when time is no more, change is impossible. Spurgeon
Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded!!
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. Dennis Prager
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