"Don't Tear Apart The Work of God Over What You Eat!"

The LORD knew I personally needed Romans 14.

Thanks Lord

how big is a man's soul?

Geoffrey Bull, missionary to the Tibetans at the time of Mao's long march was talking to a Tibetan farmer one night:

Suddenly the old fellow turned to me and murmured half confidentially: "I want to ask you a question, I somehow don't like asking those lama fellows.  Do you think you can answer me?" Without waiting for my reply he went on, speaking with increasing seriousness.  At last it came.  "How big is a man's soul?" he said quietly.  I looked into the fire and then into his worn and quizzical face.  "A soul," I replied, "is measured like the wind, not by its length and breadth, or even its height, but by its power."  Only as a soul is linked with the Eternal Spirit of the living and True God can it grow to any size.  How often I had thought of that arresting phrase, "Hell is no vastness, it is full of little rotting souls."  I suppose if we viewed the lake of fire materially, it would be no bigger than a pinhead and yet able to contain all the millions who have shrivelled themselves in alienation from their Creator and Redeemer. Eventually we broke up.  The ploughing and the sowing were not easy.  I wondered just how much the old chap understood.  I wondered, too, just how big my own soul might really be.

An Excerpt from: When Iron Gates Yield
By Geoffrey T. Bull

Moody Press Chicago

every day i remember ...

God still sits on the throne, and the devil is a liar.

What I Really Think: a list

1. the best colour is light

2. grapefruit is not a great scent for bath gel

3. bugs are my favourite work of God's aritstic hand

4. travel is more fun if only the LORD knows where you are really going--which is always! So...... may I say.... travel is more fun when we realize only the LORD knows where we are really going! I will trust Him.

5. agar agar is not the same as jello

6. solid is not a word I would like linked to my name

7. 2 ply is better than 1, but one is better than none

8. peace seldom lasts, but does return

9. lips are lovely gentle connectors of heart to heart

10. gossip destroys without preference to race, creed or colour

What's Valuable? Focus

I think a wasted life

is one spent evaluating others

to see if they are living their's correctly.

I've done it. I am ashamed to say it.

But, it has become a life's ambition with some folks-- often fueling a lack of love, absense of unity, unforgiveness and failure to restore biblically---even encouraging comparison and spiritual ranking. It sends broken people to other movements where there is love instead of evaluation, forgiveness because of mercy and acceptance.

And we blame them for going! Ruin their reputations. What is that? It's not Jesus Christ's kind of Christianity.