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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Johanna from over at Growing up on a Farm is hosting a photo contest with an absolutely amazing theme: blessings. In order to qualify, your photo must portray some special blessing the Lord has given you and I thought this particular shot depicted the blessing of peace very well. Though it’s not too often that we have any earthly reason to be peaceful (just turn on the news), as Christians our peace is not defined by our circumstances; it comes down from the Father of Lights, as does every good and perfect gift (James 1:17). Just as with Him there is neither variableness nor shadow of turning, so our peace can be constant and our hope unchanging.
“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.”-Colossians 3:15
Paul reminded us in this passage of Scripture that whether or not the peace of God rules in our hearts is a matter of choice. We must let it fill our soul by trusting in His promises and not allowing the cares of this world or the deceitfulness of riches to “choke the Word” and render us unfruitful (Mark 4:19). The Lord didn’t promise He would calm every storm we face in life, but that even in those moments of turmoil we can still be made to lie down in green pastures and led beside the still waters with our Lord (Psalm 23:2). All we must do is fix our gaze upon Jesus, “…the author and finisher of our faith.” (Hebrews 12:2)
6 comments:
Good, thought provoking post!
What a beautiful picture and beautiful post! Thanks for the reminder Dakota.
About the date... I messed it up, the Contest is ending on the 8th, I thought I fixed it :)
Because of Him
Johanna
That is an amazing theme! One blessing that I can think of is, that every person in the family that got in the car accident, is now out of the hospital!
Thank you for your prays,
Grant fedewa
Nice post, and I love the picture too!
In HIS service,
Rebecca
Pictures sure do tell a story, don't they? As for blessings, I'd have to enter an entire album because I wouldn't know which picture to pick out of the overflow as an example.
Blessings,
Kathleen
You stopped by my blog, so I popped in over here. I'm glad I did. Great pic by the way - And thanks for giving me a heads-up!
Love in the Truth.
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