Morningside Devotionals

How do you see God?  Your view of God really is the determining factor in whether you have anything to say about God or not.  Do you live as if though God is real?  Do you love and forgive, donate, sacrifice in behalf of those who have less than you, as if though God exists?  Do you uplift, pray for, support, encourage and treat your fellow God believers, as if though, God exists?  If you don't, do you believe God exists? Do you believe- really believe, God is real?  If God is real, and you don't live as if though you believe God is real, then do you really believe God is real?  Simple isn't it- but this revolutionary idea is still kicking the tales of those who want to lie about what they really feel - who want to hide behind false statements, false actions, guarded notions of inner hatreds which they refuse to turn loose of, and the worst of all possible things that can happen to a person who believes they believe in God- live as if though God i...

  Some of the worst natural and man made disasters have all occured in a very short frame of time, within the decade the amount of, and, severity of these events should be alerting Christian's to passages of the Bible which talk about them.  But let's get outside the box for a just a few moments together, I think you may find this interesting...at least, like the usual stuff you read here, I'd be willing to bet it's gonna challenge your current thinking, a bit; good chance of that, isn't there?   Suppose you were capable of analyzing things in a different more advanced way, than say, the most advanced statistical analyst which has all the computational skills available to them in todays world; where the evidences of degrees of intervention, probable results in measured statistical normative values less than millionths in probable certainty; suppose you were capable of that, would you warn people of what was coming?  What if your enemies, the ones...

"We can't possibly be that stupid," what sort of measure would you use?  Humankind has now built cities that stretch up into the heavens- the worlds tallest building, (we might see it painted in the blood of those who shed their valiant blood on the sand to pay for the oil that built it)  at present in Dubai, shows so clearly how cities get bigger and taller and yet, oddly, don't they become, less habitable, which you can read as - SMOG- pollution and the offshoot of what we call, progress.  God called it gardening, and in the grand design lacking greed God would have had us plant and manage and work under His guidance.  Today we strive mightily to ignore God 24/7 except when there is a personal or larger disaster, then we cry about God and ask with arrogant stupidity- "how can God allow this to happen."  God doesn't allow "this to happen," God has been trying for centuries to get the free will of man to understand His control; and we resist. ...

You can't believe for somebody else, right? Well partially right, because if they don't believe, still you must, for otherwise, how will they see what belief is about? A very close associate of mine is a control freak; and walks fairly close to fear; he doesn't realize how damaging both of those characteristics are as he determines how we are to conduct the business of God. Now he believes in God, and yet, he also believes that he has to direct how things are going to go; and, no matter how you slice it up, those two won't fit into the same pie. So my friend is often feeling as if though he doesn't do enough; doesn't accomplish enough, and isn't satisfying enough to God; and he shows it and says it and lives it in his every moment with others. Only problem is, Jesus said, "don't be filled with fear, be filled with joy, you believe in me, and I've overcome the world." (several statements put together there...) My associate the control ...

Someone said the other day, "I read your writing," which usually I take as a compliment, but what I didn't know was what was coming next when they said, "and I don't agree with what you said, and here is why," now I was really loving it, because this is what anybody who writes desires, that those who differ with them would say so, and say why.  This is also, in my heart, what Jesus did, which is why, those who worship Him as the savior, are so splendid in how they do what they do, and those who don't, revere Him anyway.  Can the same be said of you and your conduct?  Would someone say, I know them, and I don't like them, but I do respect what they represent?  Read the statement and then... FREE PC/Laptop Speed UP "drd's" Blog Ooh Visit Our Twitter Group 1000 plus strong and growing! Visit our Facebook effort, it will make ya smile! Visit our MySpace effort, it will make you glad you did! Visit our YouTube- it is truly, goin...

At some time in your life you will reach a point where you wonder if what is going on is what you intended, or is it something else? This strange point usually occurs for men at about the age of 40 or older, although, with our present intellectual capacity, this introspective moment may occur in males at younger ages. For women this moment usually comes as they turn to face a home which had children and then teens in it, which now is, occupied by a husband who is sort of in the same place. This strange moment can occur for a person who was in an accident, they lived through it, and then, approximately a week later, they will ask themselves if their life is what they expected it to be. This introspection is a harsh part of all life; so far as we are able to determine, wildlife, does not go through this, humankind may be unique in this function. At this point in the process a person can go toward something, or, they lock into the place where they are. Yes that does sound weird but a...