Morningside Devotionals

Hard To Believe Reality-Click Here One of my associates works at an extremely time intensive site, and, they simply do not have time to consume a book of ideas- SO- that's why I came up with that page called "taking it deeper"- sometimes you'll see a new post over there- sometimes not, but if you get a chance and want to check it out, usually there will be some new thing going on- as in Proverbs 21:13:  Here goes the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZvSbTuj9o There is a thing about who is watching and who is being watched, put another way, the beholder and the beholden? Who are the poor, is that a reference to monetarily poor, because quite easily one can see it might be a reference to poverty of all sort? And really what happens when someone is impoverished is the tendency of others to not listen to them? This is a fantastic Proverb for social media because it so clearly tells us that we can be heard, and that when we hear, we stand ...

Evangelical Lutheran Churches of America Proverbs 20:23 NIV: "The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him." It is without a doubt, one of the most difficult things to do and that is to be dishonest; you see, not only do you have to fool everybody, but you also have to live with yourself? Think about how sad it is for the evil people in life, they not only have to cheat themselves, and lie to themselves about how grand they are, and how grand their life is, as they cheat their way through it- but at the end of all that, they have to face God who is without partiality? The "ultimate and final truth, no you weren't fair, yes you could have been, no you didn't treat them fairly, yes you could have, no you didn't need that new car, yes you could have helped a person with that money, you chose not to- no you didn't need that additional home for a vacation home, you just wanted it, you didn't need it, you just wanted it...

It is a way of saying that you don't understand something, that it's confusing to you, or isn't clear, and so, you just don't know.  Ever find yourself in a situation which seems like it ought to go one way, yet goes another?  Ever face a foe that you aren't exactly sure how they are the enemy, they just present themselves as an enemy, they aren't clear cut about it, they are strangely and mysteriously cloaked about how they do what they do? That enemy leaves you feeling like you want to fight but aren't sure where the fight is at, dogged if you know? When this happens what do you do?  May I be so bold as to suggest that you bring the enemy out, and that when you go back and read the incident in the desert, you  now have eyes which see that Jesus, far from being invaded upon, had waited for 40 days to bring his true enemy out. Would you also indulge me the saying that enough is enough- there are and should be limits to what you allow...

Cities are often built on top of the rubble of older cities as they are pushed down and turned into platforms to be built upon.  They claim such for Chicago, which built on top of old Chicago after the fire, and Seattle also has a reputation for having a subterranean support system that is in itself an old city, New York has such- now those cities down there exist as remnants of a past that we can't reach- they are dangerous to explore, and every so often you will hear about someone who got injured while attempting to explore them.  But a mouse, a little creature, it can do down there and go as deep as it would like, with little threat from the surroundings, they aren't likely to cave in because of the mouse's carbon footprint.  Small things can have amazing depth, and so it is in our lives as well, we have past's which have been for the most part, buried and built upon; if we go back there to explore, they can, in some instances, cause danger, even cave-ins and ruin!...

Getting close to God, for you, how does that happen; do you pause and mention to God that you are enjoying this day, or do you bring up God's name after something bad happens?  Do you spend time considering God during the day, much at all?  These aren't questions designed to get you hot under the collar at the beginning of the day, but if they are, guess what's going on?  We have a theory, some of the folks who follow Jesus and myself that we are moving further and further away from God, and that it seems is taking place in a natural seeming way.  Our contention is that it isn't natural but driven- and that one of the largest driving forces for such in the world is media.  Here is something else to consider, would God love you more today if you did a few more things that He'd like you to do?  Being honest, we'd almost like to believe such possible, but the truth is God loves us.  Interesting fact about God, He loves us, in fact God is love.