Thursday March 17, 2011 thought for the day-from jasper

HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

1-Affliction is a good man's shining time-

2-Our greatest necessities call out our greatest virtues-

3-We need to be a gospel optimist-

4-The world is full of good and evil--take an O out of good and you have God, put a D in from of evil and you have devil-

5-Yes has no meaning without a no-

STRANGE THOUGHT-There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance-

I'VE LEARNED-If only you could bottle up and store children' energy. It would be much more effective than coffee.

DID YOU KNOW-The most common Swedish surname if Johansson-

5 THINGS I WANT TO KNOW

1-Is mercy the same as compassion?

2-How are mercy and grace related?

3-Can you bargain with God?

4-Is mercy comforting rather than criticizing?

5-Is suffering "God's school of development"?

BIBLE TRIVIA-What reluctant prophet was thrown overboard in a storm?

Yesterday's answer-Ahijah

SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY HEBREWS 9:16-22

¹⁶ When there is a will, it must be proven that the one who wrote that will is dead.¹⁷ A will means nothing while the person is alive; it can be used only after the person dies.¹⁸ This is why even the first agreement could not begin without blood to show death.¹⁹ First, Moses told all the people every command in the law. Next he took the blood of calves and mixed it with water. Then he used red wool and a branch of the hyssop plant to sprinkle it on the book of the law and on all the people.²⁰ He said, "This is the blood that begins the Agreement that God commanded you to obey."²¹ In the same way, Moses sprinkled the blood on the Holy Tent and over all the things used in worship.²² The law says that almost everything must be made clean by blood, and sins cannot be forgiven without blood to show death.

GREATLY BLESSED, HIGHLY FAVORED, IMPERFECT BUT FORGIVEN CHILD OF GOD!!!