November 14. Still rainy today, but just light rain. Quite chilly. First order of business after arriving at C&C’s house was to get acknowledgments written on the donor newsletters and get those ready to go out in the mail. Then Daddy and I spent the rest of the morning ploughing through Colossians chapter 2 and seeking to get that accurate and as readable as possible. It was a difficult section, and we do praise the Lord for His help. I made corrections in the computer file immediately after lunch while they were fresh in my mind. After nap, I got that chapter set up in the print file, as well as the English for chapter 3. Made the shopping list. Worked for a while on the culture course. Had supper and did dishes. Worked a little more on the culture course. Pastor’s teaching tonight was based on Ephesians 5:20, character quality of gratefulness. Giving thanks ALWAYS for ALL things unto God. We are to have a thankful heart ALL the time for EVERYTHING. Philippians 4:6. Gratefulness is “Appreciation of benefits received, looking for appropriate ways to express appreciation to others.” Do you make it a habit to thank God for the little things in life that others take for granted? You must make thankfulness a part of your daily life. 1) Gratefulness, or thanksgiving, is a commandment of God, I Thessalonians 5:18. If I am not thankful, I am out of the will of God. 2) We are ungrateful by nature. That’s why God has to command us to be grateful. Romans 1:21; II Timothy 3:1,2. 3) We must learn to be grateful. a) Recognize that all good things come from God. Even the things we don’t think are good are given to us from God for good reasons. b) Learn to express thankfulness. I Timothy 2;1; Psalm 100. I finished crocheting the bilum handle before we came home and attached it to the bilum after we came home. “1A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. 2Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. 3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. 5For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.” Psalm 100 Truly we have good reason to be thankful—the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endureth to ALL generations. November 15. A very rainy morning, and cold and windy too. We did not go out early to shop. Right after my breakfast and quiet time, we started checking Colossians chapter 3 and finished the first 17 verses. By then the rain had slowed down significantly so we decided to go ahead and get ready to go shopping. It was around 10:00 when we left the house, and we were back home by 11:30 after stops at Lidl, WalMart, and Aldi. It was still icy cold out, and we were thankful to get back to our little, warm apartment. After getting the food put away, we had lunch. I crocheted a few minutes before nap. After nap, we finished checking Colossians 3; and then I got the corrections made in the computer and got that chapter set up in the print file, along with the English for chapter 4. Praise the Lord for His help with some difficult sections. By then it was time to start supper. I didn’t get time this morning to make something for Daddy’s dinner so this afternoon, I cooked chicken ‘n’ gravy with rice. While dinner was cooking, I worked on culture lessons. Early this evening, we listened to another message by Pastor Weiss from Hebrews 12:7-13, How We Handle Discipline Makes All the Difference. Good discipline is pro-active, it puts a child in a situation ahead of time to help him learn how to behave in that situation before an actual situation comes up. Discipline is not just corrective or a means of punishment. Very often the hard things that come into our life are God’s preparing us for something that we will have to face later so we will know how to properly respond. God chastises us so that we can learn things that are necessary for life. When we receive discipline, it is not always that we have erred. How we handle the discipline will determine how we handle other things in life. When adversity comes into our life, Satan wants us to be weak-kneed. We can handle discipline properly when we realize three things by faith: 1) The purpose of the discipline, v.10—God does it for my profit—that I may be partaker of His holiness. What will make me happy in life is not things, it is holiness. 2) The end of the discipline, v.11. Afterward…. There is an end to the discipline. It is the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Isaiah 32:16-18. 3) The origin of the discipline, vv 7,8. Why does God do this? Because He is our Father. We are not illegitimate children. This discipline came directly from my Father. Faith is taking what God gives to us and saying “I know this comes from God.” When you receive discipline, you are at a crossroads. How are you going to respond? Proverbs 3:5-14. The greatest discipline of all is when God brings conviction of sin in your life. Internet went out about ten minutes before the message ended so while we were waiting for the recording to run ahead to that spot, I went ahead and washed the dishes. I also finished crocheting the two pockets for my bilum and attaching them to the inside of the bilum. Made a loop too for a closure on top of the bilum. Just need a button now on which to hook the loop. Maybe Connie has a big button I can use. “9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.” Hebrews 12:9,10
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