What do you value? Long today, but worth the read!!! Phil 3:8,9

Good morning all! God is good all the time, all the time God is good. TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!

   What do you value?  What are your values?  All that you do in life.....is it worthy or worthless?  How have you been trained?  How have you trained your children?

    Moses, a Hebrew child, in a time when execution of Israelite young males was ordered, was found by Pharaoh's daughter.  When she picked the child up, the child cried.  This cry went straight to her heart. Then, as always, God's hand was evident as the Hebrew mother who was summoned to nurse and raise Moses was none other than Moses birth mother. Wow!

   Value!  Moses' mother raised him and trained him as her own for the Pharaoh's daughter until Moses reached the age to be taught in the palace.  We teach and we train.  We teach and this may or may not remain with someone; but when we train, the training remains.  What values are we trained in?  What values are YOU trained in?

   Do you relish the things of this world?  Sunday comes when we can have fellowship with other believers - whether in a church with walls, a church without walls, or just a group of believers gathering to worship God, do you participate or do you FIND REASONS NOT TO ATTEND?  Because you are in a church does not make you a Christian, just as standing in a garage does not make you a car.  However, we must come together, sharpen our tools of spiritual warfare to battle the many things satan sends forth.

  Paul says in Philippians 3:8,9 "Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.  For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law, rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ."

   You should value your relationship with Christ as the ultimate goal. How?  Study the life of Christ, the New Testament, let the Holy Spirit lead (in prayer & worship) and take up Christ's mission to preach the gospel.   You have a choice, either to hell with it and to there I go also; OR, off to see the Saviour, the wonderful Jesus Christ.  The choice is yours my friend - what do you value? Life eternal or.......

   In Christ's Love and Grace
      Johnny