MAY 30, 2018

“I wanted you to see what real courage is...It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch” 
― Harper Lee

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” 

― Anaïs Nin

1 CHRONICLES 28-29

9“And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. 10Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary. Be strong and do the work.”(29:9-10)

JOHN 11:47-57

 47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.

“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs. 48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”

49Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! 50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

51He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. 53So from that day on they plotted to take his life.

JOURNAL 

"Be strong and do the work." I love these words of David to Solomon. The words of a father to a son are precious. They can be life-giving or life-taking. David has called him I believe God calls all believers in the same personal way. "Be strong and do the work" that he has blessed us to do. 

No reason to whine about what I don't have or wish situations were different or put parameters on what God can do...God is God and he has given life and commands me to do my best in completing the work that is before me. 

8Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

MATTHEW 28:8-20