Monday, September 14, 2009
Following Peace and Holiness
Following peace and holiness is attending the baptism of your daughter's friend and knowing that in just a few weeks it will be your daughter's turn. Watching her be excited for her friend, knowing her turn is close. Listening to talks about promises and covenants and about being washed clean. President Packer once wrote that being 'washed clean' is the greatest gift. It is a part of our peaceable walk to follow in the example of the Savior in baptism. It is an holy act and brings us to a place of holiness. Now to continue the journey...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Follow Peace - And Holiness
More from blogs on the web that help restore peace to my soul.
It was not a peaceable week last week, nor was my walk that peaceable. But my studies today have shown me some light.
From Hebrews: THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE HEBREWS - CHAPTER 12
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth—God is the Father of spirits—To see God, follow peace and holiness—Exalted saints belong to the Church of the Firstborn.
From Me: To see God, follow peace and holiness.
More from Hebrews:
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him cendured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
From me: Faint in my mind = a loss of hope or of peace (or of holiness, a new addition to my quest). Run the race with patience keeping my eyes upon The Finisher.
It was not a peaceable week last week, nor was my walk that peaceable. But my studies today have shown me some light.
From Hebrews: THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE HEBREWS - CHAPTER 12
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth—God is the Father of spirits—To see God, follow peace and holiness—Exalted saints belong to the Church of the Firstborn.
From Me: To see God, follow peace and holiness.
More from Hebrews:
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him cendured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
From me: Faint in my mind = a loss of hope or of peace (or of holiness, a new addition to my quest). Run the race with patience keeping my eyes upon The Finisher.
Peace is - starting a new school year
I am sitting at my scrapbook store today planning school. I should have done it last week, but I was used car shopping. There is something re-newing about the beginning of a school year. Maybe it is all my years teaching school that stirs anticipation. Maybe it is just the comfort of scheduled days and nights and the determination to stick to that schedule so we can get through (summer is way more sporatic). No matter, as I sit and ponder and think through where I must begin and where I want to end I usually come upon some wonderful ideas via all the great resources on the web.
Today it is blog reading for me. Here are some great and comforting quotes and scriptures that I came across today.
From a blog I found called "His Grace to Me" she uses the tagline: "...and His grace to me was not without effect." ~ ICor. 15:10. The thought was worth pondering, but not recalling this phrase I went to my King James Version to check the actual scripture that I would use for that reference. It is this:
1 Cor 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
From a blog called "A Lady in Training" the tagline: Learning to be led by the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23)... From the KJV Gal 5: 22 But the afruit of the bSpirit is clove, djoy, epeace, flongsuffering, ggentleness, goodness, hfaith,
23 aMeekness, btemperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the aaffections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
I love verse 25.
From a blog about promoting beautiful womanhood is a section about teaching children well: Teach Your Children Well
Rearing Lords and Ladies
We are "ruled-rulers," as T. David Gordon termed it; we must act the part or disgrace the One who made us in His image. As we learn to be like Him, we are responsible to teach our children to do the same.
Yes, it is in my peaceable walk that I find joy in teaching my children to walk uprightly before the Lord. To love and honor what is good and noble and to shun the world and all the perversions that are around us. We must fight for our families and for the preservation of our right as parents to instill in them what we hold to be sacred and true.
Today it is blog reading for me. Here are some great and comforting quotes and scriptures that I came across today.
From a blog I found called "His Grace to Me" she uses the tagline: "...and His grace to me was not without effect." ~ ICor. 15:10. The thought was worth pondering, but not recalling this phrase I went to my King James Version to check the actual scripture that I would use for that reference. It is this:
1 Cor 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
From a blog called "A Lady in Training" the tagline: Learning to be led by the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23)... From the KJV Gal 5: 22 But the afruit of the bSpirit is clove, djoy, epeace, flongsuffering, ggentleness, goodness, hfaith,
23 aMeekness, btemperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the aaffections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
I love verse 25.
From a blog about promoting beautiful womanhood is a section about teaching children well: Teach Your Children Well
Rearing Lords and Ladies
We are "ruled-rulers," as T. David Gordon termed it; we must act the part or disgrace the One who made us in His image. As we learn to be like Him, we are responsible to teach our children to do the same.
Yes, it is in my peaceable walk that I find joy in teaching my children to walk uprightly before the Lord. To love and honor what is good and noble and to shun the world and all the perversions that are around us. We must fight for our families and for the preservation of our right as parents to instill in them what we hold to be sacred and true.
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