A Living Hope, A Sure Salvation Because of Grace

Tick Tock Chris Rice Got our heels dug in But time is draggin' us toward The time when time won't matter anymore They say life is but a vapor Just a blip on a radar screen Not the dates on your tombstone But the dash in between There's just today, that's all we got There's just today, that's all we got Tick-tock, the past is locked The future's far away You can't go back, you can't hurry it up You gotta learn to live today Tick-tock, it's now o'clock The little hand is ours The second hand sweeps us around And the Big Hand has the power The Big Hand has the power Well am I livin' or am I dyin' Will the world get another day? I hear a baby cryin', and I pluck out another gray I'm always talkin' about a change But talkin's all I've done I'm gonna start tomorrow But tomorrow never comes There's just today, that's all we got There's just today, that's all we got Tick-tock, the past is locked The fut...

I believe that we all know in our hearts and heads that God is good, however believing that is sometimes very, very hard.I spent the better part of the last four months of last year knowing in my head and my heart that God is good and He proved that to me with the Bethlehem project and all the blessings that came with the trials of that outreach! Although it is only the third month of the year it has been a very LONG year. I brought in the new year with almost a whole week off due to an allergy/sinus infection that literally had me whispering. I started the first full week of the year by refreshing my resume. God literally told me that I was done working retail and I was not supposed to job search in the food industry. Since I have no college education all I could do was trust that God knew what was next for me. I went to check into a college course that very week and enrolled and was accepted. That same week my refrigerator compressor bit the dust...not even two years old and it ...

As I sit trying not to hack up a lung, thinking back over the last year, I, like so many others think of everything I have to be grateful for. I wonder, though, how many of us stop and consider how much growing and maturing we have done in the course of the last year(s). If I were to sit and read every blog I posted this last year I believe I would see the maturing, growing change. God walked me through challenges and fought battles for me. I have evidence of this in a lot of areas of my life. I brought in the year 2019 by going to bed by 12:10 am. Yes I am getting older but having no voice requires more work when communicating and so I retired earlier than usual. Several things that God really brought to my attention the last couple of weeks are reminding me again and again "to do what is right, to love mercy, to walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8b NLT) "To do what is right" means that sometimes you walk with God alone through this world. For whatever r...