Are you exhausted from holding your life together? Are you sleepless with anxiety? Give over, have a little faith and then enjoy this promise, " he gives to his beloved sleep."

Psalm 127:1-2
Unless the Lord builds the house, 
   those who build it labor in vain. 
Unless the Lord watches over the city, 
  the watchman stays awake in         vain.
It is in vain that you rise up early
  and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
  for he gives to his beloved sleep.

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Do you know yet what you can endure? We are often so busy keeping ourselves comfortable we never experience those soul-wrenching depths. Jesus wrenches our souls. Let him, there is great reward.

Hebrews 10:35-39

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
For,

   “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not           delay;
     but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks            back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

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I have escaped the snare for the moment, but I appreciate being frail as a bird. It reminds me I have help from the creator of the universe. My frailty is completely manageable with a resource like that.

Psalm 124:7-8

We have escaped like a bird 
  from the snare of the fowlers;
  the snare is broken,
  and we have escaped.  
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
  who made heaven and earth.

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This pleases me. The author of Hebrews is struck, as I was, by Jeremiah 31:31-34. (God) put his laws into our minds and wrote them on our hearts. "They shall all know me..."

Hebrews 8:10-13

 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel 

     after those days, declares the Lord:
  I will put my laws into their minds,
    and write them on their hearts,
  and I will be their God,
     and they shall be my people.
  And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
     and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,
  for they shall all know me,
     from the least of them to the greatest.
  For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
     and I will remember their sins no more.”

In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

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I'm still a babe but I'm practicing! I'm finding it's not about adopting policies then living them out no matter what. It is about living every moment with God, discerning, practicing and sorting out good from evil. It's really hard!

Hebrews 5:12-14

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

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Any comment from me is unneccessary.

Psalm 121:1-8

The hills God gives me in Hume, Virginia

I lift up my eyes to the hills.
  From where does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
  who made heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot be moved;
  he who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, he who keeps Israel
 will neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord is your keeper;
  the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day,
  nor the moon by night.

The Lord will keep you from all evil;
  he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep 
  your going out and your coming in 
  from this time forth and forevermore.

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It is amazing how my bible readings on a daily basis seem to be so relevant. Before we helplessly lash out at liars, follow this advice: call to the Lord! He will answer you and deal with the deceitful tongue, the lying lips, in his way, in his time.

Psalm 120:1-4
In my distress I called to the Lord,
and he answered me.
Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.
What shall be given to you,
and what more shall be done to you,
you deceitful tongue?
A warrior's sharp arrows,
with glowing coals of the broom tree!

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