Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Then you may not want to bother reading this.
Especially if you find a certain pleasure in being down and disheartened.
I understand. Too well. So well I empathize.
Which is why I am posting some practical things that help me cast down dejection. Read it all
Are you bound?
Chains. How effectively they keep prisoners secured. Rattled by hapless captives, their oppressive clanking echoes through history and literature. But the most oppressive chains produce neither clank nor rattle. I have in mind chains such as bitterness, anger, fear, suspicion, self, and habits. Read it all
Several different issues — personal, family, local, national, international — were once again driving rest, peace, and quiet from my heart and mind…
As is my wont, I hauled the little blue book off our headboard to see what Scriptures God had for me this time.
Except I did so before I was actually ready to go to bed. Read it all
We are.
Does that mean we too are collapsing?
Not necessarily.
How do I change that answer to “No!”?
Before I get to that, I just want you to know that Read it all
If you’re sufficiently familiar with the Bible, you’ll know the portion in the title is incomplete. But more on that later.
Admonish. I don’t think it’s a term all that common in the contemporary American lexicon.
But it better be in the Christian’s lexicon…and practice! Read it all
I thought of this recently in the context of one person rebuking another.
And another person rebuking another.
And somewhere in there, one or more people rebuking back at the rebuker(s).
And me wanting to rebuke the whole lot. 🙄
Rebuking sounds so Biblical and spiritual. Read it all