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The Underside of a Tapestry
Tapestry is not a familiar term in the twenty-first century. Tapestries are complex woven pictures.
The back side of a tapestry can show the change of thread color, or have some knots. The top side of the tapestry is the finished product. The top side may look beautiful. The bottom side may look unappealing with a mass of threads and knots.
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Our lives are like tapestries and much of what is woven in them depends upon us. Do we start something and then stop, and a thread is cut and that part of the tapestry is incomplete? Do we fail to fill in one section of the tapestry totally?
Jesus purchased back the ability to walk in the graces and gifts and life of God. Once we receive that by being born again, what we do with that is up to us.
There are many parables that indicate that life is a two way street, a two way relationship between God and man. There are those who like to focus on the finished work of Christ only, and it is a finished work. However, the objective is to move the finished work from the unseen into the seen, “thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” That requires our involvement and obedience to the Spirit of the living God.
None of us knows what tiny action may be the thread of a new beginning in the tapestry of life.
There used to be a saying that you don’t hear anymore, at least I haven’t heard it for a long time; it is an altered rhyme of a poem.
“Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die.” Source
It sounds a lot like what the Lord God said in Eden. He gave a command and if they did not obey the consequence was “thou shalt surely die”.
Who has despised the day of small things?
It is very easy and human for the natural mind to take over and say, “I don’t need to bother with that” or “that is unimportant”. We really don’t have a good understanding of what is important from the standpoint of heaven.
Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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Train Tracks
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Moving into 2024, life will be like a railroad train track. This is not anything new or unknown or a surprise if one reads the Bible. The fact that there are two different pathways is woven throughout the Bible. One pathway leads to life. One pathway leads to death.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
There have been some who have sought to be in tune and on time. For them 2024 will bring this.
Psalm 20:5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
Then there are those that the Lord has asked them to do something, some act of obedience, that has yet to be fulfilled. In image, these individuals are standing on the edge of a high cliff. The undone deeds may come back like a boomerang and knock them off balance … not a good place to be.
Spiritually speaking, it is good to clear the books and balances at the end of 2023.
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That which is least
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Exodus 4:2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? ….
I Corinthians 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.
25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Zechariah 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things?
Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines:
Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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John 3:16
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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