WHEN YOUR MIND IS IN MULTIPLE PLACES

”Now you should finish what you started.  Let the eagerness you showed in the beginning be matched now by your giving.  Give in proportion to what you have.” (2 Corinthians 8:11 NLT) You can take this meditation as an apology or just a way to point to my humanity.  Tuesday morning, I got up early and started working at 1:50 a.m.  All I had to do first was to review and refine the...

NOT TODAY!

There are many times, for different reasons, we just throw something on, referring to how we dress.  We don’t try to match, make no effort to coordinate, and minimize concerns about who we might run into.  We just throw something on!  Honestly, many of us picked up habits during the pandemic, and we adopted a nonchalant attitude relating to what we wear.  We just throw something on. Oh I...

USE WHAT YOU DO HAVE

“Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’  The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” (Exodus 4:1-2 ESV) In the 1960’s we lived in a shotgun house, no, not where any weapons would be found other than the word of God, but a house where you could stand in the...

WHAT A FELLOWSHIP!

“This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.  If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” (I...

USE WHAT YOU GOT!

“Now after him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck and killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad; and he also saved Israel.” (Judges 3:31 NASB) For readers who prefer the shorter Mark Writes meditations, we are going to make Monday the day where your preference is met, and I will do it without sacrificing a meaningful message via the meditation.  The theme is the title, “Use...

WHAT IF?

“But the path of the just (righteous) is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the perfect day.”  (Proverbs 4:18 Amplified) I have seen a few books entitled, “What If,” but the content of this meditation is very different than the topics those published authors focused on. What I will share has nothing to do with how history would have been different if...