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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

TATTOO & ENGRAVED - by DianaDee Osborne

TATTOO & ENGRAVED - by DianaDee Osborne

25 May 2021 SUBSCRIBE
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PARABLE:
At ALIVE festival in OH around 2006, I was chatting with guy setting up Soundboard in rear booth for next band (when he took break) about his wide tattoo on left finger. He said it was his wedding band, & laughed when I replied, "Now THAT is commitment!"... Soon as the band started, I learned --- he was guitarist for famous Christian band Audio Adrenaline.

SO WHAT ??
... GOD DOES NOT need a Tattoo to remind Him

to Keep His Promises, His Commitments to you

if you Honor Him--

Because God has ALREADY ENGRAVED

all His people who honor Him ON HIS HAND...

Isaiah 49:16 Israel + Romans 11, "grafted in" people who Believe & Honor Him.

SUCH JOY! PEACE!

What does LORD God say ?? Isaiah 49
13 Sing, O heavens!Be joyful, O earth!And break out in singing, O mountains!For the LORD has comforted His people,And will have mercy on His afflicted. God Will Remember Zion.

14 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me,

And my Lord has forgotten me.”

15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,

And not have compassion on the son of her womb?Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.

16 See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; .....Your walls are continually before Me."

ISAIAH 49 was written for Israel the Nation, God's people chosen to SHOW HIM to all other nations....

yet it also applies to all who CALL UPON HIM as LORD --- who He thus

Grafts in to be His People.... See Romans 11 & be comforted

both in God's invitation to GENTILES (also in Isaiah 56), but also

by God's promise that He forgives & saves ALL humble people incl. all of Israel who return to Him.

Prayer:
LORD God who is named YHWH (You said in Isaiah 42:8 Hebrew),

LORD it is SO amazing that You, the LORD of All, not only invite but yearn for us Each to

return to You despite our sins.... Please forgive us...

Thank you for "engraving on Your palm" like a PERMANENT WEDDING RING tattoo

Your promised reminder: You are our God and we are Yours if we accept You.

Photo Credit:
InkMe.tattoo

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New King James Version used unless otherwise noted.

Monday, May 24, 2021

Baby Birds Comfort - by DianaDee Osborne

Baby Birds Comfort - by DianaDee Osborne

DATE of posting: 24 May 2021 SUBSCRIBE
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PARABLE:

My brain finally awoke enough to realize that constant noise this AM was a bird in the holly inches from bed. Peeked out. Tiny baby girl cardinal. More peeping-- baby wren on another branch.

SO WHAT ??

God gives COMFORT thru reminders of His care

for the darling birds He made for our joy despite Life's sadnesses.

Fascinating Facts in this article: Did you know cardinals mate for life? Or that FOOD affects how red males are? SEE https://www.worldbirds.org/cardinal-bird-facts/...

What does LORD JESUS say ??

Matthew 10:

28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

(Luke 12:8, 9 )

32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

Prayer:
LORD God who is named YHWH (You said in Isaiah 42:8 Hebrew),

LORD it is SO amazing that You, the LORD of All, CARE

about EACH of us.... LOVE us despite our sins, so that You URGE us

to give up sins that destroy us and RUN TO YOU to be saved-- James 4:7-8

and First John's book.... Please help us to remember these TRUTHs You've given

in Your Word along with Your promises of Loving Care.

Photo Credit:
BirdsOutsideMyWindow.or

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New King James Version used unless otherwise noted.

Friday, May 21, 2021

Just One More Good Work - by DianaDee Osborne

Just One More Good Work - by DianaDee Osborne

DATE of posting: 21 May 2021 SUBSCRIBE
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PARABLE:

Grandmom would say "a few eggs short of a dozen" if we said something dumb.

Dad's phrase was "A few cards short

of a full deck."

Being "short" of something can be ok--

often there's a "workround" that gets us to our Goal.

But Not about good works getting us to Heaven.

There's always ONE MORE STEP.......

If we go to the store with $900 to buy a desk but it costs $900.01 ...

no-- we don't receive the desk. Unless someone graces us with a penny gift.

The cost of our sins is always "one more" for infinity.

Jesus's grace to those who humbly accept it is always the only payment that's enough to "receive heaven". YET GOD! >>>

SO WHAT ??

A simple insufficient parable, but another seed idea to explain why good deeds are never ever going to be enough, even if we did a million. YET GOD gives us Complete Hope thru His Messiah Son He's sent who offers that Payment for Sin to ALL who will accept it.

What does LORD God say ??

See the JOY of 2nd Peter 3:8-9 and all 3 Letters of First John, especially Book 1 Chapter 1 >> https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/1jo/1/1/s_1160001

2nd Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, NOT (NOT!) willing that ANY {ANY ONE of us) should perish but that all should come to repentance...... https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/2pe/3/1/s_1159001

But there's

SIMPLY NO WAY for us to do enough Good works to pay for our sins.... Not even one, for they are EACH an abomination to Holy God.

Prayer:
LORD God who is named YHWH (You said in Isaiah 42:8 Hebrew),

Help me learn to BELIEVE Your words that ONLY Your Messiah can save me....

It's the "modern way" to think we can eventually do enough to earn the reward.

Help me to see that I'm always "a penny short" of paying for my sins.....

for infinity.

And that Jesus GLADLY has already paid the penalty for our sins -- if we humbly accept His Truth.

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(1) HassemanMarketing.com

(2) www.kuriositas.com/2014/03/the-haiku-stairs-hawaiis-forbidden.html

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music website with OVER 600 MP3 audios & downloadable music sheets, at
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©2021 DianaDee Osborne (all material), all rights reserved. FREE personal usage; see website.
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With thanks to BlueLetterBible.org for providing God's Word in easy-to-research format.

New King James Version used unless otherwise noted.

Evil Hidden Weeds - by DianaDee Osborne

EVIL HIDDEN WEEDS - by DianaDee Osborne

DATE of posting: 21 May 2021 SUBSCRIBE
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PARABLE:
Beautiful green blades shooting up in friend's yard look like lush grass.

I learned long ago that they're nasty sharp BURRs

that spread "like crazy" if ignored.

So I warned her--

and now it's up to her whether to pull them out.

SO WHAT ??
God calls us to LEARN truth --

& then HELP others. And to be humble enough to

(1) step back if person disagrees, and to

(2) LISTEN when others take time to to teach us what THEY've learned.

We can always research for ourselves-- like the Bereans did for all of Paul's sermons about Jesus being Messiah. (Acts 17:11).

WE MUST BEWARE OF EVIL WEEDS EVEN IN "CHURCH"

("synagogue" = "gathering together place")

And pray for God's WISDOM to know which people are like EVIL BURRS, and which speak Truth.

What does LORD God say ?? -- ACTS 17 EVIL WEEDS IN the "church"

After hearing about Jesus as Messiah ....

5 But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious,[OTHERS IGNORING THEM]

took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and

gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason,

and sought to bring them out to the people. 6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out,

“These who have turned the world upside down have come here too. >>>

[THEN THESE "EVIL WEEDS" LIED: ]

7 Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar,

saying there is another king—Jesus.”

8 And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things....

10 Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea.

When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and

searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

12 Therefore many of them believed, [those within the synagogue - vs 10]

and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.

13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the

word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the crowds.

Prayer:
LORD God who is named YHWH (You said in Isaiah 42:8 Hebrew),

Help me to know TRUTH.... Help US to know TRUTH.... to know which people are like

EVIL THORNY WEEDS seeking to destroy or hurt us.... Just because they want to.

We pray James 1:5 for wisdom. We run from lies and TO You, God: James 4: 7-8.

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(1) HomeGardensCare.com

(2) slidetodoc.com/book-of-acts-chapter-17-theme-the-second

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New King James Version used unless otherwise noted.

Monday, May 17, 2021

Time Usage & Geniuses - by DianaDee Osborne

Time Usage & Geniuses - by DianaDee Osborne

DATE of posting: 17 May 2021 SUBSCRIBE
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PARABLE:
HOW ARE YOU DOING in Time Usage?.... God saved me from a driver hitting me head on at 65 mph because he couldn't wait a few minutes before his DON'T PASS yellow line ended so he could see IF the lane was clear past the coming curve... and I proved it was not... And GOD proved He Saves.

Thanking Him! And remembering...

My time, Our time, is NOT unlimited on Earth. .

What MORE COULD we do if we stopped wasting time? .

Fascinating article about 40 people defined by estimated IQ tests as

"Smartest People of All Time".

Lot of sadnesses in it though, showing

poor life choices of TIME USAGE

aren't limited to those of us who feel especially Dumb after articles like this.

WORST: Leonardo da Vinci was perhaps the most diversely talented person to have ever lived...

IQ scores range from 180 to 220 ...

one of the most celebrated painters in history,

revered for his technological innovations like flying machines, armored vehicles, solar power, adding machines. ..............

BUT: ......Da Vinci was a chronic procrastinator. SO he finished few of his designs.

SO WHAT ??
2nd Corinthians 5: 9-10, people who have accepted Jesus as savior aren't fretting about Judgment + Salvation.... but often FORGET that

there's another Judgment--

of what we did with our TIME:

What does LORD God say ??

" Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ,

that each one may receive the things done in the body,

according to what he has DONE, whether good or bad." - 2nd Corinthians 5: 9-10

First Corinthians 3:

9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.

10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.

11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

13 each one’s work will become clear;

for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire;

and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.

14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.

15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss;

but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

Prayer:
LORD God who is named YHWH (You said in Isaiah 42:8 Hebrew),

LORD it is SO amazing that You, the LORD of All, not only invite but yearn for us Each to "plug in" to restore our souls with You...

Photo Credit:

(1) Additudemag.com

(2) jvn2k07.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/face-the-music-1-corinthians-313

Fascinating article:

www.businessinsider.com/the-40-smartest-people-of-all-time-2015

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New King James Version used unless otherwise noted.

Sunday, May 16, 2021

My Way or the Highway? - by DianaDee Osborne

My Way or the Highway? - by DianaDee Osborne

DATE of posting: 16 May 2021 SUBSCRIBE
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PARABLE:
Among a child's first words are "Mine!"

As soon as most learn to play games, they demand "MY choice"... or even "MY rules!" .... Sadly, it's really hard to mature past that instinctive attitude of desire...... "My way or the Highway"...

Versus GOD'S way which is to (1) Listening to counsel +

(2) pray for James 1:5 Wisdom of God to

(3) TEST all things (1st Thess 5:21) before

(4) reaching a Firm Conclusion. The alternatives?

SO WHAT ??
"My way is right" was NOT the Beliefs of Bereans, whom God has praised THRU HISTORY for Humbly seeking scriptures "diligently" because they preferred Truth to insistence that they were right in any disagreement with Paul's counsel (see Acts 17:11).

What does LORD God say ??

(1) God says Fools don't listen to counsel, which HE often provides thru people -- Proverbs 12:15.

(2) God says Fools are so self-confident that they

pridefully refuse to consider

that they might be wrong --

Proverbs 14:3 + 17:10 where God says wise men *accept* rebuke-- admit that they could be wrong... God GIFTS wisdom to all who humbly ask...

James 1:5. But the key word = Humble.

Prayer:
LORD God who is named YHWH (You said in Isaiah 42:8 Hebrew), Help me to be wise.... and HUMBLE.

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depositphotos.com/stock-footage/children-fight.html

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Saturday, May 15, 2021

Playing Favorite Children - by DianaDee Osborne

Playing Favorite Children - by DianaDee Osborne

DATE of posting: 15 May 2021 SUBSCRIBE
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PARABLE:

When I was a kid, Mom & Dad watched some WEIRD TV shows.

One we saw every week was the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. 1 puzzle = why it was so funny that EVERY week at least 2 or 3 times, Tommy would whine to Dick that "YOU were Mom's favorite"....

and people laughed every time.

I often thought my brother was Mom's favorite

(and that I was Dad's-- never needing to be told to study)....

and wonder if this show gave me the idea.

What does LORD God say ??
Genesis 27:

Rebecca played favorites with her children... wanted the younger twin to be blessed by Dad (& inherit "the best"). So when Isaac told his oldest to go hunt & then make a stew & then Isaac would bless Esau... Mom told Jacob her scheme to trick the old about-blind Dad.

She's received most of the blame thru history.

But Jacob's argument was NOT "That is WRONG."

It was to describe how he feared they would be caught...

And thus he created HATRED that has endured for centuries in a

family that SPLIT because of Lies and Manipulations.....

SO WHAT ??
Being caught is the fear that keeps most of us from lying to others.

And Satan the Dad of all lies (said JESUS-- John 8:44)

rejoices when our #1 goal is to MANIPULATE to get our way,

instead of simply pleasing our God

who has already blessed us with so much.

Just as Jacob's Dad was rich: Jacob STILL would've been well blessed by him & by God had he simply been Truth filled. .

Prayer:
LORD God who is named YHWH (You said in Isaiah 42:8 Hebrew),

LORD it is SO amazing that You, the LORD of All, not only invite but yearn for us Each to "plug in" to restore our souls with You...

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