Fading Beauty, Right Priorities

As I considered my life the following verse offers a great deal of comfort. But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”” 1 Samuel 16:7 NIV

As we get older our physical beauty fades and strength diminishes. This is an expected part of the aging process as we make our journey to our long home. I am so glad that God is looking at the heart and not at my physical appearance. All the Botox treatments face lifts and liposuction cannot hide or improve an evil heart. Everyday I want my heart spirit to look more like Christ.

Dear God search my heart and see if there is any wicked way in me and renew in me a right spirit.

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Elisha, The Provision is in the Obedience

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The Propped Up King

34 But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the sections of his armor. The king told his chariotdriver, "Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I've been wounded." 35 All day long the battle raged,and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. I Kings 22:34-35 Why would the king need to be propped up? You see when the king fell the battle was considered lost. However since they made the king look vital, alive, and unwounded then the army continued to fight Is this not a picture of Satan? He is a propped up king. He’s really wounded and the blood as it were is seeping into his chariot until the evening falls. When you read the Scripture you see that he’s really mortally wounded. Christ has won the battle. Our job is to live in that victory and not be afraid of a propped up King.

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