photojones: May 2006

Roosting

I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given to me -- the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace. -- Acts 20:24

How important is grace? Paul said that telling about that grace was more important to him than his life! In fact, that was his life after his conversion to Jesus!

Almighty God, Holy Father, thank you for your lavish grace demonstrated and fully expressed in sending Jesus to die for me. As your child, and in thanks to your sacrificial gift, I pledge to you my life, my love, and my all. Through Jesus. Amen.

God bless,

Maranatha

dns

Perching

Taken off the Texas-City Dike.

Big birds flying

Some bigger birds in the air.

The Plan

Oh, the depth and riches of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out. -- Romans 11:33

God's plan to save us is incredible. His blueprints for the creation of our universe are beyond our imagining. He is so rich in wisdom and knowledge. What else can we do but go to him and ask him to open our minds to his work and his will in our lives.
Precious and Almighty Father, thank you for reawakening me each spring to the power of your sustaining presence in the world, but even more in my life. Bless me today as I seek to put you first in all I do. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

God bless.

Maranatha

dns

Transportation

:) A little change from the norm. :)

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Evening Light

Over the past couple of weeks these were the endings of the day the LORD had made.

Aint they sweet??

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Grace. :)

Grace. That word grabs attention. :)

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body isformed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. -- Ecclesiastes 11:5

I don't know. I don't know! That has to be one of the hardest phrases for us to use. But when thinking about God and His ways, that's really all we can say. What we know about God is only what He in His grace has chosen to reveal to us. He is the Mystery of mysteries. He is the supreme knowable Unknown. Yet what we do know of Him, what He has revealed to us in Jesus, is not only mighty and awesome, but loving and merciful.
To you, O Lord God, I can only offer my wonder and awe. When I consider the vastness of the universe in which our tiny blue planet spins its existence, I am humbled at your wonderfully complex and expansive sovereignty. At the same time, Abba Father, I treasure your nearness. You are the God far above all I know, the God who transcends space and time, and also God my Father who is ever near. Thank you for being accessible but not penetrable, available but not controllable. I thank you and praise you in the name of Jesus. Amen.

God bless.

Maranatha

dns

In the backyard

Sitting out back enjoying the nice weather got some shots of the visitors to my backyard.

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Sea Food

Crab

Oyster

Shrimp.

These guys eat good if you like this knd of grub. :)

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Confidence

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have what we asked of him. -- 1 John 5:14-15

Confidence before God. That's sort of an oxymoron if you meditate upon it. Yet through the presence of Jesus at the Father's right hand and the intercession of the Holy Spirit, we can have confidence and come boldly before the Creator of the universe and know that he not only hears us, but also cares for us. Wow, what a naudience! Oh, and one final thing, he also ACTS on what we ask.
Abba Father, for the grace of your listening ear I thank you more than words can say. Through the authority of Jesus my brother and by the grace of your interceding Holy Spirit, I offer you my thanks and love this day. Amen.

God bless,

Maranatha,

dns