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1 Peter 1:13-17 We need to be holy! Not just on certains days of the year or in some circumstance, but in all conservations , actions, and all days.

We focus on the circumstances happening around us that we forget who we have residing with us. We get so overwhelmed with the trials that wer're goint through, that we forget thses are the trial the Lord brought to us. We get so focused on the uncertainties in this life , that we forget we have hope and certainty in the next life.

Jesus asks everything from those who follow Him. He will be second to none and nothing in the life of His disciples. Only He has the right to claim this kind of ownership of us since He created us, sustains us, keeps us alive, orchestrates our lives in the order in which we find them, and He knows the beginning from the end. God is supreme and Sovereign and there is no other being like Him. Jesus demonstrates to us the power and order and control of our God. We who follow Him lay down everything for Him. There is no other option for us for everything else is covetousness and idolatry. Jesus rescues us and brings us into his Kingdom where we find we needed no other things besides Him anyhow. He is present in our storms, able to calm when He is ready. He is able to heal and even the demonic forces know who He is and are under His authority as they, too, are something He created. He created them good, they turned away from Him, but they are no match for Him. That is sure. Be not afraid!

"The terrors they see cause them to surrender the hopes they embrace" --- (2007 version at Why Jerusalem Is Troubled) Last Week – The first bloodshed was at the hand of Herod the Great; innocent children were slain in an attempt to slay the newborn king of the Jews. See it at War on Christmas - First…

Psalm 128:1-6 Stephen Caswell © 2004 In the Abstract Not The Concrete Jim Brown was a famous child psychologist who had written many books on children and child training. One day, he was enjoying a cold drink after finishing his new concrete driveway. He walked out on the front porch to view the results…