Thank Heavens for iGoogle Weather

So today I was looking at my iGoogle page (thank heavens for iGoogle), and I decided to look at the weather.

Out of five choices, Belfast, Ireland, seemed to be the best place to be. In my opinion. Because I have one.

St. Paul, MN: 81 with a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms.

Louisville, KY: 94, partly sunny with a 50% chance showers and thunderstorms.

Boston, MA: 90 with a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms and gusty winds.

River Falls, WI: 83 with a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms.

Belfast, Ireland: 64 with a 20% chance of rain.

Anybody want to go?

To be filled with all the fullness of God

To understand the most extravagant love that has ever been, we need to pray. God's love is a mystery to us. It is something we need to meditate on. We need to breath it in and out, listen to the glorious song, taste the dew, understand that we will never fully understand. Only with strength from the Holy Spirit are we able to fathom what we receive through Christ Jesus.

"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have the strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3:14-19)

"We are the aroma of Christ...."

"But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ" (2 Corinthians 2:14-17).

Make War by Tedashii

One God amongst many imposters

"For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth--as indeed there are many 'gods' and many 'lords'--yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist" (1 Corinthians 8:5-6).

Shadowfeet by Brooke Fraser

A Command to be Holy

"Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, 'You shall be holy, for I am holy'" (1 Peter 1:13-16)

We, as followers of Jesus, need to be holy in our conduct. We are COMMANDED to be holy. It's not a choice. We must strive for the holiness that mirrors our Lord Jesus Christ. The desire to do this must be embedded in our hearts, and if the Holy Spirit is working in your soul, it is. 

Do not avoid this command. Do not keep on sinning for the sake of sinning. The satisfaction of sin is immediate, not eternal. And what are we striving for? Immediate or eternal treasures? 

"And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for your sake, who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. 

"Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for 

'All flesh is like grass

and all its glory like the flower of

 grass.

The grass withers,

and the flower falls,

but the word of the Lord remains

forever.'

"And this word is the good news that was preached to you" (1 Peter 1:17-25)