Sharon Sharing God: QUAINT WORDS

Saturday, November 20, 2010

QUAINT WORDS

Welcome to "Quaint Words!”

These posts will contain thoughts, poems, and prayers from old books that I have found at antique stores, flea markets, and garage sales (with an occasional treasure from a bookstore).

I love the rhythm and sound of the older English language, and am blessed by other believers who have gone before me!

(A listing of books and authors, and also dates of individual postings from those books, will be found on my "QUAINT WORDS" page)

"In order that we may be successful in our fishing [for men], let us ask Christ to give us attractive bait - His ways, His manner of doing, His tact, His patience, His forgiveness, His forbearance, His generosity, His strength.

No matter the cost, no matter the weariness, no matter the discouraging moments, no matter what comes our way, provided we gather in souls for Christ.

It is the good we have done on earth that we shall find in Heaven - nothing more; and this good is done only through our individual goodness - our union with God - not through any notice or consideration that may be shown us.

Let us then strive to be holy."

(From "Spiritual Pastels" by J.S.E. c. 1918)

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

6 comments:

lioneagleNovember 20, 2010 at 6:30 AM
Hi Sharon -

Thank you for this - Yes, indeed -

Holy, Holy, Holy - Lord GOD Almighty. We are mandated to be holy as He is holy.

Lord, please help us all!
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Saleslady371November 20, 2010 at 11:44 AM
"Attractive bait" - who talks like this anymore? How very fascinating, my precious friend.

Love ya,
Mary
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Chatty CroneNovember 20, 2010 at 2:21 PM
I'm thinking the word that hit me was STRIVE - I feel like I'm always striving - not sure if I ever get anywhere. Sandie
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SharonNovember 20, 2010 at 9:32 PM
Sandra - Yes, the HOLY God Almighty! May we look more and more like Him, in our ways and our words. And may we always "fish for men" - and be faithful to spread the Good News to a desperate world.

Mary - Isn't it fun?! No one talks like this anymore - and that's why I love these quaint words. And yet, they speak a timeless truth. God remains unchanged.

Sandie - Some striving is NOT such a good thing. Especially when we strive for something WE want, and do not wait on the Lord. But this kind of striving makes me think of reaching for a goal - kind of like how runners stretch themselves out, leaning forward, at the end of a race - pressing toward the tape at the finish line. I'm thinking the destination isn't the key thing here. I'm thinking that God cares more about the striving - more about the DESIRE to be holy. He'll provide the power and the strength to achieve it!

GOD BLESS!
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MTJNovember 21, 2010 at 8:49 PM
Hi Sharon,

"...our union with God - not through any notice or consideration that may be shown us. Let us then strive to be holy."

This is a wonderful encouragement that because of our union with God we strive to be holy.

Blessings and peace.

MTJ
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SharonNovember 21, 2010 at 9:18 PM
MTJ - Yes. Without God in our lives, I'm afraid we wouldn't care too much about being holy. At the very least, we wouldn't strive for it. However, it is that very union with God that ENABLES us to seek holiness - it is His strength that makes us persevere. Thanks, as always, for your comment!

GOD BLESS!
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Anonymous

When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

Emily Freeman

Sharon Sharing God

Saturday, November 20, 2010

QUAINT WORDS

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