Sharon Sharing God: QUAINT WORDS

Saturday, July 9, 2011

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!

"It has been well said that 'earthly cares are a heavenly discipline;' but they are even something better than discipline - they are God's chariots, sent to take the soul to its high places of triumph.

They do not look like chariots...

They look like juggernaut cars of misery and wretchedness, which are only waiting to roll over us and crush us into the earth.

But could we see them as they really are, we should recognize them as chariots of triumph in which we may ride to those very heights of victory for which our souls have been longing and praying.

The Juggernaut car is the visible things; the chariot of God is the invisible...

This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and one another, 'Lord, open our eyes that we may see...'

...for the world all around us...is full of God's horses and chariots, waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory."

(From "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life" by Hannah Whitall Smith, c. 1888)

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

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Marsha YoungJuly 9, 2011 at 5:18 AM
Hannah Whitall Smith's books was one of my favorites during my 20's and 30's. Her gentle, and grateful spirit never failed to encourage me.

She was also one of the earliest female Christian writers! :)
Blessings to you ...Marsha
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AnonymousJuly 9, 2011 at 5:25 AM
An old scout leading on an old path. Thanks for sharing, Sharon! Hope you are weathering the storm valiantly! Thinking of you, sister!
Joy!
Kathy
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ReneeJuly 9, 2011 at 5:33 AM
I had a godly history teacher who always used to pronounce, "We stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before." Thank God for the ones gone to glory who can still inspire us today. Thanks for sharing this on Spiritual Sunday. Blessings!
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Nikki (Sarah)July 9, 2011 at 6:06 AM
this is interesting. Hope your weekend is a good one.
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DebbieJuly 9, 2011 at 6:49 AM
But could we see them as they really are, we should recognize them as chariots of triumph in which we may ride to those very heights of victory for which our souls have been longing and praying.

The Juggernaut car is the visible things; the chariot of God is the invisible...

Oh Sharon, this is just wonderful!!
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Janettessage.blogspot.comJuly 9, 2011 at 7:33 AM
Oh this is great....it sums up my last month. I feel like I have been run over this past six weeks and yet my spirit knows that it is all for my good...I need to just see it in terms like this piece says ..for the world all around us...is full of God's horses and chariots, waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory." Amen! I am going to enjoy the ride!!
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Chatty CroneJuly 9, 2011 at 10:06 AM
Open my eyes so I can see - and heal my heart of misery.
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CharlotteJuly 9, 2011 at 12:14 PM
Beautiful thoughts, Sharon. Thank you for sharing them.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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Janis Van KeurenJuly 9, 2011 at 9:02 PM
Hi Sharon,
This is one of my favorite books. I think I told you that already, though. Her journey is one of trusting God because He is worthy of our trust and faithful to care for us--no matter what the ride feels like.
Nothing can touch us that has not passed through His hand first--that's from her book. I don't think I wrote it word for word, so no quote marks.
Praying that you are secure in this storm that is attacking. Remember Jesus is in the boat with you!
Blessings and Prayers,
Janis
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SharonJuly 18, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Thanks, everyone, for your very encouraging words. Yes, I am also a great fan of Hannah. She has comforted me more than once. Didn't you just love the phrase "juggernaut car"? I was reminded of those old bumper car rides at amusement parks. Sometimes it does seem like life is just one big bumping into things, doesn't it?

Yet, we must not focus on the visible. It is the INVISIBLE ways of God that are reality. Therein lies the truth that we must depend on.

I'm choosing to look at the horses and chariots!

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, July 9, 2011

QUAINT WORDS

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