Sharon Sharing God: QUAINT WORDS

Saturday, September 3, 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!

"Do not let any of these things [of the world] move you, for the rest that Jesus Christ has prepared for you is an ample recompense for all you may meet with here.

This rest is the fruit of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ: O how will it fill our souls with love, to think that through the streams of this blood, we have overcome the violence of the world, and the snares of the devil.

My dear brethren, be not discouraged at the treatment you meet with here, but let it be a means to stir you up to advance in the love of the Lord who has prepared a rest for you."

(From "Daily Readings by George Whitefield" by George Whitefield, c. 1714-1770)

(Today is the memorial service for my aunt. I miss you a bunch, Auntie Phyllis - but I'll see you again! Rest in the love of the Lord.)

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

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

6 comments:

AnonymousSeptember 3, 2011 at 7:46 AM
Dear Sharon - I am so very sorry at the loss of your aunt - sounds that she was much loved by you. Praise God that we weep for a season, but spend eternity in unspeakable joy with those souls He has bound us to in our earthly lives. Yes, that is a rest much to be desired and sought after. Thinking of my mom, there, now.

Meantime - may you know rest from our weary day to day demands - seems things get heavier - or else we are all in a faith building season toughing out weight bearing exercises.

Joy in the climb, my firend . . .
Kathy
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DebbieSeptember 3, 2011 at 10:37 AM
Absolutely beautiful words. Funny thing... Lately it seems that I am reading of the rest in Christ at every corner.

May you be comforted this morning, Sharon, and may your aunt have that rest we all long for.
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Saleslady371September 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM
So sorry for your loss. Your posted scriptures must really be comforting you now. I know they bring me comfort and rest.
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UnknownSeptember 3, 2011 at 2:52 PM
Hi Sharon,

You are in my thoughts and prayers.

God Bless - Nita x
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WandaSeptember 3, 2011 at 8:21 PM
Sorry to hear of your loss, Sharon.
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SharonSeptember 8, 2011 at 4:21 PM
Kathy - Climbing with you. And making progress as we venture ever closer to our unspeakably joyful eternity with Christ!

Debbie - Yes, we are given rest in this life (peace that passes understanding) - and rest in the life to come. I think, actually I know, that my earthly rest depends heavily on how focused I am on that eternal rest. Hope brings a light yoke...

Mary - There are few things in life that are more comforting than the Word of God. I derive great meaning in them. My aunt believed every promise - and she is with the One she longed for.

Nita - Thanks, Nita. All is well. God is on His throne, and my aunt rests in His everlasting arms. I will see her again...

Wanda - I appreciate your sentiments. My sadness continues to be covered with joy. My aunt has come into the presence of our Lord. I mourn only for this short life...

BLESSINGS, one and all - GOD BLESS!
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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, September 3, 2011

QUAINT WORDS

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