Sharon Sharing God: SATURDAY STROLL - This World is Not Your Home

Saturday, April 14, 2012

SATURDAY STROLL - This World is Not Your Home

Welcome to "SATURDAY STROLL!"

In these posts I will be interacting with Scripture – making it a conversational walk of faith.

Sometimes we'll be talking with Jesus, sometimes God will be talking with us.

There might even be *guest appearances* by some of our beloved characters from the Bible!

So put on your walking shoes – you know we can all use the exercise!

THIS WORLD IS NOT YOUR HOME

Dear Ones,

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.

For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure…

A craving for everything you see…

And pride in your achievements and possessions.

These are not from the Father, but are from this world.

And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave.

If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.

The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world.

I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.

So don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.

Love,

Jesus

(From 1 John 2, Romans 12, and John 15)

This world is not my home, I'm just a passing thru,

My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue,

The angels beckon me from heaven's open door,

And I can't feel at home in this world any more.

My Savior pardoned me from guilt and shame I know,

I'll trust his saving grace while traveling here below,

I know he'll welcome me at heaven's open door,

And I can't feel at home in this world any more.

Oh Lord, you know I have no friend like you,

If heaven's not my home then Lord what will I do,

The angels beckon me from heaven's open door,

And I can't feel at home in this world any more.

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

6 comments:

bettyApril 14, 2012 at 7:16 AM
I am so thankful that this world is not our home! I'm glad that Jesus and others in the Bible remind us of that :) I know the world will always disappoint us and leave us unsatisfied, but Jesus NEVER disappoints us and continually satisfies us :)

I do look forward to our permanent residence :)

stay safe! We are getting ferocious winds down here!

betty
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Chatty CroneApril 14, 2012 at 7:46 AM
I am glad this isn't my home either - I look forward to meeting Jesus. It isn't easy here. Love, sandie
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DeniseApril 14, 2012 at 8:38 AM
I am very thankful that this world is only my temporary residence.
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CharlotteApril 14, 2012 at 12:20 PM
I think we cannot be reminded of this truth too many times. Thank you for the reminder. It is always a temptation.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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DebbieApril 15, 2012 at 4:09 AM
Praise God it's not my home.
We're studying that famous "road to Emmaus" this morning. I sort of giggle when Cleopas asks Jesus if he is a "stranger". I loved learning that the word is different from its synonym in that it specifically means one who is dwelling there only temporarily.

Yep. Cleopas. I'm a temporary dweller, and what's more, so are YOU.
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Connie ArnoldApril 15, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Thank you for your lovely post and the beautiful reminder!
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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

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Saturday, April 14, 2012

SATURDAY STROLL - This World is Not Your Home

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