Saturday Nov 5

From Max Lucado:

The Rest of the Story Posted: 04 Nov 2011 11:00 PM PDT Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again.  John 11:25, NLT Mourning is not disbelieving.  Flooded eyes don’t represent a faithless heart.  A person can enter a cemetery Jesus-certain of life after death and still have a Twin Tower crater in the heart.  Christ did.  He wept, and he knew he was ten minutes from seeing a living Lazarus! And his tears give you permission to shed your own…So grieve, but don’t grieve like those who don’t know the rest of this story.

God’s Thoughts Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:01 PM PDT Lord, you have done such great things! How deep are your thoughts!  Psalm 92:5 God’s thoughts are not our thoughts—we aren’t even in the same neighborhood. Psalm 92:5 sets the standard. “Lord, you have done such great things. How deep are your thoughts.” When we’re thinking, Preserve the body; God’s thinking, Save the soul. We dream of a pay raise. He dreams of raising the dead. We avoid pain and seek peace. God uses pain to bring peace. “I’m going to live before I die,” we resolve. “Die, so you can live,” he instructs. We love what rusts. He loves what endures. We rejoice at our successes. He rejoices at our confessions. We show our children the Nike star with the million-dollar smile and say, “Be like him.” God points to the crucified carpenter with bloody lips and a torn side and says, “Be like Christ.”