May 25th - Remember, Your Paths Are Straight

Remember on this Memorial Day - He Is Making Your Paths Straight!

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and unto your own understanding lean not. In all your ways know Him, for He is making straight your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5)

God can be trusted to make our paths straight REGARDLESS of whether we allow Him or not. That is His plan. We cannot change anything by our own stubborn refusal to believe Him. The only thing we can do is to rest in Him...or not. My decision to rest in Him gives me Peace and Joy and Assurance that what He has started He will finish - He will not, and cannot, fail to make humanity into His image!

“And God saith, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…I give thanks to my God…having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform until the day of Jesus Christ” (Genesis 1:26; Philippians 1:3-6)

"So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a SPIRITUAL body.” (1 Corinthians 15:42-44)

"The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." (John 10:10)

Jesus has made our path straight toward a new immortal abundant life. The thief, death, can only destroy our mortal frames. But its gates will not prevail against us.

"On this rock (Jesus) I will build my church (out called ones) and the gates of hades (the grave) cannot

prevail against us." (Matthew 16:8}

For now, as my son used to say, "we are just imperfect people living in an imperfect world".

My hope is built on nothing less,

Than Jesus' blood and righteousness

I dare not trust the sweetest frame

but wholly lean on Jesus' name

And as the hymn says:

"My hope is built on nothing less,
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame

but wholly lean on Jesus' name" as the hymn says:

"My hope is built on nothing less,
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
but wholly lean on Jesus' name"