Please read it too...I know it's long but it will get your mind thinking in the right direction. We're so often brought away from this truth, to regard disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value then the treasures of this world (heb 11:26).
Hebrew 11:
32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;
33 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.
35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
....Earlier in the passage.....
because he was looking ahead to his reward...(vs.26)
For he was looking to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. (vs.10)
look ahead! and live for the ahead.
posted by sienna.
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While most of us are snoozin' away you're up eating bread from heaven. Bless my soul.
-Papa
thanks sienna, needed that!i love you, my deary lou!!
is that from the notes I wrote in your notebook? Hebrews 11-13 covers like, everything. It's a great passage to just meditate on over a period of time. see you sat. morning. hope the rehersal dinner was good.
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