biblebuffjournal99-CHRIST OUR CORNERSTONE-Bible KJV God's Holy Word

CHRIST - OUR CORNERSTONE 

by   Wm. Henry Cash, Jr.  1927 - 2012 

  WHEN A BUILDING IS BUILT, OFTEN "A CORNERSTONE" 

IS MEMORIALIZED WITH A SPECIAL CEREMONY TO DEDICATE THAT BUILDING.

WE ARE GOD'S BUILDING - AND JESUS CHRIST IS THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
BELIEVERS IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO HAVE RECEIVED HIM AS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR,  THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, ARE BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE.  

   JESUS CHRIST IS OUR CORNERSTONE.   

    First:  He is the CHIEF CORNERSTONE.  

Matthew 21: 42 - 44   

Jesus said unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, "The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner; this is the LORD'S doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes."  Therefore I say unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on the stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."   

Luke 20. 17 - 18 also refers to this.

Psalm 118: v. 22 - 23  

The stone which the builders rejected is become the head stone of the corner.  This is the LORD'S doing: it is marvelous in our eyes.

Isaiah 53: v. 12   

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

SECOND - THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS OUR FOUNDATION. 

I CORINTHIANS 3: 9 - 11 "FOR WE ARE LABORERS TOGETHER WITH GOD: YE ARE GOD'S HUSBANDRY, YE ARE GOD'S BUILDING, ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH IS GIVEN UNTO ME, AS A WISE MASTER-BUILDER, I HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATION, AND ANOTHER BUILDETH THEREON, BUT LET EVERY MAN TAKE HEED HOW HE BUILDETH THEREUPON,  FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAT IS LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST."  1 CORINTHIANS 1:9 - 11.

We are God's building.

We are to be wise builders so that others can build 

upon our work.

The work must be built upon the ONLY FOUNDATION 

WHICH IS LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST.   

                   

THIRD - OUR LIVES ARE TO BE BUILD ON THE FOUNDATION - JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF.

I CORINTHIANS 3: 12 - 15  NOW IF ANY MAN BUILD UPON THIS FOUNDATION GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES, WOOD, HAY, STUBBLE; EVERY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE MADE MANIFEST: FOR THE DAY SHALL DECLARE IT, BECAUSE IT SHALL BE REVEALED BY FIRE; AND THE FIRE SHALL TRY EVERY MAN'S WORK OF WHAT SORT IT IS.     IF ANY MAN'S WORK ABIDE WHICH HE HATH BUILT THEREUPON, HE SHALL RECEIVE A REWARD. IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED, HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS: BUT HE HIMSELF SHALL BE SAVE; YET SO AS BY FIRE. 

*We must be careful to use the right materials.
*Our work shall be tested, tried by fire.
*The work that abides shall be rewarded.
*The work that is burned - we shall suffer loss - 
but our soul shall be saved.
*The building must be fitly joined together.  

FOURTH - WE ARE LIVING STONES LAID ON THE FOUNDATION STONE - THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.   

I PETER 2: 1 - 10  

WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE ALL MALICE, AND ALL GUILE, AND HYPOCRISIES, AND ENVIES, AND EVIL SPEAKINGS, AS NEWBORN BABES, DESIRE THE SINCERE MILK OF THE WORD, THAT YE MAY GROW THEREBY; IF SO BE, YE HAVE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GRACIOUS.

TO WHOM COMING, AS UNTO A LIVING STONE, DISALLOWED INDEED OF MEN, BUT CHOSEN OF GOD, AND PRECIOUS, YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES, ARE BUILT UP AN SPIRITUAL HOUSE, AN HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES ACCEPTABLE TO GOD BY JESUS CHRIST.  WHEREFORE ALSO IT IS CONTAINED IN THE SCRIPTURE, BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHIEF CORNER STONE, ELECT, PRECIOUS, AND HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE CONFOUNDED. UNTO YOU THEREFORE THAT BELIEVE, HE IS PRECIOUS: BUT UNTO THEM WHICH BE DISOBEDIENT, THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS DISALLOWED, THE SAME IS MADE HEAD OF THE CORNER.   AND A STONE OF STUMBLING, AND A ROCK OF OFFENCE, EVEN TO THEM WHICH STUMBLE AT THE WORD, BEING DISOBEDIENT: WHEREUNTO ALSO THEY WERE APPOINTED.  BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, AN ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, AN HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR PEOPLE; THAT YE SHOULD SHEW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO HATH CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT, WHICH IN TIME PAST WERE NOT A PEOPLE, BUT ARE NOW THE PEOPLE OF GOD; WHICH HAD NOT OBTAINED MERCY, BUT NOW HAVE OBTAINED MERCY.

     Christ was rejected , so that we can become a living stone.

  As LIVING STONES 'LIVELY STONES' 

We build a spiritual house.

THIS BUILDING IS BASED UPON THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.

TO THE ONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE

HE IS A STUMBLING STONE. 

Luke 20.18    

Romans 9.32 - 33  

"  Wherefore ?  Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.  For they stumbled on that stumbling stone; as it is written Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed."  

We are the children of the Living God

 by faith in Christ Jesus.  

Christ is the Chief Cornerstone.

We must build our lives on this foundation.

We become HIS LIVING STONES.  

GALATIANS 3.26

FOR YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD 

BY FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS.

JOHN 1.29

BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD 

WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.

biblebuffjournal99-REMEMBERING MY MOTHER

                                       Walking by Faith - I Keep Climbing

REMEMBERING 

      Now that I was born.   June 9, 1933.  

  I was here.

I can remember being held 

in 

Mother's arms.

A faint 

long ago warmth.

Whispers of love.

Sensing her love for me.

Just cozy. 

Cuddled.

A rim of ribbon on a blanket in my fingers,

soft and silky.

Then, taken into another room.

A big room.

Coldness.

Bright lights.

Hard to sleep.

Where ? was Mother? 

Then they brought me to her again.

I remember nestling on her breast.

They gave her a bottle, and she fed me.

They had brought me in from a 

crib 

in a big cold room  

to her room,

where now I was cozy and warm

beside her.

I wanted to stay with her.

She talked to me like I understood

right from the start.

Mother knew how to hold babies.  She had helped her Mother with four other sisters.  Here she is with Esther Priscilla.   In the other photo, here is Daddy with Mother.  I was probably 7 days old.   They are home at  Zylonite in Adams MA where Grandmother and Grandfather lived. 

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ON GOING HOME  1933  

I  remember Mother holding me while Grampa was driving the car.

I remember Mother bringing me into the house at Adams and setting me 

in bed.   

She talked to me each night.  I slept with her on her right side.

Then Daddy came home.

She fixed a dresser drawer for me 

It was now my bed. 

While I lay in it, I was insecure until I could S E E  

H E R  F A C E.   

She was on the left side of Daddy.  I was 

on the right with my dresser drawer sitting on 

two chairs facing each other.  I had to strain

to see Mother. 

         THEY HAD TALKED ABOUT IT.     I  HEARD MOTHER'S REASONING,  " BUT, HARRY, SHE IS TO SLEEP WITH ME."   "NO, VIDA, SHE IS NOT TO SLEEP WITH US.   SHE WILL GET USED TO IT.   I DO NOT LIKE THAT."   HE WAS VERY FIRM.

           I felt the pull of her heart toward me.

           I felt the love she had for me.   Father was distant.  He 

simply had not the ability in himself to "receive me"  just yet.  

I SOMEHOW KNEW that he was someone who NEEDED LOVE 

AND THAT HE HAD A HARD TIME KNOWING HOW TO LOVE.

             I wanted to love him.   It will take time, but I will.  

              Mommy would love me.     I had no doubts.  

I FINALLY FELL ASLEEP -  

THINKING ABOUT THE SWEET MOMMY I HAD.  

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              This was my Grandmother about the time I was born in 1933.    The house is on Apremont Street -[ later its name was changed ]    The house is still there.    I went back to see it with my husband Henry in 1987.    

                             

                             Mother Was A Lady   Part II   

                       Psalm 90.12  So teach us to number our days 

           that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom  

                        Psalm 70: 6  By Thee have I been holden 

from the womb;  thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall continually be of Thee." 

    New England was briskly entering into the 30's.    The depression was still upon most of the country.   In the New England town of Adams, MA  Vida May's family was doing well.     The girls - five of them now - Mother the oldest - were somewhat unhappy with the demands of "keeping up appearances"  and felt there was more to life than that.   At least, Mother so thought.    

           It was during her 15th year that Harry came into the picture.

He showed up in the school.    He could sing.   He talked.  He was indeed, a talker.    She did not try to do anything to lead him on, she would simply express her opinion.    He liked that.   It was because "she was a LADY"  AND did not throw herself at the boys that the boys would tease her, and make comments about her being such a ridiculous prude to be so uppity.    Exactly what Forrest had seen in his young daughter - he knew what the men were like in the mill, and he wanted better for her.   Now here the boys were seeing her in the high school, and they could not figure out how a girl would want to keep herself pure for any reason.  They could not figure at all about that.  

                 She saw a lot of him that year.    He indeed tried to make her notice him.    There was a DOUBLE STANDARD in those days of the early 1900's.

             What was that ?   Well, you see,  THE BOYS COULD DO NO WRONG.   IT WAS OK FOR THEM TO SLEEP AROUND.

IT WAS ALRIGHT FOR THEM - IT WAS THE "MAN" THING TO DO.    BUT FOR THE GIRLS ?   THAT WAS A DIFFICULT THING - They were expected to be nice to the boys.   They were expected to NOT  be uppity.   They were expected to BE THE NICE AND PRETTY HOSTESS.   They were EXPECTED to be good to the fellows.   

              BUT MOTHER DID NOT WANT THAT.  SHE DID NOT WANT TO GIVE IN TO A BOY , AND SHE KNEW HER MOTHER AND FATHER LOVED EACH OTHER , AND SHE WANTED THE SAME THING FOR HERSELF.   SO SHE STOOD HER GROUND.

IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS, SHE WAS NOT GOING TO SLEEP WITH ANYONE, NOR GIVE IN TO THEM, SHE WAS NOT GOING TO RUN AROUND LIKE THAT.   SHE WAS A LADY.

              Her 16th Birthday came and went.   In the late summer of 1932, Forrest and Lillias sent her to the Girl Scout Camp.   It was a big event.    And the boys decided to take action.    THE BOYS invaded the camp and they would come to the tents where the girls were, and try to persuade the girls to go in the fields with them, or into the woods with them.   Mother refused.   She refused more than once.    Harry was among them.   She refused him too.   

             Harry had begun to be enamored with her, insistent, he finally caught her one afternoon by surprise, when she was not aware of him being there.    He took her, and laid with her against her express will.      

               What ? was she to do ?    Will anyone believe me?  

               She could not tell anyone.   

                WHAT A HORRIBLE WEEK THAT WAS FOR MY MOTHER.   SHE SAID THAT AT THE CAMP, THEY HAD A SWIMMING LESSON IN WHICH THE GIRLS HAD TO GO IN THE WATER  FULLY DRESSED IN THEIR BLOOMER CLOTHES   -  THEY WERE TO SWIM  WITH THOSE CLOTHES ON -   she was so s c a r e d  THAT SHE NEVER EVER WENT swimming after that.   AND ALL THE TIME THAT SHE FINISHED THAT WEEK AT CAMP - SHE DID NOT TELL ANYONE WAS THAT HARRY HAD ACCOSTED HER, AND NOW SHE WAS DETERMINED "IF I HAVE A BABY, I AM GOING TO KEEP IT." 

                 They talk a lot about Mothers and Babies and what do little babies know ? in the womb?  

                 I  believe  FULLY that I knew when Mother was coping with that horrible week at camp -   I believe I  FULLY UNDERSTOOD her determination to  KEEP THIS BABY.   

                    I FELT HER LOVE FOR ME.  

    She went home from the Girl Scout Camp.

Time went on.    And then she had to tell her mother who then told her Father.   Both Harry and her Father wanted her to have an abortion.    She was  TOO YOUNG  to have a baby.    IT WOULD BE A DISGRACE.  

                "YOU CAN'T HAVE THIS BABY.  I AM A PERSON OF WORTH, AND THIS BABY IS A PERSON, AND I WANT IT TO BE BORN, MOTHER DECLARED"   

Mother never told me what Lillias said,  she only told me what Harry and Grandfather said.    As a baby in the womb I was coming.  I WAS ON THE WAY.   1933 AND I WAS BEING BORN IN THE SAME YEAR HITLER CAME TO POWER IN GERMANY.     MY MOTHER KNEW THAT SHE WANTED THIS BABY TO LIVE.   AND MIRACLE OF MIRACLES I DID.      I KEPT COMING.     I WAS ON THE WAY.    I REMEMBER MOTHER'S VOICE - IT HAD A COMFORTING WELCOMING AIR TO IT, AND I KNEW SHE LOVED ME.    I WAS GOING TO COME.   I WOULD BE BORN.

           ONE NIGHT I REMEMBER MOTHER WAS AT HER MOTHER'S HOUSE, LISTENING TO THE RADIO ...HITLER'S VOICE CAME SPOUTING OUT ...AND I COULD HEAR THE VOICE AND I FELT THE HORROR AND FEAR OF MY MOTHER AT HIS WORDS.   AND MY OWN RESPONSE TO HIS VOICE.    IT WAS FEARSOME.

        

   I am not sure of when Grandfather and the family left Shelburne Falls, MA but here is the Bridge of Flowers as it looked back in those days by the Mill.      

                WALKING OVER THE BRIDGE WITH HARRY, MY FATHER, MOTHER WAS SPEAKING TO HIM.   YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS, THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE HERE FOR BABY'S BIRTH?   HARRY SAID "AUNT SALLY WANTS ME TO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL, SO I HAVE TO BE GONE FOR THAT."    A SILENCE .... THEN ... "WHEN WILL WE GET MARRIED?   RIGHT AFTER I GRADUATE, VIDA.   

             SO MOTHER SETTLED AND WAITED.  

         

here is my Mother on the right 

Esther on the left,

and me in the middle.

I must have been 7 months old,

for I am sitting pretty good,

It would have been Spring of 1934.

MOTHER WAS A LADY.

SHE LOVED ME. 

SHE TAUGHT ME 

WHAT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE WAS ALL ABOUT.   

         

                 watch for part III of  MOTHER WAS A LADY

           

                                               

   HERE IS THE ZYLONITE HOUSE -   MOTHER IS ON THE PORCH WITH A COUPLE OF OTHERS.      I WOULD STAY WITH GRANDMOTHER A LOT IN THIS HOUSE THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF MY LIFE.   GRANDFATHER BUILT IT HIMSELF, AND IT EXHUDED INTO MY LIFE MUCH OF THE STRENGTH AND CHARACTER FORREST AND LILLIAS INSTILLED IN THEIR DAUGHTER, MY MOTHER.     I TREASURE MY MOTHER.  

                                                          

biblebuffjournal99 - LIFE IS TO BE LIVED -WALKING BY FAITH

WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING

LIFE IS TO BE LIVED 

  Life is to be lived, one

          step, one corner 

          at a time until

We arrive at the crest.

        Wistfully looking at

         the horizon below

And before, one step 

         begins the descent 

                around 

                          and 

                  down,

All the while remembering 

        the splash of colors,

        the shadows and shapes

         the hint of glory to come.

Life is to be lived, until

       we reach our Destiny, 

       Home with the Father 

       at last.   Then LIFE  really 

        begins.

                          June Estelle Cash   May 30, 1991

         Some years back, when my husband candidated for a number of churches out in the Northwest, we went to Surprise Valley, coming down from Oregon into California by way of Fandango Pass.   It was a road that was built for the wagons - it zigzagged down in order to give a horse driven wagon a way to go down.

It was there that a massacre occurred many years ago.   But it was a most interesting unforgettable drive down this road for me.   

         This poem which I wrote later expresses how I feel about Life in what seems to be a precarious experience at times.

          

Goose lake is a lake which is boundaried by both 

California and Oregon.

In order to come from Klamath Falls, OR 

we came down on 

Fandango Pass. 

Here is another shot from Cedarville CA

of the Mountains down which we came.

Here we can see Goose Lake from the trail.

In this map, you can see how we

came down.   The view is wonderful, but

expect to be s l o w  in driving down

this pass.   It is not a highway.

Goose lake is in both states.

If you ever go there, it is well worth the trip.  

We went to Fort Bidwell.  You can see from this map just how close it is here.   Very interesting to find OLD WEST 

life still pretty much life here.

Fort Bidwell   Not big, but nice. 

Most of the way the road looks like this,

but this is more level than on higher.  

The rocks speak of God's glory - with shapes here that make me think of huge turtles that were petrified in the aftermath of the  flood.   

                ARK - ENCOUNTER museum

  

Here is the Surprise Valley - Cedarville Community Church.

It seemed it was "way out in the middle of nowhere" 

Everyone was happy to see us, and Henry preached,

and I taught the children in S. S.  while he taught the adults.

We went there just that one time.

http://itsaroadtrip.com/road-trip-cedarville/

This link will take you to the Restaurant where we 

ate going there and going back to Lakeview Or.

It was so fascinating to watch an empty road become full of trucks 

and one by one and sometimes 50 people came in at once 

while eating, I observed that everyone was taken care of.

A very good restaurant this was, and I found it on line,

so I am sharing with anyone who is 

interested. 

What a wondrous message in God's Word!

My sins are blotted out, I know ! 

If I trust in His redeeming blood,

My sins are blotted out, I know!

My sins are blotted out, I know !

My sins are blotted out, I know !

They are buried in the depths of the deepest sea:

My sins are blotted out, I know!

Once my heart was black, but now what joy,

My sins are blotted out, I know !

I have peace that nothing can destroy, 

My sins are blotted out, I know!

I shall stand some day before my King,

My sins are blotted out, I know !

With the ransomed host I then shall sing

My sins are blotted out, I know !

My sins are blotted out, I know !

My sins are blotted out, I know !

They are buried in the depths of the deepest sea:

My sins are blotted out, I know!

Remember that this Bibleladyjunebug99 is on a journey with her Savior and Lord.  Come journey with me in my biblebuffjournal99 

Walking by faith - I keep climbing,  my blogs are listed on the blog links.    Also I have linked many places for you to explore even here on the vast internet for Bible sites I recommend.  

Psalms 62.8

Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out 

your heart before Him, God is a refuge 

for us.  Selah.  (Think about it.)  

biblebuffjournal99 - LIGHTHOUSE BY THE SEA-- GOD'S WORD TO SHARE

                                             WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING

 LIGHTHOUSE BY THE SEA

LIGHTHOUSE BY THE SEA

                                           Living here in Blaine, I am as a lighthouse by the sea.   Lighthouses were set up in strategic places so that men perishing at sea could be rescued, and redirected by the light that came from the Lighthouse.

                            Jesus said "I am the light of the world" 

                                    John 8.12

                    Again, he said "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven."   Matthew 5.16  

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biblebuffjournal99 -WHITER THAN SNOW - Climbing Higher with Junebug

WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING

WHITER THAN SNOW

Lord Jesus, I long to be perfectly whole;

I want Thee forever to live in my soul,

Break down every idol, Cast out every foe;

Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Chorus

Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow,

Whiter than snow, yes,

Whiter than snow;

Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.  

Mount Hood, OR 

biblebuffjournal99 -HE IS COMING SOON, ARE YOU READY ?

WALKING BY FAITH I KEEP CLIMBING

HE IS COMING SOON,  ARE YOU READY ? 

OVER THE MOUNTAINS

OVER THE WATERS AND THE SEAS

OVER THE RIVERS 

OVER THE LEAS

HIGH CLIFFS 

LOW VALLEYS 

VAST DESERT SANDS 

ALL OF THESE ARE GROANING

FOR HIS RETURN.

SUNSET AT EVENING 

SUNRISE IN MORNING

RAIN STORMS ON THE SEA

FIRE STORMS ON THE LAND

EARTH QUAKES UNDER THE GROUND

BRINGING US TO OUR KNEES

ARE WE READY?

DO WE UNDERSTAND?

JESUS SAID THAT THESE THINGS WERE THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS.   HE WAS SAYING THAT THESE WERE THE "BIRTH PAINS" BEFORE THE DAY OF THE LORD.

ARE YOU READY?  I AM.  

           I THESSALONIANS  4.13 - 18    

biblebuffjournal99 - I AM A PILGRIM - GOD'S WORD MY MAP AND GUIDE

WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING

I AM A PILGRIM 

WHEN NOAH ENTERED THE ARK, GOD SHUT THE DOOR.

                HE WAS SAFE INSIDE, WITH HIS WIFE, WITH HIS SONS, AND WITH THEIR WIVES.  EIGHT PEOPLE.

  

            I AM SAFE INSIDE THE "ARK OF SAFETY" FOR I HAVE PLACED MY FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR MY SALVATION.   IT IS BY HIS UNDESERVED FAVOR IN MY LIFE, THAT I HAVE RECEIVED FROM HIM, THE CLEANSING OF MY SOUL FROM ALL SIN, AND I AM NOW BOUND FOR HEAVEN AS A PILGRIM.

         

KEN HAM - ANSWERS IN GENESIS - KIDS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR A PILGRIM: 

   TRAVEL LIGHT.

                 HEBREWS 12. 1,2   

               "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, dispising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."  

     

        I MUST KNOW WHO I AM.  I walk ever onward, shining His light in the darkness.   

             John 17.20   Jesus prayed "neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word."   

             John 10.27 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me."   As a member of His flock, I know His voice, and will follow Him.

   

Wherever we roam

We may call it HOME

Mountains and lakes

Rivers and streams

Valleys and meadows

Shadows and sunlight

              I John 4.15  "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God."  

              John 8.12 "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." 

    I MUST KNOW MY KING.  - The Shepherd. -  Wherever, whatever happens as I pilgrim in this world, Jesus is the King of my life.  He is with me wherever I am.

                John 10.14   "I am the good Shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine."   John 10. 4 "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice."

                 John 17.3   "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent."   

Abraham left Ur knowing God had promised

a place.  

     I MUST KNOW WHERE I AM GOING.   

         Hebrews 11.10  By faith Abraham..."looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." 

          John 14.3   "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself: that where I am, ye may be also."   

      I MUST KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE.  

          I Peter 3.14,15   But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear."  

         John 2.14  "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst: but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."    

        I MUST BANK ON GOD'S PROMISES TO BE WITH ME IN EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO ME.

         Romans chapter 8.14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."    

         Romans 8.28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His Purpose."   

         John 6.39   "And this is the Father's will that sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day."  

               I MUST DRESS APPROPRIATELY FOR 

                     THE JOURNEY.     

           Ephesians 6: 10 - 20   Put on my spiritual armor

           Matthew 6.33    Seek God first 

            Matthew 7.1 - 12   Keep the right attitude

          I MUST KNOW WHERE MY RESOURCE IS FOUND.

             Galatians 2.20 God's Faith in me.

              Philippians 4.13   For anything God asks me to do, He will enable.

              Ephesians 2.14 - 18   

                            He will give peace, because He is peace.  

           TRUSTING THAT I WILL ARRIVE AT

            MY FINAL DESTINATION, I CHOOSE TO PUT

             MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD ABOVE EVERY

             OTHER RELATIONSHIP.

      Colossians 2.6,7 

                     AS YOU HAVE THEREFORE RECEIVED 

CHRIST JESUS THE LORD, SO WALK YE IN HIM, ROOTED AND BUILT UP IN HIM, AND STABLISHED IN THE FAITH AS YE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT, ABOUNDING THEREIN WITH THANKSGIVING.  

            IN MY NEXT POST, I WILL SHARE MORE ABOUT  THE PILGRIM JOURNEY.   

   

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A Message from Wm. Henry Cash, Jr 1927 - 2012  

JESUS CHRIST - THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD

               JOHN Chapter 1. 1 - 5

      1.   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

       2. The same was in the beginning with God.

       3.  All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

       4.  In Him was life and the life was the light of men.

       5.  And the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.  

  The proposition is that Jesus came into the world to make an incomprehensible God understandable.   

             

            In the search of religious people of all times and from all places, false gods worshipped only points out the need for us to know and UNDERSTAND WHO GOD IS.

            

           John in his Gospel writes of the "Anointed One" the Messiah, the Christ, who comes from the Father to show us the Father and to display His Words, His Will, His Life as he ministered, lived and as he died even as he proclaimed He had come to do.

          V. 1 - 2.  declares that He was in the beginning with God.

          Colossians 2.2-3 tells us that "the mystery of God and of the Father, and of Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."    Jesus himself said to his disciples, John ch. 14, verse 6-11   -  "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.   If ye had known me, ye should have know my Father also, and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen Him.  Phillip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth (is enough) us.  Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?  He that hath seen me hath seen the Father, and how sayest thou, "Show me the Father?"   Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

            1 John 5.20 tells us "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ,  This is the true God, and eternal life."   

            Colossians 2.6 - 10 declares that as we have received Christ Jesus the Lord, we are to walk in Him...that our source and root and growth comes from abiding in the One in whom "all the fulness of the Godhead dwells bodily" 

             Colossians 2.6-10  

(6.) As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him, (7.) rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

(8.) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, and not after Christ, (9.) for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (10.) And you are complete in Him which is the head of all principalities and powers.

           In the relation of God to men before Christ came, God still at times "came in visible form" to Adam, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Daniel and Jacob, whom they called "The Angel"   

               In verse 3 Christ's creative work with God is declared. 

Genesis 1.1 and 1.26-27   tells us Christ was there in the beginning.

Ephesians 3.8,9  that "unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ" 

         In the relation of The Word to mankind itself, Jesus has made it possible for us to know the very Source of Life itself.

         Hebrews 1.9,10  But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bring many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings."

           John 3.14 - 18  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.  John bare witness of him and cried, saying, This was he of who I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me.  And of His fullness have we received, and grace for grace.  For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.  No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. 

        Christ came to reveal God to us by Himself to lost humanity.

John 3.36   John the Baptist told us that He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

           It is necessary first that we need to know we are lost.

          Romans 3.23   For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

           It is necessary to repent and acknowledge that our sins need forgiveness, and that our very sin nature needs A CHANGE FROM WITHIN   Jesus said "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."   (John 3.3)

John 3.14  As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."  John 3.14 - 16

       Jesus declared He was the One in whom we see the Father.

He declared that whoever believed in Him would have Life everlasting.    He declared that without Him we are lost.

        John 1.12  "As many as received Him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" 

       Simple faith in believing God is all God asks.

        You cannot know the True God until you have been willing to first 

               1.  be aware you are a S I N N E R 

                       A fruit tree produces the fruit of the tree.

                          Apples produce apples.    Pears produce pears.

                             A Sinner produces sin.

               2. confess to God and admit only He can change that.

                       Ask Christ to be your Savior and to change you 

                          into the Child of the Father.    Be Born by asking 

                         for that second birth -   We all were born sinners 

                         Not everyone has the second birth.   Ye must be                                       born again, Jesus said.   

For Christians, we should WALK BY FAITH EVEN AS WE RECEIVED CHRIST BY FAITH ...   

                     By Grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, lest any man should boast 

                           Ephesians 2.8 -9 

                     Being confident of this very thing

                    That he who hath begun a good work

                      in you, shall perform it until the day of

                      Jesus Christ.    Philippians 1.6