Good Monday morning! Rain and clouds once more, but what a weekend! Yesterday we had little wind and much sunshine, a rather nice day if I do say so myself! Luke shot a couple of pheasants yesterday, and gave me one to cook; thank you very much! I shot at a pheasant; scared the poor thing too. The weekend was a split, Nebraska won, but the Broncos lost. The Phillies have decided to get their licks in on Alex Rodriguez by bonking him with the baseball; he on the other hand has decided to win the games by hitting it back at them. I'm not sure the Phillies' strategy is the right one, though it may feel satisfying. That strategy sounds kind of like the way we deal with sin sometimes. We give it a try and it feels good, but sin wins the game while we enjoy a brief moment of pleasure.
The seductive temptation of sin will not go away until Jesus returns. We need to find a better way to deal with that temptation than giving in. When Jesus told us in John 14:6 that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. We often think only of the Way to Heaven. However, what if He also wanted us to think of Him as the Way to defeat sin and temptation? Certainly truth is the way to defeat lies, and lies are the devil's main weapon. The less sin we have in our lives, the more life we have in our lives. I have found that nothing quashes those tempting thoughts as well as thinking about Jesus, even if it's simply repeating one of his verses from the Bible. We need not limit our thinking to narrow definitions. Jesus is the way to learn to love one another; the way to find peace in a world of conflict; the way to learn faith over fear, and, certainly, the way to eternal life, the definition we think of first from John 14:6.
Enjoy a wonderful, new week in Christ Jesus!
Bucky
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