Tempus Fugit

Latin (tem-pu̇s-ˈfü-git): Time Flies

Category: Faith

Things about my personal faith in Jesus Christ

  • God is Good

    God is Good

    I’ve heard and read a lot of God’s attributes and characteristics like God is love, merciful, a refuge, a strong tower, great, glorious, faithful and many many more things. I’m sure you’ve heard many of these things too. But what if you were to narrow it down to just one word? God is…?

    Just recently I finished reading The Rational Bible – Exodus by Dennis Prager which I found to be a very enjoyable and enlightening commentary on this section of the bible. There are many explanations and essays on virtually every verse and generally very thought provoking, a worth while read.

    While much of the book was quite profound and revelatory one particular essay stood out to me in a special way. “Is God Good or is God Love?

    At this point I’m going to excerpt the book a fair bit but I’d recommend reading the entire thing.

    The essay comes from Exodus 33:18 where Mosses is on the mountain with God and

    Ex 33:18 “He said, “O, let me behold Your Presence!”

    Even with all the intimate interactions he’s had with God since the burning bush, Moses yearns to better know God.

    Ex 33:19 And He answered, “I will make all My goodness pass before you,”

    When Moses asks God to allow him to behold God’s presence – to reveal His essence – what is it that God reveals?

    His goodness.

    God’s essence is goodness.

    Many people say, “God is love.” However, while goodness and love are often related, they can be very different from one another.

    Dennis Prager

    Good people, by definition, do good – whether or not they happen to have loving feelings.

    Dennis Prager

    There is quite a bit more to the essay expounding on these thoughts and citing example of why we can believe God is good. Excellent stuff. Now when I hear that phrase “God is good all the time and all the time God is good” I have a much better understanding of that fact.

  • A future and a hope

    A future and a hope

    Plans for the New Year? New Years resolutions? Not too many, perhaps just one main one. Follow the Lord.

  • The Prince of Peace on Christmas Day

    The Prince of Peace on Christmas Day

    From today’s devotion…

    Peace is hard to find. Trouble tears apart our lives. Doubt delivers us to our fears. Worry warps our sense of reality. Before we know it we’re trapped in the chaos of day to day life and panic takes over. Yet Christ came to be our peace. Everything—our hopes, worries, fears, doubts, dreams—are met by him and found in him. He can put our worries to rest and surround us with an everlasting peace that calms the raging storm in our lives.

    Christmas is a busy time of year and it’s easy to get caught up in all the chaos. This holiday season, let’s make time in our schedules to experience the peace that Christ brings. Let’s set aside quiet time with our family and more importantly ourselves to reflect on God’s promises and let his peace wash over us. Through the good and bad, through times of laughter and tears, Christ came to be our peace.

  • Hope

    Our hope is in a Person, not in an event.

    So though we might experience disappointment and setbacks, our hope is not defined by that, but by the word of God. Hope can be a quiet confidence, while we are waiting, while we take one step after another.

    “I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.”

    ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭130:5‬ ‭NIV‬‬

    https://www.bible.com/bible/111/psa.130.5.niv

  • The King is Coming

    The King is Coming

    Every morning in this advent season when I come to reading this devotion just looking at the title image brings me joy.

    It just resonates on so many levels. Historically, the coming of king Jesus as a baby, presently as the king comes to people who accept him, and prophetically as the future second coming of Jesus. All of these are so exciting. And, if I’m not alive to see the second coming, king Jesus will come to meet me when I die. Either way, what a day that will be.

  • The Truth is a Person

    The Truth is a Person

    Pulled this from a Rick Warren devotional that really spoke to me today. I had this revelation about a week ago regarding Jesus as The Truth, so today this just drove it home more.

    We know God’s Truth: Jesus Christ

    Truth is not a principle. Truth is a person; truth is Jesus Christ.

    One of the clearest and best-known statements by Jesus is: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6 NLT)

    Notice Jesus says, “I am the truth .” He doesn’t say truth is a religion, or a ritual, or a set of rules and regulations. He says “I.” Truth is a person.

    This is what separates Jesus Christ from every other leader of every other faith. Other leaders have said, “I’m looking for the truth” or “I’m teaching the truth” or “I point to the truth” or “I’m a prophet of truth.” Jesus comes and says, “I am the truth.”

    A lot of people say, “I think Jesus was just a great teacher.” But he couldn’t be just that: No great teacher would claim to be God if he wasn’t. Either Jesus is conning 2.3 billion people who believe a lie, or he was nuts, or Jesus is who he said he was.

    Everybody’s betting their life on something. I’m betting my life that Jesus is who he said he was.

    Rick Warren’s Daily Devotional on Youversion – Day 288

    www.bible.com/reading-plans/135/day/288

  • Each Moment

    Each Moment

    Forget about the presents needing to be wrapped and…

    focus instead on being present in each moment.

    Take time to celebrate God in the process. He is at work this Christmas season. Don’t wait until December 25 to notice.

    Really liking this devotional on Youversion. Every time I see the title “The King is Coming” I get a bit more excited about the season and the 2nd coming.

  • Encounter

    Somewhere along the line in my meditation journey I discovered encounter, “A daily podcast of sacred and mindful meditations to help you encounter the divine presence of God throughout your day.”

    I usually end my devotional readings listening to the meditation of the day. These meditations are almost always synchronized to the “Verse of the Day” from the youversion app that I use for my devotional readings.

    On Tuesday (2020/11/17), Romans 8:6 (NASB) was the verse of the day. “For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace”. This particular translation has “the mind set on the flesh” and I has this thought. I know this isn’t totally accurate and for sure way to literal perhaps but I had the thought anyway and it helped me. My focusing or thinking about (“and set on”) the cancer, the tumour, the treatments etc. is “death” but if I set my mind on the Holy Spirit it is “life and peace“. This probably only makes sense to me but who knows. Anyway, for sure the meditation is worth a listen.

  • God in the desert

    www.instagram.com/tv/CCbhXwRgvDW/

  • I am with you

    www.bible.com/116/isa.41.10.nlt