Faith

Once upon a time, we looked forward to reading books and the Sunday paper. The encyclopedias held the mysteries of life in all forms. My curiosity seemed unquenchable. Now we can just type a question and an answer surfaces.

In every fruit there is a seed. In every seed there is a harvest. In every harvest there is provision and in God’s provision there is more seed to sow. The righteous gives and does not spare. (Prov. 21:26) Giving is the fruit of righteousness. In the fruit of righteousness there are infinite seeds and infinite harvests. In other words, if you are born again, you are filled with unlimited potential based on the fruit of your righteousness. God is a God of increase and increase is the nature of righteousness.

What time is it? Can you spare five minutes? It’s the greatest gift anyone can give, given the magnitude of measuring the presence of another. In that moment in time, all of us, knowingly or unknowingly, are transformed as we too make a difference acknowledged by our Heavenly Father.

“… ‘Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.’” __ Ruth 1:16 The eighth book of the Bible, Ruth, is an endearing story of loyalty towards her mother-inlaw, friendship because they were friends, commitment because they were supportive of one another, and love because they loved God, loved one another and mourned the deaths of their Family. Sometime during the three hundred “problem ridden” years of the Judges “when everybody did as they saw fit,” this story is extraordinary because these ladies were not corrupted by the fads, the wickednesses.