Some Thoughts.......

Hello to all,

I haven't posted in a few days so I thought that I would just share some things that are bouncing around in my head!

First of all I am daily amazed at the goodness of God and His mercy toward me. He sheds abundant provision on me for my every need. He is worthy of all praise and honor, even if I had never received one good thing from His Holy hand!

Secondly, I am hunbled and stirred in heart when I think of the precious brothers and sisters that the Lord has brought into my life over the years. These dear Saints have many times refreshed my weary soul with their words of wisdom and encouragement.

Where would I be without the faith and strength that flows from the Head and through the other members of the body to nourish my heart and mind?

As I have mentioned in a previous post, the last several months have been some of the most trying of my life as I have dealt with anxiety issues and just a general sense of nervousness and depression. I will freely admit, this has been the toughest ordeal that I have ever endured, and am stil battling!

But God, who is rich in mercy, interposes daily on my behalf through His word, His Spirit, and His children!

I, like you, don't understand many of the experiences of this life, but I am convinced that God is good all the time and that He is working all things for His glory and our profit!

Let me offer my deepest expressions of heart felt thanks for your intercessions for me before the throne of grace, and I continue to covet your prayers on my behalf as I seek to keep my eyes fixed on the gospel and the beauties of Christ!

A Fellow Pilgrim,

Tom

Flood Relief

I have had the privilege this week to work with the Red Cross in their flood relief efforts in the Nashville area and it has truly been a blessing!

It is very fulfilling to help alleviate the burden these folks are going through in whatever small way that we can.

I was moved by the sincere gratitude of many of the recipients of what we had to give and their expressions of thankfulness and "God bless you's" were certainly uplifting as we worked to supply their needs with what we had to give.

How wonderful it is to see God's good that He brings out of such destruction and loss! What an opportunity we have to live out the gospel in times like these and to show forth just a small portion of the abundant grace that Christ has poured on us every day of our lives!

Missional, practical Christianity is most definately a tiring and a strengthening experience all at the same time.

Thanks be to God for His work of mercy to us and through us in this world!

"IT IS FINISHED"

"But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
That according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."
(1Cor.1:30-31)

My heart can rehearse this truth that will ring through eternity, "For of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things."

To God be the glory, great things He hath done!!

Lord, whom do I have in heaven or earth but thee?

My prayer......Lord Jesus, let me only boast in you!