Some photos of our two darling "boys". Wuzzy is the 3 year old male cat. Yogi is the 13 year old shih tzu. They get along quite well. Which makes me think that if a dog and a cat can get along, why can't the Baptists and the Pentacostals or the Catholics and the Methodists or the Independents and the Episcopalians...... or, well you get the picture. Is the difference because we have a volition? But we are also intelligent and can reason. So why don't we reason that we may not agree on all points but the important thing is who Christ is and what He has done?
As we studied the "whatsoever things" of Philippians 4, we covered things that we choose to think on. As we make volitional choices in our lives, there are often "better things" that we find in God's Word. Here are some of them. Our Better Choices Luke 10:41-42 New International Version (NIV) 41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one.[ a ]Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” Our Priorities 1 Samuel 15:22King James Version (KJV) 22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. Our responses Psalm 84:10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the ho...