All Things

t's easy-to-get overwhelmed and sidetracked these days. Remember that our God controls everything, the economies of the world, oil prices, food prices, health issues and even family relations just to name a few. I commit to Him and trust Him because He is who He says He is. Christ in us, the hope and riches of HIS glory!” I was thinking the other day about how Jesus Christ grew in Mary until He had to come out. Christ will grow in each of us until the same occurs. He comes out He will come out in our speech, in our actions, in our decisions and provisions and how we treat others. Every place we are at will be filled with Christ. When Christ once enters into a person, He wants to occupy every aspect, thought and action of the person. There is a story I heard several years ago about a woman whose garden produced nothing but weeds, till she discovered a flower that was not native to her area. The story is that She sowed a handful of this seed in her overgrown garden and left it to work its own natural way. She did not check on the garden for a few weeks. One day she went to check and when she opened the gate and saw a sight which surprised her. She knew that the seed would produce a small flower, but she had never dreamed that the plant would cover and overtake the whole garden. To her amazement the flower had exterminated every weed in the garden. As she looked from one end to the other, she could see nothing but the beautiful colors of the flowers and smelled nothing but a comforting and pleasant aroma from the many flowers. Jesus Christ is our internal and eternal "seed/ plant" of hope and glory When Jesus is sown in the soil of our soul, He will gradually eat out the roots of all ill weeds and poisonous plants and habits, till over all of our being Jesus is Lord over us. In closing and prayer may God grant us the vision and openness to realize the picture in our own hearts and be receptive to Jesus and follow Him. And every day we live will be a day we help deliver Jesus Christ into the World, our World. For others to see and experience the love, joy, peace and eternal life with Him for evermore. Make it a great day for yourself and someone else as we live to love and share Jesus with others.

Isaiah 12: 5

Sing unto the Lord, for He hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

Colossians 1: 16 

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.

Colossians 1: 27 - 29

 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of His mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to His working, which works in me mightly.