Sometimes I am awakened with thoughts from God, and I have to get up to write it down.  (Actually, I get up and open my phone app to "inkpad", push the microphone button and speak it - which is a whole lot better than having to use both hands and writing it out the old-fashioned way I used to have to do it, praise God!) Anyway, I wrote the following three between April 5 and May 13, and as I was preparing my newsletter article, I saw how all three of them are kind of connected.  So here they are in the unfiltered way they were written, with titles and all:

      Legacy and responsibility - Think of the weight on Adam and Eve!  Whatever they did would impact every being ever "BORN!"  They, on the other hand, were created were they not?  Could we endure that weight?

      On the other hand, maybe each of us has the same weight on us for those who come after us, whether from genetics, speech, or action?  What say you?

      The beginning of Genesis - The original family teaches us a lot about the choices we make as being two distinct choices, one with God and one without.

       Adam and Eve were the perfect couple, created perfectly until their sin, when they decided to do things their own way rather than God's way.  Their children magnified that choice.  One child, Cain, went his own way, defiant against God.  Another child, Able, accepted God because he is good, and tried to magnify God.  Cain rose up and killed Able.  So, God banished Cain and He gave Adam and Eve another son, another good son, Seth.

      The story is not meant to be all inclusive but concise on the point it's trying to make.  Of course, Adam and Eve had other daughters and other sons because Adam lived almost a thousand years.... but God wanted to teach us something through giving this information to Moses.  We should listen. 

       God's chosen - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of faith.  When we acknowledge in our soul that we were created in the image of God, and we and all things were created by God - then our spirit moves toward God's Spirit, like a seedling moves toward the sun light.  Then we are among the chosen by God.

               See ya' Sunday, in person or on the internet at www.facebook.com/timthepastor.

                                   All glory and honor to God.   Peace and Blessings

                                                                                   Tim

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