More Than A Weather Warning

 For the past week the red 'BE ALERT' caution bar has flared continuously

 on the weather network with storm and temperature warnings!

 Imagine if the blue sky flashed with red warning-bars
 or a stop watch to let us know the The Day and The Hour!

But 'no man knows the day or the hour, not even the angels in Heaven or the Son himself.

Only the Father knows!'

Matt.24:36

Be alert, stay on your guard

The hurt and work of life is hard

Pay earnest heed to what you hear

The Word of God is truth, my dear

A solid Rock on which to rest

For time is delicate at best

Vapour of mist that disappears

Into the blue of yesteryears

So be alert, in deed and thought

For the end comes when we think not

© Janet Martin

The Word of God is filled with loving and earnest caution 

for us to be alert

kinda like 'whether warnings'; whether we are paying attention to what matters most!

"Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Matt 26:41

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come. 

Matt.24:42

So be on your guard! Remember that for three years

 I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.

Acts 20:31

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

1 Peter 5:8

We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

Heb.2:1

My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment.

Prov.3:21

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Luke 21:36

A Bitty-Ditty on 'Do Not Quitty'

(Above excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin)

Oh, take your place and fill its space

With all you have to give

Because to all alike, one life

Is all we have to live

So do not shirk its common work

Or want and wish in vain

Because to all the same, each frame

Will never pass again

…then do not quit; the sum of it

Much more than we can see

For how we choose to use each day

Becomes our legacy

© Janet Martin

Creed For Life's Highway Cred

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

Plan but with this thought in mind

Often our plans and God’s plans don’t match

Still, always be gentle and kind

Don’t push the person ahead of you, dear

To get to the front of the line

Soon today’s trouble is yesterday’s tear

So always be gentle and kind

Testing and trial are life’s Certainty

Proving the measure behind

Smiles big and bright when the day is sunny

And we all seem gentle and kind

Don’t heap up more than you need; be content

Lest we become people-blind

Don’t let greed gobble up gifts God has lent

Always be gentle and kind

Always leave room at your table, my friend

For an ‘angel unaware’

We never know what waits ‘round the next bend

Or what will shape our next prayer

Don’t borrow care from tomorrow, my love

Life’s strife is present-designed

Granting grand chance for example to prove

Who truly is gentle and kind

So, don’t count your chickens before they hatch

Plan but be humble of mind

Often our plans and God’s plans don’t match

Still, always be gentle and kind

© Janet Martin

 Continue in brotherly love. 2Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. 3Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.…

Heb.13:1-3

Hope for the 'Homeless'

As my teens were discussing sad facts relating to gross and godless confusion regarding sexuality and gender, I moaned, wept and cried aloud, Oh Lord, my God, this world is not my home...

 Until we grasp the awfulness of sin (why-sin-is-so-sinful/)  we cannot grasp the awesomeness of God's love in sending His Son to the cross and until we realize the awfulness of rejection we cannot realize the awesomeness of His acceptance of us

God's Wrath against Sin
(Jeremiah 6:10-21; Jeremiah 25:15-33; Jonah 1:4-10; Acts 27:13-26)

18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24Therefore God gave them up in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and hatred. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. 31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them. 

Though holy sorrow steals our mirth and weighs the heart with prayer

Though common care of earth gives birth to more of common care

Pray through the highs and lows of life where joy and strife enmesh

That we labor for more than futile fruitlessness of flesh

This blip-like fellowship with rose and thorny thoroughfares

Is more than season-smorgasbords to gratify starved stares

The hunger that we harbor in the hollow of the heart

Is a desperate dagger without faith to do its part

Too much of what we know is not enough to satisfy

And what we see will never be the answer to our cry

Oh Lord, my God, deliver us from gluttony of greed

Buoy these barks of dust to trust what You have guaranteed

This breath of day to day leads to the death of all we do

Until the will of God will rend the veil that bars our view

Then, though for now we bow beneath demands of diligence

If we believe we will receive Faith’s full inheritance

© Janet Martin