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Reading:
Numbers 14:9 – 14:12

That’s the title of our next Sunday School lesson (August 9, 2009). The following verse fragments caught my attention in my reading this morning:

“We are well able to overcome it” ().

“We were in our own sight” ().

“And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land?” ().

“Let us return into Egypt” ().

“If the LORD delight in us” ().

I’ve got to do better at rejecting faithless negativity and at embracing faithful, faith-driven positivity. (Did I just coin a new word?!)

[The Scriptures say in Numbers 14:9 -- Only rebel not...neither fear]
from Numbers 14:9

Reading:
1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

Hey, Mark! (I’m talking to myself. But if you’re also Mark, you may listen in. In fact, even if you’re not Mark, listen in.)

Take these three verse fragments.

They will add spice to your life and to your perspective of yourself

And to your life with others. And to your perspective of others.

“We were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel” (4).

“We were gentle among you” (7).

“Ye were dear unto us” (8).

[God...trieth our hearts (1 Thessalonians 2:4)]
from 1 Thessalonians 2:4