How Much Jesus Loves Us

Piggy Bank Day

Every one of us were taught by our parents or guardian to save money. Most of us had the experiences of having a piggy bank to put the crash coins in it. I love piggy banks.

November 2nd is considered as a Piggy Bank Day.
Here are some famous quotes about saving money.

“The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.” Johnny Carson

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” Plato

“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.” Henry Mencken

“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.” Marlon Brando

“I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.” Henry Ford

"... but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow." Proverbs 13:11b NIV

Happy Saving!

The Midnight Hour

In the early 1800s, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard observed people whose lives consisted of hiding and spying. Rather than walls, they used masks.

Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has thrown off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself. I have seen men who played hide and seek so long that at last in madness they disgustingly obtruded upon others their secret thoughts which hitherto they had proudly concealed.

He is right. Everyday is Halloween... Underneath the masks are people who are terrified that there will be an unveiling. But it is not so much the eyes of other people that we ought to fear... If the gaze of man awakens fear in us, how much more so the gaze of God. If we feel exposed by people, we will feel devastated before God.

Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?" Isaiah 29:15 TNIV

"From heaven the LORD looks down and sees all humankind..." Psalm 33:13 TNIV

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God Is Not Time-Bound

"For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night." Psalm 90:4 NIV



There are times that we present to God a certain plea, and we want Him to do it on our own time frame. Oftentimes, God did not grant our pleas within our own time frame, and we get disappointed. It's as if we know better than God does. But we fail to realized, God is not time-bound. He knows what is best for us... and He knows the perfect time for us. All we need to do is to have faith in what He is doing in our lives. We tend to get discouraged and stopped asking, or stop believing. Don't do that. God is working in us. There may be delays. But have faith, and know that the delays are for our own good as well.

Running For Nothing

Yesterday's ODB's article was about a runner who joined the Marathon, finished the race, but... found out that the chip-- the device that was put on his shoe to record progress at various timing stations during the race, was not on his shoe anymore. He lost it somewhere.

In the official's record, the runner did not run the race. There would be no record of his participation. Even if he had finished the race in record time, it wouldn't have mattered. Apparently, the poor runner have been traversing 30 miles on foot with nothing to show for it. The folks who organize the race set the rules, and no matter how well someone runs, if the officials says the runner doesn't qualify, that's the way it is.

It is the same way with our lives. Sometimes we are so busy participating some mission works. We wearied ourselves with the church activities. It appears to be we are having a good race doing and participating, but if we don't have the right motives on what we are doing, if we only did it , or join them for some self-centered reason, we are not participating the mission or any church activities. If our motives is not obedience and to glorify God. We may thought we have done so many things, but on heaven's account, we did nothing. And even dreadful if we found out, our name was not on the runner's list.

Life is a race. Let's keep running... but we better make sure that we carry with us the right motives.

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us..." Hebrews 12:1 NIV

YOU SAY---GOD SAYS

SMILE

Smile Is A Sign Of......

A smile is a sign of love
A smile is a sign of care
A smile tells how much to others
You are important and also dear

A smile is a sign of cheer
A smile is a sign of trust
A smile shows how you can
Be happy even in hard crust

A smile is a sign of joy
A smile is a sign of hope
A smile teaches you how you can
Remove the clouds of mope

For nothing but only a smile
Takes away your pain and trial
And pick your trouble's pile
And let you smile, smile and smile.

Seema Chowdhury


Undeniably, we all feel good inside if somebody smile at us. Somehow, it has power to heal the bad day. According to a research, Smiles are generally accepted as a universal facial expression of happiness or joy. We get instincts about which smiles are more genuine, are more felt than others, and which are more forced and more politely construed.

Smile is the very first thing that our parents were very proud of us in doing so. Smile is the silent communication we can express to somebody we like or agree to. And do you know that even dogs smile, too? Oh yes, they do. Our dog would smile everytime I stay lazily around them. They were obviously very happy with that.

How Is Your Day?

It is a lazy day today. I don't feel good while on work now. I feel like I have fever. Must be the weather? Or am I lacking some life in my living lately?

Consider Job in the old times. He has everything then. In fact, he was way ahead too great from anybody else in terms of possessions and a happy family. All of a sudden, God took it away from him (for a purpose).

Obviously, it is really difficult to go on living with a life like that, but we have the options. Whether to complain, grumble and be indifferent toward everything around us, especially to God. Or to humbly yield on to His working in our lives along with the claim of faith that what God is doing in our lives is for our own good. And that what is ahead of that is a promise of good life. We may don't seem to understand what God is trying to make out of our present circumstances, but like a clay potter, He is moulding us in His hands. Notice this, if the "Potter" sees some imperfections in the clay He is moulding, He have to crushed it and work on it all over again.

What is our choice? Be stubborn? Or be submissive? If you think you are enjoying the "remoulding" God is doing in your life, keep being stubborn. If you think that the "moulding" process is uncomfortable, then, for your own sake, be submissive, so that the "Potter" won't have to "remould" you again. It is surely a painful process.

"... I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and smile" Job 9:27

"Patience Is A Virtue"

We often heard; "Patience is a virtue." And it's true that most of us hate the waiting period. We get irritated standing on a long line to pay for some grocery. We get mad when somebody is not following their timeline. We get pissed off when somebody we had agreed to meet in a certain place and at certain time didn't show on time.

Any mother can tell you that waiting to give birth is an experience that builds patience. But pity the poor mother elephant. It takes about 22 months for an unborn elephant to mature to birth! the shark known as the spiny dogfish has a pregnancy duration of 22-24 months. And at elevation above 4,600 feet, the Alpine salamander endures a gestational period of up to 38 months!

Farmers waited and toiled hard, just to be able to support his family.

Abraham was told by God that his descendants would be like the sands on the seashore. He waited, and he was a hundred year old when his first son was born. Laban worked fourteen years for Rachel to become his wife.And there are many more others in the bible history that has a wonderful story about waiting.

Waiting for God's promise to be fulfilled is part of trusting Him. No matter how long the delay. we must wait for Him. As the book of Hebrews said; "Let us hold fast the confession our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful." (Hebrews 10:23)

They're Sure To Come

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

The world have many questions about why are there sufferings, calamities, wars and death. Before the creation of the world, God already set these things on earth to happen. It is up to us on how we handle them. There's no way avoiding them, they're sure to come. We all need to have a peace in mind so that whatever happens to the world, we will not be shattered. They're sure to come.

In Trouble?

Every residents in United States of America must have knowledge about Dial 9-1-1. It is the number that you can call anytime when in emergency situation. Their staff is online 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Their call center agent are all attentive to every call. They give careful instructions and send aids and rescues.

I think it's not only the residents in USA know about that very popular 9-1-1. There used to be a documentary TV shows about their previous incidents aired in the Philippines, too. And some of them are really amazing.

But here is another number that you can depend on in times of spiritual or emotional trouble. Psalm 41:1 "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble."

Are you in trouble? Dial (Psalm) 4-1-1

Laugh Out Loud!

Ha-Ha-Ha!!!

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Laughter is an instant vacation!. ~ Milton Berle
Laughter is by definition healthy. ~ Doris Lessing
Laughter is part of the huan survival kit. ~ David Nathan
Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat. ~ Robert Holden
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart. ~ Mort Walker
Laughter need not be cut out of anything since it improves everything. ~ James Thurber
Laughter is inner jogging. ~ Norman Cousins
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow. ~ Diane Johnson, Zen Soup, 2003

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22