Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. —Psalm 20:7

While serving in World War I as a merchant marine, British actor Herbert Marshall was required to wear a foul-smelling life jacket.

He hated wearing the putrid preserver, and at the close of the war, contemptuously tossed the repulsive object overboard in celebration. He then watched in horror as the long-tormenting object sank like a rock!

Like Herbert Marshall, you and I often put our security in things that really won’t save us. Things like material possessions, finances, and job status…even things like our own good works.

In Jeremiah 17:5, God warns us, “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.” But two verses later He says, “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.”

So I want to ask you an honest question today: Who (or what) do you put your confidence in? If your trust isn’t in Jesus Christ, you’re holding onto a life preserver that will sink when you need it the most!

Praise God that He is trustworthy, and ask Him to help you fully put your trust and confidence in Him. ————From Senior Living

Scripture references changed to KJV

While a man was polishing his new car, his 4 yr old son picked up a stone
and
scratched lines on the side of the car. In anger, the man took the
child’s
hand and hit it many times; not realizing he was using a wrench.
At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple
fractures.
When the child saw his father…..with painful eyes he asked, ‘Dad when
will
my fingers grow back?’ The man was so hurt and speechless; he went back
to
his car and kicked it a lot of times.
Devastated by his own actions.. …..sitting in front of that car he
looked
at the scratches; the child had written ‘LOVE YOU DAD’. 
The next day that man committed suicide. . .
Anger and Love have no limits; choose the latter to have a beautiful,
lovely
life…..

Things are to be used and people are to be loved, But the problem in
today’s
world is that, People are used and things are loved…
During this year, let’s be careful to keep this thought in mind: Things
are
to be used, but People are to be loved … Be yourself….This is the
only
day we HAVE.
Have a nice day and Best regards
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become
actions. Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits they become character; Watch your character; it
becomes
your destiny.
I’m glad a friend forwarded this to me as a reminder..
God bless you;
I hope you are having a wonderful day!

The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not PROTECT you…
Stay FAITHFUL and Be GRATEFUL.

We need to re-study our Bibles, and learn
what real Christianity is–how holy, how heavenly,
how spiritual, how loving, how morally and socially
excellent a matter it is. What separation from the
world, what devoutness, what intense earnestness,
what conscientiousness, what enlarged benevolence,
what unselfishness, what zealous activity, what
unearthliness, what seeds of celestial virtue–our
profession of godliness implies.

Having examined this, and obtained an impressive
idea of it, let us survey our own state, and ask if
we do not need, and ought not to seek, more of the
prevalence of such a piety as this, which, in fact, is
primitive Christianity.

Is our spiritual condition what it ought to be, what
it might be, what it must be–to fulfill our high
commission as the salt of the earth and the light of
the world? A Christian, acting up in some tolerable
measure to his profession, walking in the holiness
of the Gospel–is the strongest and most emphatic
testimony for God to our dark revolted world, next
to that of Christ Himself. (By John Angell James, 1785-1859)

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.–James 1:22   Charles Swindoll illustrates the folly of those who refuse to obey God’s Word with the following thought provoking story:

Imagine, if you will, that you work for a company whose president found it necessary to travel out of the country and spend an extended period of time abroad. So he says to you and the other trusted employees, “Look, I’m going to leave. And while I’m gone, I want you to pay close attention to the business. You manage things while I’m away. I will write you regularly. When I do, I will instruct you in what you should do from now until I return from this trip.” Everyone agrees.

He leaves and stays gone for a couple of years. During that time he writes often, communicating his desires and concerns. Finally he returns. He walks up to the front door of the company and immediately discovers everything is in a mess–weeds flourishing in the flower beds, windows broken across the front of the building, the gal at the front desk dozing, loud music roaring from several offices, two or three people engaged in horseplay in the back room. Instead of making a profit, the business has suffered a great loss. Without hesitation he calls everyone together and with a frown asks, “What happened? Didn’t you get my letters?”

You say, “Oh, yeah, sure. We got all your letters. We’ve even bound them in a book. And some of us have memorized them. In fact, we have ‘letter study’ every Sunday. You know, those were really great letters.” I think the president would then ask, “But what did you do about my instructions?” And, no doubt the employees would respond, “Do? Well, nothing. But we read every one!”

Charles Swindoll

Will Rogers was known for his laughter, but he also knew how to weep. One day he was entertaining at the Milton H. Berry Institute in Los Angeles, a hospital that specialized in rehabilitating polio victims and people with broken backs and other extreme physical handicaps. Of course, Rogers had everybody laughing, even patients in really bad condition; but then he suddenly left the platform and went to the rest room. Milton Berry followed him to give him a towel; and when he opened the door, he saw Will Rogers leaning against the wall, sobbing like a child. He closed the door, and in a few minutes, Rogers appeared back on the platform, as jovial as before.

If you want to learn what a person is really like, ask three questions: What makes him laugh? What makes him angry? What makes him weep? These are fairly good tests of character that are especially appropriate for Christian leaders. I hear people saying, “We need angry leaders today!” or “The time has come to practice militant Christianity!” Perhaps, but “the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God” (James 1:20).

What we need today is not anger but anguish, the kind of anguish that Moses displayed when he broke the two tablets of the law and then climbed the mountain to intercede for his people, or that Jesus displayed when He cleansed the temple and then wept over the city. The difference between anger and anguish is a broken heart. It’s easy to get angry, especially at somebody else’s sins; but it’s not easy to look at sin, our own included, and weep over it.

Warren W. Wiersbe, The Integrity Crisis, Thomas Nelson Publishers