Small creatures

After accidentally leaving our front porch light on all night,
I found this little moth lingering near the front door.
Click on the picture to enlarge the detail.
He almost looks like he has feathery misplaced eyebrows
around two large black eyes, doesn't he?!!

Then when I went to water my flowers,
 I found this little guy taking a nap on the edge of one of my flower pots.

His little buddy was busy trying to climb up the brick wall,
but quickly slid to the ground when I accidentally splashed
him with water from the garden hose!

These little creatures reminded me of a verse from

Revelation 5:13 that says,

"And then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth

and under the earth and in the sea.

They sang: "Blessing and honor and glory and power

belong to the one sitting on the throne

and to the Lamb forever and ever."

Remember this song?
"All creatures of our God and King,
Lift up your voice and with us sing,
Allelujah!  Allelujah!  Allelujah!"

WOW!

Can you imagine these little creatures

joining together to

sing praise to God?!!!

That will be so AMAZING!

You won't want to miss it!

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How can JOY be a sacrifice?!!

"I will offer sacrifices of joy..."

Psalm 27:6

This morning as I went downstairs to spend some time with the Lord,

the "Not About Me" challenge that was given to us by Laura of

Brag on God Friday was on my mind.

I didn't have to wonder long about what God wanted to show me.

My Bible opened up to Psalm 27,

and my eyes immediately fell on verse 6 as quoted above.

God had spoken to me before about the

"sacrifices of praise" mentioned in Hebrews 13:6 that says,

"...Let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God,

that is, the fruit of our lips,

giving thanks to His Name."

And now here it was again.  Was it the same thing?

 God had previously shown me that when my life with its situations

and challenges seemed out of control, they would come under His control

when I would praise and worship Him.

He would give me His peace as I placed my thoughts on Him,

and He would work out all things for my good.

Looking at notes in my study Bible, I read that although we

no longer have a need to bring the thanksgiving sacrifices to God described

in the book of Leviticus, we are to offer spiritual sacrifices.

According to Hosea 14:2, we do this by "taking words with us",

and using our lips to speak His praise outloud to Him.

So, to me it looks like the "sacrifice of joy"

and the "sacrifice of praise" are really the New Testament version

of the "sacrifice of Thanksgiving".

How appropriate is that for this season?!!!

As we praise Him for WHO HE IS

and celebrate the blessings He has given us,

He fills us with His JOY and STRENGTH!

In giving up my rights to pout, be discouraged,

or nourish negative feelings, it is a sacrifice.

I have a right to feel that way if I want to dwell on it.

But what a trade-off if I let go of it and praise God instead!

When I praise Him, I take my hands off my problems

and give Him room to work.

JOY instead of self-pity!

JOY instead of gloom and doom!

I don't know about you, but today I choose JOY!

And that's my JOY4TODAY!

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