Why I like Butterflies

2 Corinthians 5:17 is one of my favorite verses.

As a young Christian, I was feeling frustrated at not being as "good" as I thought I should be. (I was almost 29 when I was saved. You can learn a lot of bad behavior in 28 years.) I even began to doubt my salvation. Our Father is so faithful. I came upon this verse and noticed one tiny little two-letter word - "is". "...if any man is in Christ he is a new creation...." Not gonna be, hopes to be, might be, but is a new creation. I realized then that because of Jesus' redemptive work on the cross, the creepy crawly, nasty, waller in the dirt caterpillar that I was had become a new creature. Taa-daa!! I am flying high on my butterfly wings. So I always have a butterfly around to remind me to stay out of the dirt and act like a butterfly.

Jesus loves you and I do, too.
Toni T.

Christians are Different
1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. (NKJV)
Our reason for living right .... we shall be like Him

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I heard that Brit Hume of Fox news spoke two unspeakable words on TV.

Have you heard about the ruckus that Brit Hume started while he was interviewing Tiger Woods?
It seems that everyone in the media has a comment to make about 2 words that Brit said.
No the words weren’t the “N” word or the “F” word, had it been either of those words the media most likely would have just made passing comments.

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Where will you be tomorrow?
My wife went to the doctor because she was getting short winded when she bent over or excerpted herself. They did what should have been routine test on her, one of which was an arthrogram. Well her heart just stopped. The doctor told me later of all the times he had done this procedure, this had never happened before. Although they were able to shock her back to life, we have to wonder, what if the paddles on the machine had not restarted her heart? My wife tells me she has no worries on where she would have been the following day had the doctor failed to restart her heart.
May I ask you a question
If your heart stopped today for any reason and did not restart, where would you be tomorrow.
You can know
1 John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
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He's still working on me
Shortly after I became a Christian, A friend said, I saw you going awfully fast on the exit ramp yesterday. I guess he was right.
Through these 37+ years I have walked and sometimes stumbled along with Jesus I have noticed I am not perfect. I'm better than I was but I have a long way to go.
Like I try to tell some people salvation comes in 3 tenses.
1- I was saved from the penalty of sin. (when Jesus saved me)
2- I am being saved from the power of sin.(as the Holy Spirit empowers me)
3- I will be saved from the presence of sin.(when He calls me home)
1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

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