Memory Verse this week…
And
just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment….
Hebrews 9:27
He sat down, called the twelve disciples over to him, and
said, "Whoever wants to be first must take last place and be the servant
of everyone else." Then he put a little child among them. Taking the child
in his arms, he said to them, "Anyone who welcomes a little child like
this on my behalf welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes not only me
but also my Father who sent me." Mark 9:35-37
Can you be a servant to others?
Servants welcome people and wait on them. Can you be like Jesus—washing His
disciples’ feet or providing for their needs?
It takes a
special person to be a real servant to those around him or her. Not everyone is
even gracious enough to allow someone to be their servant. We have the “I can
do it myself” attitude. You even see it in two and three year old children. So
when Jesus said…Anyone
who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf welcomes me, and anyone who
welcomes me welcomes not only me but also my Father who sent me…He
was saying…welcome that one who is a servant…and His Father. No one should want
to turn their back on Jesus…or His Father. Welcome them into your home…and into
your heart. Develop a relationship with them. Serve God by serving others—that
is just what Jesus did as He ministered to the lame, blind, sick, dead,
demonized and hungry. Those hungry for food or spiritual nourishment. Our
attitudes and actions will be judged during the great Judgement.
Prayer
~ Lord—may all that I think, say and do be pleasing to You—welcoming You into
my heart and my life.
Daily
Bible Reading: Psalms 108-110
Friday’s
Feast at the King’s Table
Goat’s Milk
And there will be goats' milk enough for your food, for the
food of your household, and sustenance for your maidens. Proverbs 27:27 NASB
I love goats’ milk cheese. It is tangy and tasty on a salad
or even on pizza. Now my mouth is watering, wanting a taste of good goat
cheese. Goats have a reputation for eating everything in sight, but actually
they will not eat inedible material like tin cans. Goats are raised in
countries around the world. In reviewing various websites with goat production
statistics it was interesting to note that China is the country with the most
goats, although apparently they use the animals for meat more than for milk
production. Bangladesh produces the most goats’ milk for any one country. Since
goats’ milk is similar to cows’ milk in lactose (sugar) it is unfortunately not
valued as a replacement for those who are lactose intolerant. So although I’d
rather have a cheese and milk that is good for the lactose intolerant, the
goats’ milk cheese still is tasty. Try some goat cheese on salads, roasted
veggies or scrambled eggs.
In the Proverbs 27:23-27 passage Solomon talks about paying
attention to knowing and raising flocks of sheep and goats. They are valuable
animals that will provide the shepherd’s family and household with milk, food
and monetary income. God provides.
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| Sheep feeding in green pastures in Israel. |
Sheep and goats are symbolic of the righteous and the
unrighteous people that God deals with in the end times. See Matthew 25:32-34,
41. “All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them
from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He
will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left. Then the King will
say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world’” “Then He will also
say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire
which has been prepared for the devil and his angels’…” I want to be among the sheep when the Lord
calls us to Heaven. How about you? Will we have goat’s milk cheese in Heaven?
God is so creative that we can be sure that whatever He serves, it will be
exemplary.
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photos by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All
scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT) unless otherwise noted.
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