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Subject :Footprints in the Sand..
14-02-2010 20:49:15
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Footprints in the Sand
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.
This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,
“You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”
The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.”
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Subject :Re:Footprints in the Sand..
27-02-2010 17:41:07
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....now we have carbon footprints! |
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Subject :Re:Footprints in the Sand..
07-03-2010 22:50:49
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Psalm 85:13 Righteousness will go before Him, And shall make His footsteps our pathway.
This scripture made me think of the footprints poem in a different way. If we are walking in His footsteps, as one who walks in the steps of one who has gone previously along the beach, then there is only one set of footprints. However, it is only when we walk in the very footsteps of our Lord Jesus that we walk in righteousness.
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Subject :Re:Footprints in the Sand..
25-04-2010 19:48:11
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If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit Gal 5:25 |
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Subject :Re:Footprints in the Sand..
19-06-2010 09:48:18
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Rom 8:29 LITV
(29) because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers. |
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Yeshua
My Lord,my love,my life.
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Subject :Re:Re:Footprints in the Sand..
30-08-2010 12:00:36
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Song of Solomon 1:7-8 NKJV
(To Her Beloved)
7 Tell me, O you whom I love,
Where you feed your flock,
Where you make it rest at noon.
For why should I be as one who veils herself[g]
By the flocks of your companions?
THE Beloved
8 If you do not know, O fairest among women,
Follow in the footsteps of the flock,
And feed your little goats
Beside the shepherds’ tents.
“Shall set us in the way of his steps.” It is reported in the Bohemian History, that St. Wenceslaus, their king, one winter night going to his devotions, in a remote church, barefooted in the snow and sharpness of unequal and pointed ice, his servant Podavivus who waited upon his master's piety, and endeavoured to imitate his affections, began to faint through the violence of the snow and cold; till the king commanded him to follow him, and set his feet in the same footsteps, which his feet should mark for him: the servant did so, and either fancied a cure, or found one; for he followed his prince, helped forward with shame and zeal to his imitation, and by the forming footsteps for him in the snow. In the same manner does the blessed Jesus; for, since our way is troublesome, obscure, full of objection and danger, apt to be mistaken, and to affright our industry, he commands us to mark his footsteps, to tread where his feet have stood, and not only invites us forward by the argument of his example, but he hath trodden down much of the difficulty, and made the way easier and fit for our feet. For he knows our infirmities, and himself hath felt their experience in all things but in the neighbourhood of and therefore he hath proportioned a way and a path to our strength and capacities, and, like Jacob, hath marched softly and in evenness with the children and the cattle, to entertain us by the comforts of his company, and the influence of a perpetual guide and shall set us in the way of his steps; the business of John the Baptist being not only to prepare the way of Christ by his doctrine and baptism, but to guide the feet of his people into the way of peace; or to direct them to believe in Christ, and to be followers of him, the Lamb of God, whithersoever he went; who has left an example of grace and duty, that we should tread in his steps, Luk_1:79, the Targum renders it, "in the good way"; and such a way John taught men to walk in. (my note Jer 6: 16 Thus says the LORD: “ Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’)
Luke 1:79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace.” |
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