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2011-08-29T17:09:00.000-07:00

WHEN I GET OLD...

2011-06-12T16:10:00.001-07:00

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So he returned home to his father.And while he was still a long distance away, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

Luke 15:20

THE FATHER'S LOVE

12" X 24" ENAMEL ON POLYGLASS

LYN DEUTSCH2009

THE PRODIGAL SON

Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons. The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now, instead of waiting until you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.

“A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and took a trip to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money on wild living. About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. He persuaded a local farmer to hire him to feed his pigs. The boy became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.

“When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired men have food enough to spare, and here I am, dying of hunger! I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired man.”

“So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long distance away, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son.’

“But his father said to the servants, ‘Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put on him. Get a ring for his finger, and sandals for his feet. And kill the calf we have been fattening in the pen. We must celebrate with a feast, for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found. (Read Luke 15:11-32).

God’s love for each individual is so great that He seeks out each one and rejoices when he or she is found. We may be able to understand a God who would forgive sinners who come to Him for mercy. But a God who tenderly searches for sinners and then joyfully forgives them must possess an extraordinary love! This is the kind of love that prompted Jesus to come to earth to search for lost people and save them. This is the kind of extraordinary love that God has for you.

In the parable of the prodigal son, the younger son, like many of us, wanted to be free to live as he pleased. He had to hit bottom before he came to his senses. It often takes great sorrow and tragedy to cause people to look to the only One who can help them – Jesus. Are you trying to live life your own way? Stop and look before you hit bottom. You will save yourself and your family much grief.

In this parable, since the son left, the father watched and waited for his son’s return. He knew that one day, he will come home and we read, “And while he was still a long distance away, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.”

There was no day that the father did not look out by his porch waiting for his beloved son to come back home. No matter what your mother and father may have treated you in this life, you have an Ever-Living God and Father in heaven who loves you unconditionally. God’s love is perfect, constant, patient, and welcoming. Right now, you are reading God’s compelling invitation – “Whatever you have done, whatever you have become, it doesn’t matter. Please come home.”

PRETTY

2011-06-10T16:17:00.000-07:00

I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well.

- Psalm 139:14

These are my two youngest daughters, Isabela and Danielle painting each other.

"We cannot live for ourselves alone, Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results" - Herman Melville.

PRETTY
12" X 16" OIL ON BOARD
Lyn Deutsch 2006
ORIGINAL PAINTING IS SOLD
Canvas prints and greeting cards of this painting is available at
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GIRL BY THE DOOR

2011-06-09T20:22:00.000-07:00

Cast all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you.

1 Peter 5:7

GIRL BY THE DOOR

12” X 16” OIL ON CANVAS

LYNDEUTSCH2008

ORIGINAL PAINTING IS AVAILABLE FOR SALE

Price: US450

This painting was at Lea Demafelis' house when I was in Kanlaon with my daughter, Vanya.

Girl by the Door model and painting.

THE MORNING AFTER

2011-05-30T17:40:00.000-07:00

"Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets." –Luke 5:5

"At thy word," says Peter, as he promptly obeys, therein repeating the watchword of seas and stars, of winds and worlds. It is clear that if it is done in faith, the simplest action of life maybe sublimely great. The flash of the wave as it covers Peter's net maybe as sublime before the Lord as the glory of the Red Sea billow when it returned in its strength. God who sees a world in a drop wonders in the smallest act of faith. We measure not moral and spiritual things by rods and chains. The common act of fishing at Christ's word links Peter with all the principalities and powers and forces that in all ages have known this as their only law: "He spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast" (Psalm 33:9). We, too, shall have fellowship with the sublime if we know how to be perfectly obedient to the word of the Lord.

I painted these fishermen in Sta. Fe, Bantayan Island, as they came from sea at sunrise from whole night fishing.

THE MORNING AFTER

32" x 32" ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

LYNDEUTSCH2010

ORIGINAL PAINTING IS AVAILABLE FOR SALE

BLUE NUDE

2011-05-26T16:26:00.000-07:00

How beautiful you are, my darling!
       Oh, how beautiful!
       Your eyes behind your veil are doves.
       Your hair is like a flock of goats
       descending from Mount Gilead.

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,
       coming up from the washing.
       Each has its twin;
       not one of them is alone.

Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;
       your mouth is lovely.
       Your temples behind your veil
       are like the halves of a pomegranate.

Your neck is like the tower of David,
       built with elegance ^[a] ;
       on it hang a thousand shields,
       all of them shields of warriors.

Your two breasts are like two fawns,
       like twin fawns of a gazelle
       that browse among the lilies.

Until the day breaks
       and the shadows flee,
       I will go to the mountain of myrrh
       and to the hill of incense.

All beautiful you are, my darling;
       there is no flaw in you.

SONG OF SOLOMON 4:1-7

BLUE NUDE

12” X 32” MIXED MEDIA ON BOARD

LYNDEUTSCH2007

DRINK DEEPLY

2011-05-24T18:06:00.000-07:00

For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance.

-Isaiah 66:11

“Yet “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” Oh, for an angel’s tongue to tell of the wondrous mystery! My poor pen is quite unequal to the trememdous task.

How does one attempt to describe the grace that flashed so favorably from those languid eyes; the grace that fell in cleansing drops from those opened veins; the grace that poured in torrents from the pierced side; the grace that heaved and tossed and struggled convulsively in those tortured limbs; the grace that fought and wrestled and at last conquered in that anguished spirit; the grace that even began interceding for the transgressors as Jesus prayed, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34); the grace that cried with a mighty voice, “It is finished” (John 19:30), before the Savior bowed His head and gave up His spirit; the grace that ascended out up on high, leading captivity captive and giving gifts unto men (Ephesians 4:8). Of this grace I dare not write upon further.

May it be your happy lot to sail upon the sea of grace, for fathom it you never can! May you drink from that fountain of grace, for you shall never be able to drink it dry! May God give you the bliss of knowing in your own experience how much grace abounds through the atoning sacrifice of Christ upon the cross!”

(From Grace Abounding by Charles Haddon Spurgeon,p52, Grace Abounding in a Believers Life compiled by Robert Hall copyright 1994, Lance C. Wubbels, published by Emerald Books).

DRINK DEEPLY
18" X 32" ENAMEL ON POLYGLASS
LYNDEUTSCH2009

LEAP FOR JOY

2011-05-20T18:18:00.000-07:00

But let all who take refuge in You be glad, let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult You.

-Psalm 5:11

Our happy God must be approached and worshipped by a happy people. A cheerful countenance is a sign that the oil of grace has been poured into the heart. "Glad homage pay with awful mirth."

"Come before Him with joyful singing." Worship is an act which must, to every rightly instructed heart, be one of great solemnity, but at the same time it must not be performed in the servility of fear, and therefore we come before Him, not with weepings and wailings, but with psalms and hymns.

"For the Lord is good." This sums up His character and contains a mass of reasons for praise. Resting on His sure Word, let us rejoice and bow before One who has never broken His Word or changed His purpose. Let us come into His presence even now, and speak good of His name.

-Charles Haddon Spurgeon

LEAP FOR JOY

12" x 32" MIXED MEDIA ON BOARD

LYNDEUTSCH2007

ORIGINAL PAINTING IS SOLD

BRIGHT SAILS BEFORE DARK

2011-05-18T20:41:00.000-07:00

True praise sets the heart ringing its bells and hanging out its streamers. Never hang your flag at half-mast when you praise God. No, run up every color, let every banner wave in the breeze, and let all the powers and passions of your spirit exalt and rejoice in God your Savior!

"Him serve with mirth, His praise forth tell;

Before Him exceedingly rejoice."

BRIGHT SAILS BEFORE DARK
48" X 48" ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
LYNDEUTSCH2008
ORIGINAL PAINTING AVAILABLE FOR SALE
email: lyndeutsch@gmail.com

I SURENDER ALL

2011-05-11T10:32:00.001-07:00

Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.

Psalm 86:11

I SURRENDER ALL by Judson W. Van DEVenter and Winfield S. Weeden

I SURRENDER ALL
16" X 16" COFFEE, ACRYLIC ON BOARD
LYNDEUTSCH2008
PAINTING IS SOLD

HOW GREAT THOU ART

2011-05-11T10:27:00.001-07:00

“How great you are, Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.

2 Samuel 7:22

HOW GREAT THOU ART by Carl Boberg translated by Stuart K. Hine. Music arranged by Manna Music, Inc. after a Swedish Fold Melody

HOW GREAT THOU ART

16" X16" COFFEE, ACRYLIC ON BOARD

LYNDEUTSCH2008

ORIGINAL PAINTING IS AVAILABLE FOR SALE

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

2011-05-11T10:15:00.001-07:00

The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I have hope in Him."
Lamentations 3:22-24

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS by Thomas O. Chisholm and William M. Runyan

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

16" X 16" COFFEE, ACRYLIC ON BOARD

LYNDEUTSCH2008

ORIGINAL PAINTING IS SOLD

AMAZING GRACE

2011-05-10T00:36:00.000-07:00

The Touch of the Master's Hand

By Myra Brooks Welch

'Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer
Thought it sacredly worth his while
To waste much time on the old violin,
But held it up with a smile:

"What am I bidden, good folks," he cried,
"Who'll start the bidding for me?"
"A dollar, a dollar"; then "Two!" "Only two?
Two dollars, and who'll make it three?

Three dollars, once; three dollars, twice;
Going for three....." But no,
From the back of the room, a gray-haired man
Came forward and picked up the bow;

Then, wiping the dust from the old violin,
And tightening the loose string
He played a melody pure and sweet
As a caroling angel sings.

The music ceased, and the auctioneer,
With a voice that was quiet and low,
Said: "What am I bid for the old violin?"
And he held it up with the bow.

"A thousand dollars, and who'll make it two?
Two thousand! And who'll make it three?
Three thousand, once, three thousand, twice,
And going, and going," said he.

The people cheered, but some of them cried,
We do not quite understand
What changed its worth." Swift came the reply:
"The touch of a master's hand."

(POSTED BY Michelle Saavedra-Reyes at FB.)

AMAZING GRACE (VIOLIN)
16” X 16” COFFEE & ACRYLICS ON BOARD
LYNDEUTSCH2008
ORIGINAL PAINTING IS SOLD
PRINTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR SALE

IF YOU ARE WILLING

2011-05-08T05:26:00.000-07:00

"let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by this name this man stands here before you in good health. "He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone.
"And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."

ACTS 4:10-12

And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said,
“Lord if you are willing, You can make me clean.”
Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, I am willing; be cleansed.”
And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Matthew 8:2,3

Dr. Thompson in his famous work, “The Land and the Book,” speaks of lepers in the East and says, “The hair falls from the head and eyebrows; the nails loosen, decay and drop off; joint after joint of the fingers and toes shrink up and slowly fall away. The gums are absorbed, and the teeth disappear. The nose, the eyes, the tongue and the palate are slowly consumed.” The disease turns a man into a mass of loathsomeness. Leprosy is nothing better than a horrible and lingering death.”

The man had as much poison in him as one poor body could contain; and yet he believed that Jesus of Nazareth could make him clean. If you are full of sin, if your propensities and habits have become untamable, I pray the Holy Spirit to give you the faith enough to believe that the Son of God can forgive you and renew you. Jesus can turn your death into life, your corruption into beauty.

Faith must be fixed on Jesus alone, for there is “no other name given among men whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Jesus is God’s ultimatum of salvation: the unique hope of guilty men and women both as to pardon and as to renewal.

Yet, there are some that even love their leprosy – men and women who do not wish to be saved from doing evil. They would like to go to heaven, but they must have their drunken frolics, their fornications and adulteries, their greed and worldly lusts. They would like to be saved but not from the sin that is the cause of it.

None of us can imagine that this leper meant that the Lord Jesus could make him comfortable in remaining a leper. Some came to fancy that Jesus came to let us go on in our sins with a quiet conscience. His salvation is cleansing from sin, and if we love sin, we are not saved from it.

We cannot have justification without sanctification. There must be a radical change, a change of heart, or else we are not saved. Just as this leper needed a thorough physical change, so do you need an entire renewal of your spiritual nature so as to become a new creature in Jesus Christ.

The Lord Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is the Living God who can be moved to compassion for those who are forlorn and lost, full of evil and self-condemned, those who are leprous with sin. Not you who are self-righteous! You yield Him no space to display His miraculous force. You who are whole have no need of a physician (Matthew 9:12).

Be hopeful then, those laden with guilt and conscious of their depravity, you furnish the empty vessels into which His grace maybe poured, the sick souls upon whom He may display His matchless power to bless and to save. This leper shall be a picture – I hope a mirror – in whom you will see yourself. May God grant you the faith to fall on your knees, and cry to Him, “Lord if you are willing, You can make me clean.”

(Excerpted from “The Lord and the Leper” by Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

IF YOU ARE WILLING
24” X 36” ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
LYNDEUTSCH2008
ORIGINAL PAINTING AVAILABLE FOR SALE
email: lyndeutsch@gmail.com

SUNBATHER

2011-05-07T16:07:00.000-07:00

WHAT DO WOMEN DO ALL DAY

Every minute, to and fro,
That's the way my hours go;
Bring me this, and take me that,
Feed the dog, take out the cat.
Standing up I eat my toast,
Drink my coffee, thaw the roast.
Empty the garbage, make the bed,
Rush to church, then wash my head.
Sweep the kitchen, wax the floor,
Scrub the woodwork, clean the doors;
Scour the bathtub, then myself;
Vacuum carpets, straighten shelves.
Eat my sandwich on the run...
Now my afternoon's begun.
To the baseball game I go,
When will there be time to sew?
Meet the teacher, stop the fight,
See the dentist, fly the kite.
Help with homework, do the wash,
Iron clothes, put on the squash.
Shop for groceries, cash a check,
Fight the crowds, now I'm a wreck;
Dinner time it soon will be,
"What's for dinner?" they ask,
Wait and see.
Dirty dishes crowd the sink,
Next there's popcorn, then a drink.
Will they never go to bed?
Will I ever get ahead?
"Bring me water." "Get the light."
Turn off the TV, lock the bike.
"Where's my pillow?" "Hear me prayers."
"Did you lock the door downstairs?"
At last in bed, my spouse and I,
Too tired to move, too weak to cry.
But e'er I doze, I hear him say,
"What do women do all day?"

...Marshall H. Hart

From Home Life, August 1976. The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. All rights reserved. Used by permission of author.

SUNBATHER
16" X 16" ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
LYNDEUTSCH2008
NOT FOR SALE

MOTHER AND CHILD

2011-05-06T01:11:00.000-07:00

"Can a woman forget her nursing child, and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands."
Isaiah 49:15-16

Our Father in heaven, sovereign, creator of all things, all praise and love to You! Today I come to lift up to You every mother and child who will come across this path. I pray that You will draw them near You and come to know You and Your Word in a living and personal way. May Your blessing, protection, and provision be upon them. May You guide and strengthen them - binding them in one spirit and in one love for You. May we, as mothers persevere in caring, praying, and nurturing our children in Your ways that they may live this life to honor You. Make us the wife and mother that you want us to be. Thank You Lord Jesus for all the wonderful works that You have done and will continue to accomplish in our lives!

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us, when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
Washington Irving (1783-1859)

MOTHER AND CHILD
18" X 36" ENAMEL ON BOARD
LYNDEUTSCH2008

CURTAIN CALL

2011-05-05T15:37:00.000-07:00

The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.
Psalm 50:1

CURTAIN CALL
72” X 36” OIL ON CANVAS
LYNDEUTSCH2008
ORIGINAL PAINTING AVAILABLE FOR SALE
email: lyndeutsch@gmail.com

I love sunsets. At the end of the day, it reminds me of God's faithfulness. No matter what we've gone through, we can be sure that He is able to complete that which He has started in our lives and make everything work out for our good and for His glory. He is able to do immeasurably more than what we can imagine, satisfy the desires of our hearts, as we put Him first in our lives.

- Do share your favorite scripture verse, an inspiring note, or comments of encouragement. Godbless!

STAND AND WATCH!

2011-05-04T13:52:00.000-07:00

“Do not be afraid. Just stand where you are and watch,
And you will see the wonderful way the Lord will rescue you today.”
Exodus 14:13
Abba Father, awesome God, mighty in power I worship and adore you! Today as it unfolds, some of us are facing a red sea in our lives. I pray that you will remind us that what is impossible for men, is possible with God. You are always faithful, never to leave us nor to forsake us. For those who do not know you in a personal way, I pray, that as this message goes out, Your Holy Spirit will move in their hearts to bring hope and realization of your saving grace. In Christ name, my Lord and Savior…

STAND AND WATCH
24”X24” ENAMEL ON POLYGLASS
LYNDEUTSCH2009
SOLD

ROSE VIOLET

2011-05-03T02:42:00.000-07:00

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWER

The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read beneath the long, straggly branches of an old willow tree. Disillusioned by life with good reason to frown, for the world was intent on dragging me down.

And if that weren’t enough to ruin my day, A young boy out of breath approached me, all tired from play. He stood right before me with his head tilted down and said with great excitement, “Look what I found!”

In his hand was a flower, and what a pitiful sight, with its petals all worn—not enough rain, or too little light. Wanting him to take his dead flower and go off to play, I faked a small smile and then shifted away.

But instead of retreating he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his nose and declared with overacted surprise,” It sure smells pretty and it’s beautiful, too. That’s why I picked it; here, it’s for you.”

The weed before me was dying or dead. Not vibrant of colors, orange, yellow or red. But I knew I must take it, or he might never leave. So I reached for the flower, and replied, “Just what I need.”

But instead of him placing the flower in my hand, He held it mid-air without reason or plan. It was then that I noticed for the very first time that weed-toting boy could not see: he was blind.

I heard my voice quiver, tears shone like the sun as I thanked him for picking the very best one. “You’re welcome,” he smiled, and then ran off to play; unaware of the impact he’d had on my day.

I sat there and wondered how he managed to see a self-pitying woman beneath an old willow tree. How did he know of my self-indulged plight? Perhaps from his heart, he’d been blessed with true sight.

Through the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. And for all of those times I myself had been blind, I vowed to see the beauty in life, and appreciate every second that’s mine.

And then I held that wilted flower up to my nose and breathed in the fragrance of a beautiful rose and smiled as I watched that young boy, another weed in his hand about to change the life of an unsuspecting old woman.

(Source Unknown)

ROSE VIOLET
32" X32" TEXTURED ACRYLIC
LYNDEUTSCH2008

BEDTIME PRAYER

2011-01-03T03:05:00.000-08:00

May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
Psalm 141:2

BEDTIME PRAYER
12" x 32" Acrylic on Canvas
LynDeutsch2008

THEN GOD ANSWERED...

2008-07-31T19:18:00.000-07:00

The Book of Job is unparalleled in its literary excellence, a verbatim transcription of God’s words that enable us to understand God’s great love and His eternal purposes in a unique, though somewhat disconcerting and surprising way.

Does God send suffering as punishment for sins? The book of Job contains no compact theory of why good people suffer. It is an amazing account of the best man on earth experiencing the worst calamities. Eloquently, powerfully, Job demanded answers from God, and God seemed indifferent.

God’s magnificent speech in Job 38-42 has attracted much attention. I too marvel at the wonderful images from nature and yet along with my awe and wonder come a nagging sense of bewilderment. God’s speech seems most striking in what it does not say. In fact, the speech avoids the issue of suffering entirely.

Although Job may help us form our questions about unjust suffering, it fails to give many answers for a very simple reason… Job is on trial. The book does not provide direct answers to the problem of pain – but poses a test of faith in its most extreme form. God has known all along that the real question traces back to the original challenge of Job’s faith.: “Does Job fear God for nothing?”…” Will he continue to trust God even after he forfeits it all?

Will you continue to trust God even after He takes your health, all that you own, love and treasure? “Like Job we are called to trust God even when all the evidence seems stacked against us” (Philip Yancey).

In this series of paintings inspired by Job 38:1-38 in the Holy Bible, I would like you to take glimpses of the wonders of God’s creation. Whatever you maybe going through right now, I pray that you trust in God alone through faith in His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. May you find joy and comfort in the truth that those who are in Christ have an awesome Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent God who is in complete control!

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that
the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
-James 1:2-4

STORM

2008-07-31T19:17:00.000-07:00

Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm. He said: Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
Job 38:1-3

MEASURING LINE

2008-07-31T19:16:00.001-07:00

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me if you understand.Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know? Who stretched a measuring line across it?
Job 38:4-5

MORNING STARS

2008-07-31T19:15:00.001-07:00

On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone –
while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
Job 38:6-7

WAVE

2008-07-31T19:13:00.000-07:00

Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness
Job 38:8-9

FIXED LIMITS

2008-07-31T19:12:00.001-07:00

When I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther,
here is where your proud waves halt’?
Job 38:10-11

DAWN

2008-07-31T19:11:00.001-07:00

"Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?
Job 38:12-13

DESERT ORANGE

2008-07-31T19:10:00.001-07:00

The earth takes shape like clay under seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment. The wicked
are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.
Job 38:14-15

SPRINGS OF THE SEA

2008-07-31T19:08:00.001-07:00

Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Job 38:16

SHADOW OF DEATH

2008-07-31T19:06:00.000-07:00

Have the gates of death been shown to you?
Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Job 38:17

EXPANSE

2008-07-31T19:05:00.000-07:00

Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this.
Job 38:18

ABODE OF LIGHT

2008-07-31T19:04:00.000-07:00

What is the way to the abode of light?
Job 38:19a

MOONLIT

2008-07-31T19:02:00.000-07:00

And where does darkness reside? Can you take them to their places?
Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
Job 38:19b-21

HAILSNOW

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Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,
which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?
Job 38:22, 23

EAST WINDS

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What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
Job 38:24

WILDERNESS

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Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it,
to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
Job 38:25-27

DEWDROP

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Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?
Job 38:28

ICE WOMB

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From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters
become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?
Job 38:29-30

PLEIADES

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Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades?
Can you loose the cords of Orion? Can you bring the
constellations in their seasons or lead the Bear with its cubs?
Job 38:31-32

SKIES ON FIRE

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Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?
Job 38:33

SHOWER

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Can you raise your voice to the clouds And cover yourself with a flood of water?
Job 38:34

LIGHTNING REPORT

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Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Job 38:35

ENLIGHTENMENT

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Who endowed the heart with wisdom Or gave understanding to the mind?
Job 38:36

COUNT THE CLOUDS

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Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
Job 38:37a

DUST

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Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?
Job 38:37-38

ANSWER ME

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Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him?
Let him who accuses God answer him!”
Job 38:40:2

MY EYES SEE YOU

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My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.
Job 38:42:5-6

ADAM & EVE

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When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
-Genesis 3:6

ONE FLESH

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For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
-Genesis 2:24,25

God gave marriage as a gift to Adam and Eve. They were perfectly created for each other. Marriage was not just for convenience, nor was it brought about by any culture. It was instituted by God and has three basic aspects. (1) the man ‘leaves’ his father and mother and, in a public act promises himself to his wife; (2) the man and woman are joined together by taking responsibility for each other’s welfare and loving their mate above all others; (3) the two become ‘one person’ or ‘oneflesh’ in the intimacy and commitment of sexual union which is reserved for marriage. Strong marriages today include all three of these aspects.

-Life Application Bible, p 9

CASCADES GARDEN

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The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria And the fourth river is the Euphrates. Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."
-Genesis 2:8-17

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WOMAN

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Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. And the man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”
-Genesis 2:18,22,23

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CREATION DAY 7: GOD RESTED

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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

-Genesis 2:1-3

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THE VALUE OF LIFE

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Herein consist the value and dignity of human life. I go back to the origin of the globe. I find that for five days the creative hand of the Almighty is busy fitting up an adobe of palatial splendor. He adorns it; He hollows the seas for man’s highway, rears the mountains for his observatories, stores the mines for his magazines, pours the streams to give him drink, and fertilizes the fields to give him daily bread. The mansion is carpeted with verdure, illuminated with the greater light by day, lesser light by night.

Then God comes up with the grandest work of all. When the earth is to be fashioned and the ocean to be poured into its bed, God simply says, “Let them be,” and they are. When man is to be created, the Godhead seems to make a solemn pause, retires into the recesses of His own tranquility, looks for a model, and finds it in Himself.

“And God said, let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness… So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created them… So God breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life and he became a living soul.” No longer a beautiful model, no longer a speechless statue, but vivified. Life, that subtle, mysterious thing that no physicist can define, whose lurking place in the body no medical eye hath yet found out – life came into the clay structure. He began to breathe, to walk, to think, to feel in the body the “nephesh”: the word in Hebrew means, in the first place the breath of life, then finally, by the immortal essence called the soul.

The soul enters upon an existence that shall be untouched by time, when the sun is extinguished like a taper in the sky, the moon blotted out, and the heavens have been rolled together as a vesture and changed forever. It is a transcendent, momentous thing, this living, thinking, feeling, deciding human being. Your life comes from God; He is its author; it should rise toward God, its Giver, who is alone worthy of being served; that with God it may live forever.

Man was created to be happy, but to be more – to be holy. The wisdom of those Westminster fathers that gathered in the Jerusalem chamber, wrought it into a well-known phrase, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” That is the double aim of life: duty first, then happiness as the consequence; to bring in revenues of honor to God, to build up His kingdom, spread His truth; to bring this whole world of His and lay it subject at the feet of the Son of God. That is the highest end and aim of existence, and everyone here that has risen up to that purpose of life lives. He does not merely vegetate, he does not exist as a higher type of animal: he lives a man’s life on earth, and when he dies he takes a man’s life to mingle with the loftier life of paradise.

The highest type of manhood and womanhood is to be attained by consecration to the Son of God. That is the only right way. That is the only idea which you are to take tomorrow into the toils and temptations of the week. That is the only idea that you are to carry unto God in your confessions and thanksgivings. That is the only idea on which you are to let the transcendent light of eternity fall. These powers, these gifts, the wealth earned, the influence imparted, all are to be laid at the feet of Jesus Christ who gave His life for you. Life is real, momentous, clothed with an awful and an overwhelming responsibility to its possessor. Nay, I believe that life is the richest of boons, or the most intolerable of curses.

-Theodore L. Cuyler, The Value of Life

CREATION DAY 6: MAN & ANIMALS

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Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind…God made the beasts of the earth, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them…And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

-Genesis 1:24-31

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CREATION DAY 5: BIRDS & SEA CREATURES

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Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens. And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

-Genesis 1:20-23

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CREAION DAY 4: SUN, MOON & STARS

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Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. And God made two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also… and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
-Genesis 1:14-19

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CREATION DAY 3: LAND & SEA

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Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good…And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1:9-13

CREATION DAY 2: SEPARATION OF THE WATERS

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Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. And God called the expanse heaven, And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:6-8

CREATION DAY 1: LIGHT

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Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
-Genesis 1:3-5

BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN

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IN THE BEGINNING GOD...

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word

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was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell Me if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!” The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the Living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them. In the past, He let all nations go their own way. Yet He has not left Himself without testimony. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

(Isa.40:21; Gen 1:1; John 1;1-3; Job 38:4; Psalm 19:1-2; Acts 14:15-17; Romans 1:20)

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THERE'S A TIME FOR EVERYTHING...

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a time to be born a time to die die

a time to plant and a time to uproot

a time to kill and a time to heal

a time to tear down and a time to build

a time to weep and a time to laugh

a time to mourn and a time to dance

a time to scatter and a time to gather

a time to embrace and a time to refrain

a time to search and a time to give up

a time to keep and a time to throw away

a time to tear and a time to mend

a time to be silent and a time to speak

a time to love and a time to hate

a time for war and a time for peace

TETELESTAI

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A sleepless night of indignity. False witnesses slandering . . . beatings . . . a crown of thorns digging into the King of kings’ head . . . a robe and scepter of mock royalty . . . more scourging . . . more mocking.

By 9AM His hands and feet were nailed to a rough-cut cross that was lifted and dropped with a dull thud into Golgotha’s brow. From noon to three, darkness fell over the earth – truly the darkest hour in human history.

John, the disciple whom Christ loved, was an eyewitness to the Crucifixion. He records for us the final minutes of this tragic scene in Chapter 19 of his gospel: “After this, Jesus knowing that all things had already been accomplished, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.” A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop, and brought it up to His mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” and He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit” (vv.28-30).

Jesus took a drink, as if to clear His parched throat so His clarion call could be heard by all: Tetelestai – “It is finished!” If the crucifixion was the darkest moment in history, these words pierced through clouds like a radiant beam of sunlight. The words don’t refer to the completion of His sufferings but the completion of the task He was born to do – to save His people from their sins (Mt.1:21). The timber of the cross formed the bridge over sin’s troubled waters and spanned hell’s chasm, uniting earth and heaven. With the words “It is finished,” the bridge was complete. It was a cry of victory, a cry of accomplishment – for with these words, fetters burst, prison walls crumbled, barriers fell, and gates that had been closed for thousands of years began to turn on their rusty hinges…

If you are without Christ, you’re treading water in a sea of sin. Things may appear calm, and you may feel you’ve got everything under control now. But one day, you’ll go under and sink like a rock and drown. The only life preserver is Jesus; the only way to heaven is the bridge of the cross. You can’t swim to the other side on your own strength. If you are in that situation, you can call out to Jesus – as Peter did when he was sinking – “Lord, save me! (Mt.14:30). It doesn’t need to be a King James prayer or a Revised Standard confession. It just needs to be from your heart to His. And when these two hearts connect, your bridge to heaven is complete. Isn’t it about time you stopped treading and started trusting?

(JESUS, OUR LORD by Charles R. Swindoll, 1994 pp.34-36)

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BROKEN

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Life on the streets of Nain was hard. As a prostitute, the lifestyle she once embraced as a source of freedom and pleasure, a way to demonstrate her independence, had become bondage and bitterness. Her life was empty and futile, and the future seemed to hold nothing more than a heartache and cynical hatred. Even though she was familiar with acts of love, her heart had never known a love that captivated her with its purity.

Along with her general hopelessness, a gnawing awareness of the futility of her life was growing within her. She was beginning to understand that the choices she had made were not merely wrong because someone disapproved of them; they were wrong because they were sinful. She discovered that the things that used to bring her pleasure – power over men, the pride of being different from other women, and the reassuring jangle of coins in her purse – now seemed so foolish, so meaningless. From deep within her she sensed a mysterious change in her heart. She detected a longing to love and know the God she had heard about all her life, the God of Israel.

As she gazed out over the plain of Carmel to the hills of Nazareth in the distance, she recalled stories she had heard about a certain Nazarene, Jesus. It was He who had raised the grieving widow’s son to life and said, “Do not weep” (Luke7:13). Do not weep. Would He speak these words to her also? Could He change her life too? Was it too late for forgiveness?

As she watched His interaction with the common people from the shadows, she saw that He welcomed them and taught them with loving wisdom. As she saw Him with the religious leaders, she knew He wasn’t like them. It was true that He loved and obeyed the law’ yet He was humble and gentle. He seemed so different from all the other men she had ever known. The desire to get to know Him began to captivate her. Some said that He was the Messiah. She had seen Him befriend and eat with sinners. It seemed as though He loved them. Would He receive her? What would He say to a woman who had been so proud of her sin?

This compelling desire to know and love Him became like a addiction in her heart. How can I get near Him? She felt that it would be wrong to go to Him empty-handed, so she took her most precious possession, an alabaster vial of perfume, and went to seek Him. On the day that she chose to go to Him, she discovered that He was having dinner at Simon’s house. This Pharisee despised and condemned her. In spite of that, she still had to see Him. She had to find a way to show the love she had come to have for the One who said, “Do not weep.” In spite of her fear and shame, in desperation she imposed herself on Him.

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When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume,
and as she stood behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.

Luke 7:37-38

The woman brought a heart filled with tears of love and repentance to pour on His feet. Rather than telling her not to weep, Jesus graced her with the ability to weep righteously, to mourn over sin, to love Him. He gave her a warm heart of flesh – one that could receive and embrace His person, His law. He gave her the ability to kiss holiness, to humble herself before a pure man, to use her perfume in worship of the perfect Man who is God.

She who had been so lost in immorality was now lost in sorrow and joy for sins recognized and forgiven. It no longer mattered what anyone else thought. She loved the Lord and humbled herself before Him. Jesus knew that her actions were motivated by love – a love that could ignore disapproval and disdain – a love that was willing to praise Him at the cost of all she had. Jesus recognized this love and said, “Her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much” (Luke 7:47).

Like her, when our eyes are opened to His worth our hearts overflow with worship. As we grow in seeing His love in forgiveness, everything else will fade in value. This woman poured out her perfume because Jesus had given her a new treasure: a cleansed heart and life and a relationship with Him. Once she wept in bitterness for her earthly sorrows; now she wept for her sins. Did she know that God was saving up these cherished tears in an alabaster vial in Heaven? (see Psalm 56:8).