This article is from a new friend of Elisha’s Riddle – Landon Hines. This fit so wonderfully with our theme for December, we just had to include it…

“’I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,’ says the Lord, ‘who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.’”

‭‭Revelation‬ ‭1:8‬ ‭(NKJV‬‬)

Don’t spend your time learning more and more about less and less, until you know everything about nothing!

Everything that the world counts so dear – sentiment, money, status, knowledge of this natural world, politics, laws, tradition and on and on are all utterly pathetic when compared with Christ Jesus the Son of God, the very embodiment of love!

Everything that exists, including you and I, exists by Him, through Him, and for Him. There is no life apart from Christ!

There is a way that seems right to a man, to depend upon experience and logic, to have a “work hard and just keep going and we’ll see what happens” mentality. To say “I’m doing my best, I’m a good person, I don’t need that Jesus guy.”

There is a better way! To know Christ Jesus is to know why you’re here on this earth, to understand true love and experience it constantly, to live with NO fear, to never worry about death or disease, to always be provided for and completely free from worry! That’s Gods best for you and what He has freely provided at the cross.

This is the life that I am thankful for! Family is great, friends are wonderful, pleasures in this world are nice, but all of that comes from Jesus!! Imagine when you go directly to the source Himself!!

In this season of thanksgiving, be thankful for Jesus!!

“The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I’m tearing up and throwing out with the trash—along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant—dog dung. I’ve dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him…….”

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3:7-9‬ ‭MSG‬‬

My Father God is who I’m thankful for, as well as His wonderfully wise plan to save me through His Son Jesus! I can boast that I know Him. Everything else is purely worthless!