Jim Davis retweeted
"AGHHHHHHH! I FEARED THIS WOULD HAPPEN FOR YEARS!!
WHAT I'VE EATEN HAS COME BACK TO EAT ME!!!"
Jim Davis retweeted
No one really talks about covetousness but it is a sin, y’all. I think it’s probably one of the more common ones yet we don’t talk about it. So let’s see what it is, shall we?
“eager or excessive desire, especially for wealth or possessions”
“a strong wish to have something, especially something that belongs to someone else”
“A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; usually in a bad sense, and applied to an inordinate desire of wealth or avarice.”
“reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth; extreme greed for material wealth; an envious eagerness to possess something”
Spiritually:
“Covetousness is desiring something so much that you lose your contentment in God.”
“So, covetousness is desiring something so much that you lose your contentment in God. Or: losing your contentment in God so that you start to seek it elsewhere.”
“The main weapon of faith is the word of God. So when covetousness begins to raise its greedy head, what we must do is begin to preach the word of God to ourselves. We need to hear what God says. We need to hear his warnings about what becomes of the covetous and how serious it is to covet. And we need to hear his promises that can give great contentment to the soul and overcome all covetous cravings.”
I will put the link for further reading about covetousness below, I pray it helps us to recognize and understand this common, yet often ignored, sin.
I pray that we all are able to more easily recognize when we start to covet, and I pray we repent and stand firmly and fully in contentment in the Lord. I pray we honor the Lord in all that we do. May the Lord guide us closer to Him each and every day, and help us to bear much good fruit. May He mold us and shape us into the people He wants us to be, and may we serve Him faithfully. Amen.
Jim Davis retweeted
Yes, the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947, provided stunning confirmation of the reliability of the Hebrew Bible.
Previously the oldest complete copy of the Hebrew Bible, the so-called Masoretic text, was from around 1000 A.D.
That text is called the Leningrad Codex.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, dating from the 3rd to the first centuries BC, proved the Masoretic scribes had not altered the text in over a thousand years.
The Great Isaiah scroll for instance was virtually identical to the Masoretic version, with the differences being tiny and insignificant.
But interestingly the reliability of the Masoretic text could have been largely established without the Dead Sea Scrolls.
After all, the Hebrew Bible had between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC been translated into Greek.
This was done by scholars working in Alexandria and a few other places, and the translation is called the Septuagint.
So one could easily compare the Septuagint with the Masoretic script to see if, and to what extent, the text had been changed.
In fact, it had not. And this fact was then further corroborated by the Dead Sea manuscripts found around 75 years ago.
Bottom line: The Jews today read the same ancient Hebrew Scriptures that Jesus did. And so do we.
Jim Davis retweeted
America deserves bad things. This is evil and half of Americans agree with it.
I wouldn’t trust any human with this mindset. I don’t think they should vote either.
This is why abortion is so prevalent but dogs are in baby strollers.
Jim Davis retweeted
Dyne died in the ruins of his old home where he put two crosses for his wife and child. He then jumps off where a third cross would be to signify him reuniting with his family. Such powerful imagery to show the extent of his suffering!
In Rebirth he dies in a random scrapyard.
This scene was completely removed from Rebirth that highlights how Dyne is too far gone to be a father to Marlene, entrusting her to Barret before ending his own life as penance for his sins.
#ff7
Jim Davis retweeted
To root for another man. To cheer his success. To wish him good fortune in your heart, even when his successes are greater than your own.
This is true freedom.
To be liberated from the tyranny of comparison. To see another man rise and feel no need for him to fall. To encounter his accomplishment without experiencing it as an accusation against your own life.
To want to win and still want him to win, too.
Reject envy and victimhood.
Get busy doing.
