Collages

Can you remember when in grade school, a long time ago for some, you made a collage for an art project? The collages we made couldn’t be assembled with just a bunch of anything and everything, no we had to choose a theme and gather things that pertained to that theme. I can remember pictures of presidents, newspaper headlines, leaves from trees, canceled mail envelopes with postage stamps of all kinds on them. I think I made one with pictures of automobiles from a half dozen magazines. Well anyway, I remember it was fun doing, cutting up magazines and gluing it all together on a special thick piece of paper. Little did we know that making a collage was a fun introduction in learning to gather facts and figures and statistics which we would be doing for the rest of our life. Without this seemingly simple ability we would find it difficult to reason and make good decisions and basically function in our very complex world today. Praise God for your abilities and pray for the mentally challenged.
O,K. here’s a collage of Christian One-Liners that have been cluttering my desk for months. **Some people are kind, polite and sweet spirited, until you try to sit in their pew. **Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers. **It’s easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one. **Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous. **Don’t put a question mark where God has put a period. **Don’t wait for six strong men to take you to church. **The good Lord didn’t create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come real close. **People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. **Forbidden fruits make many jams. **God grades on the cross, not the curve. **Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door every day. **Quit gripping about your church. If it were perfect, you couldn’t belong. **If your church wants a better preacher, it only needs to pray for the one it has. **God himself does not propose to judge a man until he’s dead, so why should you? **Some minds are like concrete; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. **Peace starts with a smile. **I don’t know why people keep changing churches. What difference does it make which church you stay home from?! **Are you “Standing On The Promises” or just sitting on the premises? **We’ve been called to be witnesses; not lawyers or judges. **Be fishers of men. You catch ‘em / He’ll clean ‘em. **He who angers you, controls you. **Never give God instructions; just report for duty. **Sin will take you places you never meant to go; keep you there longer than you intended to stay and cost you more than you can afford. **The task ahead of us is never as great as the POWER behind us. **Don’t change the message; let the message change you. **If God is your co-pilot; swap seats! **You tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him. **1cross + 3 nails = 4 given.
[Psalm 37: 25] (NIV) “I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.” We can always depend on God, and we are also reminded by the writer, we’re not young forever. (Ecclesiastes 9: 10) The teacher, Solomon, son of David, reminds us that: “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.” Your collage of love will be finished, forever.