Cake and Greens

grandboy's peanut butter, chocolate chip 12th b'day cake
compliments of Memaw

"The LORD is slow to get angry, but His power is great, and He never lets the guilty go unpunished. He displays His power in the whirlwind and the storm. The billowing clouds are the dust beneath His feet...He will sweep away His enemies in an overwhelming flood. He will pursue His foes into the darkness of night. Why are you scheming against the LORD? He will destroy you with one blow; He won't need to strike twice!" (Nahum 1:3,8-9)

At the women's Recreate Conference 2017, Charlotte Gambill taught that we relish the sweet Scriptures of the Bible, but we also need to consume it's greens - truths that save us and make us strong and spiritually healthy.

Sitting among the smorgasbord of:

 "God is love"

"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son" or

 

"God is your refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble"

are truthful warnings:

"Anyone who does not have the Son, does not have the Father, either"

"the Day of the Lord's return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night" 

"throw the useless servant into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Tim Mackie in the Bible Project's book of Daniel said, "Humans become beasts when they exalt themselves and don't acknowledge God as King." 

There will be a day of reckoning, my friend. O people of the nations, who sits upon your heart's thrown? Yourself or Jesus?

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near! (Isaiah 55:6)