Hi Peeps,
Today’s Quote
“Technology is an applied science, tool, and gift– not God!
Head Game
We must all keep our heads in the Game of Life as we run our Good Race to the finish line and become content with the content and assignments God has for our lives. We are not better than the people we serve, help, and love. We must face the music of reality and adjust to the changes in our world to uphold the standards of God’s Truth, Justice, and Placement of Understanding. God is truly The Head of The Game and not we ourselves.
Chess Games
You must decide what moves to make, even though God has all the moves figured out, pre-planned, and predestined. The thinking person will ask God for direction, ideas, and provisions to study and finish the good game well. The non-thinking person will become a mindless dummy to model the path of fools.
Mind Games
Each piece of the chess game in life is important and the arrangement of strategy will allow you to make the best moves. The more you give, the more you can take, because you will reap what you sow and you will have a better harvest, since you love God. Swim in the Mind of God to learn the chess game pieces so that you can move freely in love, humility, and efficiency while teaching the Game of Life with God’s living pieces and Living Word, which is the ultimate Technological Tool.
Today’s Question
Did you learn how to play chess properly with today’s technology from God’s perspective yet?
Enjoy the Reading
1 Thessalonians 2
Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica
2 You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results. 2 We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition. 3 For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives,nor are we trying to trick you. 4 On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts. 5 You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed—God is our witness. 6 We were not looking for praise from people, not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles of Christ we could have asserted our authority. 7 Instead, we were like young children[a] among you.
Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, 8 so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well. 9 Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you. 10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy,righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. 11 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, 12 encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God,which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. 14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews15 who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone 16 in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.[b]
Paul’s Longing to See the Thessalonians
17 But, brothers and sisters, when we were orphaned by being separated from you for a short time (in person, not in thought), out of our intense longing we made every effort to see you. 18 For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan blocked our way. 19 For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? 20 Indeed, you are our glory and joy.
Love,
Jonathan
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