APPLES OF GOLD




"A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver." Proverbs 25:11 NIV

"...when you give a party, invite the poor, the lame, the crippled
and the blind. That way lies real happiness for you." -Luke 14, Phillips

"My word is like the snow and the rain that come down from the sky to water the earth." -Isaiah 55:10, - Good News Bible

"The LORD is my shepherd, I have everything I need." - Psalm 23:1, New Living Translation

"He makes me lie down in green pastures,



He leads me beside quiet waters" - Psalm 23:2, NIV

Have you ever read that book, A Shepherd Looks at the 23rd Psalm? I forget the author's name, Philip somebody... It's been around for years

What an interesting book! He tells why it was so important for the sheep to have green pastures and still waters in their lives.

Philip Keller has written the book "A Shepherd Looks at the Twenty-Third Psalm." His thesis is that the psalm is written from the perspective of a sheep bragging about his shepherd across a fence to another sheep with a different owner.

So, when we read, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want," the emphasis could be "the Lord is MY shepherd." Of course, we could have a discussion of each of the words in that opening line. - from a pastor's blog at http://www.fccofcc.com/blogs/day_blogs.cfm?d=10&m=9&y=2006

"LORD, my shepherd!
I don't need a thing.
You have bedded me down in lush meadows,
You find me quiet pools to drink from."
-Psalm 23, Peterson's 'The Message'

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for itself.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything, Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies.

-I Corinthians 13, Peterson's 'The Message'

The mountains and the hills will burst into singing,
And the trees will shout for joy.

- Isaiah 55:12, Today's English Version