Good Morning Friends! Mighty and awesome is our God, Monday! Well, Kim’s trip to Kansas last week was productive….he got his cows….3 year old, black angus and all pregnant. He was quite excited Friday evening waiting for them to be delivered. The trucker called about 7 and said he should be there about 9. Sure enough he called right about 9, so Kim and a neighbor meet him at the fire department so he wouldn’t get lost. Kim came in about 10 all excited. “We are going to brand them tomorrow!” Just last week he got an electric brand he had ordered…he was quite proud of our lazy K-hanging J brand. A good brand is really important for cattle owner’s protection. We got up early, Saturday and got to work on our regular chores, so he could work the cattle in the afternoon. About 1:30 I sent him off with a PB&J sandwich and some tea…..he was so excited-2 neighbors were going to help him, so I could stay home and get my work done. He hadn’t been gone long when he called and needed me to bring some wormer. As I walked up to the chute I could see Kim holding the hot brand on a cow. One guy was helping to hold her while Kim held the brand….she did not like it…..you could tell it hurt her. I knew it was important, but I hated to see her in pain. I left the wormer and headed home, but my thoughts stayed on the cows being branded so they could be identified as ours. Wow, we too are branded….branded with the cross that Jesus hung and died on for us……but our branding hurt HIM, not us….Jesus took all the pain of our sins and in turn branded us with HIS love…..We don’t walk around with a lazy K-hanging J for everyone to see….to identify us as HIS, but others will see that we are HIS by our actions, by our love….like the song says, “They will know we are Christians by our love.” Father, thank you for the gift of Your Son….the brand of Your love on us…..Your mercy, grace, forgiveness. Help us to show others….and bring glory to You.
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by His grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage our hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Romans 12:10. Live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:2. Keep on loving each other. Hebrews 13:1. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:12. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. Galatians 5:6.
Love you all!
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