When children are under their mother’s eye, she has an opportunity of fashioning their minds right.  Those who are grown up, should often call to mind the good teaching they received when children.  The many awful instances of promising characters that have been ruined by loose women, and love of wine, should warn everyone to avoid these evils.  Wine is to be used for helping or medicine.  Every creature of God is good, and wine, though abused, has its use.  By the same rule, due praise and punishment should be used as tools to grow confident and self-sufficient adults. All in authority should be more carefully judged than other men; and should be protectors of those who are unable or afraid to plead their own cause.  Our blessed Lord did not decline the bitterest dregs of the cup of sorrow put into his hands; but he puts the cup of consolation into the hands of his people, and causes those to rejoice who are in the deepest distress. The name Lemuel means “unto God” In Proverbs 31

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Psalm 46  Be Still This psalm encourages us to hope and trust in God; in his power and providence, and his gracious presence with his church in the worst of times. We may apply it to spiritual enemies, and the encouragement we have that, through Christ, we shall be conquerors over them. He is a Help, a present Help, a Help found, one whom we have found to be so; a Help at hand, one that is always near; we cannot desire a better, nor shall we ever find the like in any creature. Here is joy to the church, even in sorrowful times. The river alludes to the graces and the comforts received by the Holy Spirit, which flow through every part of the church, and through God's sacred ordinances, gladdening the heart of every believer. It is promised that the church shall not be moved. If God be in our hearts, by his word dwelling richly in us, we shall be established, we shall be helped; let us trust and not be afraid. You want to know victory – stop striving, to let go, surrender

Creation is God’s way of revealing Himself to humanity. What does creation, (the universe around us), tell us about God? Can we find evidence of God's existence from looking at the world in which we live? The Bible asserts that the universe is a testimony to God's Existence, exactness and accuracy. Psalm 19:1-3 has this to say: 1 How clearly the sky reveals God's glory! How plainly it shows what he has done!  2 Each day announces it to the following day; each night repeats it to the next.  3 No speech or words are used, no sound is heard; Acts 14:15-17 says 14 When Barnabas and Paul heard what they were about to do, they tore their clothes and ran into the middle of the crowd, shouting, 15 "Why are you doing this? We ourselves are only human beings like you! We are here to announce the Good News, to turn you away from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven, earth, sea, and all that is in them. 16 In the past he allowed all pe