Paint Party Friday: Follow Your Heart!

I'm starting a new project.

I hope it comes out as beautiful

as I see it in my mind!!!

I dyed fabric and lace in tea

to make it look old.

And after laying it down

and "auditioning" the pieces,

I am now sewing it.

 We've all come across the phrase

"Follow your heart".

I probably have used it myself!

But the heart has many longings,

and it's different for each person.

Many long for love and look for it 

in the oddest places and persons!

Some long for fame, success, wealth.

I know somebody who wants to be left alone.

Another who is afraid of being alone.

 Because of these various desires and longings,

if we follow our heart we will not find rest.

St. Augustine said it well,

"You have made us for yourself, Lord,

and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee."

He made this statement after his many 

wanderings and running after the longings of his heart. 

"I was in love with love and I hated safety," he had said.

So instead of following our heart,

we need only to follow Jesus.

"Come to me, all you who are weary

and heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

Matthew 11:28.

 "I never knew you..." Mt. 7:23

How sad it would be if

after reading the bible

we could not say 

we knew Jesus!

The Jews read about Jesus

in their Hebrew bible all the time,

but they don't recognize Him.

"A number of years ago,

Peter W. Stoner and 

Robert C. Newman wrote

a book entitled Science Speaks. 

The book was based on 

the science of probability and 

vouched for by the

American Scientific Affiliation. 

It set out the odds of any one man 

in all of history fulfilling even 

only eight of the 60 major 

prophecies (and 270 ramifications) 

fulfilled by the life of Christ.

The probability that Jesus of Nazareth 

could have fulfilled even 

eight such prophecies would be 

only 1 in 10 to the 17th power. 

That's 1 in 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.*"

Do WE know who Jesus is,

and more importantly?

does He know us?

(* from Christian Answers)

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