Meditations on "Inventory"

What makes life good? Today, how can we live with a sense of well-being, a heart that is light, and the security of knowing that our relationship with God is on track?

God hates sin, but He loves every person who sins. Even though He hates stubbornness and rebellion, God does not hold prejudice against that person.

A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends.

When King David did an inventory of his heart he exposed murder and adultery and lying and self-righteous pride.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

As we learned yesterday, we begin the process of changing our selfish self-centered way of living by first turning our will and our lives over to God.

As we noted yesterday, from Adam and Eve all through the generations to the generation alive today, people have lived in an environment where good and evil are mixed.

Individuals leaving addiction behind and entering into life with God in recovery often use the Twelve Steps of AA to help them sort through their issues.

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own.

For hundreds of years, people used an inventory the church called, "Seven Deadly Sins" to help them recognize ways they'd gone wrong in their daily living.

HOLDING FAST TO THE ROCK When life takes a nosedive, it is important to remember that God is still with us.