The Value Of God’s Flock – As Viewed By God

The Lord their God will save his people on that day as a shepherd saves his flock. 

They will sparkle in his land like jewels in a crown.

(Zechariah 9:16)

 

A Brief Summary Of The Christian Faith

Almost 500 years ago Martin Luther wrote his Little Instruction Book for the education of children concerning the basic truths of the Christian Faith. In this small catechism, he includes brief summary statements about the church’s oldest statement of faith – The Apostles Creed (which itself has roots going back to the 1st or 2nd Century). Unfortunately, in today’s church, there are far too many adults who are unfamiliar with even these basic truths.

The Apostles Creed

 The First Article: Creation

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.

I believe that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses, and still takes care of them. He also gives me clothing and shoes, food and drink, house and home, wife and children, land, animals, and all I have. He richly and daily provides me with all that I need to support this body and life. He defends me against all danger and guards and protects me from all evil. All this He does only out of fatherly, divine goodness and mercy, without any merit or worthiness in me. For all this it is my duty to thank and praise, serve and obey Him. This is most certainly true.

The Second Article: Redemption

 And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary, is my Lord, who has redeemed me, a lost and condemned person, purchased and won me from all sins, from death, and from the power of the devil; not with gold or silver, but with His holy, precious blood and with His innocent suffering and death, that I may be His own and live under Him in His kingdom and serve Him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness, just as He is risen from the dead, lives and reigns to all eternity. This is most certainly true.

The Third Article: Sanctification

 I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

I believe that I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord, or come to Him; but the Holy Spirit has called me by the Gospel, enlightened me with His gifts, sanctified and kept me in the true faith. In the same way He calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies the whole Christian church on earth, and keeps it with Jesus Christ in the one true faith. In this Christian church He daily and richly forgives all my sins and the sins of all believers. On the Last Day He will raise me and all the dead, and give eternal life to me and all believers in Christ. This is most certainly true.

God’s Best,

Dar

The God Who Sings Over You

The Lord your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.

(Zephaniah 3:17)

Look with me for just a moment at the rich reminders that this one verse in Zephaniah contains about our Great God and King.

1. The Lord your God in your midst. God is not a God who is far off. He is not a God who created the world and is now off to bigger and better things. I wouldn’t blame Him if He were. This line reminds us that God here with us and among us in Spirit even now. God’s presence should be a comforting thought. He has not left us or abandoned us. The God who governs the universe, does so while continuing to know and care about every facet of our lives.

2. The Mighty One, will save.  God is not only fully present with us, He is also powerful, mighty and strong. He is the one force in all of creation that nothing can overcome or conquer. He will always reign supreme. Notice that the fact of His power in this verse has to do with His ability to save. When we are saved by God Himself, there is nothing that will take us out of His Hands. We are and will be – His.

3. He will rejoice over you with gladness. Our God actually takes great enjoyment in us. He takes joy in seeing us grow and develop just like a parent or grandparent enjoys the exploits and accomplishments of their children and grandchildren. He is pleased when we live lives that reflect His Glory and show our hearts to reflect His Love not only back to Him but also to those who need to know the Love of God in our own midst.

4. He will quiet you with His love. God’s Love is. again, like the love of a parent for a child. Picture a small child held in the arms of a parent, completely comfortable and relaxed. The child in the arm’s of a parent is not worried or anxious about anything. The child senses the love of the parent and feels the warmth of security, peace and contentment. This verse reminds us that we may experience the same satisfying feelings with our Heavenly Father.

5. He will rejoice over you with singing. Can you imagine that? God singing over His People. Think about it for a minute. God’s Voice has to be the most beautiful, awesome and melodic voice in the universe. And His Song is one of great joy! Imagine the words of His Song as He rejoices in Great Love for His People. His Voice will echo throughout the stars And we will be His People. Can you beat that? What majesty, what splendor and a wonderful sound that will be to our ears!

God’s Best,

Dar

The God Who Is . . . Awesome.

“Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord.
Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known;
in wrath remember mercy” (Habakkuk 3:2).

Oh, Lord God Almighty, may I never forget how awesome You are. May I continually stand in wonder and amazement of who You are and what You have done. Open my eyes that I may see You for who You really are and not who I might imagine You to be.

While I enjoy the benefits of Your great love and kindness toward me, may I never take You or Your love for granted. May I stand in holy reverence of You and bring honor to Your name in all that I do.

Oh, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, may Your mighty works and ways of ages past never come to an end. Do not forsake or leave me in my need of You. Hold me, Lord, near you. I desperately need You. If I ever begin to lose my sense of continuing need for Your power, presence, protection, guidance and continuing salvation,  then wake me from my slumber! May You O’ Eternal King, be lifted up and glorified by my every thought of You.

Oh, Savior, Strong to Save, may You, as You have promised and in Your absolute holiness, perfect justice and unquestionable righteousness, balance, one day, the great books of heaven.

But God of Abundant Mercy, God of Exceeding Patience, God of Abounding Forgiveness, remember those of us who cling only to the Blood Stained Cross of our Christ. Remember those of us who rely on the Perfect Life and Finished Work of Our Risen King!

May You, Oh, Lion-Lamb of God, Eternal God and Shepherd King be glorified in all my words . . . in all my speech may Your Name be Praised.

May All Honor, Glory and Praise be Yours To All The Nations until You come again.

Amen.

Dar

The God Who Keeps It Simple – (God’s 3 Step Action Plan For The New Year)

“And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8).

I want to simplify, focus, and accomplish more this year than last year. How about you? What I mean is, I don’t want to spend another year quickly multitasking through each day and then at the end of the week wonder if I’ve hit any targets.  And I happen to know that the difficulty rating on hitting a target becomes much greater when you don’t know what the target is. It’s hard to make a proper assessment of how close you’ve come when you don’t know where you are going.

What do I know about targets and objectives in life? I know that, at the end of the day/the week/the month/the year/my life, I want to please God. He made me, He loves me, He died for me and He lives in me through the gift of His Spirit. I also know that He speaks to me through His Word, the Bible. But there is so much in the Bible. . . what does it tell me about pleasing God? I would at least like to please God with my life – wouldn’t you?

Thankfully, the prophet Micah provides a target with a simple 3 Step Action Plan to Please God. After dispelling the idea that God needs more offerings or sacrifices (outward demonstrations of religious piety) to satisfy Him, Micah lays out the following:

Step 1 – Act Justly. Now this seems simple enough but at the same time a little challenging. In Micah and the rest of Scripture it is clear that to act justly means to look out for the needs of others. On any given day, if we pay attention, we will likely come across people who may be less privileged or affluent than we are. Always be on the look out for those who are overlooked by others. Be willing to stand in the gap for the ones with no one else standing for them. Make sure they are treated fairly and justly. If in doubt,  just do the right thing. Abound in goodness and not evil. There is enough evil to go around but there’s never quite enough good.

Step 2 – Love Mercy. Micah is not just telling us to occasionally show mercy, he is imploring us to love mercy. That means to be generous in our kindness to others, surprise people with unconditional attitudes and actions of love and forgiveness. (That is love and forgiveness and grace that doesn’t ask, nor expect, to get anything back!)  This is the sort of lifestyle that is uncommon. It throws people off. It makes them ask, “What kind of person would go out of their way to make sure that I am cared for?” The answer of course is the kind of person who has experienced the love of Christ in their own heart and has known the generous forgiveness and compassion of God the Father.

Step 3 – Walk Humbly With Your God. What does this mean? Well, as it turns out, God actually wants us to want Him, to desire Him. It pleases God that we would pursue Him to have a real one-on-one relationship with Him. What does that look like? It begins with a personal trust and reliance (faith) in God Himself, and then a hunger to know God and His Heart more and more. Iwant to thirst to honor Him with my life, to love Him through my actions (not just words) and to serve Him in whatever way He calls.

You may ask, “Where does the ‘Humbly’ part come in?”  The answer is, in all we do, we do for His Glory and His Fame, not for our own. Humanity’s pride has a way of turning everything toward ourselves and tarnishing every achievement. It is not we ourselves that we proclaim but King Jesus! We who follow Him want Him praised and Him thanked for all He has done and is doing to shepherd us with His love. There is an unparalleled and inexhaustible joy that comes from serving the King. What more could we want?

If you are looking for a target to hit, a fresh start for the new year or a renewed purpose for life . . . then let me recommend one that has stood the test of time and continues to inspire, challenge and bring great contentment to all who make it their own. While it remains unknown by many, overlooked by others and neglected by some, (but hopefully not you and me) – the Word of God through the prophet Micah clearly and simply gives a daily and life-long plan for living:

 “And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”

God’s Best for the New Year,

Dar

The God Who Calls Us Home – Right On Time

On October 17, 1651, after hearing of the death of his father, the brilliant mathematician, physicist, inventor and (whew!) philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote to his sister to comfort her in their grief. The letter itself is several pages in length due to Pascal’s uncanny ability to run on and on and on. For your benefit, the following is a brief excerpt of his note to his sister.

Here, Pascal reminds her that her ultimate consolation must come from God –

“. . .  we should seek consolation in our ills, not in ourselves, not in men, not in any thing that is created, but in God.”

Then in regards to the timing of their father’s death, Pascal comforts his sister with the consolation that their father has died . . . in the exact timing of God’s Providence –

” . . . [God’s] providence conceived from all eternity to be executed in the plenitude of its time in such a year, such a day, such an hour, such a place, such a manner; and, in short, that all that has happened has been from all time foreknown and foreordained. . . and in the inmost part of the will of God, in the justice of His decree, in the order of His providence. . . ” 

The bottom line is that Scripture confirms the reality that our lives are in the hands of our Sovereign Creator (thankfully). It was King David who wrote: “My times are in Your hands;” (Psalm 31:15a).  And again,“You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in Your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed” (Psalm 139:16).

Knowing that the number of our days are marked out before we give our first cry at birth should give us every reason to consider the value of each day and the overall purpose of our lives. Will we live out what God has gifted us to accomplish before we die? Will we have brought the glory to God our creator, with the potential for which He has prewired us?

With the Psalmist we call out to God, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12).

May your days be met with a God-given sense of fullfillment and contentment in Him and to His Glory Alone!

God’s Best,

Dar

 

 

 

 

 

 

The God Who Created, Owns and Rules Over Every Nook And Cranny

“. . . and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s” (Obadiah 1:21).

In the prophecy of Obadiah, we find an assurance to God’s people of his triumphant justice working on their behalf. The prophet ends this short pronouncement with the hopeful promise and divine confirmation that,  “. . . the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.”

In reality the world has been, is now and always will be God’s. It is true that evil exists here and at times it may seem that the planet has indeed been entirely taken over by agents of sin, corruption, disease, death and suffering. But often appearances are misleading and in this issue – that is the case. The world is in fact still firmly in the grasps of its Creator, Sustainer and Redeeming King!

But how can I say this when we all know the reality of present pain, injustice, immorality and wickedness?

First, I can say it because God is, in fact, the Creator of this world and of all that we can see and can’t see. The first verse of the Bible is one of it’s clearest, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Despite the naysayers of this present age, everything in nature shouts of a divine and loving Architect/Builder who has brought into existence an endlessly complex  world, full of astounding beauty, majesty and wonder.

Secondly, the very Word of God makes plain that this world has not been either abandoned nor taken completely over by an alien force. Just a quick glance at the Psalms reveals the confident and certain words of the writer, “The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it” (Psalm 24:1). “For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is the great King of all the earth” (Psalm 47:2). And,  “. . . for the world and all that is in it is mine” (Psalm 50:12b).

Thirdly, even though there is an undeniable presence of evil in this world, we are assured that at a future date known only to God, he will completely eradicate all evil. He will rule and reign over a world without devils, decay and destruction. The apostle John writes in the letter to the seven churches, “Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever'” (Revelation 11:15).

Finally, just as the first book of the Bible speaks of a pristine creation, the last book speaks of a re-creation, restoration and renewal of all things. Not only will the devil and all his demons be dispatched forever, but all sources of mourning, crying, pain and death will be erased. God is quoted as saying, “Behold, I am making everything new!” (Rev. 21:5).

I’ll close with a hymn entitled, “This Is My Father’s World.” After his death in 1901, Maltbie Babcock’s wife published this hymn favorite that sings of what Scripture states and also to what our souls relate –

This is my Father’s world,
And to my list’ning ears,
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres.
This is my Father’s world:
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas;
His hand the wonders wrought.

This is my Father’s world,
The birds their carols raise,
The morning light, the lily white,
Declare their Maker’s praise.
This is my Father’s world,
He shines in all that’s fair;
In the rustling grass I hear him pass,
He speaks to me everywhere.

This is my Father’s world,
O let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler yet.
This is my Father’s world:
The battle is not done;
Jesus who died shall be satisfied,
And earth and heav’n be one.

God’s Best. Your Friend In Christ,

Dar

One Thing About Jesus . . .

“. . . you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).

He is eternal and has always and will always exist. Through Him everything that exists has been made. Prophets for centuries foretold His appearing. When the time was perfect, He did come and was born to a young virgin named Mary in the town of Bethlehem and was laid in a manger. He became and will continue to be a fully real human in real human flesh. He has been and will continue to be fully God at the same time. He is uniquely unique. There is not now nor will there ever be another being like Him.

Again, when the time was right He was baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. He immediately faced down and defeated the temptation of Satan in a desert wilderness, one on one. He then announced to all that He was in fact the One who had been prophesied to come in all the Old Testament Scriptures. He began to preach “Repent and believe the good news!”

As He spoke and taught, He was recognized to possess a wisdom, insight and authority in His speech and thoughts that had not been witnessed in the history of mankind, nor since that time. No other guru, teacher, prophet or wise man ever born, has spoken with His knowledge, wisdom and understanding. He confounded those who opposed Him. He left the worldly-wise dumbfounded and the masses and crowds were amazed and marveled at His ability to expound the greatest words ever spoken.

He demonstrated His absolute authority and complete control over every aspect of the natural world. He walked on water, He changed water into wine, He calmed the winds and the waves and He multiplied bread and fish to feed thousands who hungered.

He revealed an uncommon compassion and mercy on everyone He encountered. He healed the sick, cleansed lepers and made the crippled to be able to walk. He took away blindness from those born blind and restored the hearing to those who could not hear. He demonstrated a mastery over every disease and infirmary He came into contact with. He displayed His power over life and death by raising to life those who had died.

He dominated and ruled over every demon and devil. He liberated all who were possessed by evil spirits. The kingdom of darkness recognized Him, feared Him and submitted to Him.

He claimed that there was a way to peace with God but also the exclusivity of being the one and only way to God. There is no other path, person or philosophy that will lead to the Father in Heaven. He asserted  that He and the Father are in reality One.  He revealed that He was in fact, the Way and the Truth and the Life to a sick, sinful, deceived, hurting and lost world of people from every part of the planet.

He stated that He was the answer to the world’s greatest, deepest, strongest and oldest problem – sickness, bondage and evil of sin which separates all humanity from and causes an estrangement from a loving, patient and merciful God. He revealed that He had the desire to and power to forgive any and all sin.

He on the other hand stated that He was without any sin, challenged any to see any sin in Him and He demonstrated a life of pure sinless perfection in all His speech and actions. And because He was sinless and because He was indeed God in the flesh, and because He was filled with a generous grace and limitless mercy for those estranged from God, He would be the Answer.

He chose to take the place of punishment for our sin on a Roman cross outside the city of Jerusalem.  He became our substitute and took our place on that instrument of torture for the penalty of our sin. He endured the suffering and scouring and the stripes of abuse and pain for us. He took our sins to the cross.  He defeated sin, death and the devil for us on a bloody cross because we couldn’t. He set us free from the guilt, free from shame and free from the eternal separation we were facing as rebels of God and His ways. In real space and real-time He took our real sins and now gives to us (in an exchange that only He could do) a real righteousness (not our own, but His) with which we will be able to actually live eternally in the presence of a Holy, Righteous, Just, Forgiving and Loving God and Father.

After the death of our Redeemer and our Savior on the cross, He then was buried in an empty tomb. But the tomb could not hold Him and death could not defeat Him, so then on the third day He rose from the death that He had endured for us. He was and is alive forever. He overcame death for us. In His human resurrected body, He began to show Himself to different people, in different places and at different times. As He demonstrated His power over death, He proved that His words and promises could be trusted, and He gave a real and certain reason to have hope for the future.

After showing Himself to many and continuing to teach and train His disciples for forty days, He then ascended visibly in His human bodily form back into the heavens and back into the presence of God the Father and the legions of angels at His command.

Now He sits enthroned in heaven and intercedes for His redeemed people who have been bought with the price of His own blood which He  shed for them. He also now continues to rule and reign as the Sovereign King of all the created universe.

In the future, at a day and time no man knows, He promises to return again to the earth to bring all of history to a final close by judging the world of those who have chosen to follow their own paths in opposition to His gracious offers of mercy, grace and forgiveness. And at that time He will also reward those who have turned to Him in repentance and sought Him and Him alone in faith as their only hope of pardon, joy, and peace with God for eternity.

Until that time, He promises to never leave nor forsake His people. He gives us the gift of His Spirit. He goes with us through all the trials, tests, troubles and tribulations that this world has to offer. He, as the Good Shepherd of His Sheep, promises to guide, protect and bless His people until the day of His return.

He also leaves His followers (disciples), with instructions and guidance for how to live and how to be about His business until He returns as the Eternal King of the New Heavens and New Earth that He will establish. He calls us to be the kind of disciples who will continue to seek Him, learn from Him, follow Him, and model Him to a watching world. He also leaves us with the great privilege of being His personal ambassadors to take the amazing message of the Gospel to the ends of the earth  (every nation, language group, and ethnic group on the planet).

He is the LORD of All Creation, the Sovereign King of All the Earth and the Master of our very lives.

His offer to a desperately needy world is urgent, timely and merciful. He offer is valid and trustworthy, “Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30).  Also, He announces, warns and commands, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel”(Mark 1:15).

Oh, by the way, one thing about Jesus  . . . He loves you!

God’s Best,

Dar

The God Who Relents In Response To Repentance

” . . . The LORD relented concerning this: “It shall not be,” said the LORD.” (Amos 7:3)

Many years ago the Prophet Amos pleaded for God’s mercy on behalf of a rebellious Israel. Amos knew that if God were to carry through on His plans the nation would be devastated.

In response to the prayer of Amos, God relented and did not carry through with His announced plan to discipline the nation. This pattern of God’s people repenting and God, in His mercy relenting, appears several times in the Scriptures. In these passages we see God described as relenting.

Just what does it mean that God relents?

In one sense this seems odd for it to be said that God relents, because we know that God is sovereign (ultimately in control of the entire universe) and omniscient (knowing everything and every outcome in advance). Also, we realize that God is never surprised by our choices or our responses.  So what could possibly be meant by the Scriptures pointing out that God, at times, relents?

Several Old Testament passages reveal how God promises beforehand that He will relent if the people will: change, mend their ways, turn from evil and repent. Then as the people turn back, God refrains from carrying through with His previously pronounced and pending judgment. Our God out of His abundant compassion, mercy and forgiveness . . . relents.

What insight can we gain from this? We learn that when we turn away from our sin and turn toward our God in sincere repentance, we have a Heavenly Father that will deal gently and mercifully with us.

Jonah, God’s reluctant missionary to Nineveh, had the opportunity to be an up-close witness of the God who relents in response to repentance. “When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that He had said He would do to them, and He did not do it.  But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the LORD and said, ‘O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.'”  (Jonah 3:10-4:2).

In Psalm 106 we are reminded that we worship a God who is always alert and intently listening for the for our humble cry for mercy. “Nevertheless, He looked upon their distress, when He heard their cry. For their sake He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the abundance of His steadfast love”  (44-45).

Oh Lord, God Almighty, Sovereign Ruler of all and Shepherd King, I am in desperate need of your redeeming grace. I confess my many thoughts, words and deeds of sinfulness to you, both actions committed by me in thoughtlessness or selfishness and those actions of good left undone by me because of sloth or lack of mercy on my part. May your grace pour down, yes, rain down on me. Forgive, cleanse, renew me. Kyrie Eleison . . . Lord, have mercy! Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy on me! Amen and Amen.

God’s Best,

Dar

The God Who Restores

“So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you” (Joel 2:25).

One of the things I’ve learned rather slowly in life is that for every one of my actions there are always corresponding reactions.  In general terms, we can say good decisions are usually met with positive results and wrong decisions usually result in negative results. Or more to the point of this passage by the prophet Joel, willful sin by God’s people will always be met with the focused attention of our Heavenly Father and His corresponding discipline for His children.

His discipline is meant to correct and bring back those who have strayed because He loves us enough not to just let us go our own way. He is after all the Great Shepherd of our souls. Our God is fully able to restore and bring back to usefulness and fruitfulness His people who will turn to Him regardless of their past disobedience.  He loves to meet our repentance with His restoration.  As the invitation by God illustrates in this same chapter:

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and He relents over disaster” (Joel 2:12-13).

Here’s a point or two about the God Who Restores:

First, our God is in the business of restoring broken hearts and broken dreams. It is His practice to mend that which is torn. He picks up the pieces of our dashed hopes and seals them back together again. He heals that which is has been injured  and He relieves the pain with soothing balms of love and compassion. He is the God of Compassion, Love and Restoration.

Secondly,  His method of operation is to make things even better than they were before. He has a track record of doing just that. You can check it out. Just ask Job or Joseph or most any follower of Jesus. God goes beyond what we would consider a gracious act of love. He restores. Restoring means more than simply putting things back where they were. He gives back what was lost and then some. Whether it was lost promises or plans, whether it was lost days or years, they are not lost, they are restored. He doesn’t rest until things are made more than right.

From my own experience, I know that He likes to more than make things like they were, He likes to make them even better.

As I reflect on my own life, I’ve seen God take my wrong turns (otherwise known as sins) and turn them into going the right direction with angelic escorts leading the way! Praise God!

Revived, Renewed And Restored,

God’s Best,

Dar