Tuesday June 28, 2005

Journal

We got up at the normal time of about 6 and loaded into the van and got to ECHO. After our QT, Breakfast, and devotions we divided up for jobs and went to work. I worked with Mr. Hanson, Danny and Jeff and several others throughout the day on the mountain. We moved the wall out by about 2-3 feet and re-dug the trench. Jeff moved the rocks from the old trench to the new trench with the loader, otherwise I don’t think they would have moved.

Devotions – Mr. Hanson

Psalms 101, 9A, Philemon

Wholeheartedness – what is a synonym? Sincerity is one example. In the Roman times, it is a Latin word (sin and sere) meaning without wax. The pottery makers sometimes would fill in cracks on cracked pottery to make it look perfect. If it was perfect, the maker would write “sincere” on the bottom – meaning it was perfect.

Christ paid all our debt for sin, this book is an example of this (Paul paying for what Onesimus owed to Philemon).

God works in people and what he does is to make us valuable to others and to Himself.

Sharing – Stitch (intern)

Ecclesiastes.

Ecc 2:24 There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, Ecc 3:22 So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him? Ecc 5:18 Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. Ecc 12:13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Find enjoyment in whatever you are doing. Work with a joyful heart and enjoy God, remember him in everything, for that is where you’ll find your joy.