Discerning Thinking...

Text: Malachi 3:13-18 and Hebrews 4:12-13

Key Verses: "Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not." (Malachi 3:18) 
"For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." (Hebrews 12:13)

Points to Ponder...

1. What "man" thinks
2. What God thinks
3. What God's children think
4. Discerning God's opinion on the matter
5. Making choices - good and/or evil
6. Discerning the Body of Christ
7. Discerning the will of God
8. Integrity - intent and motive
9. Recognizing error/s and sin
10. Overcoming and recovering from error/s

Short Stuff on Perseverance

• Aim for excellence
• Conquer today
• Don't try harder - do harder
• Dust off and get up again
• Fire up those engines
• Focus, focus, focus
• Good comes to the willing and obedient
• Keep your chin up
• Let's hear your battle cry
• Overcomers rule
• Provoke others to good works
• Quitters never win
• Winners never quit
• You've survived tougher

(Gleaned from Hall's cough drop wrappers plus Kinnee-ism's.) 

"Kinnee-isms"

• God will let you have your way if you insist: that's free will. But He doesn't have to bless it.
• It's never good to seek for flaws, foibles, lapses, and sundry "motes." The "beams" will trip you every time.
• Can you love your world the way God loves the world? "God so loved that He gave..." Jesus said, "Freely you have received, freely give." Give your world Jesus!
• At the end of his days, every man receives an "Amen!" (which means "so be it"). Only the "willing and obedient" also hear, "Well done!" (See Ecclesiastes 11:3b; and Matthew 25:21.)