Taking Hebron

Pain is something man has been trying to rid himself of from the first moment it appeared. Yet even with all of our most medical advancements there is nothing that can take pain away. Medication can temporally dull it, or make the body not feel it for a time, but it always comes back. Until it's run it course in a physical sense or has been walked through in an emotional sense, pain remains until it's completed it work. Steven Curtis Chapman has a new cd a worship album called Worship and Believe.  (I LOVE it!) There's a quiet little song that sounds kind of sad called Hallelujah, You are Good.  At first I skipped this song, I wanted to get to the next one More than Conquerors ! Amen! Well this last week I started to listen to Hallelujah, You are Good,  over and over again in the car. The first part sounded sad but the second part really moved me. Matt Maher and Steven Curtis Chapman sing Hallelujah together at the end of the song and then Mr. Chapman sings parts of

"Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you." Luke 6:38 I don't give to get. If you were looking over a business proposition you might look at the above verse and think, it sounds like a good deal. But when you give to the Lord you don't give for what you may get in return, you give because He so freely gave to you.  So when the Lord started bringing this verse to mind over the last month I wondered about it.  "Thanks for the reminder Lord, nice promise, but You know that I don't give to get anything in return anyway." But what was He really revealing? This morning as I was driving home from the post office this verse came again to my mind. And it's truth brought tears to my eyes. I get to choose.  For with the same measure that you use... We get to decide. We get to de