Lessons of the Leash
Shirlee Abbott
“Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.” Psalm 25:4 (NIV)
“My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.” James 1:19 (NIV)
"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." John 15:12-13 (NIV)
“My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.” Psalm 121:2 (NIV)
“The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature.” Luke 8:14 (NIV)
"Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5:48 (NIV)
"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)
"'Return home and tell how much God has done for you.' So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.'" Luke 8:39 (NIV)
"... And as the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him." 2 Corinthians 3:18b (TLB)
"The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing." Zephaniah 3:17 (ESV)
"For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate ? For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing." Romans 7:15,18b-19 (ESV)
“Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.” Psalm 25:4 (NIV)
“‘Go,’ [Jesus] told him, ‘wash in the Pool of Siloam’ (this word means ‘Sent’). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.” John 9:7 (NIV)
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God …” 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)
Lord, I am safe with You. Your shelter and shadow comfort me in my loneliness. I will proclaim You are my refuge and my fortress; therefore, I will not fear (Psalm 91:2). As a refuge, You are my...