The Good Life!

The Good Life!
Brad Reiches
Aug 10 2006 10:00PM

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I am in Mexico this week with 23 others for our 2nd annual Mexico Missions trip at the Rancho De Sus Ninos in Tecate.  I am therefore unavailable for correspondence this week, and thank you so much for your prayers.  -Pastor Brad

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Friday, August 11, 2006
A GodThoughts Classic!

"The Good Life"

"All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful,

but sorrowful, yet to those who have been trained by it,

afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."

Hebrews 12: 11

Most discipline is painful.  It is usually uncomfortable, and often requires sacrifice.  The discipline of righteousness is no different.  It is painful, at times, to choose God's way over our own.  It is certainly uncomfortable in a world that "does it's own thing."  The discipline of righteousness requires the ultimate sacrifice in that it entails the choice of God's will rather than our own. 

But what fruit!  "The peaceful fruit of righteousness."  The fruit of righteousness...is PEACE (see James 3: 18).

"Righteousness and peace have kissed each other."

Psalm 85: 10

This kind of peace leads to immeasurable joy!  In turn, this kind of joy strengthens us!  "Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength"(Nehemiah 8: 10).

Strength for what?  Strength to ever-increasingly walk in discipline.  The discipline of righteousness.  The righteousness that leads to peace.  The peace that results in joy.  And the joy that strengthens us.  I call it...The Good Life.