Who Shall Abide in the Tabernacle of the Lord?

Psalm 15

A Psalm of David

 LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?  

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.  

[He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, 

nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.  

In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. 

[He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and changeth not.  

[He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. 

He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved.  

Teaching Reminder #1

You need to learn right methods and acquire tact for the training of your little ones, that they may keep the way of the Lord. You need to seek constantly the highest culture of mind and soul, that you may bring to the education and training of your children a restful spirit, a loving heart; that you may imbue them with pure aspirations, and cultivate in them a love for things honest and pure and holy. As a humble child of God, learn in the school of Christ; seek constantly to improve your powers, that you may do the most perfect, thorough work at home [and school], by both precept and example.

Ellen G. White
Child Guidance

rainbow promises

Yesterday I saw the biggest, prettiest rainbow arch over the city where I live, and it made me think of how wonderfully and amazingly miraculous God's grace is.

I found myself explaining to the friend I was with how rainbows are made by sunlight shining through water droplets. It's not a physical object. Nobody's ever touched it. No man owns it. 

In contrast to the dull and hazy artificiality of the city scape, there it was so ordinarily natural and yet so miraculously wonderful or wonderfully miraculous, whichever is most fathomable to you.

I no longer thought it unfair that there never are any auroras in this part of world.

Kids nowadays (or at least the ones I know) rarely use the word "rainbow." It's as if the word and the phenomenon it refers to doesn't exist beyond the nursery books in their reality. It breaks my heart to think such a wonder should slip away unnoticed. Perhaps they're all too busy staring into flat screen TVs, tablets, smartphones, PSPs. Too busy, just too busy to look up.

Together, my friend and I remembered how God first spread the rainbow across the sky after the world's sins and cleansing. The rainbow is a promise. To them, to him, to me. 

Grace, wonderful grace.