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Can we use the part about Eli Bonham being our
ancestor???? Hey, I can trace my ancestry back to the Edwards in Wales. Maybe
I'm related to Adrian?!
Nah!
Rick Barnhouse
SMDTC
Hey Gang,
Here is another brand new devotion
for you. This time it was inspired by Janet.
These women we have with us
are a great inspiration, ain't they?
Sacrifice.
By
Adrian Bonham.
Janet has said that she will
make a sacrifice of eating vegemite if I will eat grits. Both of us are
prepared to make that sacrifice. I want to talk about another sacrifice that
was made in 1836.Back in the late 1700’s, two brothers, Eli and Elija
Bonham left their home on the English border with Wales. Eli11 I am a descendant of Eli Bonham. came out to Australia
and went to live in Bathurst (NSW). Elija went to live in the USA and set up
home in the Carolinias. One of his descendants was James Bulter Bonham. In
1834 James joined up with William Travis and in 1836 went to destroy the
Alamo Mission. Travis decided to defend it instead to “buy some
time” for Houston to build his army. Santa Anna besieged the Alamo
mission. On March 6 all 189 defenders of the Mission were slaughtered
including just famous men as Jim Bowie, Davy Crocket and William Travis.
Each man laid down his life so that Texas should be free. Jesus said in John
15:12-17 “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his
friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you
servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I
have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have
made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you
to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you
whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other.”
Jesu commands us to love one
another as He loved us. How did he love us? He laid down His life for us. He
not only commanded us, He did it. So what is this love? In 1 Corinthians
13:4-8 we read “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it
does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it
is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight
in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are
prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will pass away.” Now that is love.
Imagine if we all lived that way, we would change the world in an instant.
All others will pass away, but love will remain. Love means we do not take
offence at someone who has a different point of view from ours. Love means
accepting people for who they are, warts and all. Love will conquer all.
Jesus proved it by dieing on the cross for us. He laid down His life for His
friends.
He does not call us
“servants”, but friends. Paul says we are adopted by the Father
as His sons and daughters (Ephesians 1:4-5). A servant does what they are
told and if they disobey they are fired. We, however, are sons and daughters
and if disobey we can seek forgiveness. We also share in the inheritance of
the Son. Which eternal life with the father. Just as a father will teach his
children the Lord teaches us, through His word and through the Holy Spirit.
He corrects us when we do wrong as the writer of Hebrews puts it in chapter
12:5-8 “And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that
addresses you as sons: "My son, do not make light of the Lord's
discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord
disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a
son." Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For
what son is not disciplined by his father? If you are not disciplined (and
everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not
true sons.” We are sons and daughters of the Most High God.
Jesus laid down his life for us that we
might live and life to the fullest. Through His sacrifice we become sons and
daughters of the Lord. Jesus showed us how to love and then He proved it by
giving up His life and was raised in a newness of life. We share in the
inheritance for Jesus. Faced with all of this, what sacrifices are we
prepared to make for Him?
There's a storm
coming, our Storm. PROCLAIMING GOD'S LOVE TO A DYING WORLD Say to the
captives, 'come out,' and those in darkness, 'Be free!' Isaiah 49:9 Love in
Jesus Adrian Bonham aka Morning Light, The Larrikin
I looked to the
heavens to where God dwells I looked into my life to see he lives there as
well.
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