#300

' [There are] three categories of men! In Egypt, in the wilderness, or in Canaan. I wonder - in which category are you?

Are you still in Egypt? Then trust Christ now as your Saviour! By faith, now, apply the precious blood that He shed upon the Cross, to the doorposts and lintel of your own heart, and thank Him like a child that you are redeemed!

Are you still in the wilderness? Then repudiate your unbelief! Start right now trusting the Lord Jesus for that for which His blood was shed - that He might live His resurrection life in and through you, even while you are still on earth in the body, and thank Him that He is your victory, that He is your strength, that He is your future, that He is all that you can ever need at any time, in any circumstances, for "in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in him." (Col. 2:9 - 10a)

Are you in the Promised Land? Then your portion is to reign in life! To reign by One, Christ Jesus, and to know joy unspeakable and full of glory, to know His peace that passeth all understanding, to know that every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon has been given to you, that you may be strong and of a good courage, neither afraid nor dismayed, in the knolwedge that the Lord your God is with you withersoever you go, for this - this is your victory, even your faith (1 John 5:4)'
(Maj. Ian Thomas, The Saving Life of Christ)

View #41

And sometimes, it just looks like this outside. Same view as always, zero visibility. A relentless, heavy, quietly accumulative sort of snow.

Thought for the day: Sometimes all we have to go on is faith and faithfulness.

View #27

Don't let the seemingly static, solitary cloud fool you - this is turning out to be a spectacularly windy day (the river is less deceiving with all its rippling ripples). If only there was such a wind for the market - a sort of Kamikaze to blow the bears away... Less than 2 more hours 'til the FOMC announcement.

View #26

A damp, cloudy morning - nonetheless beautiful. The market could go either way today; sort of like a child at Christmas who doesn't know whether what he did this year amounted to naughtiness or nastiness - will it be a toy train set or a lump of coal...

The market always can go either way - the market reminds us of this from time to time.

View #24

Dawn of a new day; markets set for a negative start; globally stocks have gone down except in Europe where the ECB had decided to keep prices in check by not lowering interest rates. January-February are historically slow months for the market anyway; perhaps it is a good time to let the various counter-recessionary measures to take effect. I doubt that the FOMC announcement this Wednesday will move the markets too much.

Thought of the day: we each are small and the universe is infinite; somewhere within each of us is a connection to the infinite.

View #13 Manhattan Fog

A wet, warm winter morn' - no snow, just fog obscuring the whole island - a reflection on the current state of the economy perhaps; except that once the fog lifts Manhattan will still be there; once the fog lifts over the subprime devastation (bond insurers being the newest danger zone), where will our economy be...?

Am noticing that when something goes wrong, we tend to over-focus only on what is wrong until our outlook is so contracted and narrow that we forget all the positive things that are still there with which to ride out the storm without taking an unnecessary beating...

Thought of the day: this too shall pass.