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You’re on a need-to-know basis.

When we say we are understanding, we often mean that we are sympathetic to someone's plight, but we don't understand the situation completely without being that person. On the other hand, God being God, understands us completely. He made us.

When we make something, like a pie, we know the ingredients and the proportions and how long it is to bake and whether to serve it warm or with ice cream. How much more God understands us. In Psalms, the writer says God knows we are "but dirt," or as stated in "The Message," mud. Now that is humbling, but it is not a excuse for how we live.

God also made us in His image, according to the Bible, and breathed life into that clump of mud. Isn't it nice to know that there is more to us than earth and water?

As a child we made mud pies for others or maybe to toss around. That was what we were able to do, but as an adult we can bless others so much more as God has given each one of us special abilities.

It should excite us to know that we have a purpose here beyond the mud puddle. The main purpose is to love God with all our hearts, mind, and strength. We are also to love our neighbors. Here is where our abilities come into play.

Now may our need-to-know become a desire-to-live for God and others. Let's make a pie and share it today and not to just toss the mud around.

Please take some time today, Good Friday, and reflect on the love God has for us which was demonstrated by the sacrifice of His Son Jesus, dying on the cross for the sins of the world. Oh, how He loves you and me.

You’re on a need-to-know basis.

A Thesaurus would sight compassionate as a concern for the victims -
sympathetic, empathetic, understanding, caring, solicitous, sensitive, warm, loving; merciful, lenient, tolerant, considerate, kind, humane, charitable, bighearted...., and we need-to-know that that is God.

God has compassion for those who are lost and is sympathetic to our situations. We are like dumb sheep for which God is empathetic, and understanding. God certainly shows caring in the way He continually invites us back up on the hill where we belong and is sensitive to our poor choices. I could go on and on putting into sentences all the words that describe God’s compassion, but I’d run out of room.

The Bible says that the Son of Man, Jesus, came to this big pasture called earth because of the great compassion He has for all us dumb sheep.

Rejoice! He did this so we wouldn’t have to wander forever. It’s great when the need-to-know becomes the know-to-need to be saved because we are lost. “Wool” you come to the Savior?

You’re on a need-to-know basis.

God designs with purpose. For example, plants provide food, beauty, and oxygen into the air for us to breath. It seems that everything has it’s purpose if we have the ability to understand it - even people.

We might think that our purpose is to hop about, like the lamb in this cartoon, and just seek out what ever pleasure is to our liking. Pleasure is good, and God even created it, but it is hardly our purpose.

Jesus said that the whole of God’s Word can be condensed down to a simple need-to-know thought. That is, to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength and He added to that: to love our neighbor as ourselves. This is the purpose for which we exist and once we choose to follow it, we can have purpose with the greatest pleasure resulting in an abundant life which brings honor to God, the great purpose giver.

One may think it is impossible to live this way perfectly. You’re right! That is why God purposed His Son, Jesus who can cleanse us from those imperfections (sins) so that we can continue on with the purpose for our lives.

It’s great when us sheep know our purpose, but just watch out for the wolves! They have their purpose too.

You’re on a need-to-know basis.

It’s a great challenge to picture God.

The moment we try to picture Him is the moment we can’t, and if we think we have done it, we are naturally going to come up way short. Let’s face it. We are just limited human beings, and it is impossible to have a total picture of our boundless God.

In the Bible, the greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind. It would be a lot easier if we had a good picture of this object of our love? Well, in the same book Jesus said, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.” (John 14:9b) So, in order to get a good picture of God, the Father, we just need to read about Jesus. The tough part is trying to put that picture on a canvas for all to see, but when we ask Jesus into our lives, it can be done because we become the canvas.

Now we have all we need-to-know for a making a great picture!

If you are going through a difficult time of it, possibly this is God's timing that you'd view this postcard!

If you would like to comment, I would like your input. Now that was a dangerous thing to say, but I would really like to hear your thoughts concerning this postcard. This card is one of several that I am doing for a client. The intent is to be able to send a brief uplifting note to someone who is going through very serious health challenges like cancer. Everyone has known someone close who has had this type of condition, or possibly you yourself are dealing with issues like this today or have in the past.
What I am looking for are comments pro or con as to whether this card would be received as a form of encouragement while incorporating a bit of humor. Thank you for your time in considering this and any comments that you'd like to offer. Blessings!

If you are going through a difficult time of it, possibly this is God's timing that you'd view this postcard!

If you would like to comment, I would like your input. Now that was a dangerous thing to say, but I would really like to hear your thoughts concerning this postcard. This card is one of several that I am doing for a client. The intent is to be able to send a brief uplifting note to someone who is going through very serious health challenges like cancer. Everyone has known someone close who has had this type of condition, or possibly you yourself are dealing with issues like this today or have in the past.
What I am looking for are comments pro or con as to whether this card would be received as a form of encouragement while incorporating a bit of humor. Thank you for your time in considering this and any comments that you'd like to offer. Blessings!

You’re on a need-to-know basis.

God is faithful in all His ways.

You may know of this faithfulness, but then again maybe you haven’t given it much thought. You need-to-know this in order to take the pressure off yourself. No one really has the power to make everything in the world go the way one thinks it should. Jesus said, “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?” (Luke 12:25 niv) Some things are just beyond our control.

Yet, we do have the freedom and the power to choose a variety of ways to live good lives or to mess up that same life, and God is faithful to allow us to do it. Of course God wants us to make good choices. In His Word, God provides what we need-to-know in order to make those choices.

So let’s enjoy the cosmos, praise Him who is faithful, and search in His Word for what we need-to-know to choose wisely. Then we just need to do it!

Isn’t it nice to know that He provides all we need-to-know?

You're on a need-to-know basis.

There are a lot of things we'd like to know and there are somethings we need-to-know. Need-to-know information is for those persons who need the information to carry our their assigned task.

Your task is to have a personal relationship with your Heavenly Father. You can't do that while you're pulling a lot of sin along with you - it hampers the relationship. To empty that wagon, all you have to do is take it to God, tell Him what you've got, and that you'd like not to have this following you around anymore.

God has provided a way to unload that trailer and save you from its burden. When you trust His Son, Jesus, who paid the price for all that junk, He will remove all those nasty little critters. Then you can, by His Spirit, live a life on the open road with nothing slowing you down.

Have fun in your new ride. Isn't it nice to know what you need?

If you are going through a difficult time of it, possibly this is God's timing that you'd view this postcard!

If you would like to comment, I would like your input. Now that was a dangerous thing to say, but I would really like to hear your thoughts concerning this postcard. This card is one of several that I am doing for a client. The intent is to be able to send a brief uplifting note to someone who is going through very serious health challenges like cancer. Everyone has known someone close who has had this type of condition, or possibly you yourself are dealing with issues like this today or have in the past.
What I am looking for are comments pro or con as to whether this card would be received as a form of encouragement while incorporating a bit of humor. Thank you for your time in considering this and any comments that you'd like to offer. Blessings!