Once again, Archaeology confirms biblical account...

He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

Luke 19:40

Archaeology has long been the friend of the biblical account.  To date not a single discovery can point to a flaw or error in God's word but each year new discoveries confirm what Christians all over the world already know, the bible is true.  Skeptics love to point out there is no historical record of the officials and administrators in the bible. And if these were real, historic figures somewhere we would find note of them.

In 2007, prominent Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar was excavating a monumental public building in Jerusalem’s City of David—a structure she believes might be King David’s palace. The prize find from the Northern Tower excavations is a cache of more than 100 clay bullae—lumps of clay used to seal administrative and financial documents in antiquity.  

Mazar believed that these bullae fell down the slope from the Large Stone Structure—which she believes is King David’s palace. One bulla bears a name (ḥym‘ẓ) that occurs three times in the Bible (1 Samuel 14:50; 2 Samuel 15:27–36; 1 Kings 4:15), but has never before been found archaeologically until now. A seal that was used to stamp another bulla belonged to a woman. The bullae,according to Mazar, suggest that “there was a large archive in the palace” and that the capital of Judah was managed by a sophisticated governmental bureaucracy.

Thank you Lord for being faithful and always confirming the Truth for us all!

Your life as a prize

Jeremiah 45:5 says that God wants to give us our life as a prize of war.  But we only receive a prize of war when it's over, when the battles have been fought and the field is littered with casualties.

War is tough and life seems more difficult than we can handle at times and true growth hurts, it never comes easy.  The hardships we encounter will cause one of two things to happen... the bumps, bruises and injury we suffer will harden and become tough.  Those layers will desensitize and become calluses that isolate us from those around us.
But Gods plan, the plan that our life is a prize, a life more abundant is callus free.   Those same trials don't create a hardened callus but rather form the walls of a chrysalis. A cocoon to initiate change and transformation.  

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.1 Peter 5:10, 

No matter what's happening, it won't last forever, this too shall pass.