Better

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When we go to our local ice cream shoppe (and I love the use of the old fashioned word "shoppe,") I always order the sugar-free chocolate ice cream.

I do this for two reasons.  Primarily, because my body doesn't tolerate the insulin produced as a response to sugar in my bloodstream.  My body still makes insulin, and I want to keep it that way, but my cells are resistant to insulin and don't want to let it in to do it's job.

The main reason I order this particular ice cream, however, is that it is actually better than the original chocolate ice cream the shop sells.  If you didn't know it was sugar-free, you would never guess it.  The texture is creamy and smooth and the flavor is absolutely perfect.  It is better than any I have ever tasted.

I choose the sugar-free mostly because it is better.

The book of Hebrews uses the word "better" at least fifteen times.  Better things, a better hope, a better testament, better promises. . .better.  The heart of the book is that the Lord Jesus Himself is that which is better:

Hebrews 7:19 -24
"For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.  And inasmuch as not without an oath He was made priest:  (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by Him that said unto Him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)  By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.  And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:  But this man, because He continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood."

He is better than anything else we could ever be offered anytime, anywhere else in our lives.  There is no choice that will ever compare to Him, and we do well to choose Him while we may.  

Trust in the Lord always, for having HIM, we have all.

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Lord, You are More Precious Than Silver

by Lynn DeShazo

Lord You are more precious than silver, Lord You are more costly than gold, Lord You are more beautiful than diamonds, Nothing I desire compares to You. Lord You are more precious than silver, Lord You are more costly than gold, Lord You are more beautiful than diamonds, Nothing I desire compares to You.