Tuesday, April 17, 2012

How do you show your FAITH?

Do you show faith like a child....or your children.....

 1 -4 Your love, God, is my song, and I'll sing it! I'm forever telling everyone how faithful you are.
   I'll never quit telling the story of your love—
      how you built the cosmos
      and guaranteed everything in it.
   Your love has always been our lives' foundation,
      your fidelity has been the roof over our world.
   You once said, "I joined forces with my chosen leader,
      I pledged my word to my servant, David, saying,
   'Everyone descending from you is guaranteed life;
      I'll make your rule as solid and lasting as rock.'" Psalm 89:2 The Message


I question this for a number of reasons.......
     Our children have so much faith.....faith in parents.... adults.....even strangers....

It makes me nervous to even consider the world today and how many UN-trustworthy people there are.
   

On a daily basis I am amazed at what God KNOWS I am capable of....only to realize my children have the same opinion.(I say opinion in their case... because alot of times it includes jobs they were supposed to do)

     Becoming a true servant of God and his Word is the hardest job in the universe!  I know there will be speed bumps but that is my goal.  My prayer for all of us today is that God grants us a momentary blinder (seeing through a child's eyes) so that we may see His world and His people in true BEAUTY.
AMEN

Friday, April 6, 2012

Being grateful...no matter the blessing...

Blessings in disguise...
Remembering that there is a reason for all... 
Can be very hard.  
     So this Easter weekend I want to focus on my gratitude for the good, bad, and the ugly.  There have been multiple points in my life that I wasn't sure if God was playing a joke on me or if I just had terrible luck. 
     The one instance that gives me the most "warm fuzzies" is when I accepted Jesus into my life, how , and when it happened.  
     There are a thousand stories just like mine, so I will just get started.  When I was younger I attended church regularly and when I felt the spirit I followed and said what I was told.  
     Years later, Nick and I had been married a little over a year and Nevaeh was a couple months old we were attending a wonderful church that God obviously had both hands on.  
     One night while we were on the couch ( all of us) watching tv, we decided to pray together and My Wonderful Husband helped me ask God into my life again.  God gave me Nick to bring me back to Him, I believe that with all my heart and soul. Since then obstacles...oh the obstacles we have had, but through prayer our family is strong and functioning. From my devotion today....May I never lose hope, knowing you truly can do anything.  Through the good, bad, and the ugly, I wish you all a Happy Easter .