Christmas Day was the day the Incarnate Christ came as a babe and dwelt among us.
He experienced our life, finite; that we might take hold of His life, infinite.
And we who have received Him as Savior and Lord; He is more than among us---He is now in us!
Monday, December 25, 2006
CHRIST'S TREE
Christ’s Tree wasn’t a pine decorated with tinsel, baubles and miniature colored lights.
It was a rugged tree striped of its foliage, made into a cross decorated with His battered and torn body; trimmed in His blood.
The gifts under His tree aren’t toys and items of temporal pleasures.
His gifts are perpetual; the Holy Spirit and Everlasting Life!
It was a rugged tree striped of its foliage, made into a cross decorated with His battered and torn body; trimmed in His blood.
The gifts under His tree aren’t toys and items of temporal pleasures.
His gifts are perpetual; the Holy Spirit and Everlasting Life!
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
HOPE AGAIN
HOPE AGAIN
God has given me hope for my eldest daughter. He reminded me of His call to each one of my four children. And since He delivered my other three children from their destructive paths and set them in the right direction; He will do the same for my eldest child.
God has given me hope for my eldest daughter. He reminded me of His call to each one of my four children. And since He delivered my other three children from their destructive paths and set them in the right direction; He will do the same for my eldest child.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
GRIEVED IN SPIRIT
“The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.” -Genesis 6:6
For the first time in 33 years of being a mother I feel sorry, grieved that I ever gave birth to my eldest child.
I so much wanted to be a good mother to my four children that I took child development classes so I would know how to correctly nurture and care for them. I also studied the scriptures to learn how to raise godly children and to be an example to them in following the Lord. I even taught them from my mistakes so they wouldn’t have to make the same ones.
But my first born, my eldest child chose to listen to worldly friends and reject sound guidance from God’s Word. She married a man with a long history of drug abuse, who has for the entire seven years of their marriage drugged up every penny she managed to save. And now she is drugging with him and my six grandchildren are caught in the middle.
Though God grieved at man’s depravity, rebellion against all He wanted for him, He didn’t give up on him. He provided a way of redemption that man might be reconciled back to Him.
It is this attribute of God that I seek after. I pray for grace and strength not to give up on my daughter; to hope that she will be reconciled back to God, and for the safety and salvation of my grandchildren.
For the first time in 33 years of being a mother I feel sorry, grieved that I ever gave birth to my eldest child.
I so much wanted to be a good mother to my four children that I took child development classes so I would know how to correctly nurture and care for them. I also studied the scriptures to learn how to raise godly children and to be an example to them in following the Lord. I even taught them from my mistakes so they wouldn’t have to make the same ones.
But my first born, my eldest child chose to listen to worldly friends and reject sound guidance from God’s Word. She married a man with a long history of drug abuse, who has for the entire seven years of their marriage drugged up every penny she managed to save. And now she is drugging with him and my six grandchildren are caught in the middle.
Though God grieved at man’s depravity, rebellion against all He wanted for him, He didn’t give up on him. He provided a way of redemption that man might be reconciled back to Him.
It is this attribute of God that I seek after. I pray for grace and strength not to give up on my daughter; to hope that she will be reconciled back to God, and for the safety and salvation of my grandchildren.
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