Tuesday, September 27, 2011

His prized possession

As I am reading through the bible this morning, pondering on what this week and what this month will bring for the children's ministry at church I stumble upon a verse that seriously makes me step back read it again. James 1:18 He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation became his prized possession.  Whoa! Did you see that? We out of ALL creation became HIS prized possession. I absolutely love this! The whole first part of the chapter is about trusting in God, having joy and not letting your faith waver. When I get to verse 18 I realize why should we no trust or not be able to have joy. Just the fact that out of everything God created I am his prized possession makes me full of joy.
 This is of course not the only part of the bible that tells us this. Psalm 139 tells us that he knew everything about us before we were even created, and he knows our thoughts. Our God is so awesome! I don't care what you say I'm pretty sure there isn't anyone who loves us like he does.
 When these verses these truths become real to me I realize the things we make a big deal of in life are silly and small. God knows everything about us and yes we have bad days, but I am God's treasure and he loves me and holds me in his hands. We are God's prized possession! Think about that...Now how do you feel? :)

Monday, September 19, 2011

sacrifice and love

"Your love never fails it never gives up it never runs out on me"
 This line of a song is stuck in my head, and I love it! We all needed to be reminded so much of his love, and that it doesn't end. My continuing prayer for the past few days has been about selfishness. I didn't really think of myself as being selfish until i took a step back and examined things. God has called us to live a life of love and sacrifice. Sacrifice means we don't always get what we want and we are going to have to deal with it. I realized that although I can do with it I could be rather whiny and complain alot.
 You see I like going to bed at a decent time and not being out real late, and I enjoy being by my husbands side.  I guess I like doing things when I want on my terms as dumb as that sounds it has been true. I want to be an example as a woman of God, and I want to be able to lead by example. You see when I complain and act as if it's all about me that's not being an example.
  We attended an event with the youth group, and when i look back on the event i realized that i didn't get what i could have out of it because of my attitude. My husband said one thing that really made me think about my actions. He said it wasn't at all about us it was for the youth, and when we were that age there were youth leaders who I am sure didn't want to be out late or be in a van or probably many things they didn't want to do but they sacrificed for us.
 I realized my husband was so right, and he didn't say it but yeah i was selfish i tried to make this fun event about me and my life. I want to examine every part of my life and get all of the "it's all about me" mentality out.  I want to live my life as a sacrifice and with love and as an example to everyone around me young and old.
Thank you Jesus that your love never runs out or gives up on me when I choose to make things about me and not about you.  Thank you Lord for your never ending love. :)

Sunday, September 11, 2011

choose to laugh at yourself

This morning started out as a normal Sunday morning getting ready for Kidz 4 Christ that is until my phone took a plunge in the toilet. So at that I just laughed and went on with things. I need a new phone anyway, so i laughed it off. It seemed to set off my morning in a funny way.  Church starts and almost everything I speak to the kids is all jumbled up. I couldn't seem to get my words in the right order. (Slightly funny) The best part though is when you don't even catch yourself until after you say it all, then you think oh Jeesh I mixed those two words up and that made no sense. I chose to laugh my way through those silly things this morning.
 In Kidz 4 Christ we have been and will be for the next few weeks talking about Jonah.  The book of Jonah has only four chapters and is a very well known story. You hear the word Jonah you immediately think man swallowed by whale. When we think of it more than a story we know and heard when we were five you can learn a lot  of the small book of Jonah.  I enjoy the fact that such a  common well known story is being disected and we are learning so much more than Joanh was disobedient and got eaten by a large fish. (whale)
All the things we read in the bible are so much more than stories they are about poeple just like you and me. When I was explaing things to the kids today I realized we may not get eaten by a fish but we have alot in common with Joanh. I love that as I am teaching the kids these life lessons from the bible they also become more real to me. "Choices" The subject of our lesson today in church. I told about my funny morning because I chose to not let the way things were going ruin what God wanted to do. Sometimes we need to laugh about it, and let it go and this morning was one of those times. We all  have choices everyday and I pray the same thing for me that I explained to the kids, that God will help me everyday to make the right choices in all that I do.