As Only Your Mama
Can……
Tis the season to remember the reason for the season….to celebrate……to reflect on….
The Value of the Gift….
Our family is returning to a
tradition this year…..the Christmas you were born, I began the custom of
selecting a guiding Bible verse and saying to guide us through the upcoming 365
days. We did that for most of your
lifetime….and, were blessed by the so-doing.
It seems simple really, but
as I reflect….at some point several years back, we stopped the tradition…perhaps
evidence that we had lost our focus, our vision…..our celebration of life as a
family….HIS family. And so, this
year, we are returning to that tradition with full expectation that if we use
His Word to guide us…it will remind us of whose we are…
It will remind us of “the
value of the gift”……
2 Corinthians 9:15 “Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!”
And, that
gift God gives us is His Son….not just any son…His one and only son….
I cannot
imagine giving up any of my precious children for another individual….let alone
my only child. Nor do I want to. Nor does He ask me to.
But, what
God does require is that we respect the Gift….love
the gift…live for the gift…
In our lives…with
our worship, our coming to know Him, His word……His expectations for our life.
Our greatest
hope in being able to do this….respect the gift….is to give over ourselves
daily….
Daily to Him…
Even then,
we will sin and fall short……because we are human.
But, we don’t
lie down and give up in our humanity…..we pick ourselves up, dust off our knees
and get back to daily living…
For Him….
Where we
daily say, “My heart….is…and always will be….yours”….
…..”I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how
far – I will find you”
That is God’s
promise to us…..no matter how far we drift, or wander….or even at times,
leave. He knows where we are….and, He
constantly, carefully…tenderly finds us over and over and over again.
So, as we
head to the end of 2013, Madison…..
I want to
encourage you….remember the Gifts you have been given….and, you have been given
many……
And, look
forward to what it to come…
And, “do it
on purpose”.
Hard it is
to go in the direction you should go if you do not know in which direction to
look…if you make excuses for not heading that direction, if you think to get
off that path and then find your way back on….at a later date.
If in life,
you seek things other than God’s path for your life….
You WILL get
things on that path which are not of God.
So, I
encourage you as you prepare for 2014, to write down what it is you want this
next year, next five years, ten years and so on….and, then….
Make your
daily decisions with that journey in mind.
And, walk….
And, keep in
front of you those things which will draw you closer and closer to…
The Heart of
God.
As I have
shared with you many times…If you are not walking toward God…you are walking
away from Him….
Walk toward
Him….
On purpose…..by
choice….with a heart for Him….
And, as you
walk, carry deep, deep in your heart….
The love…the
appreciation…the gratefulness of respecting….
The value of
HIS GIFT….
Blessings,
ILYAOYMC,
Mama
