The most perfect gift

Good Morning Friends!  Totally taken by His love, Tuesday!  Seems like so many conversations right now are all about Christmas shopping….what to get who….how much does it cost…..and then every other commercial is about some big old fancy Christmas gift and the stores and sale papers….gee whiz….easy to get stressed out.  We stress out over getting the perfect gift for our family and friends, the hottest new toy, or biggest tool, buying the perfect paper and matching bows…..people actually go in debt buying Christmas presents that they cannot afford……BAM!!!!  This morning it hit me……..each of us have already received the most perfect gift….many, many years ago……no it didn’t come from a high-dollar department store and wasn’t wrapped in shiny paper……didn’t cost us one cent….not one single penny……..This gift was born in a stable…..wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger…..a stable….for animals….donkeys, sheep, cows…..now I love all my little critters but a night with Chloe and Eyore….no thanks.  This gift God’s Son, born in a manager for us, lived, died and rose again for us…..died that we might live…..Our Heavenly Father gave us the PERFECT GIFT….His only Son…..our Savior…..This Perfect Gift was a gift of LOVE…….unselfish……total LOVE for each of us.  The gift of LOVE, wrapped in swaddling clothes….The perfect gift comes from love……not how much money was spent or the name brand…….So go ahead finish your shopping, but remember the Perfect gift comes from love.  Father, thank you for giving us, the Perfect gift, Your only Son who died to save us from eternal death…..Fill our hearts with Your Love so that everything we do brings glory to You.

 

“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord.  This will be a sign to you:  You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”  Luke 2:11-12.  For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  John3:16.  This is how we know what love is:  Jesus Christ laid down His life for us.  And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.  1 John 3:16.  We love because God first loved us.  1 John 4:19.  No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.  1 John 4:12.

Love you all!

Let's Eat!

Good Morning Friends!  Thankfully His, Thursday!  I don’t know about you all, but I know at my house there is a whole lot of time spent on what to eat!  I wake in the morning wondering what we will have for breakfast and then what shall I take in my lunch, got to make sure I have plenty of snacks. And of course, there’s always dinner, the most planning goes into dinner!  Trying to figure out what sounds good, but doesn’t take too much time and making sure I have all the needed ingredients , not to mention special occasions like Kim’s birthday tomorrow. Birthdays require extra planning to make sure you have just what the birthday boy wants….food….yep I would say lots and lots of time is spent on what to eat!  Yesterday, I was reading from Psalms 119 and came across an interesting verse, that I must say, in the light of the “what to eat” saga, really hit.  I have read this verse a hundred times in my life, but never had it hit me like it did yesterday……”Ok, Father, I get it!”  Here’s the verse….."How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”  Wow, can you see where I am going with this?  We spend so much time worrying and planning about what we are going to eat, going to all kinds of work to find recipes, shop and prepare food for our physical bodies……when bottom line, God’s words are sweeter than anything we could eat…..God’s words nourish our spiritual bodies, food we eat satisfies us for a short time….God’s words satisfy us with the hope of life everlasting with HIM!  So, guess I better get to working on some recipes that will nourish my spiritual body….necessary ingredients----more time in HIS word, prayer time every day, regular worship, attitude of gratitude, and frost it praise and thanksgiving!  Our God is an AWESOME God!!!  Father, forgive us when we worry too much about our physical bodies, guide us to nurture our spiritual bodies so that we always remain strong in faith and ready for eternal life with YOU!

 

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy and slander of every kind.  Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.  1 Peter 2:1-3.  Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.  Psalm34:8.  Jesus said, “Therefore I tell  you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”  Matthew 6:25-27.  Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, On Him God the Father has place His seal of approval.”  Words of Jesus from John 6:27.  Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.  He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty.”  John 6:35.

Love you all!  LET”S EAT!

December 4, 2012

Good Morning Friends!  Totally taken by His love, Tuesday!  Seems like so many conversations right now are all about Christmas shopping….what to get who….how much does it cost…..and then every other commercial is about some big old fancy Christmas gift and the stores and sale papers….gee whiz….easy to get stressed out.  We stress out over getting the perfect gift for our family and friends, the hottest new toy, or biggest tool, buying the perfect paper and matching bows…..people actually go in debt buying Christmas presents that they cannot afford……BAM!!!!  This morning it hit me……..each of us have already received the most perfect gift….many, many years ago……no it didn’t come from a high-dollar department store and wasn’t wrapped in shiny paper……didn’t cost us one cent….not one single penny……..This gift was born in a stable…..wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manager…..a stable….for animals….donkeys, sheep, cows…..now I love all my little critters but I night with Chloe and Eyore….no thanks.  This gift God’s Son, born in a manager for us, lived, died and rose again for us…..died that we might live…..Our Heavenly Father gave us the PERFECT GIFT….His only Son…..our Savior…..This Perfect Gift was a gift of LOVE…….unselfish……total LOVE for each of us.  The gift of LOVE, wrapped in swaddling clothes….The perfect gift comes from love……not how much money was spent or the name brand…….So go ahead finish your shopping, but remember the Perfect gift comes from love.  Father, thank you for giving us, the Perfect gift, Your only Son who died to save us from eternal death…..Fill our hearts with Your Love so that everything we do brings glory to You.

“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord.  This will be a sign to you:  You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”  Luke 2:11-12.  For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  John3:16.  This is how we know what love is:  Jesus Christ laid down His life for us.  And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.  1 John 3:16.  We love because God first loved us.  1 John 4:19.  No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.  1 John 4:12.

Love you all!