SHMILY

(See How Much I Love You)

Happy Anniversary baby. I love you so much, and can't wait for another 25, going to be more exciting than the first. When we got married we knew nothing about each other. Now 25 years later I am still learning things about you and excited about each new discovery.

Come and grow old with me, the best is yet to be.

Hearts Desire---Selfish Wants

Delight yourself in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. ~ Psalm 37:4,5

The other day I was thinking hard about this passage. I was thinking that what is happening in my life is not my hearts desire. I mean haven't I gone to church and served God, haven't I raised my children to know who God is, I feel as if I have been doing the right things for the most part.

The more I thought about it I realized that my motives were selfish, I was doing just enough to get by, not truly committing myself fully to God. I wasn't trusting him, or delighting myself in him.

I asked God to forgive me and help me to get things right with him, and he answered me with some interesting insights about this passage.

He said to me "I (God) will give you the desires of your heart" I said yes I understand. He said "I am not finished do not interrupt me". now listen. I will give you the desires of your heart. That means any desire you have that is for personal things is not from me. Your desire is from your brain. You want Josh to be free from his situation and to grow up, get a job, find a good woman get married and have a family. So you can be a Grandparent. Selfish reasoning.

The desire I give you is from your heart. That know matter what Happens to Josh or Nic or Joe that they ultimately serve the Lord with all they have inside them and that one day they stand before me and hear "Well done, enter in, great is you reward".

That is God giving you a desire in your heart. That is what it means when God says he WILL GIVE YOU THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART they are his desires placed in you. They are not of yourself, for we think with a human mind, and selfish wishes.

Bible in five Statements..can you?.. Challenge submitted

"Summarise the Bible in five statements, the first one word long, the second two, the third three, the fourth four and the last five words long. Or possibly you could do this in descending order. Tag five people."

So, here goes...

Adam
And Eve
Ate the fruit
Jesus came and died
So we could live again

Faith of a child.

The Little Children and Jesus: Mark 10:13-16

People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.

I was trying to think of what "child like faith" actually is.

I thought of when my boys were young and I would pick them up and hold them up over my head, they would have a look of fear of the height, but in time they came to love being held up. Then as they got a little older I would throw them in the air and catch them, they would flail their arms and I would catch them. Later I would put them on my shoulders, then I would swing them around, step by step they learned I would never let them go. They would later come to me and lay on the floor in front of me begging to be swung around, thrown in the air or anything. Calling out again, again dad more. They knew I would never allow harm to them. They trusted me completely.

Our Heavenly Father will never let you go. He wants you to come before him fall before him put yourself in his hands and let him swing you around, throw you in the air and trust him. He wants you to trust him so much that you have absolutely no fear. God wants us to cry out more daddy more. Perfect Love casts out all fear.