A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, a merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
When see my kids laugh it makes me feel so happy. When I heard Stephen laugh outloud for the first time what elation filled my heart. The most beautiful noise in the world I believe is your child's laughter.
How much more does our Father enjoy seeing us laugh!
Tonight, after reading a bible story with my kids, I tickled all 3 at the same time. Then a thought struck me; why did God make us ticklish?
One Hypothesis, I read was that tickling serves as a bonding experience between parent and child.
All I know is that God wants us to have fun sometimes, and maybe he enjoys "tickling us", seeing us laugh by allowing funny things to occur in our lives to stimulate that reaction.
Thank you God for all you allow in my life, and for all the laughter you have sent across my path. Thank you for cheering the heavyhearted, using the useless, loving the undesirable....
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
In the world but not part of it.
Last night I did not sleep well. I had trouble falling asleep and when my breathing started to even out and my body began to enter the first stage of sleep, my youngest son's cries rang out. He had thrown up and my daughter's belly wasn't feeling much better than her brother's.
I did not have a good feeling you might say, from the moment my head hit the pillow. In the stillness of the night, I could still see the light from the downstairs hallway cast its incadensent shadows upstairs bringing me some sort of asylum in the darkest part of the night.
Overwhelming emotions swelled up inside me as I shrugged them off reasoning within myself that I was just overtired. My kids have been more sick then ever this past year maybe due to the fact of living in a high populated area.
The oppression here is much greater than the town I was living in before. The devil has been throwing obstacles, the world has been forceful in their lifestyles, and my flesh weaker.
I see a great need to spend more time with the Lord even when the Devil keeps my schedule busy. I see a great need to evangelize the lost even though it means being in the world and facing all their wickedness and try not to be part of it at the same time.
God's prescence is like that hallway light giving me light and shelter in these last days. To keep Him in my life so bright I must immerse myself in His word, in prayer and in fellowship with godly saints and listening to godly music.
A constant fight it is, but I (we) must not keep my eyes only on the Lord, but my ears, my feet, my hands, my HEART.
I did not have a good feeling you might say, from the moment my head hit the pillow. In the stillness of the night, I could still see the light from the downstairs hallway cast its incadensent shadows upstairs bringing me some sort of asylum in the darkest part of the night.
Overwhelming emotions swelled up inside me as I shrugged them off reasoning within myself that I was just overtired. My kids have been more sick then ever this past year maybe due to the fact of living in a high populated area.
The oppression here is much greater than the town I was living in before. The devil has been throwing obstacles, the world has been forceful in their lifestyles, and my flesh weaker.
I see a great need to spend more time with the Lord even when the Devil keeps my schedule busy. I see a great need to evangelize the lost even though it means being in the world and facing all their wickedness and try not to be part of it at the same time.
God's prescence is like that hallway light giving me light and shelter in these last days. To keep Him in my life so bright I must immerse myself in His word, in prayer and in fellowship with godly saints and listening to godly music.
A constant fight it is, but I (we) must not keep my eyes only on the Lord, but my ears, my feet, my hands, my HEART.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Esteeming one another in Love
Philipians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
We should look upon our own faults and be severe towards them, but concerning others we should be patient and graceful, and not quick to point out other people's faults. We should not be busy-bodies, always observing and wanting to see one another's fault and telling others about the "problem" in someone else's life. Love covereth a multitude of sin. If we really love our brother and sister in Christ we would not allow anyone to talk bad of them. Ps 50:20, slandering a brother is evil in God's eyes. Slander is to talk bad or belittle another, ruin their name or lie about them.
The spirit of pride tries to make one feel above another brother, but really,we should think and treat our brothers and sisters in Christ higher and better than ourself.
For myself, I am convicted. I pray we all get convicted and begin to lift up and encourage one another, serving God with like-mindedness.
We should look upon our own faults and be severe towards them, but concerning others we should be patient and graceful, and not quick to point out other people's faults. We should not be busy-bodies, always observing and wanting to see one another's fault and telling others about the "problem" in someone else's life. Love covereth a multitude of sin. If we really love our brother and sister in Christ we would not allow anyone to talk bad of them. Ps 50:20, slandering a brother is evil in God's eyes. Slander is to talk bad or belittle another, ruin their name or lie about them.
The spirit of pride tries to make one feel above another brother, but really,we should think and treat our brothers and sisters in Christ higher and better than ourself.
For myself, I am convicted. I pray we all get convicted and begin to lift up and encourage one another, serving God with like-mindedness.
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