Hello everyone,
I am sorry, I have not posted in a very long time. I know, I say this practically every other post. :P
Anyways, the truth of the reason for this long pause is nothing good, all I have is the confession that I have had nothing to post. It is a confession because it is not that God has not been blessing me, but that I have not made an effort recently to look in my life for the little blessings that I am supposed to be writing about.
So yeah, that's my whole reason. I will try to look harder now, so starting today hopefully I will be able to see more clearly the ways that God is showing up around me, and I would encourage you to pray for eyes to see Him too.
My first post after my little break is about two blessings that are kinda hard to ignore...
My nieces!
I wrote about them in one of my last posts, the latter half of All The Things!!!!, and now they are here! They were born a few days ago and we were all surprised with two little girls. They are adorable.
I am loving being an aunt, and I look forward to watching them grow.
I feel...incredibly blessed. As I look at their parents, my sister and brother in law, I know that they will be good parents and good examples, and the reason is because of their parents, being good parents and good examples to them. I have to praise God as I look around me at my family, my parents, my grandparents, and my siblings, (including my brother in law) and now at the newest additions to our family. God is good, He has been blessing us all our lives through the amazing legacy of people in our family who have sought after Him.
This inspires me to seek Him too, because I know that I can continue to live out this legacy, continue to be a part of the blessing that is my family, and continue to pass that blessing down to future generations.
Exodus 20:6 says, "...but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments."
Have a great day!
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Monday, September 8, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
He Knew, He Knows, He Planned It
Going back to the main theme of this blog, finding little wonders
and showing them to the world, I have a really cool thing to say. :)
God has a plan for you.
If you have grown up in a Christian home or in Christian circles you have probably heard this many times during your life, and if not, let this be the first time.
God knows what you have been through, He knows what you are going through and what you are doing at this moment, He knew before time began that at this moment you would be reading this and He knew what your reaction would be.
I have always thought this was cool, but now it is even cooler.
I was reading in Acts recently, and I came across a verse that really stood out to me, sadly I cannot remember what it was or even exactly what it said. But I do remember that it was about God planting us where we are, and that He put us where the best place and time would be for us.
He placed you in just the right spot.
The thought that went through my head was He put me EXACTLY where I needed to be in order to be saved.
When I was younger, at random times, I would wish I was a different person, maybe in a different family, in a different country, in a different time, just to see what it would be like, or because I thought I would do better in a different environment.
But His plan was for me to be in the family I am in, in the year I am in, in the country I am in, all because He knew it was best for me.
Talk about God taking care of His children!
As I thought about it more, I thought about how sometimes I will pray things like, "God, I know I am supposed to want You to come soon. I know I am supposed to yearn for the day when I can meet You and I do, but I want to travel the world first. I want to grow up and experience this life first."
I know it is a selfish prayer and usually I end it with saying something like, "Please change my heart to be only for You."
But I realized as I thought about that concept that if Jesus comes back when I am fifteen, He will have made me to be born fifteen years before His return because I am supposed to be fifteen when He comes back. Or if He comes back when I am seventeen, then it will be no accident that I am seventeen when He returns. Or eighty. Or still fourteen. Or sixty five. Or even not alive anymore, but whatever age I am, if He does return in my lifetime, it will all be part of the plan.
That, to me, is really comforting.
To know that God has such control over everything, that even time He has structured to fit His plan, that something that happens in a split second, that split second He has planned.
Isn't that amazing?
I was at my cousins' house this past week and at one point we were standing looking at an unfrozen stream, there were almost no words to describe the way it looked and sounded, it was so beautiful.
I remembered that thought then, and I realized that when God made that stream He knew I would look at it, even from that angle. He knew I would listen to it and think it lovely.
Is this not a God worthy of praise?
God has a plan for you.
If you have grown up in a Christian home or in Christian circles you have probably heard this many times during your life, and if not, let this be the first time.
God knows what you have been through, He knows what you are going through and what you are doing at this moment, He knew before time began that at this moment you would be reading this and He knew what your reaction would be.
I have always thought this was cool, but now it is even cooler.
I was reading in Acts recently, and I came across a verse that really stood out to me, sadly I cannot remember what it was or even exactly what it said. But I do remember that it was about God planting us where we are, and that He put us where the best place and time would be for us.
He placed you in just the right spot.
The thought that went through my head was He put me EXACTLY where I needed to be in order to be saved.
When I was younger, at random times, I would wish I was a different person, maybe in a different family, in a different country, in a different time, just to see what it would be like, or because I thought I would do better in a different environment.
But His plan was for me to be in the family I am in, in the year I am in, in the country I am in, all because He knew it was best for me.
Talk about God taking care of His children!
As I thought about it more, I thought about how sometimes I will pray things like, "God, I know I am supposed to want You to come soon. I know I am supposed to yearn for the day when I can meet You and I do, but I want to travel the world first. I want to grow up and experience this life first."
I know it is a selfish prayer and usually I end it with saying something like, "Please change my heart to be only for You."
But I realized as I thought about that concept that if Jesus comes back when I am fifteen, He will have made me to be born fifteen years before His return because I am supposed to be fifteen when He comes back. Or if He comes back when I am seventeen, then it will be no accident that I am seventeen when He returns. Or eighty. Or still fourteen. Or sixty five. Or even not alive anymore, but whatever age I am, if He does return in my lifetime, it will all be part of the plan.
That, to me, is really comforting.
To know that God has such control over everything, that even time He has structured to fit His plan, that something that happens in a split second, that split second He has planned.
Isn't that amazing?
I was at my cousins' house this past week and at one point we were standing looking at an unfrozen stream, there were almost no words to describe the way it looked and sounded, it was so beautiful.
I remembered that thought then, and I realized that when God made that stream He knew I would look at it, even from that angle. He knew I would listen to it and think it lovely.
Is this not a God worthy of praise?
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