Thursday, March 16, 2006
Ahhhleluia!
At the risk of making a premature statement, I do believe Amy has turned the corner with the itching. It hasn’t completely gone away, but the intensity of the urge has diminished. Her back is still bothering her, but that pain too doesn’t seem to be quite as sharp. Unfortunately, Vinny is home sick with a nasty cough (praying this isn’t a strep precursor) and Hope is running a temperature of 104 (yes, she’s going to see the doc). I told Amy that I’d be willing to stay home to take care of them, but she said to go on to work, that if she needed me, she’d call.
Why do we have the tendency to wait to search for God until a crisis occurs in our lives? I’m not talking about going to church or attending a bible study, but truly searching and striving for a significant relationship with the one person who will accept us for who we are and who brings no ‘baggage’ or selfish expectations into the relationship. I’m not saying that Amy or I waited, but I know that I have done this in the past. If you walked into a room and saw your mother or father, you wouldn’t walk right by them without striking up at least a short conversation would you? If you ran into financial trouble and needed cash quickly, would you approach a friend who you haven’t seen or talked to in 5 years with this need? I certainly wouldn’t. So, why do we do this to our creator? Why do we do this to the person we claim to have placed our trust? The second part of Proverbs 15:8 says, ‘..the prayer of the upright is his delight.’ That implies that not only does God want to listen to our prayers, but they actually make him happy! And a prayer doesn’t have to be a set or ‘traditional’ prayer, but can be just simply talking to him. It’s easy to for us to pray and get close to God when times are bad (where else are we going to go?). But what do we do when times are good or busy? I've tried to develop the discipline that whether times are 'good' or 'bad' I remember my relationship with God and as with any relationship, it needs care and development. My intent is to remember that God is my source of all things. The better our relationship is with our Lord the harder it is to leave his side and the more in-tune to his leading we will be.
Why do we live without Jesus?
Why do we wait another day?
He is the life that sustains us
The only hope for us today
So tell me, why do we live
Why do we live without Him?
I’ve heard from many of you who have asked, ‘How have/can you keep it together?’ Don’t let me fool you! There have been MANY times when I have haven’t kept it together, but I understand this is out of my hands and Mathew 6: 27-34 ALWAYS comes to mind:
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Listen, worrying takes responsibility for something God never intended us to have.
This is Amy's story as seen and told by me - V
Why do we have the tendency to wait to search for God until a crisis occurs in our lives? I’m not talking about going to church or attending a bible study, but truly searching and striving for a significant relationship with the one person who will accept us for who we are and who brings no ‘baggage’ or selfish expectations into the relationship. I’m not saying that Amy or I waited, but I know that I have done this in the past. If you walked into a room and saw your mother or father, you wouldn’t walk right by them without striking up at least a short conversation would you? If you ran into financial trouble and needed cash quickly, would you approach a friend who you haven’t seen or talked to in 5 years with this need? I certainly wouldn’t. So, why do we do this to our creator? Why do we do this to the person we claim to have placed our trust? The second part of Proverbs 15:8 says, ‘..the prayer of the upright is his delight.’ That implies that not only does God want to listen to our prayers, but they actually make him happy! And a prayer doesn’t have to be a set or ‘traditional’ prayer, but can be just simply talking to him. It’s easy to for us to pray and get close to God when times are bad (where else are we going to go?). But what do we do when times are good or busy? I've tried to develop the discipline that whether times are 'good' or 'bad' I remember my relationship with God and as with any relationship, it needs care and development. My intent is to remember that God is my source of all things. The better our relationship is with our Lord the harder it is to leave his side and the more in-tune to his leading we will be.
Why do we live without Jesus?
Why do we wait another day?
He is the life that sustains us
The only hope for us today
So tell me, why do we live
Why do we live without Him?
I’ve heard from many of you who have asked, ‘How have/can you keep it together?’ Don’t let me fool you! There have been MANY times when I have haven’t kept it together, but I understand this is out of my hands and Mathew 6: 27-34 ALWAYS comes to mind:
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Listen, worrying takes responsibility for something God never intended us to have.
This is Amy's story as seen and told by me - V
# posted by Vince @ 11:30 AM 
