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3rd best Saturday ever

visioncgbc | April 07, 2008 07:20

I tell you , this past Saturday ranked right up there with about the top Saturdays I've ever had.  Mark and I were married on a Saturday, and Chloe was born on a Saturday.  So, what was so great?  Well, Friday night Meagan wanted to know if Austin could come over for a bit.  In my mind I thought, "How in the world am I gonna stay up past 9:30?  I don't stay up on Friday night?"  But, he came over and we had a very fun time playing Wii.  He left about 12:00.  It was gonna rain Saturday, so Mark couldn't cut the church grass, so he'd be home.  Well, I heard some type of noise Saturday and stirred around a bit.  I figured it was around 10:00.  I sat up, put my glasses on and looked at the clock.  It was 12:15!!!  I had slept until 12:15 in the afternoon!!  Meagan says that she might want to go and look for her prom shoes.  I told Mark and told him I was also gonna clean the downstairs.  HE CLEANED THE ENTIRE DOWNSTAIRS FOR ME!  Aren't you jelous?  My house in disarray is one of the biggest issues for me in life.  I worry.  I pout.  I go home and night and spend the three hours before I go to bed thinking "Oh, how I wish my house was clean and organized", never realizing that part of the process would be me getting up and cleaning and organizing my house.  Brilliant, right?  But on Saturday, my downstairs was cleaned.  AAAHHHHH.   

Sunday church was very good.  P&W-amazing, for me at least.  We sat at the front, and it was so good, and so less distracting.  I'm not saying we'll always do that, I'm just saying it was good yesterday.  The Treasure Principle has been wonderful for me, and I hope it will change our church and their level of trust in God. To trust Him to give our minimum and beyond our minimum.  I believe this is the final frontier for many people, and once they give God this last little bit of themselves-WATCH OUT!  Their lives would change in a radical way in their relationship with Christ, others, and in their freedom to serve.  Last night "Tootie" visited Vision again, and it was so good to see her and talk a bit.

On the way home, preaching was on the radio and a scripture was on that I've questioned in my own mind.  Matthew 8:21 Another disciple said to him, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." 22But Jesus told him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead." I've often thought "Lord, you didn't want this man to go to the funeral of his father?"  But, as I was listening to this last night on the radio it struck me what I think he might have been saying.  "Commit to me first.  Above anything else."  What do you think society would say if we really, I mean really put God first in our life?  They'd say we were rude, neglectful, and things that were probably far from the truth.  I'm not sure that if this man would've said "Yes!" to whatever Jesus wanted that Jesus wouldn't have permitted him to bury his father.  I'm not sure, I'm just wondering.  You see we as Christians tell the unsaved, "Don't clean up your act before you come to Christ, it doesn't work like that, come as you are."  All the while we say "Lord, as soon as I get things in order, I'll follow you more.  I'll do what you want." God, as soon as my house is clean, I'll follow you.  God, when my kids are grown, I'll follow you.  God, when my finances are in order, I'll follow you. God, when.............. Satan is in the background making sure we never get things in order. Just like the unsaved, Christians also must follow the will of God in the place we find ourselves, wherever that is.  Who knows, if we will do that first, now, maybe we will be found faithful and worthy of the help that we stand waiting for.

I have to tell you about mine and Chloe's car time this morning.  She says "Mommy, how did people know that Jesus was on the earth?"  Gulp.  I could tell this might be gonna go deep.  Before I respond, she says "The Bible, right?"  I told her yes, and explained faith to her and was able to explain that faith was believing what we don't see.  I told her some miracles in my own life through faith.  I also told her that Jesus was the only way to salvation.  I told her some people say they believe in God, but believe that there are many ways to Him, and told her that isn't true.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4LLwkgmqA She asked me how Jesus lifted into the clouds when he didn't actually die.  I told her that had also happened to the prophet Elijah.  So, I limped through the discussion, but was very thankful to hear she'd given thought to things  beyond  the average.  Toward the end of the drive I told her  that if the rapture takes place before she dies, she will also rise without experiencing earthly death.  I said "Jesus is in heaven preparing a place for us."  She said "It's like dropping your kids off in Mexico, and then going back to pick 'em up."  I'm not sure when I've laughed harder.

   

                                                                                                                       

 

 

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