Gigi's Blog

That's not how you throw away a cereal box

visioncgbc | February 08, 2008 07:48

This morning I went downstairs to pour Chloe cereal.  I knew we were out of almost everything but she said she would eat Honey Schmacks (that's what we call 'em"). I pulled out the box- I chunk it and just wait for her.  She comes down and says she'd eat a pop-tart.  Pull out pop-tart box-empty.   I know you're wondering why we have empty boxes of food in the pantry, but we just do- ok.  She starts folding the pop-tart box neatly and says this is how you throw away a box.  MHM.  Wonder who she learned that from???  MP.  She opens the trash can and sees the cereal box thrown in its entirety, not folded at all.  "MOMMY!!!   That's not how you throw away a cereal box."  She attempts to correct my very serious mistake.  I ask her if she'd like a doughnut hole for breakfast.  "For breakfast??!!"  I remind her that she eats cheetos for breakfast.  She opts for butter toast, with a doughnut hole as an appetizer.  Healthy breakfast, right? 

This week's Sunday School lesson is on salvation, the One Way.  All this other junk, false religion, even good works will not save.  Just like Chloe told me "That's not how to throw away the cereal box.", Paul tells ushttp://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%201:1-12;&version=31 ; that there is One Way.  You know this week I've been sort of dealing with something, and God spoke a truth to my heart that hit upside the head and made me say "Halleluiah!”  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I%20samuel%2015:22&version=31  Obedience is better than sacrifice.   I think this week I maybe understood that the ultimate sacrifice isn’t needed, it’s already happened.  The reason Jesus sacrificed the way He did is so I could never take credit, and you can’t take credit, it’s all Him.  Sometimes in our sacrificing in the name of us we want credit.  So what He wants is us, willing and ready to follow His instructions. To obey.  Not to sacrifice as a make-up for not doing what He tell us to do.  Sort along this same line are people trying to earn a relationship with Him through works.  But it’s not works to get faith; it’s faith that shows through works.  Faith without works is dead, and what good is dead faith???   But Satan has many in a trap.  Exhausting themselves to get to God, through a tunnel of works that doesn’t exist.  Always saying “do a little more. “  Approaching God, but never arriving.  And for eternity, almost just won’t be enough.If you have mistakenly thought that all the good things that you do, make God love you, and if you don’t them He doesn’t love you, please understand the truth today.  He loved you before you were born.  Nothing can change that.   Walk into the freedom of that truth today.  Obey Him.  Trust Him.  He loves you.

General | Next | Previous | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Comments

Add comment
 
Accessible and Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS
Powered by LifeType - Design by BalearWeb - Hosted by New Technologies.