LIVE FOR JESUS


for to me to live is christ and to die is gain philippians 1 21

Good morning to you on this blessed and wonderful Saturday!

I found out at the podiatrist Thursday that I have Plantar Faciitis in my left foot. I have been limping for a couple of months with pain in my heel so she recommended a shoe store where they fit your foot with athletic shoes. So, I did and I also got a special sock for that one foot, which cost a fortune.  As long as my foot gets better and thanks be to God my foot seems to be better already a little bit.

 To me this shows how much God loves us. Do we truly believe that God loves us just as much in the little things as He does in the great big things? He does care about our cares no matter what and wants us to live for Him.

One thing that I was thinking about is that everything we care about God cares about as I said. I have always been a little down on myself about raising my children. My children are wonderful and I love them so much and we are so proud of them but I don't think I gave all that I could. I gave my all and that was all that I knew how because of the way that I was raised. I don't think I gave them all the attention I should have. I didn't work outside the home so I don't mean that. But if they wanted to show me something I would say "just a minute" or "when I get finished" with this or that. I should have gone immediately for them and then gone back to what I was doing. I didn't put them first in this way. And maybe this was just a very small thing but it might have been a very, very big thing to them. 

These things may have seemed like interruptions at the time but they really weren't. They were actually blessings from my children, bonding time, and time to build a relationship with them. That was just part of my selfishness back then and I am sure I still am. Like I said I didn't know any better. Hopefully now I do know more.

Now, through my time with God, His Word, devotions, preaching and my growing in Him, I have learned so much. And I have so much more to learn. Before we had our children I wasn't in church and didn't hear preaching and didn't read the Word of God so I wasn't growing. I know that God's timing is perfect and I am sure that I was disobedient. We started going to church when our son was a young toddler. I was saved but wasn't living for Jesus. So much time I wasted by not doing the things that I should have been doing. But we will only get depressed sometimes when we look back and see the error of our ways. Living for self instead of God.

 But when we do things like that we repent and God hears our heart and forgives us. That is what His love and care does.

Maybe it is time to live for Jesus and not for self. Our days on earth are short. 

Listen:


Have a terrific day!

 Love,

     Lesbear









These thoughts came to me after reading today's Upper Room devotion. I will give you the link so if you don't have the Upper Room Magazine you can read it for yourself.

http://devotional.upperroom.org/devotionals/2014-03-22 

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