You all know I'm new to blogging, so there might be an easier way to do this, but I wanted to share with you one of the theme songs of my life at the moment. Follow this link and check out Natalie Grant's song "So Long" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5cLx0cIJ1E. If you haven't purchased her new CD yet...whatcha waitin' for? She's so awesome. In fact we just purchased another one of her CD's to help my daugher prepare for a Christmas production that she is in this year. The CD is called Believe. It's a Christmas CD which may have been released last year, but it's AWESOME.
This morning's sermon at church was about making choices. One of the verses referenced was from Joshua 24. In verse 14 he says "Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forerathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD." But he knew not everyone would be as accepting to his plea so he goes on in verse 15 to say "But if serving the LORD seems undesireable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." We all have choices that we can make in our lives. We choose to live for Jesus, we choose to live for ourselves - making money for the sake of collecting things and making our lives comfortable. Sometimes, I think God is telling us (ME), you aren't always supposed to be comfortable. You need to be in want to give you an opportunity to recognize our need for HIM and to recognize all the blessings we have in our lives. Most of us have roofs over our heads, cars to drive, food in the pantry and in our fridges, some even in spare freezers. We have clothes to wear, shoes to cover our feet. Bathrooms, toilet paper. TV's, WII's, computers, MP3 players all for the purpose of entertaining us. It makes me wonder how many people are out there right now who don't even have the simplest of necessities. Think about it.
This year, we are really scaling back Christmas. In the past we've gone WAY overboard on gift giving. Yes, most of the things were practical gifts, but were they necessary and more importantly, were they in any way tying us back to the reason that we even celebrate Christmas? We were given a gift beyond what any one of us could even fathom. God sent HIS son for us. Talk about practical and a necessity! So this year, just before Thanksgiving I'm going to put up our Christmas tree decorated sparingly. On it I plan to hang pieces of paper which recognize the things that we are thankful for and the things we have been so richly blessed with this year. On Christmas morning, instead of sitting in our pajamas around the tree opening presents for an hour, I hope to go through each piece of paper reflecting upon all the things that each of us have been blessed with; thanking and praising the Lord!
Wow, a little long winded today, but I'm inspired.
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