28 November 2008




Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?


Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?



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.



25 November 2008

The Boy is a Man



When we start having babies, most of us don't look way into the future to realize that they will one day grow up, leave us, become adults...
Somewhere along the road of their growth, we begin to realize just this. We are raising them to become self-sufficient (or in the case of those of us who are Christians - God-sufficient). We raise them to leave home - to make their own mark on society - to fulfill whatever dreams and plans God placed in their hearts even before they were born.
It is a joyful and sad time.
Today is a joyous and proud day for me. My firstborn is 18 today. He is already on his own in most ways - living away at college, paying his own bills (what few he has), doing his own laundry, making his own decisions.
Is he making wise choices?
I pray he is!
And I do pray for him often. I want him to succeed in passionately following God's heart for him.
So, today, on his 18th birthday, I pray this...
Matthew, follow the heart of God toward the destiny He has for you.
That's it.
The Bible tells us in Matthew 6:25-34 in reference to those things we need "But seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."
That is my heart for you Matthew - that you would seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness.
Happy 18th Birthday!