I found this very sweet....
Heart wrenching as well....
I am doing Beth Moore's "David" personal 90-day devotion. I have found that so far a lot of it is not really applicable because it has questions about "your marriage," "your husband," "your children." But God really pressed upon my heart tonight as I read out of 1 Samuel, HIS "marriage," HIS "spouse", HIS "children" and HIS faithfulness....here is how....
I have been studying about how Hannah longed for a child and her promise she made with God if she could conceive. She and Elkanah (her husband) would get up early and worship the Lord (which I think is important--that itself spoke a lot to me--about faithfulness and discipline--and starting your day right--worshiping God first thing). Well, one morning after they got done worshiping God, they "had relations" and God was faithful to Hannah's prayer--He granted her a son. Hannah faithfully raised him and weaned him for 3 years and then she was faithful to her promise with God and turned him over to Eli. Beth puts the scence like this...which so captured my heart tonight...
"Imagine...A tiny three-year old boy, still with creases of satiny baby skin around his plump little thighs, bending his knee and bowing before El Elyon, the sovereign God of all creation. How precious this child must have been to God. How in the world could a child that age have such respect for the God of the universe?"
That scence brings tears to my eyes. She is refering to 1 Samuel: 28, " 'So I have dedicated him to the Lord; as long as he lives he is dedicated to the Lord.' And he worshiped the Lord there." He, meaning Samuel, at age 3. Yes, 3 years old. He worshiped the Lord. WOW!!
To answer how he could do that, Beth goes on to refer to Hannah's song of Thanksgiving in 1 Samuel 2...and about Hannah's character...the example she set before her child...way she raised her child...her faithfulness to the Lord. In particular her believe, strong believe, about God....
"There is NO one holy like the Lord; there is NO one besides you; there is NO Rock like our God." 1 Samuel 2:2
Two things stuck out to me tonight--which God has been pressing upon me a lot lately.
1. We are NEVER TOO YOUNG to faithfully and whole-heartedly serve the Lord. He desires us to be dedicated to Him at every age and He has no limits...we place them on ourselves, in particular regarding our age...He is limitless. I often think, when I reach this stage or this age or this year or whatever....but God is saying...NOW...you can do it NOW! He has also shown me this through the new pastor at The Church of BrookHills. Wow--28 and so passionate about our Father--LIVES his life for Him. Amazing.
2. We can have a POWERFUL influence on people's lives. Our character can show other's Christ. We can be instruments in God's great plan by living out our lives so passionately and whole-heartedly devoted to Him, by sharing Him with others. By loving people. By loving Him. By believing in Him...in His faithfulness, and by being faithful in serving Him.
This touched my heart tonight so I thought I would share it with you guys. Maybe God will use it to speak to one of you.
Thank you Jesus for loving me and my friends. I pray a special blessing on each of their lives. May they feel Your sweet love for each of them and have discernment in their lives and choices to follow hard after You. -Amen
Love ya'll
I am doing Beth Moore's "David" personal 90-day devotion. I have found that so far a lot of it is not really applicable because it has questions about "your marriage," "your husband," "your children." But God really pressed upon my heart tonight as I read out of 1 Samuel, HIS "marriage," HIS "spouse", HIS "children" and HIS faithfulness....here is how....
I have been studying about how Hannah longed for a child and her promise she made with God if she could conceive. She and Elkanah (her husband) would get up early and worship the Lord (which I think is important--that itself spoke a lot to me--about faithfulness and discipline--and starting your day right--worshiping God first thing). Well, one morning after they got done worshiping God, they "had relations" and God was faithful to Hannah's prayer--He granted her a son. Hannah faithfully raised him and weaned him for 3 years and then she was faithful to her promise with God and turned him over to Eli. Beth puts the scence like this...which so captured my heart tonight...
"Imagine...A tiny three-year old boy, still with creases of satiny baby skin around his plump little thighs, bending his knee and bowing before El Elyon, the sovereign God of all creation. How precious this child must have been to God. How in the world could a child that age have such respect for the God of the universe?"
That scence brings tears to my eyes. She is refering to 1 Samuel: 28, " 'So I have dedicated him to the Lord; as long as he lives he is dedicated to the Lord.' And he worshiped the Lord there." He, meaning Samuel, at age 3. Yes, 3 years old. He worshiped the Lord. WOW!!
To answer how he could do that, Beth goes on to refer to Hannah's song of Thanksgiving in 1 Samuel 2...and about Hannah's character...the example she set before her child...way she raised her child...her faithfulness to the Lord. In particular her believe, strong believe, about God....
"There is NO one holy like the Lord; there is NO one besides you; there is NO Rock like our God." 1 Samuel 2:2
Two things stuck out to me tonight--which God has been pressing upon me a lot lately.
1. We are NEVER TOO YOUNG to faithfully and whole-heartedly serve the Lord. He desires us to be dedicated to Him at every age and He has no limits...we place them on ourselves, in particular regarding our age...He is limitless. I often think, when I reach this stage or this age or this year or whatever....but God is saying...NOW...you can do it NOW! He has also shown me this through the new pastor at The Church of BrookHills. Wow--28 and so passionate about our Father--LIVES his life for Him. Amazing.
2. We can have a POWERFUL influence on people's lives. Our character can show other's Christ. We can be instruments in God's great plan by living out our lives so passionately and whole-heartedly devoted to Him, by sharing Him with others. By loving people. By loving Him. By believing in Him...in His faithfulness, and by being faithful in serving Him.
This touched my heart tonight so I thought I would share it with you guys. Maybe God will use it to speak to one of you.
Thank you Jesus for loving me and my friends. I pray a special blessing on each of their lives. May they feel Your sweet love for each of them and have discernment in their lives and choices to follow hard after You. -Amen
Love ya'll
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