Good day my friends. Today's blog is a bit more personal. Lets just say I'm going to pull up a chair in your living room and share a small part of my life with you. I pray the message will touch your heart just where God intends it to be touched because this little story can hit home in many ways. However, it is meant to get you thinking and to help soften your heart so God can continue to mold you, so that you can do His will His way.
Before my father passed away he bought me a beautiful white convertible. Many of you may have seen me driving it. We were on our way home from the hospital when he asked me to stop and inquire about it. Actually he told me to go in and tell the owner what he would pay for it. I did exactly as my father ask. I always have. The car was mine. The first year I owned the car unknown to my father it had to have a new engine put in. I never told Daddy. Since that time it has been nothing but a wonderful blessings and an even more wonderful memory. My Daddy loved me.
Now on a hot sunny day I sit inside my white convertible and feel like everyday is a vacation. I love the sunshine. Recently however it has been extremely hot. The sun beating down on my shoulder blades has not only turned them brown but my hair has really gotten lighter. Interesting the same sun turned one part of me dark and the other part of me light. It was how each part of me responded to the light. I am at heart a summer girl so I love it. It is okay with me that I change because of the sun. But a few days ago the sun almost felt like a slap instead of a kiss. It stung my shoulders and arms to the point I put on a sweater and turned on the air conditioner. Who would have thought what I loved and had kissed me so sweetly was now painful and damaging.
Jesus how terrible you must have felt when Judas who had kissed your cheek then turned on you? How painful that must have been. But what about today? There are many who sting your heart everyday. The sting of murdering another child you died for. The sting of another mother choosing to kill her baby. The sting of one person planning to kill an entire population of a city, a bar, the twin towers, the city of Nice, France.
So I drive through the shade on a once busy road that is now quiet because people prefer the highway. I lean into the curves and enjoy the sway of my little white convertible. I smell the fresh cut grass. I see the beautiful foliage and flowers. I hear the birds. What a contrast it must have been to live on this earth and feel the heat of sin against His sinless flesh? How refreshing it must be to be in heaven reunited with His father.
If you are feeling the heat of life there is a place to lean in to. There is a place in the shade of the battle. There is a road less traveled. Oh, and PS.....Daddy loves you. But you may have trouble under the hood and need a new engine. God can fix that. He knows you can't enjoy the ride of life broken down.
Psalms 91:4 (NIV) "He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart."
Matthew 7:13-14 (NASB) "13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it."
Before my father passed away he bought me a beautiful white convertible. Many of you may have seen me driving it. We were on our way home from the hospital when he asked me to stop and inquire about it. Actually he told me to go in and tell the owner what he would pay for it. I did exactly as my father ask. I always have. The car was mine. The first year I owned the car unknown to my father it had to have a new engine put in. I never told Daddy. Since that time it has been nothing but a wonderful blessings and an even more wonderful memory. My Daddy loved me.
Now on a hot sunny day I sit inside my white convertible and feel like everyday is a vacation. I love the sunshine. Recently however it has been extremely hot. The sun beating down on my shoulder blades has not only turned them brown but my hair has really gotten lighter. Interesting the same sun turned one part of me dark and the other part of me light. It was how each part of me responded to the light. I am at heart a summer girl so I love it. It is okay with me that I change because of the sun. But a few days ago the sun almost felt like a slap instead of a kiss. It stung my shoulders and arms to the point I put on a sweater and turned on the air conditioner. Who would have thought what I loved and had kissed me so sweetly was now painful and damaging.
Jesus how terrible you must have felt when Judas who had kissed your cheek then turned on you? How painful that must have been. But what about today? There are many who sting your heart everyday. The sting of murdering another child you died for. The sting of another mother choosing to kill her baby. The sting of one person planning to kill an entire population of a city, a bar, the twin towers, the city of Nice, France.
So I drive through the shade on a once busy road that is now quiet because people prefer the highway. I lean into the curves and enjoy the sway of my little white convertible. I smell the fresh cut grass. I see the beautiful foliage and flowers. I hear the birds. What a contrast it must have been to live on this earth and feel the heat of sin against His sinless flesh? How refreshing it must be to be in heaven reunited with His father.
If you are feeling the heat of life there is a place to lean in to. There is a place in the shade of the battle. There is a road less traveled. Oh, and PS.....Daddy loves you. But you may have trouble under the hood and need a new engine. God can fix that. He knows you can't enjoy the ride of life broken down.
Psalms 91:4 (NIV) "He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart."
Matthew 7:13-14 (NASB) "13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it."
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