The time...where does it go?

I glanced at my last publish date last night and was shocked to see that it was June 3rd. Where has the time gone? A lot has happened since then and yet so much is still the same. Please forgive me if you've been checking faithfully and I have been unfaithful to the posting. I will strive to get better because I need this blog as much as I know some of you out there do. Not that I'm saying that my writing is stellar...or that I have profound things to say...but I know that God is leading it and I want to follow.

As I look back on the month of June and what has transpired at FBC, Booneville, I am so very excited! VBS week rocked and 7 lives were dedicated to following Christ...7 young lives...doesn't that ROCK? God provided the entire week and He could be seen in everything that we did. Seeing the work of God just makes me want to do a happy dance, what about you?

The verse that we focused on all VBS week was 1 John 4:9...a verse that I am focusing on each and everyday. It says, "This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him."

WOW! Did that sink in...if not let it? I know we've all learned from the moment that we became Christians how much God loves us, but when you read it and it sinks in, it becomes so much more meaningful.

What have you done today to show your love to God? I challenge you to work on this today.

In the Midst of it All

In the midst of it all, we are all striving to reach a goal.

In the midst of it all, we are longing to be satisfied.

In the midst of it all, we are just trying to make it.

And in the midst of it all, I hope you have Christ.

And if you don't, in the midst of all that you have going, seek Him.

All Ears

Often times in our lives, we are so consumed in all that is going on around us that we fail to hear what is happening. We are so consumed with the "noise" of the world, that we fail to hear what God has to say to us.

I say this because I'm guilty of it...EXTREMELY guilty. I don't hear the words of my Father because I am too consumed with the other things that I hear.

In Genesis 46, it speaks of Jacob and how his ears worked around God. It says, "So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, "Jacob! Jacob!" "Here I am," he replied."

Did you catch that? Jacob heard God. He replied to God. He listened to God. And in return God gave him great promises...promises that would not be broken, promises that would be fulfilled.

What is God trying to tell you? Would you stop and listen to Him today?