What a weird day today was... I just realized I had a lunch meeting with my Mom and so quickly began a very peculiar day. We ate at one of my favorite fried chicken places and then got a good old family massage. It was such a fun and relaxing day.
Yet what highlighted the day for me were the moments. Moments where me and Mom just shared about life and about the Lord. To which in one instance, I told my Mom how special it is for me to spend time with God in the mornings. Why?
Because my Lord knows all the good and bad things about me🤗. He hates the sinner in me; yet finds me blameless through the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ who died on the Cross and was ressurected🕊️. He loves me despite all my faults and downfalls. I sometimes wonder how He can be so faithful...😱 And that's why I find coming to God much different now than I did before. Coming to His presence is a safe spot for me. An enclosed area where I know I can divulge whatever is bothering me. The relationship is what matters. God knows when to scold me and when to push me. Yet in my toughest moments, God also encourages and believes in me like no one else..😭
I reminded my Mom how in the Bible, Esau wanted the blessing from the Lord but not the relationship itself. Why was that?🤔 Well for most people, maybe they never experienced who God is. Or maybe that they choose to think that the blessings outweighs the relationship. Whatever it is, I find that to be confusing. Knowing who the Lord is (by reading the Bible) and not who I think He is, is the best thing ever. Sometimes the human inside me wish I can shape who God is. Yet, thankfully God is even greater and better than my wildest imaginations. I shared to Mom that as a parent, it might be best should try to emulate God's relationship with us. As in Ephesians 1:4-5,
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons👨👦through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
Even before the world began, He chose and predestined us. Not only that, He adopted us as His sons through Jesus Christ, to live (and pursue) a life of holiness. Though I sin, I know that I should quickly repent and say sorry🙇. Not to abuse Christ's precious grace. And through that repentance by faith in Him, am I blameless in His eyes... how glorious the thought!
And today was such an unexpected day. Throughout all the blessings, I kept on praying, thank You thank You thank You Lord🤗. For giving me a day where I can enjoy Thy blessings... the yummy food, the health I have, the time I have with my Mom, the massage, the warm air, etc etc. I kept thinking to myself: Who am I to receive such grace? But thank You O Lord for all these moments, and the blessing to actually enjoy it...🤲
As Ecclesiastes 12:13 reminds us to ultimately Fear God and keep His commandments. Yet we forget that we are also reminded to enjoy God's blessings along the way.
As in Ecclesiastes 5:18-20,
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.🤲
Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.🕊️
For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.
Now The Writer in Ecclesiastes isn't telling the readers to be hedonistic/pleasure seeking nor telling the readers to be ascetic/not indulge in any pleasure at all either. The Writer is simply stating the fact that all in life is vanity and like an illusion it fades. So by not enjoying the toil or results of our hard work along the way is foolish.
Don't you feel the time flying by so fast?😵It's already 2023 and coming into March. And in that quickness of time, we forget to take to heart the Kairos (opportunistic) moments that God has blessed us. These small moments to enjoy the stewardship of blessings in our lives. Albeit from our family, health, wealth, friends, and moments. To truly close my eyes, and savoring the time. And to continually give thanks to my Lord who has blessed so much...
Dear Lord Jesus,
Thank You for another day. Thank You for reminding me to always work hard and bear my cross daily✝️,
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might👊, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Yet thank You also for Your blessings day by day. It's easy to let life pass by. Yet by Your grace, You remind me to "Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart💗, for God has already approved what you do." (Ecclesiastes 9:7).
In this fleeting life of mine, help me to glorify You and enjoy You in all that I do.
Thank You Jesus... for all Your seen and unseen blessings. To You be the glory alone..✝️☀️
In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
👑Praise the Lord!👑
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good,
for His steadfast love endures forever!
Who can utter the mighty deeds of the Lord,
or declare all his praise?
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Updated on: February 16, 2023
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