It's so refreshing to be home...To be in a place that is familiar, with the people who you know and love the most in life! The Lord has blessed me so much, by giving me the gift of being with my family during this Christmas season. I am so thankful for God's protection during travels and for the full two and a half weeks I am able to spend here!
It's so strange to be a visitor to your own hometown. It makes me appreciate and realize how blessed I am to live in a small town! My home is so much more beautiful than I ever realized before! Horses in pastures; bright, visible sunsets painted by the hand of God; the warm sunshine; smiling, familiar faces; and all of God's creatures!
It's so strange to be a visitor to your own hometown. It makes me appreciate and realize how blessed I am to live in a small town! My home is so much more beautiful than I ever realized before! Horses in pastures; bright, visible sunsets painted by the hand of God; the warm sunshine; smiling, familiar faces; and all of God's creatures!
I've had a hard time thinking and worrying about the future...which I'm sure is not an unfamiliar subject with many of you, as well. While writing in my journal today, I really loved seeing how God has promises for all of us...and He keeps them! Like the story of Abram and Sarah. The Lord promised a son to Abraham, even though he and Sarah were both of old age. They were both about 100 years old! No one could be expected to be able to concieve at that age. But lets see what The Word says. Matthew 19:26 says, "Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Did you catch that? With God ALL THINGS are possible! God can do anything that man can't do and more!
This means that He has control over our futures! How cool is that? And Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I have great plans for you," declares the Lord. "Plans for good and not for evil. To give you a future and a hope." The Lord holds our futures in His hands, and He's got a great purpose for each of us. Even though we often get confused about the Lord's plan for our lives, and wonder how what we are going through can possibly fit in to a good future, God knows. He gives us a promise--that if we just trust Him, we can find peace in knowing that our future is in the hands of a gracious and holy God! He cares for us and wants the best for us!
Thats why He sent His son to this earth for us. Jesus was a part of that promise to us! "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." John 3:16-17 Jesus was here, not because of anything we did, but because of his unending, eternal love for us, His creation! He brought words of peace, love, and hope to all the earth!
Here are some of His words:
"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?" Matthew 6:25-27
--God watches over us and is our Protector. He doesn't want us to worry about tomorrow! He has it all in His hands--his own timing. So whatever is going on in your life during this Christmas season, just remember the promise that God has given us. And let Him give you a peace about the days to come. Let us focus on praising the Lord for His great mercy and majesty!
Happy birthday Jesus! Have a blessed Christmas!
Kasey
