I was thinking about all the various presents I have been blessed with over my lifetime. More than anything, as a mother, my heart is forever entangled with those four hearts I delivered starting 47 years ago.
My sons and daughters have grown to be the parents of my 8 grandchildren. They are now experiencing the joys and challenges raising their 6 sons and 2 daughters . . . so much of what I experienced. These baby lives develop so quickly that before realization comes. . . they are grown. How did I care for my presents . . . gifts from God? I didn't realize that at the time, but now, because of His grace, I know he had a purpose and a plan for my life as he does for my children and my grandchildren . . . as He has for all His creation.
What do we know about unwrapping a present? We can't just lift it up and toss it to the four winds and exclaim, "Isn't that so pretty!!!!" We can't let our present float away into the air be stuck on a limb somewhere.
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old
he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:5-7 NAS
But where is that guide . . . my instruction book????
God'd Word . . . The Holy Bible
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
I Corinthians 13 NAS
This is a beautifiul portion of Scripture...very particularly as I am seeking to improve my own personal life. Good to review from time to time.
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