Saturday, June 9, 2012

LOOK ON THE INSIDE

I asked you to look at this picture and tell me what you noticed.  Here is the beginning of what I noticed.

A couple of weeks ago I was on vacation.  I spent 3 nights/4 days in NC by myself.  I am still thinking about that time.  I am remembering little things about my time alone with God.  Things that didn't seem significant at the time.  BUT I knew this moment was significant when it happened.


As I was walking on the beach I saw this.  The shiny black shell caught my eye immediately.  I picked it up.  I brushed it off.  I turned it over in my hand.
It actually took my breath.  So quick was the thought:

                            Don’t look on the outside of a person, look on the inside.
My lesson is one that I have heard over and over.  Only God truly knows the heart of a person.  I don't know how He is working in the life of a person.  In Philippians 2:13 it says, "For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose".

I don't know how God is working in the lives of you, my two sons!  I don't know what your conversations with God have been lately.  I don't know if you've been in conversation with God lately.  
What I DO KNOW is found in 2 Timothy 1:12.  Paul wrote about his suffering.  I do suffer each day to pray for you because I truly believe the second part of this verse.
     "That is why I am suffering as I am.  Yet I am not ashamed, because 
I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED, AND 
AM CONVINCED THAT HE IS ABLE TO GUARD 
WHAT I HAVE ENTRUSTED TO HIM FOR THAT DAY".

I love you boys,
Mom




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