The Gift of Life

 

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I have come that they may have life, and they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10 b (NKJV)

My best friend often reminds me that each day is a gift and even that life is also a gift. We often seem to have difficulties in our lives. However, God allows them to ultimately cause us to learn a lesson we need.

Another gift that God gives us is our very lives. I am reminded of the saying;

“God gives us each of us our life as a gift.

What we do with do with that life is our gift to Him.”

We may have had lofty ideas about what we wanted to do with our lives. God has His thoughts about what He sees as what He wants from us.

I remember one time when I was feeling pretty low about how my life was going. Someone my age in my stepfather’s family was doing some significant things with her husband, newsworthy items. My mother reminded me that I was raising a son with certain medical issues and I had nothing to be ashamed about. I had not thought of myself in that light.

God has brought our family of three through some very difficult times, all the while teaching me some very valuable things.

Prayer

Father God: Thank you for giving each of us the lives we have. Thank You for giving us the lessons You have given us in order that we may show Your love to others. In Jesus’ Name, I pray. Amen

A Day of Remembrance

 

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The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,

And His ears are open to their cry.

The face of the LORD is against those who do evil,

To cut off the remembrance of them from the face of the earth.

Psalm 34:15-16 (NKJV)

A Psalm of David

When one who follows God, truly obeys Him, He listens to his or her petitions. God guides them through those circumstances.

However, the LORD looks askance on the pleas of those who do evil. He removes the evil-doers from the memory of those who live on our earth.

Today is the 22^nd anniversary of the World Trade Center disaster, also known as 9/11. It is a melancholy time in the United States. There were too many taken to remember each one individually. We remember them as a group and their families.

However, we do not remember the perpetrators. They brought evil to out nation by their nation’s and their religion’s disrespect for human life.

Prayer:

Help us, Father, to remember those who were taken unexpectedly that morning and especially those who chose to keep this disaster from escalating. In Jesus’ Name, I pray. Amen