Daily Thoughts.

I have decided to try to record here a verse or two and my thoughts about them most mornings. I know as a mom it won’t happen all the time. But I am going to try. Don’t worry, I will still be posting pictures, recipes, and homeschooling ideas as well. I just a place to write out my thoughts and a paper journal isn’t working for me. So here goes the first morning.

First of all, if you read the verse in context with the others around it you will find that the phrase, “whether present or absent” is refering to here on earth or at the judgment seat. “Present” in our life here in our earthly bodies, or “absent” from earth and appearing before Him in Heaven.

But my focus today is on what Scripture says should be our aim, “to be well pleasing to Him”! I long to fulfill this scripture, but how am I making that happen? I want to be intentional about my thoughts, my attitudes, my actions, and my motives. Here on earth or in heaven He isn’t going to care that I kept up with the laundry, or that my kitchen was cleaned before I went to bed. But He will care about how I have shown love to my husband and children. How I have served Him within the church. He will care about my attitude toward the lost. And these are the things that I must make priority. This is how I can be “well pleasing to Him”. And that is my desire and prayer this morning, and for the rest of my life. Lord, show me how to me well pleasing in Your sight today!!

Heavenly Father,

 As I start out this day and every day forward, I long to be well pleasing in Your sight. I ask for your help in maintaning this perspective through the good days and the bad. Thank you for the way that you speak to our hearts and spirits and minds through Your Word. It is able to change hearts and lives still today. And for that I am forever grateful. As, I serve You here in this home You have given to me and I love and disciple these children You have placed in my care, I ask (no beg) for Your help. The days are long and the road sometimes hard, but I love the calling You have placed on my life and I feel overwhelmingly blessed in my life. Help my attitude and my priorities to show those feelings so that others may see Your love through me. I love and serve You with all that is within me. Amen.