Hello my dear Christian family and friends. I hope you are having a terrific week serving God in your everyday life. God is so good to us. God created everything that is. And even though we cannot “see” God through our human eyes, He still has shown Himself to us. Paul wrote to our Christian brethren (and to us) in Romans 1:19-20 this very fact. “…For what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they (we) are without excuse.” We can “see” God with the rising and the setting of the sun. We can “see” Him in the changing of the seasons. We can “see” Him in the still of the night? We can “see” Him in the waves of the sea and in the mist of the mountains? We can “see” Him in the faces of those we love? We just need to open our eyes and look. Open yourself to “see” God in the world around you. Open your heart to “see” the Lord on Sunday as you sing, pray, give, share in the Lord’s Supper, and hear the message from His word and every day as you live life as full as you can live it.
One morning a little girl said to her grandmother, “Grandmother, what shall we do this morning since we have nothing for breakfast?” “Well,” said the grandmother, “we will turn on the stove, put on the kettle, set the table, and tell our Heavenly Father. Even if He turns stones into bread, we will have our breakfast.” Soon, there came a knock at the door. It was a man who had a need. “Excuse me, but would you happen to have a grindstone that I could purchase for my business? I am desperate need of one.” The grandmother pointed the man to the shed and he bought the stone for ten dollars. “Let us kneel down again,” said the grandmother, “and give thanks to our Heavenly Father and then we will walk down to the shop and buy food for breakfast.” On that day, indeed the Lord turned a stone into bread. God still sees. He hears our prayers. He is ready, willing, and able to meet our every need. He does not always meet our expectations…He exceeds them every time.
What does the Lord say?
“And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight” – 1 John 3:22
“Yet, you do not have because you do not ask” – James 4:2
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ to all generations, forever and ever. Amen” – Ephesians 3:20-21
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