Fourteen cherubs! What a crew! Amazing life ahead for them. A fresh new year starting today! God has plans for each of them that will give great satisfaction and joy in life and bring glory to Jesus. They already have ideas and dreams about their direction in life. Several want to be ranchers, some want to be mommies, some engineers, missionaries or teachers. If they could only look ahead they might make a few different choices in life wouldn't they? My prayer for them is to choose to focus on knowing God and loving Him. That is pretty much what this blog is for - them. As they grow up and face life that their Grandma's voice might encourage their love of Jesus. They might choose to eat less, exercise more, study more, spend less, and countless other things. But I desire that they love God deeper each day, be forgiving, kind, patient, be grateful and less demanding of their own way, more concerned for speaking salvation to others. Would WE choose God's plan and way instead of plowing ahead determined to succeed in this world? Since they nor we can know the future and only God does, the wise choice would be to study God more, listen to Him more, trust Him more, follow His agenda. What do you think?
As the years continue to speed by, my heart narrows in what is really vital in life. The world's success is fleeting at best, its rewards and toys never enough, and it's satisfactions evaporate. Telling my cherubs these things just sounds hollow. They have to experience disappointments and failures in order to really understand that God's ways and truth are the way of life. So my prayer for them is that they will see very early the difference between the perfect plan of God and the world's plan for them. That is my prayer for you and me as well. Even at our age. Because the love and plan of Jesus is so grand our hearts cannot even imagine it! K.C.
