Let's Do This!

We had been talking about moving Riley's room around for several days. For many reasons, but one major reason was that we couldn't clean behind his bed, (and believe me this was something that really needed to be done). Things had to be moved around to get his bed away from the wall. It has a built in book shelf as a head board. This makes it very hard to move so we just hadn't gotten the energy to do this yet. That is until yesterday.

While I was down in the kitchen I could hear that Riley was getting up, by the fact he we making noises in his room, and the next thing I know he is down stairs in the refrigerator getting Rodney a Starbucks Vanilla Coffee. I ask him what was going on. He said that Dad needed to get up so he needed his favorite drink. Looking back on it, I think it was bribery. A few minutes later here comes Rodney down the stairs, still very much in sleep mode. He ask me if I knew what was going on. "No, what?" I ask. "I guess we are moving Riley's room around today" he said. "All of the stuff that Riley can move is in the hallway". I just started laughing.

Apparently Riley was tired of waiting on us. So he started the ball rolling on his own, but he could only get so far. We had to help move the heavy stuff and we also had to get everything else moved back in so that we could get into our bedrooms, to sleep, last night.


Aren't we like that with God? We want something to happen and we want it now. God may have a different timing than us on this so we start the ball rolling without Him. We make a cluttered mess, with everything we can do. He then has to come in and move the heavy stuff and put everything back.


I wonder what God thinks of us on this? I laughed at the way Riley got us to do what he couldn't. Do you think God laughs at us? One thing is for sure. Riley needed us and knew he needed us, well at least he knew he needed Dad. He was the one with most of the muscle. We need God for the very same thing. He has all the muscle in the world. We should always depend on Him. We should always know we can count on Him. The people in the Psalms knew this.....

Psalm 33:20
Contemporary English Version (CEV)

20 We depend on you, Lord,
to help and protect us.


Psalm 124:8
Contemporary English Version (CEV)

8 The Lord made heaven and earth,
and he is the one
who sends us help.


We as humans are human. We do make messes. God is always there waiting to put things right even without a Starbucks coffee!

Blessings!


PS: This morning Riley came down to get another drink for Rodney. I wonder what he wants him to do now?

Permanently

Psalm 103:12

And as far as sunrise is from sunset,
    he has separated us from our sins.


I never tire of looking at God's sunrises, from the east, and sunsets, in the west. I think they are some of the most beautiful things in nature. (The picture here is a sunset we saw this evening.)

I also love the symbolism of them as well. 

God gives us each sunrise as a new beginning. He can hardly wait to see what we will do with all that He has bestowed on us  He loves spending the day with us. I can just see His anticipation as he waits for us to wake each and every morning. 

Then the sunsets! God gives us these as a time to settle down from of all that the day has brought.  A time to let go. A time to rest and renew for the next sunrise. 

Just as a Sunrise will never run into a Sunset, we Christians will not have to think about or even remember the things we would have changed from our day. God has promised to take our sins and short comings and separate them from us, permanently!  Just as far as the east is from the west. As far as a sunset is from a sunrise.

God's permanent is not like the worlds. Our version of permanent is we keep something or do something only until we tire of it. Then we change it. Or we cover our gray hair with a "permanent" hair color, but it doesn't last.  Even a permanent marker can be cleaned up if you do it right, Maybe not out of clothes, but off of hard surfaces. I cleaned up a boo boo, once, that Riley did on a wooden piece of furniture. Here on this earth nothing stays the same, everything changes.

But God's promises never, ever change. We can always count on this fact. He forgives our sins and never even thinks about them again. He justifies us and we become part of His family where He never lets us go. He loves and takes care of us, forever. So we not only have all the beauty around us but we have the complete peace God gives as well. Amazing huh?

Thank you God!

So as you wake up to the sunrise in the morning I hope you wake up with the peace that only God can give!

Blessings!!