I heard a great message this weekend, so I thought I’d type it out and save it here. My hope is that one day when my kids are older they may run across this post and might find it encouraging.
Staying Free Spiritually
To stay free spiritually, we must be watching for the subtle things that can destroy us.
#1: The blessing of influence can be ruined by the worm of pride.
Don’t fall into the trap where making a great impression is overly prioritized; and where making a Godly impact gets minimized.
#2: The blessing of romance can be ruined by the worm of lust.
Don’t fall into the trap where quick gratification becomes the high value.
#3: The blessing of affluence can be ruined by the worm of greed.
Don’t fall into the trap where getting stuff means everything and having stuff means nothing.
Now what?
Saturate your life with God’s perspective.
It will keep you humble.
It will keep you accountable.
It will keep you on the right path.
It will keep you at the heart of God’s blessing.
Deuteronomy 6:5
Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
*The picture in this post is from our beach day today and represents “freedom” to me. Bethany (my friend’s daughter) is 10 years old and loves gymnastics!
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Big Kahuna and I have known each other since we were kids and have been married for almost 15 years. We are passionate about our family, travel and serving God. We love helping people and bringing them hope. We laugh ourselves to tears watching classic episodes of Saturday Night Live and The Office. Summer is our favorite season, and we live for warm evenings playing with the kids on the beach.
Big Surf is 14 years old. He's a voracious reader, focused, and spends hours building things. He is our resident techie and is also learning to play the violin. He loves to spend his free time playing baseball, flag football, or out on the trails by the house building his clubhouse.
Goofy Foot is ten years old. He devours his free reading books like there is no tomorrow. He is also the family comedian. If you see him, ask him to tell you a joke! He is tender-hearted, social and compliant. When he is not outside riding his bike, you'll find him drawing or writing a funny book.
Beach Bunny is three years old. She is our sunshine! She joined our family through the unbelievable gift of adoption. Beach Bunny loves to snuggle with us and carefully takes care of her baby dolls. She is super silly and must say hi to everyone! One word that describes her is "joy".
9 comments:
Thank you for sharing this. I love that verse & what great wisdom...saturate your life with God's perspective. Wow, if we could only see through His eyes, what a difference it would make.
bEautiful picture too. My girls love to tumble & do cart wheels too.
I can't tell you you what you meeting you through blogs has meant to me..you are so inspirational! I love this post, and it was a wonderful way to wake up this morning! I'm so glad to have friends like you..thanks!
I love this post..gracias for posting this!!
So true, Stacy! Freedom is precious!
Beautiful post. EXACTLY what I needed to hear today.
I love the picture from the beach...it really does say freedom!
Beautiful. Everything from His perspective is so much different than what we see with our natural eyes. Going to save this one in my files :o)
Great words! Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely AWESOME. I can't tell you how much I LOVE this post! Thank you so much for sharing.
How do you angle the picture like that for your post? Everything I use the rotate tool in Photoshop, it just goes back to normal when I save it. What am I doing wrong?
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