In a few short hours we're taking all the youth (50+) to play broomball and won't be home until 1:00 in the morning!!! I took a nice little nap this afternoon to prepare for this long, late adventure and now I find myself wondering what to do for the next 2 hours before we leave. I've felt totally convicted about memorizing the references that go with the scriptures I so often use when talking with teens and made that one of my New Year's Resolutions...to memorize the scripture with the reference so I can point people to exactly where I'm talking. So I decided with the short window of relaxing time, before we go out on our crazy endeavor this evening, that I would make some cookies and sit down with the Word. I so often just read my devotional books or go thru a book in the Bible, but I don't make a deliberate effort to write upon my heart the very words that sustain my life. I have so many scriptures memorized that have gotten me thru tough times or brought joy to my soul or directed my paths, but I've never been very good at finding them for others. Being in ministry this is of course an important thing, so starting tonight I'm beginning my journal of the most meaningful, life-altering verses with their reference. I'm so thankful for these times God gives me to just spend in His word and enjoy the simplicity of my faith...eating cookies and soaking up His Truth.
Keep my words and store up my commands within you. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apples of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 2:1-3
Keep my words and store up my commands within you. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apples of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 2:1-3
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