We celebrated a birthday today. One of our
ladies will be 80 years old tomorrow, and her daughter very kindly laid on some
sandwiches and cake, this will be a very special day for Pat and we hope that
she will enjoy the celebrations with her family too. I imagine that all over
the world people are celebrating for all kinds of reasons, birthday,
engagements, weddings, births, etc. As Christians, we have a relationship with
the one true God, and so every day should be a cause for celebration. Just as
you unwrap the gifts that people give you, so each new day unfolds and at the
end of the day we have so much to thank God for.
Even when
things haven't gone as we had planned, or something happens to knock us back,
we can still thank God that He is with us and has been with us through it all. We
know that His Spirit dwells in us, when we have repented of our sin, and turned
away from our sinful ways, we ask that He will come into our lives and take
control. God knows much better than we do what is good for us, just as an
earthly father knows what is best for his children.
We played a game, you had to say “We went to Pat’s
birthday party and we saw” and then add one thing we had seen on the tables, we
went around each person, each one adding on another item. If you forgot
something you were out, it was a draw. Everything that was mentioned we were
grateful for. So, it is when we stop and think about all the blessings that God
has bestowed on us during each day, it all reminds us of how loving,
gracious and merciful our heavenly Father is.
And when we think of our new birth, our
spiritual birth, and how God sent His Son to take the punishment for our sins
so that we will not be judged, found guilty and condemned, surely then there is
a cause to celebrate every day, and rejoice every day for the grace and mercy
of our Father.
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