Benefits Poured Out

God is pouring out blessings. I got to church this morning, realized that I forgot to crack my windows just after I shut my truck off, but decided to leave them up. During church it rained heavily. Awesome! Don't you just love the way God does things?

It was HOT this morning! I was standing in our downstairs fellowship hall at 8:30 this morning with sweat pouring off me. I got to thinking about how hard it would be in Children's Church later. I remembered how God kept it cool these past two Sundays and thought about how nice it was and how readily the kids paid attention. "Oh well," I resigned, "I can't expect God to do that all the time. Did you notice above that it had rained during church? That means it rained during Children's Church as well. As is usually the case, the cloud cover and rain caused a wonderful cooling effect. HOW AWESOME IS MY GOD!) I guess I can expect Him to keep things cool every week. Thank you, Father.

Love His Appearing

My wife has been on vacation without me for three miserably long weeks. She will return this Wednesday, and I will be reunited with her on Friday. I look forward to that day with a greater zeal than I have ever looked forward to the beginning of any of my vacations. As I dwelt on that thought, God told me that is how He desires I would love His Son's appearing. I began to weep, and do so now even as I am writing this.

Oh God, I am wicked and do not love thee with all my heart. I have been as an adulterer turning to the pleasures of this world as an unfaithful woman who commits adultry against her husband, and wipes her mouth claiming, "I have done no evil." Purge me, oh God, that I may love Thy Son's appearing with even more zeal than I do my wife's. That I may proclaim with excitement to all who will listen, "The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills." May this prayer never fail from my lips until Thou dost perform it.